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I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

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Emanuel Celler
Age: 92 †
Born: 1888
Born: May 6
Died: 1981
Died: January 15
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
Brooklyn
New York
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