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Patrick A. McCarran

American politician

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history of Las Vegas

  • Las Vegas: the Strip
    In Las Vegas: Wartime and early postwar growth

    Nevada Senator Pat McCarran successfully lobbied the federal government to establish two major installations near Las Vegas in 1941: a magnesium-processing plant southeast of the city in Henderson and a military airfield just to the northeast. The latter, now Nellis Air Force Base, eventually grew to occupy…

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