Tip O'Neill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetTip O'Neill
American politician
Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1912
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 05-Jan-1994
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Tip O'Neill
- Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr.
- (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts, as a Democrat from 1953 to 1987.
- The only Speaker to serve for five complete consecutive Congresses, he is the third longest-serving Speaker in American history after Sam Rayburn and Henry Clay in terms of total tenure, and longest-serving in terms of continuous tenure (Rayburn and Clay having served multiple terms in the Speakership). Born in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, O'Neill began campaigning at a young age, volunteering for Al Smith's campaign in the 1928 presidential election.
- After graduating from Boston College, O'Neill won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he became a strong advocate of Franklin D.
- Roosevelt's New Deal policies.
- He became Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1949 and won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1952 to the seat vacated by John F.
- Kennedy. In the House, O'Neill became a protege of fellow Massachusetts Representative John William McCormack.
- O'Neill broke with President Lyndon B.
- Johnson on the Vietnam War in 1967, and called for Richard Nixon's resignation in light of the Watergate scandal.
- He quickly moved up the leadership ranks in the 1970s, becoming House Majority Whip in 1971, House Majority Leader in 1973, and Speaker of the House in 1977.
- With the election of President Jimmy Carter, O'Neill hoped to establish a universal health care system and a guaranteed jobs program.
- However, relations between Carter and Congress collapsed and Democrats lost control of the presidency in the 1980 presidential election.
- O'Neill became a leading opponent of Republican President Ronald Reagan's conservative domestic policies.
- O'Neill and Reagan found more common ground in foreign policy, fostering the Anglo-Irish Agreement and implementing the Reagan Doctrine in the Soviet–Afghan War. O'Neill retired from Congress in 1987, but remained active in public life.
- He published a best-selling autobiography and appeared in several commercials and other media.
- He died of cardiac arrest in 1994.
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