Mike Gravel, former Alaska senator and anti-war campaigner, dies aged 91

• Democrat served in US Senate from 1969 to 1981
• Protests against Vietnam and Iraq wars gained attention

Mike Gravel, a former US senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.

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