Author: Tip O'Neill
Alternate names: Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr.; Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jr.; Tip O'Neill; Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
Born: 1912
Died: 1994
Bio: American politician who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987 and represented 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 served multiple terms in the Speakership).