What is Alan Cranston?
{{Infobox Officeholder |birthname = Alan MacGregor Cranston |image = AlanCranston.jpg |imagesize = 150px |smallimage = |caption = Cranston in 1979 |order1=Chairman of the [[United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs|Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs]] |term_start1=January 3, 1987 |term_end1=January 3, 1993 |preceded1=[[Frank Murkowski]] |succeeded1=[[Jay Rockefeller]] |term_start2=January 3, 1977 |term_end2=January 3, 1981 |preceded2=[[Vance Hartke]] |succeeded2=[[Alan K. Simpson]] |order3 = [[Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Majority Whip]] |term_start3 = January 3, 1987 |term_end3 = January 3, 1991 |leader3 = [[Robert Byrd]]<br/>[[George J. Mitchell|George Mitchell]] |predecessor3 = [[Alan K. Simpson]] |successor3 = [[Wendell Ford]] |term_start4 = January 3, 1977 |term_end4 = January 3, 1981 |leader4 = [[Robert Byrd]] |predecessor4 = [[Robert Byrd]] |successor4 = [[Ted Stevens]] |order5 = [[Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Minority Whip]] |term_start5 = January 3, 1981 |term_end5 = January 3, 1987 |leader5 = [[Robert Byrd]] |predecessor5 = [[Ted Stevens]] |successor5 = [[Alan K. Simpson]] |jr/sr6 = United States Senator |state6 = [[California]] |term_start6 = January 3, 1969 |term_end6 = January 3, 1993 |predecessor6 = [[Thomas Kuchel]] |successor6 = [[Barbara Boxer]] |order7 = 25th [[California State Controller]] |term_start7 = 1959 |term_end7 = 1967 |governor7 = [[Pat Brown]] |predecessor7 = [[Robert C. Kirkwood]] |successor7 = [[Houston I. Flournoy]] |birth_date= {{birth date|1914|6|19|mf=y}} |birth_place= [[Palo Alto, California]] |death_date= {{death date and age|2000|12|31|1914|6|19|mf=y}} |death_place= [[Los Al