Maurice Robert Gravel (born May 13, 1930), better known as Mike Gravel, was a Democratic U.S. Senator (1969-1981) from Alaska and is the person who published the full text of the Pentagon Papers. He was defeated for renomination in 1980.
As of 2003, he is leading an effort to get a United States Constitutional amendment to allow voter-initiated federal legislation similar to state ballot initiatives.
He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
