Former WWII Navajo code talker, lawmaker Pinto dead at 94

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Pinto served in the Marine Corps in World War II as a code talker and later on became the longest serving senator in the state.

Sen. John Pinto talks about his career as a lawmaker on American Indian Day in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Feb. 2, 2018.

Pinto was the longest-serving senator in the state, having been first elected in 1977 and remaining in office until his death on Friday, the New Mexico Senate Democrats said. Pinto was born in December 1924 to a family of Navajo shepherds and grew up in Arizona and New Mexico, the Senate statement said.

Some 400 Navajo took part in the project, along with members of several other tribes. None of the original 29 code talkers who invented the language are still alive. The last, Chester Nez, died in 2014.

 

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