Background
Pittman was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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He was the 19th Governor of Nevada. He went to the University of the South and Brown"s Business College. Pittman was the younger brother of Key Pittman, a longtime United States Senator from Nevada.
Pittman moved to Tonopah, Nevada in 1904 and began a successful newspaper publishing career.
Elected to the Nevada State Senate, Pittman was in the position from 1925 to 1928. Pittman was elected the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 1942.
He was a candidate in the Democratic primary for United States Senate in 1944, but was defeated by the incumbent, Pat McCarran. He became governor when Edward P. Carville resigned in 1945.
He was elected in 1946 to a term of his own and Pittman served until 1951.
Pittman died from cancer on January 29, 1964 in a hospital in San Francisco, California at the age of 80. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada United States of America.
Membership
He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a member of the 1960 Democratic National Committee.
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Democratic party