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Back to SearchErnest Gruening: Harvard Doctor, Alaska Governor, Gulf of Tonkin No Vote
Episode 12702
Ernest Gruening was born in New York City in 1887 to a Jewish family; his father Emil, a German-born eye and ear surgeon, had fought in the Civil War…
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Dennis DeConcini: Panama Canal Reservation, Keating Five, Private Prisons
Episode 12701
Dennis DeConcini was the last Democrat to win a U.S. Senate race in Arizona, in 1988, before Kyrsten Sinema's 2018 victory ended a 30 year drought. B…
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Dennis Chavez: From Seventh Grade Dropout to New Mexico Senate Pioneer
Episode 12700
Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was born in April 1888 in Los Chavez, in the New Mexico Territory, 24 years before New Mexico became a state. His parents, D…
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Dan Quayle: The Skipped Jonestown Trip, Potatoe, and Advice to Pence
Episode 12699
Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States, was born James Danforth Quayle in 1947 into the Pulliam publishing family, owners of the Ar…
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Dan Coats: From Dan Quayle's Staffer to Contradicting Trump on Russia
Episode 12698
Daniel Ray Coats was born in 1943 in Jackson, Michigan, served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1966 to 1968 and earned a law degree from Indiana …
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Clair Engle's Silent Vote: Pointing to His Eye to End the 1964 Filibuster
Episode 12697
Clair Engle was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1911, named for the aunt who helped deliver him, and grew up in rural Shasta and Tehama counties,…
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Charles Percy: Boy Wonder CEO and His Daughter's Unsolved 1966 Murder
Episode 12696
Charles H. Percy was born in Pensacola, Florida, in 1919 and raised in Chicago, where his Sunday school teacher, Joseph McNabb, was president of came…
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Carl Schurz: Sewer Escape, Spandau Jailbreak, and a Senate Seat
Episode 12695
Carl Schurz was born in Prussia in 1829 and left school a year early because of his family's financial ruin, then passed a special exam to enter the …
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Burton K. Wheeler: From a Butte Poker Loss to Blocking FDR's Court Plan
Episode 12694
Burton K. Wheeler, a Massachusetts born lawyer fresh from the University of Michigan, was bound for Seattle in 1905 when he lost everything in a poke…
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Boies Penrose, the Big Grizzly Who Ran Pennsylvania's Machine
Episode 12693
Boies Penrose was born in 1860 into an elite Philadelphia family: one ancestor was a shipbuilder invited by William Penn, and his grandfather had bee…
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