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Back to SearchGerald Nye: The Merchants of Death Senator and His Pearl Harbor Speech
Episode 12841
Gerald Nye was born in Hortonville, Wisconsin in 1892. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 13, and he grew up writing and editing the family …
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Henry S. Foote: The Senator Who Pulled a Pistol During the 1850 Debate
Episode 12840
Henry S. Foote was born in Virginia in 1804, graduated from Washington College around age 15 in 1819 and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In Tuscumbi…
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Henry Cabot Lodge: The Senator Who Sank Wilson's League of Nations Treaty
Episode 12839
Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston in 1850 into the Lodge and Cabot families and grew up on Beacon Hill. As a boy in Nahant he testified to help co…
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Jeff Bingaman: The New Mexico Senator Who Unseated an Apollo Moonwalker
Episode 12838
Jeff Bingaman was born in El Paso, Texas in 1943 and raised in Silver City, New Mexico, where his father taught at Western New Mexico University and …
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Harrison A. Williams Jr.: ERISA Author Sent to Prison Over Abscam
Episode 12837
Harrison A. Williams Jr., known as Pete, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1919 and graduated from Oberlin College in 1941. He left Georgetown's …
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Senate Bean Soup: The Daily Menu Rule That Survived War and Budget Cuts
Episode 12836
The U.S. Senate has served its bean soup every day for more than a century. The modern recipe uses navy beans, ham hocks and onions, while earlier ve…
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The Senate Watergate Committee: Ervin, Baker and 319 Hours of Live TV
Episode 12835
After five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate on June 17, 1972, the White House called it a third ra…
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John C. Stennis: First Senate Ethics Chairman and the Stennis Compromise
Episode 12834
John C. Stennis was born in 1901 in Kemper County, Mississippi, graduated from Mississippi State in 1923 and won a seat in the Mississippi House whil…
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Andrew Johnson: The Runaway Tailor Acquitted by a Single Senate Vote
Episode 12833
Andrew Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1808. His father, Jacob, died of a heart attack after rescuing drowning men when Andrew was three, and a…
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Leland Stanford: Big Four Railroad Baron, Governor and University Founder
Episode 12832
Leland Stanford was born in New York in 1824 and practiced law in Port Washington, Wisconsin until an 1852 fire destroyed his property, including a p…
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