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Back to SearchJeremiah Denton: The POW Who Blinked TORTURE and Became a Senator
Episode 12821
Jeremiah Denton was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1924 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 in the same accelerated class as Jimmy Carter.…
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Maurine Neuberger: The Teacher Who Outpolled Her Husband and Won the Senate
Episode 12820
Maurine Brown was born January 9, 1907, in Cloverdale in Tillamook County, Oregon. She attended the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, earned a…
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Gordon H. Smith: The Udall Cousin Who Became Oregon's Centrist Republican
Episode 12819
Gordon H. Smith was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in May 1952 and grew up partly in Bethesda, Maryland, while his father served as an assistant secretar…
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Edward D. Baker: Lincoln's Friend and the Only Senator Killed in Battle
Episode 12818
Edward D. Baker was born in London in 1811 to poor Quaker parents who moved to Philadelphia in 1816, where he worked as a boy operating a loom. The f…
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Harrison Schmitt: Apollo 17 Geologist Turned New Mexico Senator
Episode 12817
Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was born in 1935 and grew up in the copper mining country of Santa Rita and Silver City, New Mexico. He earned a geology degr…
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David Rice Atchison: The President for One Day Who Led Border Ruffians
Episode 12816
David Rice Atchison was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1807 and attended Transylvania University, where five classmates, including Jefferson Davis, …
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Thomas J. Walsh: Teapot Dome Prober Who Died on the Way to Washington
Episode 12815
Thomas J. Walsh was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in 1859 to Irish Catholic immigrants Felix Walsh and Bridget Comer, and taught school to pay for U…
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Reed Smoot: The Apostle Senator's Four Year Trial and Smoot-Hawley
Episode 12814
Reed Smoot was born in Salt Lake City in 1862, a son of mayor and Latter-day Saint leader Abraham O. Smoot, who had six wives and 27 children; Reed's…
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George Norris: Bouvet Island, a Liberty Ship and a Canadian Sculptor
Episode 12813
This episode reads a single disambiguation page for the name George Norris as a composite biography of very different lives. The earliest entry is a …
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Jon Corzine: Goldman Sachs Chief, New Jersey Governor, MF Global Collapse
Episode 12812
Jon Corzine was born in 1947 and grew up on a small Illinois farm, played quarterback and captained the basketball team, made sergeant in the Marine …
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