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Back to SearchMark Hatfield: 46 Years Unbeaten and the Vote That Sank a Balanced Budget
Episode 12878
Mark Hatfield was born in 1922 in Dallas, Oregon, the son of a railroad blacksmith and a schoolteacher. As a teenage tour guide at the Oregon State C…
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Lincoln Chafee: Horseshoer, Lone GOP No on Iraq, and Four Party Labels
Episode 12877
Lincoln Chafee comes from a family that reached Massachusetts in the 1630s and gave Rhode Island a governor in his great-great-grandfather and a gove…
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Evan Bayh: Youngest Governor, VP Shortlist, and a Forgotten Home Address
Episode 12876
Evan Bayh was born in 1955 and grew up largely in Shirkieville, Indiana, the son of Senator Birch Bayh and grandson of basketball coach Birch Bayh Sr…
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Herb Kohl: Turning Down Michael Jordan to Keep the Milwaukee Bucks Home
Episode 12875
Herb Kohl was born in Milwaukee in 1935 to Max and Mary Kohl, Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia who arrived in the 1920s with nothing. He atte…
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The 17th Amendment: Senate Deadlocks, the Oregon System and a 44 to 44 Tie
Episode 12874
For more than a century, Americans did not vote for their U.S. senators. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Wilson alone argued for popu…
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Warren Magnuson: Freight Train Orphan Who Held the Senate Purse Strings
Episode 12873
Warren Magnuson was born in 1905 in Moorhead, Minnesota, with sealed birth records, and was adopted by William and Emma Magnuson, Scandinavian immigr…
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Walter Mondale: Apollo 1 Hearings, a West Wing Office, and a 49 State Loss
Episode 12872
Walter Mondale was born in 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of a Methodist minister who preached social justice and civil rights through years of f…
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Tim Johnson: A 524 Vote Win, a Brain Hemorrhage, and a Return to the Senate
Episode 12871
Tim Johnson was born in December 1946 in Canton, South Dakota, and raised in Vermillion. He earned his bachelor's, master's and law degrees at the Un…
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S.I. Hayakawa: Semantics Scholar, Loudspeaker Plug, and Senate Upset
Episode 12870
S.I. Hayakawa was born in Vancouver in 1906 to Japanese immigrant parents and schooled in Calgary and Winnipeg, earning degrees from the University o…
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Aaron Burr: The Manhattan Company, the 1800 Tie, and a Treason Trial
Episode 12869
Aaron Burr was born in 1756, grandson of theologian Jonathan Edwards and son of the president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton. By age two…
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