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Political Career: In 1949 Illinoisan Proxmire moved to Wisconsin as the kind of liberal state, La Follette and all that, that might enshrine a liberal political career. He worked as a reporter for the New Dealing Madison Capital Times, as business manager for the local A.F.L.'s Union Labor...
Jaunty little (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs.) Doug McKay, born poor of pioneer Oregon stock, often says of his boyhood that he was 16 before he learned that underwear could be made of something besides flour sacks. Trim (5 ft. 10½, 162 Ibs.) Wisconsin-born Wayne Morse was...
Two years later, in March of 1925, the Senate had to decide whether Senator Ladd, senior member of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, should retain the chairmanship of that committee. Ladd, a Republican, had joined with "Fighting Bob" La Follette and two other Republican senators who had come...
It was as far as he ever got. The farm and labor voters decamped to Robert La Follette's Progressives. Bryan remained lukewarmly loyal to the party (his brother, Nebraska's Governor Charles W. Bryan, was the Democratic nominee for Vice President). And, for all his urbanity and...
Scopes & Romanoff. Hays, the only lawyer in his time to bear the names (more or less) of three Republican Presidents (his family name was originally Haas), pursued his liberal ways as a Republican, a Bull Mooser, a Farmer-Laborer, a La Follette Progressive, a New Deal Democrat, and finally as...