Word: greenhaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman in Arkansas. James William Fulbright is young (37), handsome, wealthy and a Rhodes scholar (1925). He talked and whittled his way into the hearts of farmers and storekeepers in Arkansas' mountainous Third District and won the Democratic Congressional nomination against Supreme Court Justice Karl Greenhaw, a protege of Governor Homer Adkins. Going to the crossroads and hill farms, Gentleman Fulbright convinced the people that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials...