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When he called for a naval blockade of Red China and voted against censuring Joe McCarthy, the nation wondered more than ever about Senate Majority Leader William Fife Knowland. He is not an easy man to pigeonhole or explain. Some facts...
Born: June 26, 1908, in Alameda, Calif., the youngest of Joseph R. and Ellie Fife Knowland's three children. Billy's mother died soon afterward. He spent his first seven years in Washington, D.C., where his father was a Republican Congressman who later was defeated for the Senate. The elder Knowland grew wealthy as publisher of the Oakland Tribune...
Family: At 18, Sophomore Knowland eloped on New Year's Eve with 19-year-old Coed Helen Herrick. They have three children. Mrs. Knowland is the author of a murder mystery entitled Madame Baltimore, which deals with marital infidelities in the capital...
...became California's youngest assemblyman at 24, its youngest state senator at 26, the youngest Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland in Paris when he read of his appointment in Stars & Stripes. At 37, he was the youngest U.S. Senator (see cut). The next year Knowland defeated Congressman...
Personality: Big (6 ft. 1 in.; 200 Ibs.) Bill Knowland walks with fast, seven-league strides which seem to symbolize his driving ambition and dedication to work. His well-written speeches are delivered in the unmodulated, protesting tone of an overworked undertaker. To reporters, he speaks largely in pompous platitudes. He does not smoke, is a Methodist and a joiner (a Mason, an Eagle, a Moose, and a Native Son of the Golden West...