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Being the center-point for a Republican Party revolution in Indiana and the Midwest, mainly by sponsoring a huge " Cornfield-Conference " on one of his farms in 1938, Capehart was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944, narrowly defeating Henry Schricker, going on to win subsequent victories in 1950 and 1956 against token opposition.

Throughout the 1950s, Capehart was constantly at odds with his Senate colleague William E. Jenner.

Jenner was a staunch isolationist Republican who consistently opposed President Eisenhower's " modern-Republicanism.

" Capehart, although an isolationist himself during his first term in the Senate, became increasingly more internationalist during his later years in the Senate and this eventually led to the split with Jenner.