After the assassination, however, the two senators lost interest in the idea ( Borah ran as a Republican, garnering only a few delegates and losing the nomination to Kansas governor Alf Landon ) and Olson was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer.

In an attempt to revitalize the progressive wing of the Republican Party, in 1936 a 71-year-old Borah ran for nomination as candidate for President of the United States, becoming the first Idahoan to do so.

After abandoning his presidential campaign, later in 1936 at the height of Democratic power during the New Deal era, Borah ran for reelection against three-term Idaho Governor C. Ben Ross, a Roosevelt ally, and won with well over 60 percent of the vote.

Hutchinson indicated that Borah said it to him in private " in words that ran like a prayer.

At the Amsterdam Olympics, Borah reached to the quarterfinals in 100 m and ran the third leg in the American 4x100 m relay team, which equalled the world record of 41. 0 in the final.

Taylor first ran for the Senate in 1940 in a special election to fill the remaining term of the late William E. Borah, but lost to John W. Thomas with 47. 1 percent to Thomas ' 52. 9 percent.

Powerful forces in United States Congress pushing for non-interventionism and strong Neutrality Acts were the Republican Senators William Edgar Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Gerald P. Nye and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., but support of non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican party.

Prior to Long's death, leading contenders for the role of the sacrificial 1936 candidate included Senators Burton K. Wheeler ( D-Montana ) and William E. Borah ( R-Idaho ), and Governor Floyd B. Olson ( FL-Minnesota ).

The nationally publicized trial took place in Boise in 1907 and included Senator William Borah for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense.

: I yield neither to Senator Borah nor to any other man in admiration of the Farewell Address and of the great Fathers of the Republic ; but I would not use them as a cover for party politics.

When the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William E. Borah of Idaho, added his strong support for Cardozo, however, Hoover finally bowed to the pressure.

The peak is named for William Borah ( 1865 – 1940 ), a prominent U. S. Senator from Idaho ( 1907 – 1940 ).

William Edgar Borah ( June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940 ) was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views.

Borah once wrote a letter to the Board of Pardons protesting the change of sentence in hanging " Diamondfield Jack " Davis, a man charged with killing a sheepherder who was working for a cattle company.

In 1907, shortly after being elected to the Senate, Borah served as the prosecuting attorney in the nationally publicized trial of " Big Bill " Haywood and two other labor union officials for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.

Borah emerged as leader of the " Irreconcilables ," a group of senators noted for their uncompromising opposition to the treaty and the League.

Borah also had a reputation for being headstrong.

When conservative President Calvin Coolidge was told of Borah's fondness for horseback riding, the president is said to have replied, " It's hard to imagine Senator Borah going in the same direction as his horse.

Idaho's highest point, Borah Peak, at 12, 662 feet ( 3859 m ), is named for him, as are two public schools: Borah High School in Boise, and Borah Elementary School in Coeur d ' Alene.

Borah may be best known today for having reportedly said, in September 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, " Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler — all this might have been averted.

The school's slogan is " The Lions of Idaho ," a play on the nickname of namesake William E. Borah, known in the Senate as the " Lion of Idaho " for his outspoken stance on issues.

Borah was the dominant football program in the state for the school's first quarter century, winning the SIC and unofficial COW championship ( AP poll ) in 14 of the first 21 seasons, and two of the first three official titles ( playoffs ).

In November 1979, an 8-team playoff was introduced for the state's largest schools in Class A-1 ( 5A since 2001 ); Borah shut out Lewiston 42 – 0 in the semifinals and archrival Boise 38 – 0 in the final to grab the first official A-1 state title in football, and finished with a record of 11 – 1.

Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement.

After Hoover's defeat by the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, Borah as the Dean of the United States Senate supported certain components of the New Deal.

In 1932 Borah strongly disagreed with the suggestion of the drafters of the London Economic Conference of 1933, who met in Geneva, that the United States should settle intergovernmental debts as a step to recover from the Great Depression.

Borah won a majority of delegates in only one state, Wisconsin, where he had the endorsement of Progressive United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Borah refused to endorse the eventual Republican nominee, Alf Landon, leading some to believe he might cross party lines and support Roosevelt's reelection.

Borah High School was listed in Newsweek's Top 1500 high schools in the United States, 2008.

His 28 years in the Congress rank as the second-longest in Idaho history, trailing only William Borah, who served over 32 years in the Senate.

On January 15, 1907, the Idaho Legislature elected William Borah to the U. S. Senate over the controversial Democratic incumbent, Fred Dubois.

In 1919 Borah and other Senate Republicans, notably Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Hiram W. Johnson of California, clashed with President Woodrow Wilson over Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.

From 1925 to 1933, Borah served as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

" The source of this quote was a 1940 Senate Document, News Articles on the Life and Works of Honorable William E. Borah, compiled and written by William Kinsey Hutchinson, then International News Service's Washington Bureau Chief.

Borah was the second high school in the Boise School District, preceded by Boise High School in 1902, and followed by Capital in the north in 1965, and Timberline in the southeast ( converted from Les Bois Junior High ) in 1998.

Coolidge's next choice was Idaho Senator William Borah, but he also declined the nomination.

The term " Phoney War " was possibly coined by U. S. Senator William Borah who stated, in September 1939: " There is something phoney about this war.

As Idaho Republican William Edgar Borah said the following morning, " Senator Cummins was highly respected by everyone who knew him.

Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth ( Republican-Ohio ), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and the couple's only child was a result of her affair with Senator William Borah of Idaho.

As reported in Carol Felsenthal's biography of Alice, and in Betty Boyd Caroli's The Roosevelt Women, as well by TIME journalist Rebecca Winters Keegan, it was generally accepted knowledge in DC that Longworth also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Longworth's diaries to modern historical researchers indicates that Borah was, by Longworth's own admission, the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth ( 1925 – 1957 ).

The child's biological father was Senator William Borah.

Wisdom was nominated by President Eisenhower on March 14, 1957, to a seat vacated by Wayne G. Borah.

Borah was born near Fairfield, Illinois.

Borah was reelected by the Idaho Legislature in 1912, and four more times by popular vote ( 1918, 1924, 1930 and 1936 ) after an amendment changed the way senators were selected.

A member of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1912, Borah was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention.

As a senator, Borah was dedicated to principles rather than party loyalty, a trait which earned him the nickname " the Great Opposer.

When another bill was introduced in 1935 and 1938, Borah continued to speak against it, by that time saying that it was no longer needed, as the number of lynchings had dropped sharply.

Borah was a progressive Republican who often had strong differences of opinion with the conservative wing of the party.

Sen. William E. Borah of Idaho was outraged by such anxieties, and derided a suggestion that the rate might eventually climb as high as 20 percent.