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.

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.

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.

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.

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 was born near Fairfield, Illinois.

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.

Borah ran for the United States Senate in 1902, but was defeated in the Idaho Legislature by Weldon B. Heyburn, a Republican attorney from Wallace.

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.

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.

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.

Day of Ohio won their respective primaries, the 70-year-old Borah, a well-known progressive and " insurgent ," won the Wisconsin, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oregon primaries, while also performing quite strongly in Knox's Illinois and Green's South Dakota.

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.

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.

Although many candidates sought the Republican nomination, only two, Governor Landon and Senator Borah, were considered to be serious candidates.

Lowell had sharper exchanges with the die-hard Republican isolationist Senator William Borah of Idaho.

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.

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.

Senator Borah saw a lack of patriotism: " There are a vast number of people supporting the league of nations who never let an opportunity go by of belittling ... everything that is truly American: and Dr. Lowell is one of them.

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.

There, in 1895, his daughter Mary ( or sometimes Mamie ) married William E. Borah, who would be elected as Idaho's U. S. Senator less than a decade later.

Chief prosecuting attorneys were William Borah and James H. Hawley, who were paid in part by money secretly supplied by western mine operators and industrialists.

Conservative Republicans in Idaho, notably Governor and later Senator Frank R. Gooding, often feuded with Borah as well.

Nevertheless, Borah became a strong political force in Idaho and elsewhere often in spite of opposition from his own party.

In 1922 and 1923, Borah spoke against passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which had passed the House.

Borah also had a reputation for being headstrong.

Eleanor also had an affair with Borah, but Alice won out reportedly because Eleanor frequently gloated about their experiences unlike Alice.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Borah had nearly 2000 students, with over 600 students per class.

Overgaard had been an assistant for six years under Pankratz at Borah ( 1978 – 83 ) and a three-year starter at tackle at Idaho ( 1974 – 76 ) under Troxel.

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.

About north of Mackay is Idaho's highest mountain: Borah Peak, with a peak altitude of 12, 662 feet ( 3, 813 m ).

In 1998 local Paragliding Instructor and developer of Mt Borah, Godfrey Wenness, gained the World Distance record with a flight of 335 km.

Borah Peak with fault scarpOn Friday, October 28, 1983, a magnitude 7. 3 earthquake struck the Borah Peak area at 8: 06 am MDT.

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.

Purportedly, Kremlin officials held Borah in such high esteem that American citizens could gain permission to travel throughout the Soviet Union with nothing more than a letter from the Senator.

In 1932, unhappy with the misguided policies of President Herbert Hoover, such as a doubling of revenues with no positive results, in light of the Great Depression Borah refused to publicly endorse Hoover's reelection campaign.

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.

Alice then retaliated by having a lasting affair with Senator William Edgar Borah, which at its height, produced a child Paulina Longworth.

He also performed with jazz musicians Eddie Gale, Roy Campbell, Marc Ribot, Mark Helias, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Borah Bergman and Hanuman Sextet.

After a summer without pro ball, the independent Boise Buckskins debuted in the Northwest League in 1978 at Borah Field, but quickly folded after a 23 – 49 season, poor financial performance, low attendance, inability to meet payroll, and the failure to garner an affiliation with a major league club.

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.

The school colors of Borah High School are green & gold ( with accessory use of white and black ), and the mascot is the lion.