One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, interning for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.

This vision greatly influenced Senator J. William Fulbright in the goal of the Fulbright fellowships to promote international understanding and peace, and has guided many other international fellowship programs.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

One of his childhood friends was J. William Fulbright, the future United States Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

Senator J. William Fulbright was born in Sumner on April 9, 1905.

Meanwhile Senator J. William Fulbright, who established the Fulbright Program, was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke in the 1920s.

Additionally, two former chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Richard G. Lugar, ( Republican ), and Senator J. William Fulbright ( Democrat ), were students of Pembroke, between them chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a 27 year period.

* J. William Fulbright, Democratic U. S. Senator representing Arkansas

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, was created in the aftermath of World War II through the efforts of US Senator J. William Fulbright.

He opposed Senator Hattie Caraway and the freshman U. S. Representative J. William Fulbright of Fayetteville.

A senator from Arkansas, Senator James W. Fulbright, mentioned that to drive a MBT-70, a master's degree in a technical institute would be required.

Others involved in the restoration are Parker O. Westbrook, a former aide to the late U. S. Senator J. W. Fulbright, and Westbrook's sister, Lucille.

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946.

In 1945, Senator J. William Fulbright proposed a bill to use the proceeds from selling surplus U. S. government war property to fund international exchange between the U. S. and other countries.

James William Fulbright ( April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995 ) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.

An earlier portrait of Senator Fulbright.

Senator Fulbright, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Democratic Senator from Arkansas — a chief poultry-producing state — interrupted a NATO debate on nuclear armament to protest trade sanctions on U. S. chicken, going so far as to threaten cutting US troops in NATO.

In 1995 Senator Coats introduced S. 568: Family, Investment, Retirement, Savings, and Tax Fairness Act which would provide " family tax credits, increase national savings through individual retirement plus accounts, indexing for inflation the income thresholds for taxing social security benefits, etc ".

Notable College Republicans have included prominent Republican strategist Lee Atwater, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum, U. S. Senator Roger Wicker, North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry, conservative activist Morton Blackwell, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis, lobbyist and McCain advisor Charles R. Black, Jr., Texas Republican Party Chairman Emeritus Tom Pauken, Christian Coalition executive director and political consultant Ralph E. Reed, Jr., New York political consultant Roger Stone and political consultant Joshua Workman.

Garrett was also Legislative Director and Tax and Budget Counsel to Senator David L. Boren.

While in Senator Lott's office, he was involved in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and all budget resolutions since 1997, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and all tax legislation since 1998, Trade Promotion Authority, all health legislation, the Transportation Equity Act, FAA authorization bills and many other smaller bills.

Some alternatives to the bill included a proposal by Senator David Boren ( D-OK ), which among other things would have kept much of the tax increase on upper-income payers but would have eliminated all energy tax increases while also scaling back the Earned Income Tax Credit.

The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act was a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of the Internet.

When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

Clinton's political opponents charge that to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War during his college years, he used the political influence of a U. S. Senator, who employed him as an aide.

On December 13, 2007, former U. S. Senator George J. Mitchell released his report on the use of performance-enhancing substances by MLB players.

* Paul Laxalt, former Governor and U. S. Senator

* Barbara Levy Boxer ( 1962 ), anti-war activist, environmentalist, U. S. Representative, 1982 – 1993, and U. S. Senator

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U. S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow.

* LeBaron Bradford Colt, U. S. Senator

* 1933 – Jean Carnahan, U. S. Senator

She became a U. S. Senator from New York in 2001 and is currently the Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

U. S. Senator from Delaware ( d. 1869 )

* Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia and former U. S. Senator

Heinz was the grandfather of H. J. Heinz II, great-grandfather of U. S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania in the United States and great-great grandfather of Henry John Heinz IV, Andre Thierstein Heinz and Christopher Drake Heinz.

As he described in his article, in 2003, U. S. Senator Rick Santorum commented on a pending U. S. Supreme Court case involving sodomy laws ( primarily as a matter of Constitutional rights to Privacy and Equal Protection under the Law ).

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U. S. Senator.

* 1968 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Lynch defeated Republican challenger Joseph Kenney, a State Senator and U. S. Marine, 70 % to 28 %, with 2 % of the vote won by the Libertarian candidate.

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

Both before and after his time in the Pierce administration, he served as a Democratic U. S. Senator representing the State of Mississippi.