The America First Committee had its share of prominent businessmen as well as the sympathies of political figures including Democratic Senators Burton K. Wheeler of Montana and David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, and Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas, with its most prominent spokesman being aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.

" In the run up to the Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, control frauds like Charles Keating were able to get legislators like Speaker of the House Jim Wright, the Keating Five Senators and majorities in both the US House and Senate to suppress investigations of massive criminality until their Ponzi schemes finally collapses.

Eighteen Senators led by Charles Sumner defeated the treaty.

His son, William Howard Taft, was the 27th President of the United States and was a member of Yale's Skull and Bones like his founder father ; another son, Charles Phelps Taft, supported the founding of Wolf's Head Society at Yale ; both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I ( also Skull and Bones ) and Robert Taft Jr., were U. S. Senators ; his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007.

Over the course of the campaign he was endorsed by Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards, as well as Howard Dean, Reverend Al Sharpton, the Working Families Party and former Mayor David Dinkins.

After winning the Democratic nomination, Ferrer was endorsed by Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton on September 16.

This slow pace continued through the 1930s, when Republican Senators were so few that they dispensed with a permanent whip, and the conference chairman and floor leader, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, appointed Senators to serve as whip on particular pieces of legislation.

The bill was cosponsored by the nine Senators: Birch Bayh, James O. Eastland, Jake Garn, Walter Huddleston, Daniel Inouye, Charles Mathias, John L. McClellan, Gaylord Nelson, and Strom Thurmond.

Grant's effort to have an exemption written into the law for Stewart failed, due to the opposition of Senators Charles Sumner and Roscoe Conkling.

* 1907-Ottawa Senators players Harry Smith, Alf Smith and Charles Spittal were charged with assault after beating Montreal Wanderers players, Hod Stuart, Ernie " Moose " Johnson and Cecil Blatchford with their sticks.

The other Senators who signed onto the Declaration were Wayne Morse of Oregon, George Aiken of Vermont, Edward Thye of Minnesota, Irving Ives of New York, Charles Tobey of New Hampshire, and Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey.

He retained support from New York's liberal Republican U. S. Senators Jacob K. Javits and Charles Goodell.

Newspaper article on attempted bribery by Charles W. Buttz of Senators Hunton and Kyle

The last time two Republicans were simultaneous U. S. Senators from Michigan was from 1953-55 with Homer Ferguson and Charles E. Potter.

Maurice Charles " Mickey " Harris ( January 30, 1917 – April 15, 1971 ) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1940 – 41, 1946 – 49 ), Washington Senators ( 1949 – 52 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1952 ).

In 1861 he was a candidate for the United States Senate against Charles R. Buckalew but was defeated by one vote in the state legislature, which at the time elected Senators.

Speakers at ACS events have included U. S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, Vice President Joe Biden, former Vice President Al Gore, U. S. Senators Russ Feingold, Amy Klobuchar, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer the late Paul Wellstone, and Sheldon Whitehouse, U. S. Representatives Tammy Baldwin, Artur Davis, Barney Frank, Diana DeGette, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and John Lewis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Janet Reno and Attorney General Eric Holder, former Solicitors General Paul D. Clement, Walter E. Dellinger, Drew S. Days and Seth P. Waxman, and White House Counsel Greg Craig.

The law passed the Senate 81 – 4, with the opponents being Democratic Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Republican Senator Charles Mathias.

The proposal was supported by Senators Charles Sumner, B. Gratz Brown and John Sherman, but did not come to a vote in Congress.

In May 2012, U. S. Senators Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Patrick Leahy, and Bernie Sanders sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to fastrack the approval of a preclearance facility in Montreal's Central Station that will benefit U. S. bound travelers from having to stop at the rail station located in Rouses Point, New York for immigration and customs checks whenever they cross the U. S .- Canadian border.

The recording includes many famous radio programs of the time ( including Amos ' n Andy and Major Bowes ' Original Amateur Hour ), local programs featuring Arthur Godfrey and John Charles Daly before their national successes, a Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators baseball game, and a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Significant initial support came from U. S. Senators Charles McC.

Sumner then attacked authors of the Act, Senators Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina.

Several other Senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt who brandished a pistol and shouted, " Let them be!

In March 1861, after the withdrawal of Southern Senators, Sumner became chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations.

When the 42nd U. S. Congress convened on March 4, 1871 Senators affiliated with President Grant, known as ‘’ New Radicals ’’ voted to oust Sen. Sumner from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship.

Several other Senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt, who was brandishing a pistol and shouting " Let them be!

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Webster as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators with Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

Before the Communications Act of 1934 was enacted as law by the U. S. Congress, there was a debate over commercial versus non-commercial broadcasting: Senators Robert Wagner of New York and Henry Hatfield of West Virginia offered an amendment to the then proposed Communications Act.

At the height of its popularity, the hotel played host to such guests as Senators Thomas Kearns ( Utah ), Henry G. Davis ( West Virginia ), his son-in-law, Senator Stephen Benton Elkins ( West Virginia ), and Camden ( West Virginia ).

United States Senate | Sen. Carter Glass ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D — List of United States Senators from Virginia | Va. ) and United States House of Representatives | Rep. Henry B. Steagall ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D — Alabama's 3rd congressional district | Ala .- 3 ), the co-sponsors of the Glass – Steagall Act.

General John C. Breckinridge, the fourteenth Vice President of the United States, who was also related to Senators Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton.

Hazlitt became well known both through his articles and by frequently debating prominent politicians on the radio, including: Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and U. S. Senators Paul Douglas and Hubert H. Humphrey, the future Vice President.

He approached Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Senators William Fulbright and George McGovern, and others, but none was interested.

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Henry K. Giugni and his staff searched the Capitol's corridor and Senate office buildings for absent Senators, and after checking several empty offices, spotted Senator Steve Symms of Idaho, who fled down a hallway and escaped arrest.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected La Follette as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert Taft.

A 1982 survey asking historians to rank the " ten greatest Senators in the nation's history " based on " accomplishments in office " and " long range impact on American history ," placed La Follette first, tied with Henry Clay.

He was brother-in-law of Senator / Governor James McDowell of Virginia ; father-in-law of explorer, Union Major General, and presidential candidate John C. Frémont ; and cousin-in-law of Senators Henry Clay and James Brown, both of whom married cousins of Benton.

In any event, if challenged, Eaton could have referred to previous under-aged Senators Armistead Mason or Henry Clay.

The new portraits joined a group of distinguished former Senators, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Robert A. Taft.

* Coleman, James P. " Two Irascible Antebellum Senators: George Poindexter and Henry S.

The state's two U. S. Senators, Henry M. " Scoop " Jackson and Warren G. Magnuson managed to amend the U. S. Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, reducing the previous 50-100 percent cost of acquiring surplus federal government property to 0-50 percent, making it feasible for someone other than a wealthy developer to acquire the property.

Paul Henry Hopkins ( September 25, 1904 – January 2, 2004 ) was a right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Washington Senators ( 1927, 1929 ) and St. Louis Browns ( 1929 ).

* Senators From Nebraska: Robert Leddy ( N ), Henry Hawbaker ( F )

In the Treen-Lambert general election, the defeated Democratic candidates, including the disappointed Fitzmorris, House Speaker E. L. Henry of Jonesboro, and State Senators Paul Hardy of St. Martinville and Edgar G. " Sonny " Mouton, Jr., of Lafayette, all endorsed Treen.

Accounts were also held by Senators Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, and generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Douglas MacArthur.

Henry Hitchcock was elected the first Attorney General of Alabama, and Thomas A. Rogers was elected and John W. Walker were chosen as the first U. S. Senators.

Henry William Sprague " Peg " Cleghorn, ( March 11, 1890 – July 11, 1956 ), was a Canadian professional hockey player from Westmount who played for the Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Renfrew Creamery Kings and Toronto St. Patricks in the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League from 1911 until 1929.

Often, their votes opposed each other, as Barbour began to vote in line with Senators such as John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.

" Solon Huntington was a prominent Sacramento businessman during the 19th century, though less famous than his brother ( Collis Huntington ) and son ( Henry Huntington ). The team was also known at times as the Sacramento Sacts, an abbreviation of the name of the city, and the Sacramento Senators.