Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.

Senators Nathaniel P. Tallmadge and William C. Rives supported the other side of the party, in favor of paper money.

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.

* Among the Senators in the hearing committee are film producer / director Roger Corman, writer / producer William Bowers, producer Phil Feldman, and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson.

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.

It was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U. S. Senators from Virginia.

It was named for William Cocke, one of the state's first United States Senators.

However, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator William F. Knowland of California, and by the Republican National Committee, ( Alaska itself had no Senators at this time, as it was still a territory ).

The 55 delegates also elected three unofficial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and William Egan as U. S. Senators and Ralph Rivers as U. S. representative.

Prominent NFL alumni include Senators Russ Feingold, Richard Lugar and William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Academy Award winners Patricia Neal and Don Ameche, Emmy award winners Kelsey Grammer and Shelley Long, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchors Jane Pauley and the late David Bloom, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Federal National Mortgage CEO Franklin Delano Raines, actors Brad Pitt and Zac Efron, and musician David Cook.

Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. ( D-TN ), J. William Fulbright ( D-AR ), and Robert Byrd ( D-WV ), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.

* William Denton Dolly Gray ( 1878-1956 ), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911

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

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 ).

Additionally, three of the twenty-six Progressive Conservative Senators, Lowell Murray, Norman Atkins and William Doody, decided to continue serving as Progressive Conservatives, rejecting membership in the new party.

They included Senators Sam Nunn ( D-GA ) and William Cohen ( R-ME ), both members of the Armed Services Committee, and Representative Dan Daniel ( D-VA ), the chairman of the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness.

Voters elected Sevier as governor and the new legislature selected Blount and William Cocke as U. S. Senators and Andrew Jackson as the U. S. Representative.

Opposing McEnery was Republican William Pitt Kellogg, one of Louisiana's U. S. Senators.

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.

In 1952, McCarran attended a dinner hosted by the Kuomintang Chinese Ambassador to Washington together with Senators Joseph McCarthy and William Knowland that began with this toast: " Back to the mainland!

In June 1830, a delegation of Cherokee led by Chief John Ross, selected ( at the urging of Senators Daniel Webster and Theodore Frelinghuysen ), William Wirt, attorney general in the Monroe and Adams administrations, to defend Cherokee rights before the U. S. Supreme Court.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the state's Congressional delegation comprised Senators William Langer and Milton R. Young and Representatives William Lemke and Usher Lloyd Burdick.

In 1919, Griffith joined forces with Philadelphia grain broker William Richardson to buy controlling interest in the Senators.

Senators William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle, and Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who provided the decisive vote, defied their party and public opinion and voted against impeachment.

The deal, achieved with the agreement of the UN's entire membership in late December 2000, lowered the rate of UN dues paid by the United States to the UN, fulfilling the terms of a US law championed by Senators Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Joseph Biden ( D-DE ).

Wharton entertained distinguished internationally-known guests such as biologists Thomas Huxley and Joseph Leidy, astronomer Samuel Langley, scientist Lord Kelvin, Senators James Blaine and Justin Morrill, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and metallurgist Alfred Krupp.

The hearings were covered heavily by the media and were co-chaired by Senators Joseph Lieberman ( Connecticut ) and Herbert H. Kohl ( Wisconsin ), during which Night Trap was cited as " shameful ", " ultra-violent ", " sick ", and " disgusting ", encouraging an " effort to trap and kill women ".

In September 2007 the Ottawa Senators quietly expressed interest in acquiring Joseph if they could unload Martin Gerber and his large contract.

On March 21, 2012, a group of 33 Senators introduced a resolution condemning " the crimes against humanity " committed by Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Both positions were previously held by a Senior Minister within Cabinet, consecutively by Senators John Faulkner and Joseph Ludwig in the previous Rudd and Gillard Cabinets.

Louis Joseph Berberet ( November 20, 1929 – April 6, 2004 ) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers between 1954 and 1960.

* Senators From Illinois: Ian Fleming ( N ), Joseph Aumuller ( F )

However, it was during Gandil's first season with the Senators that he met bookie and gambler, Joseph " Sport " Sullivan.

Residents of Hillandale have included U. S. Senators Joseph Lieberman ( I-Connecticut ) and Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ), former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia.

Demitra began the 1993 – 94 season with the Ottawa Senators, and in his first NHL game on 9 October 1993, Demtira scored on St. Louis Blues goaltender Curtis Joseph for his first ever NHL goal and point in a 7 – 5 loss.

Patricia " Pat " Kennedy Lawford ( May 6, 1924 – September 17, 2006 ) was an American socialite and the sixth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, sister to President John F. Kennedy, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy.

Congress refused to fund the Monument until 1950, when Wyoming's two U. S. Senators, Joseph C. O ' Mahoney and Hunt, reached a compromise with the Truman administration.

In modern times, more liberal Republicans include Rudy Giuliani, Amo Houghton, Colin Powell, Jim Leach, Joseph Cao, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Senators Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter, both of whom later left the party.

In the early 1990s, Night Trap was singled out by numerous interest groups and by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Herbert Kohl as evidence that the video game industry was marketing games with graphic violence and other adult content to minors.

When pressed by Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy about the interview during his confirmation hearings, Ashcroft replied " I would rather be falsely accused of racism than to falsely accuse others.

Cyril Joseph Denneny ( December 23, 1891 – September 10, 1970 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League and the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association.

The legislation creating the commission, proposed by State Senators Joseph Kyrillos and Ellen Karcher, received bipartisan support, but only after wrangling in the legislature over its composition and authority.

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.

However Senators claimed for a division, and the motion was defeated: Tá ( for ) 2 votes-Sir John Keane and Joseph Johnston-Nil ( against ) 34 votes.