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.

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.

A Phillips Academy, Andover graduate, Charles Borah won the AAU championships in 100 yd in 1926, in 220 yd in 1927 and in 200 m in 1928.

As a University of Southern California student, Borah won the IC4A championships in both 100 yd and 220 yd in 1927.

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

Both Borah and Boise returned to the finals in 1980, but with a different outcome as Boise won 7 – 0 with a game-ending goal line stand.

Additional state championships that academic year were won by the Borah varsity basketball team and track & field team ( the second of four straight ), for a rare triple state title for the class of 1982.

The Borah baseball team won the state title in 1981, but lost their opener 1-0 at the state tourney in 1982.

Borah won its tenth state title in basketball in 2012, the third under head coach Cary Cada.

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.

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

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.

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.

Borah Peak's north face is one of Idaho's only year-round snow climbs and provides a much greater challenge than the normal route.

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.

Before the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake, it only erupted twice a day.

Idaho Senator William Borah acclaimed Curtis " a great reconciler, a walking political encyclopedia and one of the best political poker players in America.

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.

It boasts nearby Mt Borah, one of the worlds best Paraglider and Hang Glider launch sites.

Borah Peak ( also known as Mount Borah or Beauty Peak ) is the highest mountain in the U. S. state of Idaho and one of the most prominent peaks in the contiguous states.

Borah finished at 9 – 3, with two losses to Boise and one to Capital.

After practicing law in Lyons, Kansas, Borah relocated to Boise, Idaho in 1890, where he became the most prominent attorney in the new state.

In 1947, the state of Idaho donated a bronze statue of Borah to the National Statuary Hall Collection.

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.

In November 1981, undefeated Borah regained the state title with a 30 – 13 win over Boise in the Lions ' closest game of the year ( 17 points ).

Among the leading Irreconcilables were Republicans George Norris of Nebraska, William Borah of Idaho, Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, and Hiram Johnson of California.

Robinson traveled to Cuba, where he stayed briefly while Idaho Senator William Borah intervened on his behalf and helped him to obtain a visa.

Lowell had sharper exchanges with the die-hard Republican isolationist 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 ).

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

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.

Borah also had a reputation for being headstrong.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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