Oliver Ellsworth: The Connecticut Compromise and the Judiciary Act of 1789
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Oliver Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1745 and transferred from Yale to Princeto...
29 Syys 21min
Wendell Ford: Coal Severance Tax, Tobacco Price Supports, NAFTA No Vote
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wendell Hampton Ford was born near Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1924, the son of a state senator. He ...
29 Syys 23min
Hugo Black: From Klan Member to Justice Behind Korematsu and Gideon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hugo Lafayette Black was born in 1886 in rural Clay County, Alabama, into a Baptist family and b...
29 Syys 20min
Charles Keating and the Keating Five: The Lincoln Savings Collapse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Keating Five scandal grew out of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, when deregulated ...
29 Syys 23min
Warren Rudman: Gramm-Rudman, David Souter, and the Hart-Rudman Warning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Warren B. Rudman was born in Boston in 1930 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Germany, Polan...
29 Syys 22min
Albert J. Beveridge: Imperialist Senator Turned Pulitzer Biographer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Albert J. Beveridge was born in Ohio in 1862, grew up in Indiana working on farms and as a logge...
29 Syys 20min
Bob Kerrey: Medal of Honor, the Thanh Phong Raid, and The New School
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bob Kerrey was born in 1943 and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, and earned a pharmacy degree from t...
29 Syys 19min
Bill Frist: Heart Transplant Surgeon Turned Senate Majority Leader
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bill Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952 into the family that founded the Hospital C...
29 Syys 20min
