John C. Stennis: First Senate Ethics Chairman and the Stennis Compromise
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John C. Stennis was born in 1901 in Kemper County, Mississippi, graduated from Mississippi State...
29 Sep 22min
Andrew Johnson: The Runaway Tailor Acquitted by a Single Senate Vote
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Andrew Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1808. His father, Jacob, died of a heart attack aft...
29 Sep 24min
Leland Stanford: Big Four Railroad Baron, Governor and University Founder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Leland Stanford was born in New York in 1824 and practiced law in Port Washington, Wisconsin unt...
29 Sep 22min
Jeff Sessions: From a Blocked 1986 Judgeship to Attorney General Recusal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was born on December 24, 1946 in Selma, Alabama, named for his...
29 Sep 19min
Clifford P. Case: New Jersey Republican Who Backed Universal Health Care
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clifford P. Case was born in 1904 in Franklin Park, New Jersey, the eldest of six children of a ...
29 Sep 23min
Thomas Kuchel: Nixon's Debate Rival Who Won All 58 California Counties
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Kuchel was born in Anaheim, California in 1910, the son of a local newspaper editor. As A...
29 Sep 19min
Pat McCarran: The Real Senator Geary Whose Name Left the Vegas Airport
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pat McCarran, the Nevada senator who helped inspire the corrupt Senator Pat Geary in The Godfath...
29 Sep 21min
The Kansas-Nebraska Act: Douglas's Chicago Railroad and Bleeding Kansas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1854 Illinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas wanted the eastern terminal of a transcontinental r...
29 Sep 23min
