The 17th Amendment: Senate Deadlocks, the Oregon System and a 44 to 44 Tie
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For more than a century, Americans did not vote for their U.S. senators. At the Constitutional C...
29 Sep 22min
Warren Magnuson: Freight Train Orphan Who Held the Senate Purse Strings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Warren Magnuson was born in 1905 in Moorhead, Minnesota, with sealed birth records, and was adop...
29 Sep 21min
Walter Mondale: Apollo 1 Hearings, a West Wing Office, and a 49 State Loss
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Walter Mondale was born in 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of a Methodist minister who preach...
29 Sep 20min
Tim Johnson: A 524 Vote Win, a Brain Hemorrhage, and a Return to the Senate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tim Johnson was born in December 1946 in Canton, South Dakota, and raised in Vermillion. He earn...
29 Sep 21min
S.I. Hayakawa: Semantics Scholar, Loudspeaker Plug, and Senate Upset
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!S.I. Hayakawa was born in Vancouver in 1906 to Japanese immigrant parents and schooled in Calgar...
29 Sep 22min
Aaron Burr: The Manhattan Company, the 1800 Tie, and a Treason Trial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Aaron Burr was born in 1756, grandson of theologian Jonathan Edwards and son of the president of...
29 Sep 20min
Stuart Symington: Air Force Secretary Who Defended Annie Lee Moss
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stuart Symington was born in Massachusetts in 1901 and raised in Baltimore. He enlisted as a pri...
29 Sep 28min
Lewis Cass: Cass Lake, Indian Removal, and Popular Sovereignty in 1848
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lewis Cass was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1782, the son of Bunker Hill veteran Jonathan Ca...
29 Sep 23min
