Jean Carnahan: Missouri's First Woman Senator After a Posthumous Win
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jean Carnahan was born Jean Anne Carpenter in Washington, D.C., in 1933 to a plumber and a haird...
29 Sep 17min
James Inhofe: A Snowball on the Senate Floor and a Submarine in Oklahoma
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Mountain Inhofe (1934 to 2024), Oklahoma's longest serving U.S. senator, was born in Des M...
29 Sep 22min
James G. Blaine: The Mulligan Letters and Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James G. Blaine was born in Pennsylvania in 1830 to a Whig father and an Irish Catholic mother, ...
29 Sep 21min
James Buchanan: The Dred Scott Letters, Ostend Manifesto and Secession
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Buchanan, the 15th president, was born in a Pennsylvania log cabin in 1791 to an Irish imm...
29 Sep 21min
Jake Garn: The Utah Senator in Orbit and the Space Sickness Garn Scale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jake Garn was born in Richfield, Utah, in 1932, the son of a World War I pilot. After a business...
29 Sep 21min
The Senate Candy Desk: Hershey Hauls, Wyoming Fudge, a Democratic Fund
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eating is banned on the Senate floor, yet since 1965 a stash of candy has sat in a desk on the R...
29 Sep 21min
Howell Heflin: Alabama Chief Justice Who Opposed a Confederate Flag Patent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Howell Heflin was born in June 1921 in Poland, Georgia, and raised in Alabama by a Methodist min...
29 Sep 20min
Cloture and the Guillotine: Parnell's 41 Hours to the Senate's 60 Votes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cloture, called closure in many Commonwealth countries and the guillotine in the United Kingdom ...
29 Sep 25min
