Rose McConnell Long: From a Cake Contest to Huey Long's Senate Seat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rose McConnell Long was born on April 8, 1892, in Greensburg, Indiana. She met Huey Long by winn...
29 Sep 17min
Franklin Pierce: A Son Lost to a Train Wreck and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Franklin Pierce, the 14th president, was born in 1804 in a New Hampshire log cabin to Benjamin P...
29 Sep 23min
Frank Murkowski: Appointing Daughter Lisa and a Record 19 Percent Loss
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frank Murkowski was born in Seattle in 1933 to a family of Polish descent, graduated from Ketchi...
29 Sep 22min
Rebecca Latimer Felton: First Woman Senator, Last Slaveholder in Congress
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rebecca Latimer Felton was born in 1835 in Decatur, Georgia, to a prosperous merchant and plante...
29 Sep 25min
Ernest Gruening: Harvard Doctor, Alaska Governor, Gulf of Tonkin No Vote
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ernest Gruening was born in New York City in 1887 to a Jewish family; his father Emil, a German-...
29 Sep 21min
Dennis DeConcini: Panama Canal Reservation, Keating Five, Private Prisons
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dennis DeConcini was the last Democrat to win a U.S. Senate race in Arizona, in 1988, before Kyr...
29 Sep 20min
Dennis Chavez: From Seventh Grade Dropout to New Mexico Senate Pioneer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was born in April 1888 in Los Chavez, in the New Mexico Territory, 24 y...
29 Sep 22min
Dan Quayle: The Skipped Jonestown Trip, Potatoe, and Advice to Pence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dan Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States, was born James Danforth Quayle in 1947...
29 Sep 18min
