Who is your favorite United States Senator from history?

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This is hard.

I'll say Scoop Jackson, with these four being close behind: Al D'Amato, Joe Lieberman, Robert Taft, and Howard Baker.

Some others: William Knoweland, Barry Goldwater, Birch Bayh, Paul Laxalt, Bobby Kennedy, Chic Hecht, Tom Coburn.

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I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but, Robert Byrd.

Actually a pretty popular opinion, but it is kind of ironic given how "liberally" you accuse others of racism, LOL.

Anyway, in no particular order:

Everett Dirksen (R-IL)
Prescott Bush (R-CT)
Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
Edward Brooke (R-MA)
Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Robert Stafford (R-VT)
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Irving Ives (R-NY)
Jacob Collamer (R-VT)

Probably forgetting some.

I feel like a fake republican for forgetting to list these amazing people. Great choices, RINO Tom.

[SATW]

Alright, making a list of my favorites since I forgot too many great people.

Republicans:
1. Everett Dirksen, R-IL
2. Al D'Amato, R-NY
3. William F. Knoweland, R-CA
4. Margaret Chase Smih, R-ME
5. Howard Baker, R-TN
6. Robert Taft, R-OH (Obviously because of his economics/domestic views, not his isolationism lol, but also because of his surprisingly strong Christian Zionism)
7. Chic Hecht, R-NV
8. John Danforth, R-MO
9. Barry Goldwater, R-AZ
10. James L. Buckley, C/R-NY
11. Tom Coburn, R-OK
12. Irving Ives, R-NY
13. Arthur Vandenberg, R-MI

Democrats:
1. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-WA
2. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY
3. Joseph Lieberman, D/I-CT
4. Bobby Kennedy, D-NY
5. Birch Bayh, D-IN
6. Edward Zorinsky, D-NE
7. Lloyd Bentsen, D-TX
8. Evan Bayh, D-IN

I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but, Robert Byrd.

Actually a pretty popular opinion, but it is kind of ironic given how "liberally" you accuse others of racism, LOL.

Anyway, in no particular order:

Everett Dirksen (R-IL)
Prescott Bush (R-CT)
Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
Edward Brooke (R-MA)
Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Robert Stafford (R-VT)
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Irving Ives (R-NY)
Jacob Collamer (R-VT)

Probably forgetting some.

I feel like a fake republican for forgetting to list these amazing people. Great choices, RINO Tom.

Trivia: Everett Dirksen was the father-in-law of another Senator who's appeared in this thread, Howard Baker. (And more trivia: Baker's second marriage was to Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, so he almost had two famous Republican fathers-in-law, but for the fact that Alf Landon died years before Baker and Kassebaum married.)

Wow, never knew that. That's pretty cool!

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I gave my choices of democrats - Kefauver and the elder Bayh - so my republican choice: Arthur Vandenburg. I greatly respect him.

I knew I forgot someone else lol