Longest serving senators of all time: Your favorite?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

All HPs, Hayden least bad. Inouye lived long enough to see himself become an HP.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

All HPs, Hayden least bad. Inouye lived long enough to see himself become an HP.

Curious as to what you mean by this -- I don't really understand how Inouye changed ideologically much at all during his time in Congress, especially if you compare him to some of the people on this very list (Byrd or Thurmond) who changed almost beyond recognition.

He very probably raped someone in the seventies.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not to be too EDGY, but Inouye would have been an American hero had he not lived past the age of twenty.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not to be too EDGY, but Inouye would have been an American hero had he not lived past the age of twenty.

How do you actually define "edginess"?

Saying cynical, incendiary, and/or misanthropic things mostly or solely to provoke a reaction or seem cool and disaffected, or in a way that has that effect unintentionally but in a way that a reasonably self-aware person should have been able to foresee.