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« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2017, 02:03:43 PM »

What?

Nobody for Senator Richard M Nixon, the anti-Communist crusader?

Wasn't he that guy who appeared on Laugh-In?
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« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2017, 02:22:24 PM »

Sam Rayburn
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson


Which Sam Rayburn? The Texan? He was Speaker of the House three different times, but no senator.
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« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2017, 02:47:06 PM »

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« Reply #28 on: August 03, 2017, 03:02:26 PM »

Robert Francis Kennedy.

I'd choose his brother but history sees him as a President, not a Senator.

If I had to choose a Republican - Henry Cabot Lodge (but I'd still vote against him in '52)
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« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2017, 09:13:31 PM »

Joseph McCarthy
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« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2017, 10:24:39 PM »

Robert La Follette but Burton Wheeler or Lynn Frazier would take a close second.
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« Reply #31 on: August 03, 2017, 10:37:37 PM »


Fine, but she was never a Senator (just like Sam Rayburn wasn't).

My choice is Hugo Black -- albeit for his service as a Supreme Court Justice, not as a Senator.
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« Reply #32 on: August 03, 2017, 10:44:45 PM »

Daniel Webster, probably.
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« Reply #33 on: August 04, 2017, 12:18:13 AM »
« Edited: August 04, 2017, 06:43:36 AM by bruhgmger2 »

In no particular order

Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX)
Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN)
Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)
Jay D. Rockefeller (D-WV)
Tom R. Harkin (D-IA)
Mike J. Mansfield (D-MT)
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Ted M. Kennedy (D-MA)
Frank F. Church (D-ID)
James Terry Sanford (D-NC)
Jim M. Jeffords (I-VT)
Ralph W. Yarborough (D-TX)
Birch E. Bayh (D-IN)
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« Reply #34 on: August 04, 2017, 01:36:02 AM »


Ah, the ever popular new poster vs.game: "Troll or Idiot?"
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« Reply #35 on: August 04, 2017, 02:32:40 AM »


Ah, the ever popular new poster vs.game: "Troll or Idiot?"

To be fair, these are not mutually exclusive options
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« Reply #36 on: August 04, 2017, 08:09:41 AM »

John Foster Dulles.
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« Reply #37 on: August 04, 2017, 08:19:52 AM »


Ah, the ever popular new poster vs.game: "Troll or Idiot?"

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« Reply #38 on: August 04, 2017, 08:44:21 AM »

Several great ones (no particular order):

Frank Church (D-ID)
Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)
Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX)
Ralph Yabourough (D-TX)
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Hiram Johnson (R-CA)
Charles McNary (R-OR)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Scoop Jackson (D-WA)
Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)
Joe Biden (D-DE)
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« Reply #39 on: August 04, 2017, 10:42:21 AM »

Did anyone pick Obummer yet?
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« Reply #40 on: August 04, 2017, 12:18:41 PM »


Short Senate career. Promising, but he chose a different direction. He might have had a longer and more distinguished Senate career had it not been for one of the least-competent Presidents in American history. Voinovich? Lugar? Gore? 



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« Reply #41 on: August 04, 2017, 01:16:02 PM »

Charles Sumner
Robert LaFollette, Sr.
Robert F. Kennedy
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« Reply #42 on: August 04, 2017, 01:49:29 PM »

I'll put forward a Democrat

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York

A breath of fresh air in the Senate
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« Reply #43 on: August 04, 2017, 02:06:17 PM »

I'll put forward a Democrat

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York

A breath of fresh air in the Senate

Yeah, good choice.

Another one I thought of, but who I like mostly for his non-political career, is S. I. Hayakawa (R-CA).
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« Reply #44 on: August 04, 2017, 02:27:06 PM »


Short Senate career. Promising, but he chose a different direction. He might have had a longer and more distinguished Senate career had it not been for one of the least-competent Presidents in American history.

It almost sounds like you're discussing Robert Francis Kennedy, another man whose Senate career was short-lived, and yet people have felt free to mention him in this thread.
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« Reply #45 on: August 04, 2017, 02:47:28 PM »

My top three are.

1. Robert F. Kennedy
2. Jakob K. Javits
3. Robert Byrd (minus his racism)

I guess I could've added Hubert Humphrey, but he was Vice President.
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« Reply #46 on: August 04, 2017, 03:43:28 PM »

My top three are.

1. Robert F. Kennedy
2. Jakob K. Javits
3. Robert Byrd (minus his racism)

I guess I could've added Hubert Humphrey, but he was Vice President.

But he was also a Senator, so he qualifies.
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« Reply #47 on: August 04, 2017, 03:47:06 PM »

Whatever happened to the massive Joe Biden fan club that once existed on this forum?

Poor Joe, adoration is fleeting.
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« Reply #48 on: August 04, 2017, 03:49:24 PM »

Thinking about Hayakawa earlier made me wonder: which Senator had the most impressive non-political accomplishments?  John Glenn perhaps?
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« Reply #49 on: August 04, 2017, 05:16:17 PM »

Thinking about Hayakawa earlier made me wonder: which Senator had the most impressive non-political accomplishments?  John Glenn perhaps?

Well, it's difficult to compete with an astronaut, but Hillary Clinton, during her postgraduate study at Yale University, served as staff attorney for the newly founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children.

So she spent some of her pre-Senate life advocating and working for our most precious resource, the children.
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