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« Reply #75 on: July 28, 2018, 08:35:01 PM »

Just a couple

Nelson Rockefeller
Jacob Javits
Wayne Morse
Edward Brooke
Margaret Chase-Smith
Thomas Dewey
Earl Warren

Many of these were never senators. Did you just Google liberal Republicans and post the names you saw there?
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« Reply #76 on: July 28, 2018, 10:06:35 PM »

Democrats:
1. John Glenn (D-OH)
2. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
3. Howard Matzenbaum (D-OH)
4. Birch Bayh (D-IN)
5. Henry 'Scoop' Jackson

Republicans:
1. Jakob Javits (R-NY)
2. Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
3. George Voinovich (R-OH)
4. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT)
5. Edward Brooke (R-MA)

Overall: John Glenn (D-OH)

I forgot Metzenbaum; he's one of my faves.

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« Reply #77 on: July 28, 2018, 11:56:35 PM »

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« Reply #78 on: July 29, 2018, 04:49:05 AM »

Nearby Republicans.  I don't think there are many Republicans like these two anymore
1.Dan Evans
2.Mark Hatfield
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« Reply #79 on: July 29, 2018, 05:17:19 AM »

Charles Sumner is the correct answer
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« Reply #80 on: July 30, 2018, 02:40:16 PM »

Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX), the most effective Majority Leader in the history of the senate.

Others: Frank Church (D-ID) and Jacob Javits (R-NY)
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« Reply #81 on: July 30, 2018, 04:19:53 PM »

George McGovern and Bob Graham
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« Reply #82 on: July 30, 2018, 04:29:02 PM »

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« Reply #83 on: July 30, 2018, 05:06:38 PM »

Robert La Follette Sr. (R-WI)
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
George McGovern (D-SD)
Robert Kennedy (D-NY)
Charles Sumner (R-MA)
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« Reply #84 on: July 30, 2018, 07:29:54 PM »

Hiram Revels and Robert Byrd.
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