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.
