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« on: August 03, 2017, 11:05:05 AM »
Who is your favorite United States Senator from history?

Do not include any current United States Senators.

For me, I would have to say Jacob Javits  of New York is one of my favorites.

Please discuss.
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2017, 11:06:06 AM »
« Edited: August 03, 2017, 01:19:50 PM by Santander »
Jesse Alexander Helms Jr.

Favorite Democrat is Andrew Jackson.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2017, 11:24:22 AM »
My boy Fightin' Bob La Follette
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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2017, 11:38:13 AM »
Bobby Kennedy
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2017, 11:44:37 AM »
Bobby Kennedy
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2017, 11:46:16 AM »
I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but, Robert Byrd.
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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2017, 11:47:00 AM »
Estes Kefauver and Birch Bayh.
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« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2017, 11:47:17 AM »
I'll take one from each party: Howard Baker (R-TN) and Sam Nunn (D-GA).
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2017, 11:47:32 AM »
Quote from: Cora on August 03, 2017, 11:46:16 AM
I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but, Robert Byrd.
Great choice. Terrific man who served his state well.
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2017, 11:48:19 AM »
Quote from: Cora on August 03, 2017, 11:46:16 AM
I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but, Robert Byrd.

^This or Ted Kennedy
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2017, 11:49:23 AM »
Another of my favorites Hiram Johnson of California.
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« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2017, 12:13:53 PM »
Charles Percy (R); Lloyd Bentsen (D).
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« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2017, 12:17:28 PM »
Henry Clay.
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« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2017, 12:34:53 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2017, 12:38:13 PM »
Charles Sumner is the correct answer
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« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2017, 12:38:31 PM »
Also gonna throw Frank Church up there. Underrated as hell.
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« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2017, 12:39:25 PM »
No one picked Theodore Bilbo yet?  Shocking.
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« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2017, 01:00:10 PM »

Yeah. I'm also partial to Paul Wellstone
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« Reply #18 on: August 03, 2017, 01:11:09 PM »
I like Ralph Yarborough, the very liberal senator from Texas, who famously said the words "Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it".  Yarborough was a FF who was the only Southern senator to vote in favor of the civil rights bills.
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« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2017, 01:13:11 PM »
Lisa Murkowski and H. John Heinz III
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« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2017, 01:18:12 PM »

Great choice
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« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2017, 01:25:09 PM »
Frank Moss
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« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2017, 01:25:37 PM »
Quote from: Cora on August 03, 2017, 11:46:16 AM
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.
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« Reply #23 on: August 03, 2017, 01:51:39 PM »
What?

Nobody for Senator Richard M Nixon, the anti-Communist crusader?
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« Reply #24 on: August 03, 2017, 01:55:12 PM »
Sam Rayburn
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
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