All-Time Congress Draft

[beesley]

Is it too late to join? I had no idea about this!

[beesley]

19th Century: John C Calhoun (D-SC), David Wilmot (FS-PA), Charles Sumner (R-MA)
20th Century: Jeanette Rankin (D-MT), Augustus Hawkins (D-CA), Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
21st Century: John McCain (R-AZ), Barack Obama (D-IL), Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

This will be a hard challenge, but my intention is not to make an ideal Congress, but one that I believe is a cross-section of US history. As a historian, this would be - I have always had an interest in how different historical periods saw eachother. The draft aspect and unequal time periods of this makes it more of a challenge, but I'm up for it.

Also, the number of people who finished serving in Congress in 1999 is infuriating!

[beesley]

19th Century - Jefferson Davis (D-MS)
20th Century - John Glenn (D-OH)
21st Century - Tom Carper (D-DE)

[beesley]

James Monroe (DR-VA)
Alben Barkley (D-KY)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

[beesley]

18th and 19th: William Johnson (P-A-CT) and Schuyler Colfax (R-IN)
20th: Claiborne Pell (D-RI) and Dick Cheney (R-WY)
21st: Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Harry Reid (D-NV)

[beesley]

While we are waiting for other draft picks to come in, are there any congresspeople you wanted, but were drafted by someone else first?

Excluding people I knew would go early like HHH, LaFollette, etc., I wish I could have gotten either Frank Graham or Terry Sanford from North Carolina, Patsy Mink, Victor Berger, John Fremont, and Fred Harris.

Yes! James Kyle of South Dakota.

[beesley]

19th: Porter McCumber (R-ND)
20th: Mike Gravel (D-AK)
21st: Steve Scalise (R-LA)

[beesley]

I'm not sure what happened - I thought I had picked for this round yesterday.

In any case:

19th Century: John Bell (W-TN)
20th Century: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
21st Century: Walt Minnick (D-ID)

[beesley]

I'm not sure what happened - I thought I had picked for this round yesterday.

In any case:

19th Century: John Bell (W-TN)
20th Century: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
21st Century: Walt Minnick (D-ID)

That's okay! But I am afraid that you already picked Sumner as your Massachusetts guy. Would you like to take a different pick for the 20th century?

My apologies. I don't believe I have picked someone from Arkansas, so I will pick Joe T Robinson.