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Herring served only a single term as senator and failed in his first re-election bid. Roosevelt's popularity in Iowa had waned after 1936, and
Democratic candidates increasingly lost re-election. In addition, disagreements or rivalries between Herring and other leading Iowa Democrats, including
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before it could be aired. He declared that "radio has no more right to present programs like that than someone has to come knocking on our door and screaming." However, neither he nor anyone else presented a bill, and no such legislation was adopted.
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Republican Party, in 1854. In a 1934 rematch, Herring again defeated Turner while he led a Democratic sweep of statewide offices that kept Democrats in six of Iowa's nine U.S. House seats.
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Both senators from Iowa were
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Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Clyde LaVerne Herring
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226:26th governor of Iowa
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162:Clyde LaVerne Herring
52:United States Senator
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486:, September 9, 1935.
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304:Iowa National Guard
80:Lester J. Dickinson
16:American politician
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785:Served alongside:
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730:Political offices
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391:, former governor
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