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passed a similar numbered bill (HR 1507)by a wide 277-120 margin. The bill failed to achieve even a simple majority on either cloture vote in the Senate in 1938 because of the way the Senate Judiciary committee rewrote the bill.
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After initially threatening to run as an independent, he secured support for the Democratic nomination and faced Republican newspaper publisher
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his voting record is a very mixed one; in 1939 he was one of the members of the committee which voted to postpone consideration of the
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in common with most Democrats, against reciprocal trade agreements, and occasionally votes with the Farm
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failed to eliminate, and his feeling towards the President is, therefore, somewhat cool. He voted for
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sought to "eliminate" him from the Senate, which was welcomed by the Roosevelt administration.
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in 1915. He moved to Indianapolis in 1916 and continued the practice of law; he was
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in June of that year; in October he voted for a revision but not for repeal. Like
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
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to oppose his renomination in 1938. Loyalists to Governors
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Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumni
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Although he was a Democrat who was elected as part of
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for the U.S. District of Indiana from 1920 to 1922.
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Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
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Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
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United States Senator
Indiana
James Eli Watson
Samuel D. Jackson
Indiana Senate
Falmouth, Indiana
Vienna, Virginia
Democratic
Alma mater
Earlham College
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
United States senator
Indiana
Falmouth
public schools
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
admitted to the bar
Shelbyville
Anderson
prosecuting attorney
Madison County
Indiana Senate
president pro tempore
United States Attorney
Literary Digest
Democrat
1932

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