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    Kenneth Spicer Wherry (February 28, 1892 – November 29, 1951) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. A member of the Republican Party...
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    appointed to the U.S. Senate on December 10, 1951, by Gov. Val Peterson to fill the vacancy created by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry. A Rockefeller Republican...
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    Democratic support in the state in 1942, Norris was defeated by Republican Kenneth S. Wherry. He departed from office saying, "I have done my best to repudiate...
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    Robert A. Taft (category S-aft: 'after' parameter includes the word 'unknown')
    Democrats attacking the charges of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Taft joined Kenneth S. Wherry in predicting an effort to send the majority report back to the committee...
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    The Senator from Michigan [Mr. FERGUSON], the Senator from Nebraska Mr. WHERRY, and many other Senators who were interested in that situation at the time...
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  • convened following the 1946 midterm elections. Early in 1947, Senator Kenneth S. Wherry introduced a bill in the Senate which, like the previous 1945 version...
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  • 1936, but later lost his final re-election attempt to Republican Kenneth S. Wherry in 1942. Vermont senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party to...
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    Barkley, Ed Izac, John M. Vorys, Dewey Short, C. Wayland Brooks, and Kenneth S. Wherry, along with General Omar Bradley and journalists Joseph Pulitzer,...
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    Vandenberg (R) Majority leader: Wallace H. White Jr. Majority whip: Kenneth S. Wherry Republican Conference Chairman: Eugene Millikin Republican Conference...
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    Republican Party, led by Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, argued that the Marshall Plan would be "a wasteful 'operation rat-hole'". Wherry held that it made no sense...
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    elections were held concurrently with the election of Democratic President Harry S. Truman for a full term. The 32 seats of Class 2 were contested in regular...
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    McMahon Policy Committee Chairman: Ernest McFarland Minority leader: Kenneth S. Wherry, until November 29, 1951 Styles Bridges, from January 8, 1952 Minority...
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    McMahon Policy Committee Chairman: Scott W. Lucas Minority Leader: Kenneth S. Wherry Minority Whip: Leverett Saltonstall Republican Conference Chairman:...
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    1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he was Senate...
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    Marshall Plan (category Presidency of Harry S. Truman)
    wing of the party, based in the rural Midwest and led by Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (R-Nebraska), was outmaneuvered by the emerging internationalist wing...
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    Republican Party, based in the rural Midwest, was led by Senator Kenneth S. Wherry. He argued that it would be "a wasteful 'operation rat-hole'"; that...
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    Nebraska Larry the Cable Guy, comedian Irish McCalla, actress Kenneth S. Wherry, mayor, U.S. Senator from Nebraska 1943–51; Senate Republican Leader Nebraska...
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    77th 78th 14 Elected in 1942. Jan 3, 1943 – Nov 29, 1951 Republican Kenneth S. Wherry 9 79th Re-elected in 1946. 15 80th 81st 15 Re-elected in 1948. Died...
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  • Michigan Susan W. Kluttz, former Mayor of Salisbury, North Carolina Kenneth S. Wherry, former Mayor of Pawnee City, Nebraska Compton I. White Jr., former...
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    Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1951). He was the Senate Majority Leader...
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    of Education from 1917 to 1922. Hill was elected on August 14, 1923, as U.S. representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district to fill the vacancy...
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    controversy when it considered naming U.S. Senator Kenneth S. Wherry or Malcolm X to the hall of fame. Critics of Wherry said he was an inappropriate inductee...
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    shock of many farmers selling what they could and leaving town. Kenneth S. Wherry, U.S. Senator from Nebraska 1943–51; Senate Republican Leader "ArcGIS...
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  • real estate lobby was especially fearful about public housing. Senator Kenneth Wherry discerned a "touch of socialism" in Taft, while his Ohio colleague Senator...
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    Party leaders of the U.S. Senate The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership...
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    special election to fill the unexpired term created by the resignation of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. He was re-elected three times, serving from...
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    Jr. (R, acting) Majority whip: J. Lister Hill (D) Minority whip: Kenneth S. Wherry (R), elected 1944 Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D) Majority leader: John W...
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    Charles Thone (1924–2018), Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Representative Kenneth S. Wherry (1892–1951), U.S. Senator Buffalo Bill Cody (1845–1917), iconic western...
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    Relief of Douglas MacArthur (category Presidency of Harry S. Truman)
    socialists in Attlee's government. The Republican Party whip, Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, charged that the relief was the result of pressure from "the Socialist...
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    2007. Archived from the original on 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2007-12-03. "U.S. Senate: Republican Conference Secretaries/Vice Chair". Official home of the...
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