Clair Engle
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Clair Engle was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participatin
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Engle as a U.S. Representative in 1950
William Knowland
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William Fife Knowland was an American politician and newspaper publisher. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from California from 1945 to 1959. He was Senate Majori
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…He defeated the incumbent governor Goodwin J. Knight, thus becoming the first Democrat elected to that Senate seat in the 20th century. He succeeded William F. Knowland, who had given up the seat in an unsuccessful run for governor, losing to Pat Brown. Engle began his term on January 3, 1959. He worked with Senator…
Portrait of California Senator William F. Knowland Edit
Knowland in the Alameda High School yearbook, 1925
Political advertisement for Knowland's first Assembly campaign published in the Alameda Times-Star, August 29, 1932
Knowland (top row, second from right) in uniform with fellow servicemen, 1942