Hattie Caraway
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Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was an American politician who was United States Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945. She was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first woman to serve a full te
Caraway in 1940
Hattie Caraway in 1914
Grave of Hattie Caraway
J. William Fulbright
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James William Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2023, Fulbright is the lo
Hattie Caraway
…to be reelected. In her bid for reelection in 1944, Caraway placed a poor fourth in the Democratic primary and lost to freshman U.S. Representative J. William Fulbright of Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. He was the young, dynamic former president of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville who had already…
Official portrait, 1960
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1943
Fulbright early in his Senate career
Sen. J. William Fulbright and Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington DC, June 21, 1960