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
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
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
J. William Fulbright
…alone alienates him from the Club" of the Senate. In his first bid for the Senate, he won the 1944 Democratic primary by besting both incumbent Hattie Carraway, the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, and Homer Adkins, the sitting governor who had fired him from the University of Arkansas. He easily…
Caraway in 1940
Hattie Caraway in 1914
Grave of Hattie Caraway