Best 10 Senators in American History

@Mr. Beat counts down his favorite U.S. Senators in American history.
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Honorable mentions:
Russ Feingold
Mike Gravel
Burton Wheeler
Robert Wagner
Arthur Vandenberg
Ted Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Rufus King
Robert Taft
Arlen Specter
Eugene McCarthy
Roger Sherman
Richard Lugar
Harry Truman
Robert F. Kennedy
Bob Dole
Estes Kefauver
Hannibal Hamlin
Edward Brooke
Paul Wellstone
Edmund Muskie
Garret Wall
Claiborne Pell
Olympia Snowe
Thomas Gore
Marion Butler

Sources/additional reading:
A comprehensive list of all the U.S. Senators in American history: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/chronlist.pdf
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Famous_Five.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Reception_Room
http://www.citypages.com/news/john-c-calhouns-life-shows-he-was-never-worthy-of-our-lake/473853963

#10 Thomas P. Gore
Learn more about him:
https://amzn.to/35ylv2c
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GO013
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgo46

#9 John P. Hale
Learn more about him:
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/hale.html
https://amzn.to/2Yp9SJA

#8 Daniel Webster
Learn more about him:
https://law.jrank.org/pages/11253/Webster-Daniel.html
https://amzn.to/2KTZmC5

#7 Nancy Kassebaum
Learn more about her:
https://doleinstitute.org/get-involved/programs/dole-leadership-prize/nancy-kassebaum/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nancy-Landon-Kassebaum
https://amzn.to/35B57ye
https://emilytaylorcenter.ku.edu/womens-hall-of-fame/kassebaum-baker-nancy

#6 George Norris
Learn more about him:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1949944?seq=1
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/George_Norris.htm
https://amzn.to/2yuxSQV

#5 Henry Clay
Clay is arguably the most influential U.S. Senator of all time, serving in the Senate from 1806 to 1807, and then again from 1810 to 1811, and again from 1831 to 1842, and again from 1849 until his death in 1852.

Learn more about him:
https://www.thoughtco.com/henry-clay-1773856
https://amzn.to/3b5Jvex

#4 Lyndon Johnson
You may know him as the 36th President of the United States, but before that he was a Senator representing Texas from 1949 to 1961.

Learn more about him as a Senator:
https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/life-before-the-presidency
https://amzn.to/35HVbmF
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Johnson.htm

#3 Charles Sumner
Most famously known as the Senator who got the crap beat out of him by a cane in the Senate chamber for trashing those who supported slavery, Sumner served as Senator for Massachusetts from 1851 until his death in 1874.

Learn more about him as a Senator:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Sumner
https://amzn.to/2WtfMH0
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S001068

#2 Oliver Ellsworth
A Founding Father, he was a big reason why Connecticut ratified the Constitution, and was one of its two first Senators, serving from 1789 to 1796.

Learn more about him:
https://amzn.to/3fgL6kI
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-most-underrated-founding-father-oliver-ellsworth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Ellsworth


#1 Robert La Follette
That’s right! It’s once again Fighting Bob, the Wisconsin Senator from 1906 until his death in 1925. You may remember he held the number one spot for my best governors video, but if I were to make that video again, I don’t think he would because the more I thought about it, his real impact was in the U.S. Senate.

Learn more about him:
https://amzn.to/3f9vtf3
https://lafollette.wisc.edu/images/publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS14863

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