Electoral history of Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

, 33rd President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

, 34th Vice President of the United States

Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

 and United States Senator from Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

United States Senate races, 1934-1940

Democratic primary for the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 from Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, 1934:

• Harry S. Truman - 276,850 (41.42%)
• John J. Cochran
  John J. Cochran
  John Joseph Cochran was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Cochran was born in Webster Groves, Missouri and attended the public schools there. He was employed in the editorial department of various St. Louis newspapers for many years, and served as assistant to the election commissioners of St...
  
   - 236,257 (35.35%)
• Jacob L. Milligan
  Jacob L. Milligan
  Jacob Le Roy Milligan was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Richmond, Missouri, Milligan attended the public schools and the law department of the University of Missouri 1910-1914....
  
   - 147,631 (22.09%)
• James Longstreet Cleveland - 7,691 (1.15%)

Missouri United States Senate election, 1934:

• Harry S. Truman (D) - 787,110 (59.55%)
• Roscoe C. Patterson
  Roscoe C. Patterson
  Roscoe Conkling Patterson was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from the law department of Washington University Roscoe Conkling...
  
   (R) (inc.) - 524,954 (39.71%)
• W.C. Meyer (Socialist) - 9,010 (0.68%)
• Frank Brown (Communist) - 418 (0.03%)
• William Wesley Cox
  William Wesley Cox
  William Wesley Cox was a Presidential, Vice Presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America ....
  
   (Socialist Labor) - 384 (0.03%)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Missouri, 1940:

• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 268,354 (40.91%)
• Lloyd Stark - 260,221 (39.67%)
• Maurice M. Milligan
  Maurice M. Milligan
  Maurice Morton Milligan , a U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, is most famous for the successful 1939 prosecution of Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast....
  
   - 127,378 (19.42%)

Missouri United States Senate election, 1940:

• Harry S. Truman (D) (inc.) - 930,775 (51.17%)
• Manvel H. Davis
  Manvel H. Davis
  Manvel Humphrey Davis was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri State Senate. Davis, a Republican, challenged Harry S...
  
   (R) - 886,376 (48.73%)
• W. F. Rinck (Socialist) - 1,669 (0.09%)
• Theodore Baeff (Socialist Labor) - 196 (0.01%)

Vice Presidencial races, 1944

1944 Democratic National Convention

1944 Democratic National Convention

The 1944 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois from July 19 - July 21, 1944. The convention resulted in the re-nomination of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented fourth term. Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri was nominated for...

 (Vice Presidential tally):

1st ballot:

• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
   (inc.) - 429.5
• Harry S. Truman - 319.5
• John H. Bankhead
  John H. Bankhead
  John Hollis Bankhead was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama.-Biography:He was born on September 13, 1842. He was appointed, then elected, to serve out the remainder of the term left by the death of John Tyler Morgan, and was later re-elected twice. He served in the Senate from June 18, 1907...
  
   - 98
• Scott W. Lucas
  Scott W. Lucas
  Scott Wike Lucas was a two-term Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, and the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1948 to 1950....
  
   - 61
• Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   - 49.5
• J. Melville Broughton
  J. Melville Broughton
  Joseph Melville Broughton was the 60th Governor of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:He was born on November 17, 1888 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended Harvard Law School then worked as a school principal and journalist before actively entering the legal profession...
  
   - 43
• Paul V. McNutt
  Paul V. McNutt
  Paul Vories McNutt was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines.-Family and...
  
   - 31
• Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney was a Democratic United States Senator from Wyoming.O'Mahoney was born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 5, 1884. He attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City...
  
   - 27
• Prentice Cooper
  Prentice Cooper
  William Prentice Cooper was an American politician and Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.-Life and career:A native of Bedford County, Tennessee, he attended Vanderbilt University and then Harvard University...
  
   - 26
• Robert S. Kerr
  Robert S. Kerr
  Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...
  
   - 23
• Scattering - 68.5

2nd ballot before shifts:

• Harry S. Truman - 477.5
• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
   (inc.) - 473
• Scott W. Lucas
  Scott W. Lucas
  Scott Wike Lucas was a two-term Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, and the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1948 to 1950....
  
   - 58
• Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   - 40
• J. Melville Broughton
  J. Melville Broughton
  Joseph Melville Broughton was the 60th Governor of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:He was born on November 17, 1888 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended Harvard Law School then worked as a school principal and journalist before actively entering the legal profession...
  
   - 30
• Paul V. McNutt
  Paul V. McNutt
  Paul Vories McNutt was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines.-Family and...
  
   - 28
• Prentice Cooper
  Prentice Cooper
  William Prentice Cooper was an American politician and Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.-Life and career:A native of Bedford County, Tennessee, he attended Vanderbilt University and then Harvard University...
  
   - 26
• John H. Bankhead
  John H. Bankhead
  John Hollis Bankhead was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama.-Biography:He was born on September 13, 1842. He was appointed, then elected, to serve out the remainder of the term left by the death of John Tyler Morgan, and was later re-elected twice. He served in the Senate from June 18, 1907...
  
   - 23.5
• Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney was a Democratic United States Senator from Wyoming.O'Mahoney was born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 5, 1884. He attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City...
  
   - 8
• Robert S. Kerr
  Robert S. Kerr
  Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...
  
   - 1
• Scattering - 11

2nd ballot after shifts:

• Harry S. Truman - 1,031
• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
   - 105
• Prentice Cooper
  Prentice Cooper
  William Prentice Cooper was an American politician and Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.-Life and career:A native of Bedford County, Tennessee, he attended Vanderbilt University and then Harvard University...
  
   - 26
• Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   - 6
• Paul V. McNutt
  Paul V. McNutt
  Paul Vories McNutt was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines.-Family and...
  
   - 1
• Scatering - 7

United States presidential election, 1944

United States presidential election, 1944

The United States presidential election of 1944 took place while the United States was preoccupied with fighting World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been in office longer than any other president, but remained popular. Unlike 1940, there was little doubt that Roosevelt would run for...

:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
  
  /Harry S. Truman (D) - 25,612,916 (53.4%) and 432 electoral votes (81.36%, 36 states carried)
• Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker
  John W. Bricker
  John William Bricker was a United States Senator and the 54th Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.-Early life:...
  
   (R) - 22,017,929 (45.9%) and 99 electoral votes (18.64%, 12 states carried)
• Texas Regulars
  Texas Regulars
  The Texas Regulars was a group based in Texas which was formed in 1944 to deny Franklin D. Roosevelt a majority of the Electoral College in the 1944 presidential election....
  
   - 135,439 (0.3%)
• Norman Thomas
  Norman Thomas
  Norman Mattoon Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.-Early years:...
  
  /Darlington Hoopes
  Darlington Hoopes
  Darlington Hoopes was the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.-Early years:...
  
   (Socialist) - 79,017 (0.2%)
• Claude Watson/Andrew Johnson (Prohibition) - 74,758 (0.2%)
• Others - 57,004 (0.1%)

Presidential races, 1948-1952

1948 Democratic presidential primaries:

• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 1,419,875 (64.65%)
• William Alexander Julian
  William Alexander Julian
  William Alexander Julian served as the 28th Treasurer of the United States from June 1, 1933 - May 29, 1949 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He is currently the last male to hold that position...
  
   - 271,146 (12.35%)
• Unpledged delegates - 161,629 (7.36%)
• Harley M. Kilgore
  Harley M. Kilgore
  Harley Martin Kilgore was a United States Senator from West Virginia.Born in Brown, West Virginia, he attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1914 and was admitted to the bar the same year.He taught school in Hancock, West...
  
   - 157,102 (7.15%)
• W. B. Bixler - 136,401 (6.21%)
• Lynn Fellows - 11,193 (0.51%)
• Fred H. Hildebrandt
  Fred H. Hildebrandt
  Fred Herman Hildebrandt was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota, serving three consecutive terms...
  
   - 8,016 (0.37%)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   - 6,211 (0.28%)
• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
   - 4,416 (0.20%)

1948 Democratic National Convention

1948 Democratic National Convention

The 1948 Democratic National Convention was held at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 12 to July 14, and resulted in the nominations of incumbent Harry S Truman for President and U.S. Senator Alben W...

 (Presidential tally):

• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 926 (76.47%)
• Richard B. Russell
  Richard Russell, Jr.
  Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was a Democratic Party politician from the southeastern state of Georgia. He served as state governor from 1931 to 1933 and United States senator from 1933 to 1971....
  
   - 266 (21.97%)
• James A. Roe
  James A. Roe
  James A. Roe was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Roe was born in Flushing, Queens. He graduated from Cornell University in 1917 and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War I...
  
   - 15 (1.24%)
• Paul V. McNutt
  Paul V. McNutt
  Paul Vories McNutt was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines.-Family and...
  
   - 3 (0.25%)
• Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   - 1 (0.08%)

United States presidential election, 1948

United States presidential election, 1948

The United States presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Truman won, overcoming a three-way...

:

• Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   (D) - 24,179,347 (49.6%) and 303 electoral votes (57.06%, 28 states carried)
• Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren
  Earl Warren
  Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...
  
   (R) - 21,991,292 (45.1%) and 189 electoral votes (35.59%, 16 states carried)
• Strom Thurmond
  Strom Thurmond
  James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes...
  
  /Fielding L. Wright
  Fielding L. Wright
  Fielding Lewis Wright was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor after the incumbent, Thomas L. Bailey, died in office in 1946. Wright was elected Governor in his own right in 1947 and served a full four year term...
  
   (Dixiecrat) - 1,175,930 (2.4%) and 39 electoral votes (7.35%, 4 states carried)
• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
  /Glen H. Taylor
  Glen H. Taylor
  Glen Hearst Taylor was an American politician, businessman and United States Senator from Idaho. He was the vice presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 election. Taylor was otherwise a member of the Idaho Democratic Party...
  
   (Progressive) - 1,157,328 (2.4%)
• Norman Thomas
  Norman Thomas
  Norman Mattoon Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.-Early years:...
  
  /Tucker P. Smith
  Tucker P. Smith
  Tucker Powell Smith was an economics professor from Olivet, Michigan. In 1948, Smith was selected as the Socialist vice presidential candidate to run along with Norman Thomas. The 1948 Socialist ticket garnered 139,569 votes. In 1930 Tucker was the Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from...
  
   (Socialist) - 139,569 (0.3%)
• Claude Watson/Dale Learn (Prohibition) - 103,708 (0.2%)
• Others - 46,361 (0.1%)

1952 Democratic New Hampshire primary

New Hampshire primary

The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years , as part of the process of choosing the Democratic and Republican nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November.Although only a...

:

• Estes Kefauver
  Estes Kefauver
  Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S...
  
   - 19,800 (55.01%)
• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 15,927 (44.25%)
• Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
   - 151 (0.42%)
• Jim Farley - 77 (0.21%)
• Adlai Stevenson II - 40 (0.11%)

1952 Democratic presidential primaries

United States presidential election, 1952

The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional...

:

• Estes Kefauver
  Estes Kefauver
  Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S...
  
   - 3,169,448 (65.04%)
• Pat Brown
  Pat Brown
  Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.-Background:...
  
   - 485,578 (9.97%)
• Richard B. Russell
  Richard Russell, Jr.
  Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was a Democratic Party politician from the southeastern state of Georgia. He served as state governor from 1931 to 1933 and United States senator from 1933 to 1971....
  
   - 371,179 (7.62%)
• Matthew M. Neely
  Matthew M. Neely
  Matthew Mansfield Neely was a Democratic politician from West Virginia. He is the only West Virginian to serve in both houses of the United States Congress and as the Governor of West Virginia...
  
   - 191,471 (3.93%)
• Robert J. Bulkley
  Robert J. Bulkley
  Robert Johns Bulkley was a United States Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1930 until 1939....
  
   - 184,880 (3.79%)
• Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...
  
   - 102,527 (2.10%)
• Adlai Stevenson II - 81,096 (1.66%)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   - 64,911 (1.33%)
• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 62,345 (1.28%)
• Unpledged delegates - 46,361 (0.95%)
• Robert S. Kerr
  Robert S. Kerr
  Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...
  
   - 45,285 (0.93%)
• William O. Douglas
  William O. Douglas
  William Orville Douglas was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court...
  
   - 29,532 (0.61%)
• W. Averell Harriman
  W. Averell Harriman
  William Averell Harriman was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York...
  
   - 19,806 (0.41%)
• Jerome F. Fox - 18,322 (0.38%)

1952 Democratic National Convention

1952 Democratic National Convention

The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 21 to July 26, 1952, which was the same arena the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier for their national convention...

 (Presidential tally):

Most votes received by candidates for party presidential nomination, up to the point where a nominee was determined. Vote totals are rounded up to the next whole number.

• Adlai Stevenson II - 618 (37.36%)
• Estes Kefauver
  Estes Kefauver
  Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S...
  
   - 363 (21.95%)
• Richard B. Russell
  Richard Russell, Jr.
  Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was a Democratic Party politician from the southeastern state of Georgia. He served as state governor from 1931 to 1933 and United States senator from 1933 to 1971....
  
   - 294 (17.78%)
• W. Averell Harriman
  W. Averell Harriman
  William Averell Harriman was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York...
  
   - 124 (7.50%)
• Alben W. Barkley
  Alben W. Barkley
  Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....
  
   - 79 (4.78%)
• Robert S. Kerr
  Robert S. Kerr
  Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...
  
   - 65 (3.93%)
• Paul A. Dever
  Paul A. Dever
  Paul Andrew Dever was a Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts.-Biography:...
  
   - 38 (2.30%)
• Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...
  
   - 26 (1.57%)
• J. William Fulbright
  J. William Fulbright
  James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
  
   - 22 (1.33%)
• James E. Murray - 12 (0.73%)
• Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 6 (0.36%)
• Oscar R. Ewing - 4 (0.24%)
• Paul H. Douglas - 2 (0.12%)
• William O. Douglas
  William O. Douglas
  William Orville Douglas was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court...
  
  - 1 (0.06%)