This man initially refused his Congressional nomination, but his friends got local newspapermen so drunk that they couldn't report his refusal.
This man initially refused his Congressional nomination, but his friends got local newspapermen so drunk that they couldn't report his refusal. This adoptive father of Cyrus Vance names a prize for the highest GPA at Washington and Lee School of Law, whose 1895 graduating class he addressed with a speech calling lawyers the "sentinel of the watchtower of liberty." Actress Izetta Jewel, the first woman to address a major American political party convention, seconded the nomination speech for this man. This man capped off his successful legal career arguing 140 cases before the Supreme Court by offering a spirited defense of (*) "separate but equal" in Briggs v. Elliot, two years after lambasting Truman's seizure of the steel mills in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. case. At the Klanbake convention, Charles Bryan was nominated as vice-presidential candidate under this man. This man lost an election in which liberal Democrats peeled off and supported Robert LaFolette. For 10 points, name this West Virginian representative who lost the 1924 election to Calvin Coolidge.
This man initially refused his Congressional nomination, but his friends got local newspapermen so drunk that they couldn't report his refusal.
John W. Davis [or John William Davis]