In a 1929 case, a senator from Missouri with this surname successfully defended Myrtle Bennett after she shot and killed her husband over a game of bridge. An Idaho law stating that "males must be preferred to females" as administrators of probate estates was overturned by a 1971 Supreme Court case where the opposing parties were husband and wife w
In a 1929 case, a senator from Missouri with this surname successfully defended Myrtle Bennett after she shot and killed her husband over a game of bridge. An Idaho law stating that "males must be preferred to females" as administrators of probate estates was overturned by a 1971 Supreme Court case where the opposing parties were husband and wife with this surname. The most famous Congressman with this surname was depicted in a Harper's Weekly cartoon falling asleep on a keg of gunpowder with the phrase "Financial Question" on it. That man, who was succeeded by Charles Crisp in his highest office, put a stop to the "disappearing quorum" tactic by counting all members present even if they didn't respond to roll call. That politician from Maine thusly became the namesake of a set of Congressional rules. For 10 points, give this surname of that Speaker of the House whose power at the end of the 19th century caused him to be dubbed "the Czar."