What U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin was the play The Investigator based on?
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The Investigator The Investigator (1954) was a radio play written by Reuben Ship and first broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on May 30 of that year. The play lampooned the actions of the US House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Joseph McCarthy Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used in reference to what are considered demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
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Lucas M. Miller Lucas Miltiades Miller (some sources report his first name as Lucius) (September 15, 1824 – December 4, 1902) was an American merchant, attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
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Don Hanaway Donald J. Hanaway (December 25, 1933 – September 15, 1995) was the Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from 1987 to 1991. He defeated incumbent Democrat Bronson La Follette in 1986, but was himself defeated for re-election by Democrat Jim Doyle in 1990.
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Alex C. Ruffing Alex C. Ruffing (November 2, 1892 - September 6, 1958) was an American machinist and Socialist from Milwaukee who served four terms (1919–1926) as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and one shortened term in Wisconsin State Senate representing Milwaukee County-based districts
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Charles D. Robinson Charles D. Robinson (October 22, 1822–September 25, 1886) was a politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He served as that state's third Secretary of State for one term from January 5, 1852 to January 2, 1854. A Democrat, he served under Whig governor Leonard J. Farwell. Robinson served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850 and was mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He served in the United States Army during the American Civil War. He was also the editor of the "Bay Advocate".
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David G. Deininger David G. Deininger (born July 9, 1947) is a retired Republican politician and jurist from Wisconsin. He served as a judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and the Wisconsin Circuit Court, and as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He now serves as a reserve judge.
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William E. Smith William E. Smith (June 18, 1824February 13, 1883) was a merchant and politician in Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and served as the 14th Governor of Wisconsin.
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Joel Squires Joel Cook Squires (December 11, 1819 – March 3, 1889) was a carpenter and miner who served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate for two years from two different districts, and of the Wisconsin State Assembly for one term.
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Robert M. La Follette Jr. Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette Jr. (February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953) was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947. As an outspoken son of Representative, Senator, and Wisconsin Governor Robert M. La Follette Sr., co-founder of the Progressive Party and ally of the Farmer-Labor Party in adjacent Minnesota, La Follette kept the Progressive Party alive in the US Senate until his defeat by Joe McCarthy in 1946.
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Joseph L. Barber Joseph Lanning Barber (March 24, 1864 – April 6, 1940) was a medical doctor and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Gilbert A. Pierce Gilbert Ashville Pierce (January 11, 1838February 15, 1901) was an author, journalist, playwright, and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, the eighth Governor of Dakota Territory, and representative for North Dakota in the United States Senate.
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Monroe Swan Monroe Swan (June 2, 1937) is a Wisconsin politician who served several terms in the Wisconsin State Senate until being convicted of election fraud and removed from office.
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United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 1962 The 1962 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Alexander Wiley ran for re-election, but was defeated by Democratic Gaylord A. Nelson.
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William Knight (Wisconsin politician) William Knight (December 7, 1843 – January 13, 1941), often referred to as Wm. Knight, was a businessman from Bayfield, Wisconsin, involved at one time or another as a merchant, in lumbering, banking, selling real estate, and orchardist, who served one term as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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William G. Callow William Grant Callow (born April 9, 1921) is an American jurist who served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1977 to 1992.
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Owen Brewster Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952. Brewster was a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and an antagonist of Howard Hughes.
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The Senator (play) The Senator was a popular 1890 comedic play by David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld, also made into a 1915 silent film.
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Michael Ellis (American politician) Michael G. "Mike" Ellis (born February 21, 1941) is an American politician. He served in the Wisconsin Senate from 1983 until 2015.
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Henry D. Barron Henry Danforth Barron (April 10, 1833 – January 22, 1882) was a United States politician in Wisconsin. Born in Wilton, New York, he came west to Wisconsin. He first served as a judge in the Wisconsin Circuit Court. Then he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was speaker. Later, he would be a Presidential Elector in the 1868 and 1872 presidential elections, and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1874 to 1876.
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Carl Otte Carl Otte (June 24, 1924 – January 13, 2011) was an American Democratic politician and legislator from Wisconsin.
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Jesse Peters Jesse M. Peters (July 21, 1897 – March 7, 1962) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.