Who is william e borah

Borah represented Idaho in the United Stated Senate for over thirty-three years. Senator Borah was born in Fairfield, Illinois on 29 June He attended schools in Illinois and finally attended law school at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence. He passed his bar exams in and practiced law in Lyons, Kansas, before deciding to move west and settle in Boise, Idaho in He became the most popular lawyer in Idaho.

He then attempted to run for the Senate in but was successful in He was a United States Senator from until his death in The couple had no children but as curious note, Senator Borah did have one daughter with the oldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt. Famed orator and lawyer Clarence Darrow represented Haywood and Orchard. He resisted a career in the ministry and, while still a schoolboy, ran away with a traveling troupe of actors.

Then an older sister invited him to join her and her husband in Lyon, Kans. Forced by illness to leave college after his freshman year, he read law at home and passed the Kansas bar examination in Hard times, however, forced him to leave Kansas, and he settled in Boise, Idaho. Borah prospered and became prominent in Republican party circles. In he married Mary O'Connell, daughter of the governor of Idaho. Although Borah bolted the party to campaign for William Jennings Bryan in , he rejoined it permanently in An unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive wing of the Republican party for U.

The senator was a political independent in his views. Although he was a corporation lawyer and champion of Idaho lumber interests, he also supported the working man. He led the Senate fight in support of President Wilson's income tax bill but opposed Wilson's trust-regulation policy.

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