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5 de ago. de 2024 · Lester Hunt was a popular governor and senator from Wyoming who faced a tough reelection campaign in 1954. His son was arrested for a morals charge that triggered a political scandal and led to his suicide.
1 de ago. de 2024 · The Capitol Police officer didn’t think much when U.S. Sen. Lester C. Hunt greeted him on the way to his office carrying a .22 caliber rifle. It was June 19, 1954. Security was looser then, before the towers fell, before the Jan. 6 riots.
Hace 3 días · With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year, [12] McCarthy's support and popularity faded. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion.
Hace 4 días · Democratic. The 1948 United States Senate elections were held concurrently with the election of Democratic President Harry S. Truman for a full term. The 32 seats of Class 2 were contested in regular elections, and one special election was held to fill a vacancy.
Hace 3 días · McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [ 1]
6 de ago. de 2024 · On June 19, 1954, Democratic Sen. Lester Hunt drove from his Washington, D.C., apartment to the Capitol. He hid a .22-caliber rifle under his coat as he walked to his office, and once there he...
1 de ago. de 2024 · Lester C. Hunt Papers, Collection #270. Hunt was a Wyoming governor and United States senator. He was elected governor in 1942 and 1946 and U.S. Senator in 1948, a position he held until his death in 1954. Box 1 of his papers contain materials related to the Center while he was Wyoming governor. Digitized Box 1 scans are available ...
