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Dirksen Near Tenure Record As Republican Floor Leader
Senator Everett Dirksen, who began in Congress in 1933, is close to breaking the Senate Republican floor leader tenure record. The piece notes his long service, his rise to Republican whip in 1957 and floor leader in 1959, and compares him with predecessors and Democratic leaders in a historical context.
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Raymond Lahr Washington
UPI
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Congress
Capitol
Senate
Floyd M. Riddick
Dirksen
House
Illinois
Scott W. Lucas
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
McNary
GOP
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Democrats
Sen
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Riddick
Sam Rayburn
Texas
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts