Article I, section 5, of the United States Constitution gives each house of Congress power to judge the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and to punish members for "disorderly behavior." Between 1793 and 1990, more than 200 senators faced challenges to their credentials based on their qualifications for office and alleged irregularities in their elections; or discipline for offenses ranging from public corruption, to giving aid and comfort to the Confederacy, to bringing dishonor upon the Senate in myriad other ways, or for pure political spite. As researched and written by staff of the Congressional Research Service, these are their stories. The arc of the book, each case told in chronological order, traces not only the tenor and politics of the times, but the evolution of the Senate's own thinking about what it means to be a United States Senator. - Summary by Joanne Turner.
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Introduction. I. Elections: Election laws, Senate election procedures and committees; types of election casesIntroduction. II. Discipline: Procedures, laws, and committees; types of disciplinary casesCase 1. Albert Gallatin (PA) (1793-94)Case 2. Kensey Johns (DE) (1794)Case 3. Humphrey Marshall (KY) (1796)Case 4. William Blount and William Cocke (TN) (1796)Case 5. William Blount (TN) (1797)Case 6. Uriah Tracy (CT) (1801)Case 7. John Smith (OH) (1807-08)Case 8. Samuel Smith (MD) (1809)Case 9. Stanley Griswold (OH) (1809)Case 10. Timothy Pickering (MA) (1810-11)Case 11. Jesse Bledsoe (KY) (1815)Case 12. James Lanman (CT) (1825)Case 13. Ephraim Bateman (NJ) (1827-28)Case 14. Elisha R. Potter v. Asher Robbins (RI) (1833-34)Case 15. George Poindexter (MS) (1835)Case 16. Ambrose H. Sevier (AR) (1837)Case 17. John Ruggles (ME) (1838)Case 18. Benjamin Tapper (OH) 1844Case 19. John M. Niles (CT) 1844Case 20. John M. Clayton (DE); Spencer Jarnagin (TN); Walter T. Colquitt (GA) 1846Case 21. James Shields (IL) 1849Case 22. Thomas Hart Benton (MO) and Henry S. Foote (MS) 1850Case 23. Robert C. Winthrop (MA) 1851Case 24. David Yulee v. Stephen Mallory (FL) 1851-52Case 25. Archibald Dixon (KY) 1852Case 26. Samuel Phelps (VT) 1854Case 27. Jared Williams (NH) 1854Case 28. Lyman Trumbull (IL) 1855-56Case 29. James Harlan (IA) 1855-57Case 30. Henry Lane v. Jesse Bright; William McCarty v. Graham Fitch (IN) 1857-59Case 31. Simon Cameron (PA) 1857Case 32. James Shields (MN) 1858Case 33. Henry Mower Rice (MN) 1858Case 34. Clement Clay (AL); Robert Toombs (GA); Jefferson Davis & Albert Brown (MS); Stephen Mallory (FL); Judah Benjamin (LA) 1861Case 35. Frederick Stanton v. James Lane (KS) 1861-62Case 36. James Mason & Robert Hunter (VA); Thomas Clingman & Thomas Bragg (NC); James Chesnut, Jr. (SC); AOP Nicholson (TN); William Sebastian (AR); Charles Mitchel (AR); John Hemphill & Louis Wigfall (TX) 1861Case 37. Waitman Willey & John Carlisle (VA) 1861Case 38. John Breckinridge (KY) 1861Case 39. Waldo Johnson & Trusten Polk (MO) 1861-62Case 40. Jesse Bright (IN) 1861-62Case 41. Benjamin Stark (OR) 1862Case 42. Lazarus Powell (KY) 1862Case 43. James F. Simmons (RI) 1862Case 44. William Fishback; Elisha Baxter; William Snow (AR) 1864-66Case 45. R. King Cutler & Charles Smith; Michael Hahn (LA) 1864-66Case 46. Joseph Segar & John Underwood (VA) 1865Case 47. John Stockton (NJ) 1865-66Case 48. David Patterson (TN) 1866Case 49. Phillip Thomas (MD) 1867-68Case 50. John Jones & Augustus Garland; Alexander McDonald & Benjamin Rice (AR) 1868Case 51. William Marvin v. Thomas Osborn (FL) 1868Case 52. Richard Whiteley & Henry Farrow v. Joshua Hill & H.V.M. Miller (GA) 1868-71Case 53. Adelbert Ames (MS) 1870Case 54. Hiram Revels (MS) 1870Case 55. Ossian Hart v. Abijah Gilbert (FL) 1870Case 56. George Goldthwaite (AL) 1871-72Case 57. Thomas Norwood v. Foster Blodgett Jr (GA) 1871Case 58. Joseph Reynolds v. Morgan Hamilton (TX) 1871Case 59. Joseph Abbott v. Zebulon Vance & Matt Ransom (NC) 1871-72Case 60. Powell Clayton (AR) 1872-73Case 61. Samuel Pomoroy & Alexander Caldwell (KS) 1872-73Case 62. Francis Sykes v. George Spencer (AL) 1872-76Case 63. Ray v. McMillen; McMillen, Eustis & Marr v. Pinchback; Spofford & Manning v. Kellogg (LA) 1873-80Case 64. Credit Mobilier scandal 1873Case 65. Lewis Bogy (MO) 1873Case 66. David Corbin v. MC Butler (SC) 1877-79Case 67. LQC Lamar (MS) 1877Case 68. John Morgan (AL) 1877Case 69. La Fayette Grover (OR) 1877-78Case 70. Stanley Matthews (OH) 1878-79Case 71. Charles Bell (NH) 1879Case 72. John Ingalls (KS) 1879-80Case 73. Elbridge Lapham & Warner Miller (NY) 1881Case 74. Henry Blair (NH) 1885Case 75. Henry Payne (OH) 1886Case 76. David Turpie (IN) 1887-88Case 77. Daniel Lucas v. Charles Faulkner (WV) 1887Case 78. Wm Clark v. Wilbur Sanders; Martin Maginnis v. Thomas Power (MT) 1890Case 79. Geo. Shoup, Wm McConnell & Wm Clagett v. Fred Dubois (ID) 1890-92Case 80. Robert Davidson v. Wilkinson Call (FL) 1891-92Case 81. Horace Chilton (TX) 1891-92Case 82. John Allen (WA), Asahel Beckwith (WY), Lee Mantle (MT) 1893Case 83. Joseph Ady v. John Martin (KS) 1893-95Case 84. Henry duPont (DE) 1895-97Case 85. Henry Corbett (OR) 1897-98Case 86. Marcus Hanna (OH) 1898-99Case 87. John McGraw v. Nathan Scott (WV) 1899-1900Case 88. Matthew Quay (PA) 1899-1900Case 89. William Clark (MT) 1899-1900Case 90. John McLaurin & Benjamin Tillman (SC) 1902Case 91. Reed Smoot (UT) 1903-07Case 92. Joseph Burton (KS) 1904-06Case 93. Charles Dietrich (SD) 1904Case 94. John Smith (MD) 1908Case 95. William Lorimer (IL) 1910-12Case 96. Isaac Stephenson (WI) 1911-12Case 97. Clarence Watson & William Chilton (WV) 1912-13Case 98. Henry Clayton & Franklin Glass (AL) 1913-14Case 99. William Jackson v. Blair Lee (MD) 1913-14Case 100. William Chilton v. Howard Sutherland (WV) 1917-18Case 101. Robert La Follette (WI) 1917-19Case 102. Henry Ford v. Truman Newberry (MI) 1918-22Case 103. George Peddy v. Earle Mayfield (TX) 1923-25Case 104. Burton Wheeler (MT) 1924Case 105. Daniel Steck v. Smith Brookhart (IA) 1925-26Case 106. Magnus Johnson v. Thomas Schall (MN) 1925-26Case 107. Holm Bursum v. Sam Bratton (NM) 1925-26Case 108. Gerald Nye (ND) 1925-26Case 109. William Wilson v. William Vare (PA) 1926-29Case 110. Frank Smith (IL) 1926-28Case 111. Arthur Gould (ME) 1926-27Case 112. Hiram Bingham (CT) 1929Case 113. Joseph Grundy (PA) 1929-30Case 114. J. Thomas Heflin v. John Bankhead II (AL) 1931-32Case 115. George Pritchard v. Josiah Bailey (NC) 1931-33Case 116. Einar Hoidale v. Thomas Schall (MN) 1932-33Case 117. Huey Long and John Overton (LA) 1932-34Case 118. Dennis Chavez v. Bronson Cutting (NM) 1935Case 119. Henry Hatfield v. Rush Holt (WV) 1935Case 120. George Berry (TN) 1937Case 121. John Neal v. A.T. Stewart (TN) 1939Case 122. Raymond Willis v. Frederick Van Nuys (IN) 1939Case 123. William Langer (ND) 1941-42Case 124. Clarence Martin v. Joseph Rosier (WV) 1941Case 125. John R. Neal v. A.T. (Tom) Stewart (TN) 1943Case 126. Theodore G. Bilbo (MS) 1946-47Case 127. D. John Markey v. Herbert R. O'Conor (MD) 1946-48Case 128. Tom Sweeney v. Harley M. Kilgore (WV) 1947-49Case 129. Frank E. Hook v. Homer Ferguson (MI) 1949Case 130. Millard Tydings v. John Marshall Butler (MD) 1950-51Case 131. Joseph R. McCarthy (WI) and Wm Benton (CT) 1951-53Case 132. Patrick J. Hurley v. Dennis Chavez (NM) 1952-54Case 133. Joseph R. McCarthy (WI) 1954Case 134. Pierre E.G. Salinger (CA) 1964)Case 135. Thomas J. Dodd (CT) 1966-67Case 136. Richard L. Roudebush v. R. Vance Hartke (IN) 1970-72Case 137. John A. Durkin v. Louis C. Wyman (NH) 1974-75Case 138. Edmond A. Edmondson v. Henry L. Bellmon (OK) 1975-76Case 139. Herman E. Talmadge (GA) 1978-79Case 140. Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (NJ) 1981-82Case 141. David F. Durenberger (MN) 1988-90
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