Best 10 Senators in American History

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@iammrbeat counts down his favorite U.S. Senators in American history. Check out his Worst Senators here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_GLOrfWN8 E Pluribus Unum's Best Senators video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8MFjmA1b0&t Produced by Matt Beat. All images and video by Matt Beat or used under fair use guidelines. Music by Electric Needle Room (Mr. Beat's band). Check out Electric Needle Room's children's album, "Just Kidding Around:" Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/yyf65v47 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y5ayqjhn YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y374maup Apple: https://tinyurl.com/y6rjckls Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y5ukdrnf Have a great idea for a video you want Mr. Beat to make? Your idea gets picked when you donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/iammrbeat Donate on Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/mrbeat Buy Mr. Beat T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.: https://sfsf.shop/support-mrbeat/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mrbeat/ Mr. Beat's band: http://electricneedleroom.net/ Mr. Beat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beatmastermatt Mr. Beat on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammrbeat/ Mr. Beat on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammrbeat Mr. Beat's Discord server: https://discord.gg/waK44fH Honorable mentions: Russ Feingold Mike Gravel Burton Wheeler Robert Wagner Arthur Vandenberg Ted Kennedy Barry Goldwater Rufus King Robert Taft Arlen Specter Eugene McCarthy Roger Sherman Richard Lugar Harry Truman Robert F. Kennedy Bob Dole Estes Kefauver Hannibal Hamlin Edward Brooke Paul Wellstone Edmund Muskie Garret Wall Claiborne Pell Olympia Snowe Thomas Gore Marion Butler Sources/additional reading: A comprehensive list of all the U.S. Senators in American history: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/chronlist.pdf https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Famous_Five.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Reception_Room http://www.citypages.com/news/john-c-calhouns-life-shows-he-was-never-worthy-of-our-lake/473853963 #10 Thomas P. Gore Learn more about him: https://amzn.to/35ylv2c https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GO013 https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgo46 #9 John P. Hale Learn more about him: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/hale.html https://amzn.to/2Yp9SJA #8 Daniel Webster Learn more about him: https://law.jrank.org/pages/11253/Webster-Daniel.html https://amzn.to/2KTZmC5 #7 Nancy Kassebaum Learn more about her: https://doleinstitute.org/get-involved/programs/dole-leadership-prize/nancy-kassebaum/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nancy-Landon-Kassebaum https://amzn.to/35B57ye https://emilytaylorcenter.ku.edu/womens-hall-of-fame/kassebaum-baker-nancy #6 George Norris Learn more about him: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1949944?seq=1 https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/George_Norris.htm https://amzn.to/2yuxSQV #5 Henry Clay Clay is arguably the most influential U.S. Senator of all time, serving in the Senate from 1806 to 1807, and then again from 1810 to 1811, and again from 1831 to 1842, and again from 1849 until his death in 1852. Learn more about him: https://www.thoughtco.com/henry-clay-1773856 https://amzn.to/3b5Jvex #4 Lyndon Johnson You may know him as the 36th President of the United States, but before that he was a Senator representing Texas from 1949 to 1961. Learn more about him as a Senator: https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/life-before-the-presidency https://amzn.to/35HVbmF https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Johnson.htm #3 Charles Sumner Most famously known as the Senator who got the crap beat out of him by a cane in the Senate chamber for trashing those who supported slavery, Sumner served as Senator for Massachusetts from 1851 until his death in 1874. Learn more about him as a Senator: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Sumner https://amzn.to/2WtfMH0 https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S001068 #2 Oliver Ellsworth A Founding Father, he was a big reason why Connecticut ratified the Constitution, and was one of its two first Senators, serving from 1789 to 1796. Learn more about him: https://amzn.to/3fgL6kI https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-most-underrated-founding-father-oliver-ellsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Ellsworth #1 Robert La Follette That’s right! It’s once again Fighting Bob, the Wisconsin Senator from 1906 until his death in 1925. You may remember he held the number one spot for my best governors video, but if I were to make that video again, I don’t think he would because the more I thought about it, his real impact was in the U.S. Senate. Learn more about him: https://amzn.to/3f9vtf3 https://lafollette.wisc.edu/images/publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS14863 #bestsenators #americanhistory #apush