biography
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Morse, Wayne (Lyman)
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| lived:
| (1900–74)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Dean of the University of Oregon law school, he won fame as a labour arbitrator before being elected to the US Senate (Republican, Oregon, 1945–69). Renowned for his support of human rights, education, progressive farm policies, and environmentalism, he found himself at odds with the Republican Party, declared himself an independent (1953), and won re-election (1956) as a Democrat. His leadership of a Senate subcommittee on Latin America influenced President John Kennedy's creation of the Alliance for Progress. He was one of two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 and remained a resolute opponent of the war in Vietnam for the remainder of his career. Defeated for re-election in 1968, he was making a new bid for the Senate when he died. |
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