"Oregon Senator" Wayne Morse Hand Signed 6X9 Sepia Photo Todd Mueller COA

Description

Up for auction
"Oregon Senator" Wayne Morse Hand Signed 6X9 Sepia Photo.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-7207
Wayne Lyman Morse
(October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from
Oregon
, known for his proclivity for opposing his party's leadership, and specifically for his opposition to the
Vietnam War
on constitutional grounds.
Born in
Madison, Wisconsin
, and educated at the
University of Wisconsin
and the
University of Minnesota Law School
, Morse moved to Oregon in 1930 and began teaching at the
University of Oregon School of Law
. During
World War II
, he was elected to the
U.S. Senate
as a
Republican
; he became an
Independent
after
Dwight D. Eisenhower
's election to the presidency in 1952. While an independent, he set a record for performing the third
[2]
longest one-person
filibuster
in the history of the Senate. Morse joined the
Democratic Party
in February 1955, and was reelected twice while a member of that party. Morse made a brief run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in
1960
. In 1964, Morse was one of two senators to oppose the later-to-become-controversial
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
. It authorized the president to take military action in Vietnam without a
declaration of war
. He continued to speak out against the war in the ensuing years, and lost his 1968 bid for reelection to
Bob Packwood
, who criticized his strong opposition to the war. Morse made two more bids for reelection to the Senate before his death in 1974.