Best 10 Senators in American History

@iammrbeat counts down his favorite U.S. Senators in American history.

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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

#10 Thomas P. Gore

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#9 John P. Hale

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#8 Daniel Webster

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#7 Nancy Kassebaum

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#6 George Norris

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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