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1. This Kentucky Senator was known as "The Great Compromiser" for keeping the union together in pre-Civil War days by fashioning such compromises as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. He twice ran for President as the candidate of the Whig Party, losing to Andrew Jackson in 1832 and to James K. Polk in 1844.
2. This Massachusetts Senator aspired in vain to the Presidency as a Whig candidate, but had to settle for the Secretary of State job in 1841 under William Henry Harrison, and again in 1850 under Millard Fillmore. In between these stints in the executive branch, he returned to the Senate and was known for opposing the annexation of Texas and the resulting war with Mexico, and for supporting the Compromise of 1850 as the best chance to preserve the union.
3. In response to high tariffs, this famous pre-Civil War Senator from South Carolina devised the so-called nullification doctrine, which held that a state was entitled to nullify (refuse to obey) an act of Congress which it believed to be unconsitutional.
4. This Massachusetts Senator was a leading antislavery voice and in 1854, was one of the founders of the Republican Party. After the Civil War, he was one of the leaders of the movement to impeach and remove Predident Andrew Johnson. He continued to fight for civil rights for African-Americans until his death in 1874.
5. Moving ahead to the 20th century, this Wisconsin Senator was a founder of the progressive movement, and persistently fought for regulation of industry and against high tariffs. In 1924 he mounted a third-party campaign for President, winning 17 percent of the vote as an independent candidate. Exhausted by the effort, he died the following year.
6. This Ohio Senator was known as "Mr. Republican" for his steadfast advocacy of the conservative cause. He was known for opposing FDR's New Deal policies and for sponsoring the Labor Relations Act of 1947. He ran unsuccessfully three times for his party's Presidential nomination, losing the nomination to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 after he had been considered the frontrunner.
7. In 1948, this Maine Congresswoman made history when she became the first woman to be elected to the Senate in her own right. Two years later she achieved national prominence when she made an eloquent appeal on the Senate floor against the evils of McCarthyism. In 1964, she became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the Presidency at a major party's national convention.
8. This Arizona Senator became a strong advocate for the conservative cause after his election to the Senate in 1952. His book, "The Conscience of a Conservative," set out his conservative principles and paved the way for his nomination for President in 1964. After losing that election in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson, he re-entered the Senate and became an elder statesman in his later years.
9. This Minnesota Senator ran against incumbent President Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1968 motivated by his opposition to the Vietnam War. His strong showing in the New Hampshire primary caused Robert F. Kennedy to enter the race and Johnson to drop out.
10. And finally moving into the 21st century, which Senator made history in 2001 when he changed his party affiliation, giving control of the Senate to the Democrats?
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