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OSEGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SMETh FmUY Book Stor. III 1111111 liiiI 1111111111111 12 0143181812 WAYNE A ORSE The Record of a Working Senator detail A 1968 HANDBOOK FOR MORSE WORKERS NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONGRESS ID 5nc 09th Stroot New York. N. Y. 10016 MUrrv Hill 0-2286 August 21, 1967 Chtj, Sid,,oyI-I. Shrrr The Honorable Wayne Morse United States Senate 1,00 Washington, D. C. Coorgo L Donhno John No,,,,, Dear Senator Morse: StoOy As chairman of the National Committee for an Hffective S. Joy tory Congress, I have the honor to advise you that this Committee T feels it essential that you be redesignated as your party's Thiboot do Soin, Phollo candidate for the Senate of the United States and to that end we express our enthusiastic endorsement. M,mb,,o Hrr, S,hmoro Your public service since 1944 is studded with signal (.00080 Bockrr accnmplislusents. Your judgment and your courage have served Goo0g Bitdk to add leaven to the political dialogue and have helped bring S,,oton 00,111,, into focus some of the great and critical issues of our time. Coorgo H. Comb Your many legislative contributions lend testimony to your Hen,, Steole Comweg,, outstanding ability.Your impact on American life reflects hirkigh lSok,n,00. Jr. moral sensitivity of a high order. Your high respect for the PottI Foloy constitutional processes of our country in itself has been invaluable. There are few men now in public life whose services Croon Alon II. Ilonron have egualed yours in total value. 1,i,boro Lipmhot, As you well know, you have been accused at times of being a Fronri, P. M,lbrr Hon. J. Morgonthoo minority for minority's sake and we have not failed to evaluate this. We feel you have been a minority only when your conscience George F. Oo,tond did not permit you to go along with the majority. tooghhn Philip. We have no doubt that it would have been much easier and perhaps politically George 0, Pro,,. Jr. profitable to adopt majority opinion. Chrle, Row Rob,,, W RobI C)ur.Committee is confident that your party and your state Fronds B. Soyro. Jr. will show their appreciation by renominating you with an Do,id F Sooll overwhelming vote. In our view your services cannot be spared. £dw,rd S. Skillin Mirhoeb 5trjght .imOerely yours, Telfnd Tobor C.eohord P. Va, Srhel Noto,n.ot Dtrebo, Bororil Ii He,nrnoor uer / Chai WAYNE MORSE 209 Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. March 19, 1968 Dear Friend and Supporter: It is upon loyal friends like you that I must depend to help tell the story of my record to the people of Oregon. You know that an election is never won by a candidate. Victory is achieved by the thousands of people like you who work in support of a candidate. This booklet is designed to give you a summary of some of the actions I have taken over the past 23 years in the United States Senate in serving you, the state of Oregon and the nation. All the information contained in this booklet is documented by official records. I want the people of Oregon to know how I have represented them in the United States Senate. While I will visit as many communities and meet as many people as possible during my re-election campaign, it will be physically impossible to visit all the areas in Oregon and talk with allorthe people. For that reason, this detailed account of my record is being made available to volunteer workers. It is my hope that you will share this accounting with your friends, neighbors, co-workers and fellow voters. It is no secret that a large segment of the press in Oregon presents a biased and distorted account of my work in the United States Senate.But through your assistance and the help of other friends like you in Oregon, the true facts can be made known to the voters. I admit to being proud of my record, and I am satisfied to be judged on it. But the voters must know the facts. When they do, I shall not hesitate to place my political future in the hands of the electorate of my state. If I do not get the opportunity to thank you personally, I want you to know how deeply I am grateful for your work on my behalf. I regard service in the United States Senate as a solemn public trust, and I hope that you will find that my work measures up to the high standards of this office. Sincerely, WAYNE MORSE-THE MAN, THE LEADER, THE SENATOR Independent, fearless, outspoken, brilliant, controversial, ideal- istic%Vayne Morse of Oregon is an effective force in the Senate of the United States. Four times the voters of Oregon have elected Wayne Morse to represent them in the United States Senate. Thousands of Oregonians have met Wayne Morse personally and have found him a warm and friendly man, interested in their prob- lems and their hopes. For 23 years, Oregonians have recognized their senior senator as a statesman and leader of national and international stature. Most Oregonians know Wayne Morse the senator. Fewer know Vayne Morse the man. His career has been dynamic and well- rounded, consistently marked by dedication to principle. EARLY YEARS Wayne Morse was born October 20, 1900, on a farm in Verona, %Visconsin, which his great-grandfather had homesteaded. He early learned the virtues, not to mention the necessity, of hard work and family solidarity. As he helped his father with their livestock, he developed respect for the soil and for living things. When Wayne was only eight, his father started him in a Shetland pony breeding project. When he was seventeen, he owned his first American saddle horse. His love of horses and livestock continues to this day. Wayne Morse's prize Devon cattle and horses are regularly exhibited in county fairs in Oregon, and at the Oregon State Fair and Pacific International Livestock Show as well as at several Maryland fairs. The Morse farm family of six children was a hardworking, happy family in which frugality and religious principles were taught and practiced.Vayne's parents took special pains with his education. From the time of his youth, Wayne Morse has demonstrated the courage of his convictions and devotion to principle. He credits several teachers with having an early and great influ- ence upon his ideas and his future. He was nurtured in the American belief m equality of opportunity without regard to race or creed, and he developed a great interest in American history and the Constitution as a living document for a democratic society. 2 Senator and Mrs. Wayne Morse with their six grandchildren. COLLEGE YEARS \Vayne Morse worked at outside jobs throughout college and law school. His high school teacher in biology loaned him the money that made it possible for him to start college and stay in college. He worked at various jobs during college, such as driving a horse-drawn small wagon that met the night mail trains in Madison, Wisconsin. He often has said that he would have been a school dropout had it not been for his mother and his high school biology teacher, who were determined to see to it that he had a chance to go to college. After college, he and 1Irs. I\lorse taught school and paid back the money they both had borrowed to supplement their earnings while they went to college. At the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated and earned a master's degree, he was active in student government, de- bating and the honorary military society. Upon graduation he received a commission of second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Reserve. He is a member of Scabbard & Blade, an honorary collegiate military society. At the University of Wisconsin, \Vavne 1iorse did his first politi- cal campaigningfor Progressive Republican "Fighting Bob" La- Follette. It is interesting that his initial political activity was on behalf Continued 3 of a man known for his independence and liberalisma champion of the family farmer, wage earner and small businessman and the foe of political corruption and economic monopoly. In 1924, Wayne Morse married Mildred Downie, whom he had known in high school and college. They have three married daughters and six grandchildren. The future senator went on to teach at the University of Minne- sota. \Vhile carrying a full teaching schedule at the Universityof Minnesota, he also earned his law degree and taught part-time at a Catholic seminary in St. Paul, the only Protestant on the staff. Mrs. \1orse also was a teacher at this time. Her subjects: home economics, American history and literature. After law school, Wayne Morse received a teaching fellowship at Columbia University in New York City, where he earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. His doctoral dissertation on the American grand jury system has become an often-quoted work on the subject. While in New York, Mrs. Morse worked on the staff of the Delineator magazine. THE MOVE TO OREGON In 1929, \Vayne Morse was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. In less than two years, at only 30 years of age, he was appointed Dean, the youngest dean of an accredited law school in the nation. Under his leadership, the law school gained new prestige, with 100 per cent of the graduates passing the Oregon bar examinations year after year. A diligent instructor and able administrator, \Vayne Morse was also a friend and counselor to his students.