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William E. Borah Republican U.S. senator from Idaho for 33 years, best known for his major role at the end of World War I (1918) in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations and the World Court. Borah practiced law in Boise, Idaho, and in 1892 became chairman of the Republican.
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A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often considered an isolationist, because he led the Irreconcilables, senators who would not accept the Treaty of Versailles, Senate ratification of which would have made the U.S. part of the League of Nations.
Progressive senators William Borah (R-ID), left, and George Norris (R-NE) both served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and proposed measures to curb the power of the federal courts, much to the frustration of Chief Justice Taft. Library of Congress
William Borah of Idaho, an old progressive, would become the leading isolationist of the 1930s. There were young upstarts, too, like Gerald Nye of North Dakota, whose 1934 investigation of the munitions industry would fuel the neutrality acts of the late 1930s.
Classic Senate Speeches. William E. Borah. The League of Nations. November 19, 1919. On the final day of Senate debate over the League of Nations, William E. Borah spoke powerfully and persuasively in opposition to the League.
1. William E. Leuchtenburg, “Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1916,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXXIX (December 1952), 483–504. 2. For an earlier statement of this view, see Charles Vevier, “The Progressives and Dollar Diplomacy” (Master's thesis, History ...
leries, Borah touched off heated Senate debate with a slashing assault upon such proposals. Challenging these suggestions as threats to con-bition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 (Cam-bridge, 1963). 3 Walter Lippmann to Borah, Nov. 5, 1924, William E. Borah Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
