Constellation Similarity Assertions

Watson, James Eli, 1864-1948

James E. Watson
"Impossible Not to Like"

"Who is more a 'real Republican' than Jim Watson?" asked a writer for Collier's magazine in 1931. The answer to the question was obvious: "no one." Indeed, the Senate's second official majority leader had all the credentials necessary for membership in the Republican "Old Guard"–a family history in politics, seniority in the House and Senate, and a devotion to every plank in the Republican platform. But unlike his notoriously abrasive "Old Guard" colleagues, the Indiana senator was charming and amiable, though often dismissed for his "thin" legislative record. While his four-year term as majority leader cannot be considered a success, he remained extremely popular until his death in 1948.

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