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Senate Years of Service: 1944-1945; 1947-1959 Party: Republican; Republican
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JENNER, William Ezra, a Senator from Indiana; born in Marengo, Crawford County, Ind., July
21, 1908; attended public and preparatory schools; graduated from Indiana
University at Bloomington in 1930 and from that universitys law school in
1930; admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced practice in Paoli, Ind., in
1932; member, State senate 1934-1942, serving as minority leader 1937-1939,
majority leader and president pro tempore 1939-1941; resigned his seat in 1942
to serve in the Second World War; served overseas and retired as a captain in
the Army Air Corps in 1944; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate
on November 7, 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Van
Nuys and served from November 14, 1944, to January 3, 1945; was not a candidate
for election to the full term; elected to the United States Senate in 1946 for
the term commencing January 3, 1947; reelected in 1952, and served from January
3, 1947, until January 3, 1959; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958;
co-chairman, Joint Committee on Printing (Eightieth and Eighty-third
Congresses), chairman, Committee on Rules and Administration (Eighty-third
Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Bedford, Ind., March 9, 1985;
interment at Crest Haven Memorial Gardens, Bedford, Ind.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Poder,
Michael. The Senatorial Career of William E. Jenner. Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Notre Dame, 1976; Ross, Rodney. Senator William E. Jenner: A
Study in Cold War Isolation. Ed.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State
University, 1973.
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