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Louie Broady Nunn (March 8, 1924 – January 29, 2004) was an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of Kentucky.Elected in 1967, he was the only Republican to hold the office between the end of Simeon Willis's term in 1947 and the election of Ernie Fletcher in 2003.
The Republican Party controlled the United States Senate after the election of 1918, but the Senators were divided into multiple positions on the Versailles question.It proved possible to build a majority coalition, but impossible to build a two thirds coalition that was needed to pass a treaty. [1]
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history.A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often considered an isolationist, [a] because he led the Irreconcilables, senators who would not accept the Treaty of Versailles, Senate ratification of which would have ...
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Chandler died in Versailles on June 15, 1991, and was buried in the church yard of Pisgah Presbyterian Church near Versailles. [2] Prior to his death, he had been the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the longest-living former Kentucky governor.
Republican Charles Pryor (June 2, 1959 – April 29, 2024) was an American politician. He served as a Republican member for the 116th district of the Missouri House of Representatives .
Brereton Chandler Jones (June 27, 1939 – September 18, 2023) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Kentucky.
The Treaty of Versailles went into effect, but the United States did not sign it and made separate peace with Germany and Austria-Hungary. The United States never joined the League of Nations. [3] Historians agree that the League was ineffective in dealing with major issues, but they debate whether American membership would have made much ...