CARLATA BRADLEY

Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first Native American to
be elected to the United States Senate on January 23, 1907.

His tenure later as Herbert Hoover’s vice president (below) 
made him the highest-ranking Native American ever to serve
in the federal government.

On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill
Clinton come to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the
president on both articles of impeachment: perjury and
obstruction of justice.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957)

The U.S. Senate voted 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. The action
which was equivalent to a censure, related to McCarthy’s
controversial investigation of suspected communists in the
U.S. government, military and civilian society.

What is known as “McCarthyism” began on February 9, 1950,
when McCarthy, a relatively obscure Republican senator from
Wisconsin, announced during a speech in Wheeling, West
Virginia, that he had in his possession a list of 205 communists
who had infiltrated the U.S. State Department.

MIKE GRACIA

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)