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Apr 9, 2021
Senators who Made an Impact, Despite First being Appointed (not Elected)
Harry Byrd, while Governor of Virginia, photographed ca. 1928
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
(Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now available.
The US Senate, since the beginning of the 117
th Congress this January, has seen a grand total of 1,994 members in its 232-year history.
Among those, there have been a total of 202 appointed Senators since the adoption of the 17