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Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874 - February 25, 1944) was a U.S. Republican politician from Oregon, best known for serving as Minority Leader of the United States Senate from 1933 to 1944. He is probably most known for his co-sponsorship of the McNary-Haugen farm relif bills which was vetoed by President Coolidge and was the fore-runner of the agricultural part of the New Deal .
McNary was born in Salem, Oregon and attended Stanford University. He became a lawyer, and served as deputy district attorney fo the third judicial district of Oregon from 1904 to 1911, and as an associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1913 to 1915. In 1917, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy, and served until his death in 1944. In 1940 he was the Republican vice presidential nominee, as a western conservative to balance the eastern liberalism of presidential nominee Wendell Willkie.
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Joseph T. Robinson
| width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate
1933-1943
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Wallace H. White, Jr.
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Frank Knox
| width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |U.S. Republican Party Vice Presidential candidate
1940
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John W. Bricker
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