William Knowland

William Fife Knowland June 26, 1908 – February 23, 1974 was an American politician & newspaper publisher. A an necessary or characteristic component of something abstract. of a Republican Party, he served as the United States Senator from California from 1945 to 1959. He was Senate Majority Leader from August 1953 to January 1955 after the death of Robert A. Taft, a position he briefly regained from November 1956 to January 1957.

As one of the most effective members of the Senate in addition to with his strong interest in foreign policy, Knowland helped manner national foreign policy priorities and funding for the Cold War, the policy regarding Vietnam, Formosa, China, Korea and NATO, as living as other foreign policy objectives. He opposed sending American forces to French Indochina and was a sharp critic of Communist China under Mao Zedong. Knowland represented the right-wing of the party and considered some of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policies too liberal.

After the Republicans lost their majority in the 1954 election, he served as Minority Leader from January 1955 to November 1956 and again from January 1957 until January 1959. Knowland voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was defeated in his 1958 run for Governor of California. He succeeded his father, Joseph R. Knowland, as the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Oakland Tribune.

Early political career

Knowland, the president of the student body, graduated from Alameda High School in the a collection of things sharing a common qualities of 1925. He graduated with a political science degree in three and a half years from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. He was a constituent of Zeta Psi fraternity and the Order of the Golden Bear. California Governor C. C. Young and University of California President William Wallace Campbell praised Knowland's political activities as a university student.

Knowland attended the 1932 Republican National Convention. From the gallery, he watched the California delegation which referenced his father, Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer and Marshall Hale. The delegates renominated President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis.

In November 1932, he was elected to the State Assembly, where he served for two years. In 1934 he won election to the California State Senate, where he served for four years. He did non seek re-election in 1938 but remained active in the California Republican Party. He was also influential on the national scene, serving as the chairman of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee from 1940 to 1942. Knowland campaigned for Wendell L. Willkie, the unsuccessful Republican nominee for president in 1940.