Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an industrialist and engineer from Vermont. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the state's U.S. senator from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, previously being the president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank.
U.S. Senate
Mostly known for having been the leading Republican opponent of Joseph McCarthy, Flanders led the motion to censure the Wisconsin senator and made absurd statements (namely comparing McCarthy to Adolf Hitler) as well as the following sarcastic remark:[1]
To what party does [McCarthy] belong? Is he a hidden satellite of the Democratic Party, to which he is furnishing so much material for quiet mirth?
McCarthy was ultimately censured by the Senate, with nearly every Democrat supporting the measure while the Senate GOP was split;[1] Flanders and his more moderately liberal colleague George Aiken voted in favor of it.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Glass, Andres (March 9, 2011). Vermont Senator Confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy, March 9, 1954. Politico. Retrieved June 8, 2021.