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Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate
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Arthur Capper Retires
On January 3, 1949, Arthur Capper retired from the Senate Capper, who served for nearly thirty years as a member of the United States Senate, is best remembered for the significant gains he achieved for American farmers. After working for several years as a newspaper reporter and publisher, Capper in 1914 became the first native-born Kansan to be elected governor of the state At the end of his second term as governor, Capper was elected as a Republican to the Senate and began his service on March 4, 1919.
In the Senate, Capper led the farm bloc. During the New Deal, he defended the Agricultural Adjustment Act as well as other legislation providing aid to farmers. He was a prime sponsor of the Capper-Volstead cooperative marketing act and the Capper-Ketcham Act, which expanded agricultural extension work to include youth clubs.
Arthur Capper also gained national prominence during the debate over the League of Nations, as President Woodrow Wilson frequently consulted him on the issue. Although he opposed the League and was known as an isolationist, Capper supported the 1943 Connally Resolution, which provided for U.S participation in the international postwar organization for maintaining world peace that eventually became the United Nations.
At the time of his retirement from the Senate in 1949, Capper at eighty-four was the oldest member of the Senate and had served longer than all but one of his colleagues. Capper’s retirement marked the end of a distinguished political career that benefitted both the state of Kansas and the entire nation. In a speech given upon his retirement, Capper indicated that he had achieved his goals, declaring that "if I had my life to live over again, I imagine it would be much the same kind of life. I think I have got a lot out of life "
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Chicago: Robert J. Dole, "Arthur Capper Retires," Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate: A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress (Washington, D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1989), in Original Sources, accessed September 17, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E6UKP3B481J23W.
MLA: Dole, Robert J. "Arthur Capper Retires." Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate: A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S Government Printing Office, 1989, in , Original Sources. 17 Sep. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E6UKP3B481J23W.
Harvard: Dole, RJ 1989, 'Arthur Capper Retires' in Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate: A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress, U.S Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.. cited in , . Original Sources, retrieved 17 September 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8E6UKP3B481J23W.
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