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William Edgar Borah was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history.

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Senator William Borah was affectionately known as the "Lion of Idaho" during his 33 years in the United States Senate. Elected as a Republican in 1907, Borah established himself as a prominent progressive with a fiercely independent spirit. This superb orator who had a knack for courting publicity was once named by Time magazine as the "most famed senator of the century." Despite his leading role in the creation of two constitutional amendments—establishing the graduated income tax and the direct election of senators—Borah is best remembered for his unwavering opposition to the so-called Susan B. Anthony amendment granting women the right to vote. As a 10-year chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Borah also shaped American foreign policy in the period between the world wars. An isolationist, Borah helped organize opposition to the Treaty of Versailles, which the Senate resoundingly rejected in 1919. In January 1940, Borah suffered a brain hemorrhage and died. His funeral service was held in the U.S. Senate Chamber.

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WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH, 1865-1940.

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Scrapbooks, 1903-1947

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In compliance with the terms of Senator William Borah's will, the scrapbooks were donated to the University of Idaho by Mrs. Borah. The majority were received in June 1940, having first been microfilmed by the Library of Congress (LC). A second set of scrapbooks was acquired from LC in 1950. These two acquisitions were combined and were processed by Judith Nielsen in March 1985. The Library has also acquired the microfilm of the scrapbooks (Film 1064) which is recommended to users because of their fragility.

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH

William Edgar Borah, Republican Senator from Idaho, was born in Fairfield, Illinois, June 29, 1865, the seventh of ten children born to William Nathan and Elizabeth (West) Borah. He was educated in the public schools near Fairfield and at Enfield College. He spent two years, 1885-1887, at the University of Kansas, but had to withdraw because of illness. He then studied law in the office of his brother-in-law and was admitted to the Kansas b

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William E. Borah, the chief prosecutor in the Haywood trial, was born at the close of the Civil War, the son of a stern, puritanical Illinois farmer. In college at the University of Kansas, Borah befriended William Allen White, later to become the famed editor of the Emporia Gazette, who described his college buddy as a "hardworking, substantial, serious student who smiled easily but rarely laughed." After two years at KU, Borah contracted tuberculosis and dropped out of college to read law. After impregnating a Lyons, Kansas woman and being asked to leave town, Borah boarded a westheading train where he met a gambler who told him that Idaho, then only three months a state, was an ideal place for young, ambitious men. Borah took the gambler's advice and opened a law office conveiently located on the edge of Boise's red light district, where Borah frequented the best homes, earning a reputation as "the town bull." Borah's practice grew as he became a favorite of timber barons, ranchers, mine operators, and other men of commerce. Eventually Borah