Biographies and leadership analyses exist for many more House party leaders and prominent members. B. Senators Autobiographies or accounts of the Senate by Senators have been written by William Plumer, John Sherman, George Hoar, James Blaine, Alben Barkeley, James Byrnes, and Warren Rudman. Biographies and leadership analyses exist with respect to many prominent Senate party and committee leaders in both the 19th and 20th centuries, e.g. Rufus King, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Stephen Douglas, Roscoe Conkling, Nelson Aldrich, Arthur Gorman, Tom Watson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Byrnes, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Howard Baker, and Trent Lott. Events You may write an analysis of a critical event in the institutional history of the House, Senate, or Presidency. Again all topics must be discussed and cleared with the instructor.
Some possibilities are as follows.
A. Nineteenth Century 1. The fight over the Jay Papers. The first use of the previous question as a cloture mechanism. Adoption of the Hour Rule. The Whig Theory of the Presidency 5.