Joseph H. Ball
Joseph Hurst Ball ( born November 3, 1905 in Crookston, Polk County, Minnesota, † December 18 1993 in Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate.
Early years and career advancement
Joseph Ball made in 1922 his high school graduation. To finance his studies at Antioch College in Yellow Springs (Ohio ), he held various activities; among other things, he was a construction worker, employed in the cultivation of maize and in a factory. From 1925 he continued his education initially continued at the State Normal School of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; then he moved to the University of Minnesota. However, he never achieved a university degree.
1927 took over a job as a newspaper reporter for the Minneapolis Journal. He then worked as a freelance journalist and also wrote short stories for pulp magazines before he got a permanent position at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1934 he rose to in this paper to correspondents for State Policy and endorsed in this way friendship with the late Governor Harold Stassen, at this time deputy district attorney. In his articles ball while critical of the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was also an opponent isolationist aspirations.
U.S. Senator
As a U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen of the Farmer-Labor Party on August 31, 1940 in a plane crash was killed appointed the meantime, elected Governor Harold Stassen his friend Joseph over his successor. He took his seat in Washington from October 14, 1940 true and at that time was the youngest member of the Senate. This, however, he remained only until December of the same year, when born in August 1906 Berkeley L. Bunker moved from Nevada in the Senate.
After the ball had taken his oath of office, he surprised the conservative members of his group with his first speech, when he called the United States to stand Britain in the fight against Hitler to the side. He described the United Kingdom as " a barrier between us and any plans that may have Hitler and his allies on this continent ." While he was still an opponent of the New Deal, but supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. So he voted for the Lend-Lease Act, although his voters had expressed in letters to him much about it. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assessment of the senator by the citizens of Minnesota, which is now valued his vision changed. This was also supported by two front pages of the Daily Sentinel, a daily newspaper from Fairmont, clearly, the headline read after his appointment: "Joe Ball for U.S. Senator! Good God! " ( " Joe Ball is U.S. Sen. Oh God! "). After his re-election headline in the paper: "Joe Ball for U.S. Senator! Thank God! " ( " Joe Ball is a U.S. Senator! Thank God! ")
Balls term as appointed successor Ernest Lundeens ended on November 18, 1942; for election for the remaining two months of its term, he joined not to. The victorious there, Arthur E. Nelson was in turn replaced by Ball, who had decided the election for the next parliamentary term with nearly 47 percent of the vote against Elmer Austin Benson for themselves. He returned on January 3, 1943 in the Senate back and remained there until January 3, 1949. During this time he belonged to the circle of the four senators, who brought the bill to create the United Nations. In 1948 he failed in the attempt at re-election Democrats Hubert H. Humphrey.
Ball, who had always written his column for the Pioneer Press during his time as a politician, finally returned to journalism and wrote commentaries on American foreign policy. He also hit a career as a business manager in the shipbuilding industry. In 1982 he retired, he spent on a farm near Front Royal ( Virginia).