William E. Jenner

William Ezra Jenner ( born July 21, 1908 in Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana; † March 9, 1985 in Bedford, Indiana ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. Senate.

After schooling, William Jenner enrolled at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he first made ​​his public statements in 1930 and a little later his law graduated in. He then began practicing in Paoli as a lawyer. In 1934 he was elected to the Senate from Indiana, where he was from 1937 to 1939 leader of the Republican opposition; after the election victory of his party, he served until 1941 as Majority Leader and the Senate president pro tempore.

In order for the entry of the United States to serve in the military in World War II, Jenner resigned in 1942. Two years later he returned with the rank of Captain from overseas deployment and came to succeed the late U.S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys on 14 November 1944. This first term of office in Washington already ended on January 3, 1945. The following year, Jenner applied for the second Senate seat for Indiana and was victorious, after which he again moved into the Congress on January 3, 1947.

During his second term of office, which lasted for a re-election until January 3, 1959 Jenner was in the Senate to the followers of Joseph McCarthy. After the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur as commander of U.S. forces in the Korean War, he called for the impeachment of President Harry S. Truman. He publicly declared: " This country is in the hands of the inner circle, which is commanded by agents of the Soviet Union. Our only choice is to entgeben President Truman of the office and find out who belongs to the secret invisible government that has led our country so ably on the path of destruction. "

Jenner also accused the United Nations to have infiltrated the American education system. In 1958, he no longer stand for re- election; Instead, he worked as a lawyer were again in Bedford, where he died in 1985