William Fife Knowland (June 26, 1908 – February 23, 1974) was an American politician and newspaper publisher. A member of the Republican Party, he served...
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Oakland Tribune (section The Knowland Family era)
political careers, the most noted being Knowland's own son William F. Knowland and Earl Warren. In 1921, Knowland started radio station KLX and his newspaper...
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United States Senator William F. Knowland. Knowland was born in Alameda, California on August 5, 1873, the son of Joseph Knowland (1833–1912) and Hannah...
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Tribune newspaper, as did his father William F. Knowland and his grandfather Joseph R. Knowland before him. Knowland has acted in four feature films, a...
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English literature William F. Knowland (1908–1974), United States politician, newspaperman, and Republican Party leader Joseph Knowland State Arboretum and...
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primaries without difficulty. Senator William F. Knowland of California was on the ballot for a number of them. Knowland had announced he would run if Ike...
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election in California was held on November 4, 1958. Incumbent senator William F. Knowland opted not to run for re-election, choosing instead to run for election...
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Will Rogers Jr. (redirect from William V. Rogers)
Rogers ran for the Senate seat in California in 1946, challenging William Knowland, who had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren in August of the previous...
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winning the Democratic nomination, incumbent Republican Senator William F. Knowland was able to cruise to a general election victory with only nominal...
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Democrat elected to that Senate seat in the 20th century. He succeeded William F. Knowland, who had given up the seat in an unsuccessful run for governor, losing...
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Major and former State Senator William F. Knowland to finish Johnson's term until a successor could be duly elected. Knowland won both the special election...
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internationalism of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dirksen succeeded William F. Knowland as Senate Minority Leader after the latter declined to seek re-election...
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and transferred his duties as Senate Majority Leader to Senator William F. Knowland of California. He did not resign his Senate seat and told reporters...
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William F. Knowland, incumbent U.S. Senator (cross-filing) Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, incumbent Attorney General of California (cross-filing) William F....
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Bill Shearer (redirect from William K. Shearer)
in San Diego at the age of 76. Eileen Knowland Shearer was a cousin of United States Senator William F. Knowland. According to Shearer, the decision to...
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Francisco, California, from August 20 to August 23, 1956. U.S. Senator William F. Knowland was temporary chairman and former speaker of the House Joseph W....
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In the general election, Brown defeated Republican U.S. Senator William F. Knowland with a near three-fifths majority, Proposition 18 and other anti-labor...
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Lyndon B. Johnson (category People associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
found Johnson more cooperative than the Senate Republican leader, William F. Knowland of California. Particularly on foreign policy, Johnson offered bipartisan...
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was the fifth of five OSS combat casualties in China. U.S. Senator William F. Knowland attempted unsuccessfully to obtain posthumous awards for Birch, including...
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as a member of the Prohibition Party, running against Republican William F. Knowland. He then worked as a commercial pilot for a small California airline...
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the Republican Party of California with U.S. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon. In 1954, Knight was easily elected...
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Leader William F. Knowland, a conservative, and Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a liberal. Known as a moderate, Kuchel eventually backed Knowland in...
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(1998). One Step From the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 225. "Arthur Blair...
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Obama Joseph R. Knowland – former U.S. Representative and former owner of the Oakland Tribune, cremated in Oakland William F. Knowland – former U.S. Senator...
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vice president's oath of office is unknown. Due to Vice President-elect William R. King's deteriorating health, a bill signed on March 3, 1853, the last...
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involved in a bruising Democratic primary fight against the incumbent Charles F. Hurley. He was reelected in 1940 and 1942; the 1940 election win was by an...
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Lip-Bu Tan, businessman, resides in Piedmont. Richard Carlson, author William F. Knowland, publisher of The Oakland Tribune Joan London, writer Asieh Namdar...
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candidate for U.S. Senate from California 1914. Father of William F. Knowland. William F. Knowland (1908–1974), California Assemblyman 1933–35, California...
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as vice president. He narrowly lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy. After his loss in the 1962 race for governor of California, he announced...
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Dates Name State Notes 1947–1953 Robert A. Taft Ohio 1953 William F. Knowland California 1953–1955 Homer S. Ferguson Michigan 1955–1961 Styles Bridges...
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