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Jessy Han
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Mar 31, 2021
April 29, 1933 President Roosevelt's German Shepherd Major bites Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas.
Jessy Han
@hjessy_
August 30, 1933 Major bites a Washington lawyer who reached into the White House fence to give him a pet.
In addition to Senator Caraway, Major previously bit British PM Ramsay MacDonald.
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)adapting to the White House in the beginning as well. Maybe Major Biden knows his White House dog history and is trying to live up to his predecessor and namesake's reputation.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)if he had bitten either of our current Senators, especially Rotten Cotton.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)Who knows what diseases they might carry
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)She inherited her husband's Senate seat at his death, but went on to win the seat on her own. And, she was a Democrat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Wyatt_Caraway
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Senators and a split on House members. And that was only 30 years ago.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat. Before Tom Cotton we had Mark Pryor, a Democrat.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)The GQP was making stead gains in Arkansas for some time but it only became impossible for a Democrat to win other than a very few local elections during the Obama administration.
Reckon what happened during the Obama administration to make Bubba Joe become such a dependable GQP voter?
0rganism
(23,953 posts)in one of the linked threads re. Rep. Gaetz and his issues