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Historical Note: William Ezra Jenner was born in Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana on 21 July 1908. He graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1930 and received his law degree and passed the bar that year. He began his law practice at Paoli, Indiana in 1932 and served as a Republican member of the Indiana state senate from 1934 to 1942. He was the minority leader of the senate from 1937 to 1939 and majority leader from 1939 to 1941. He resigned his seat in the senate in 1942 so that he could serve in the Second World War. Jenner served overseas and retired as a captain in the Army Air Corps in 1944. Upon the death of U.S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, Jenner was appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated by Van Nuys. In this capacity Jenner served as a U.S. Senator from November 14, 1944 to January 3, 1945. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946 and served two terms from January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1959. As a Republican senator for Indiana he participated in several senatorial committees in Washington including co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing; chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, and member of the Internal Security Committee. Upon completion of his service in the U.S. Senate, Jenner resumed his law practice in Indiana. He died in Bedford, Indiana on 9 March 1985.

Scope and Content: Political papers of U.S. Senator William Jenner of Indiana documenting his work in the Senate and his relations with constituents and fellow politicians in government, 1931-1985. The collection contains political and business speeches, Senate committee files and legislative bills, correspondence, radio and television broadcast speeches, an oral history typescript, political correspondence, newspaper clippings, government reference books, photographs, sound records, TV film, pictures, political cartoons, campaign buttons, souvenirs, and gift plaques. Documents focus on national and international issues of the late 1940s and the 1950s including communism, Korean War, New Deal, Fair Deal, Supreme Court, foreign policy, problems of the Truman administration, Internal Security Committee, and McCarthyism.

Creator

• Jenner, William Ezra

Subject

• Communism

• Politics, Practical

• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

• International relations

• Politicians

• New Deal, 1933-1939

• Legislators

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Identifier

• MSS48_FindingAid

Location

• Indiana, Indiana, United States

Keyword

• Finding Aid

• Hanover College, William E. Jenner Papers, MSS 48

Date created

• 1931-1985

Resource type

• Book

Source

• 03aa0f82-7901-4a4d-807f-860ebbb72264

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/