Member of the California Senate from the 35th district
In office January 6, 1941 – February 11, 1946
Preceded by
Harry Clay Westover
Succeeded by
Clyde A. Watson
Member of the California State Assembly from the 75th district
In office January 4, 1937 – January 6, 1941
Preceded by
Edward Craig
Succeeded by
Sam L. Collins
Personal details
Born
Thomas Henry Kuchel
(1910-08-15)August 15, 1910 Anaheim, California, U.S.
Died
November 21, 1994(1994-11-21) (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Betty Mellenthin
(m. 1942)
Children
1
Education
University of Southern California (BA, LLB)
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
United States Navy
Unit
Reserves
Battles/wars
World War II
Thomas Henry Kuchel (/ˈkiːkəl/KEE-kəl; August 15, 1910 – November 21, 1994)[1] was an American politician. A moderate Republican, he served as a US Senator from California from 1953 to 1969 and was the minority whip in the Senate,[2] where he was the co-manager on the floor for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[3] Kuchel voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,[4][5] 1960,[6] and 1964,[7] as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,[8] the Voting Rights Act of 1965,[9][10] and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court,[11] while Kuchel did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968.[12]
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^"Senate – August 7, 1957" (PDF). Congressional Record. 103 (10). U.S. Government Printing Office: 13900. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – August 29, 1957" (PDF). Congressional Record. 103 (12). U.S. Government Printing Office: 16478. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – April 8, 1960" (PDF). Congressional Record. 106 (6). U.S. Government Printing Office: 7810–7811. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – June 19, 1964" (PDF). Congressional Record. 110 (11). U.S. Government Printing Office: 14511. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – March 27, 1962" (PDF). Congressional Record. 108 (4). U.S. Government Printing Office: 5105. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – May 26, 1965" (PDF). Congressional Record. 111 (2). U.S. Government Printing Office: 11752. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – August 4, 1965" (PDF). Congressional Record. 111 (14). U.S. Government Printing Office: 19378. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
^"Senate – August 30, 1967" (PDF). Congressional Record. 113 (18). U.S. Government Printing Office: 24656. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
^"Senate – March 11, 1968" (PDF). Congressional Record. 114 (5). U.S. Government Printing Office: 5992. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
Thomas Henry Kuchel (/ˈkiːkəl/ KEE-kəl; August 15, 1910 – November 21, 1994) was an American politician. A moderate Republican, he served as a US Senator...
election in California was held on November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican ThomasKuchel, who had won a 1954 special election to fill the vacant seat left by...
conservative Rafferty had narrowly defeated the liberal Republican incumbent, ThomasKuchel, in that party's primary. The election was marred by mudslinging. A...
Incumbent Republican ThomasKuchel was re-elected to a second full term in office, defeating Democratic State Senator Richard Richards. Kuchel carried every...
Southern senators of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dirksen, Republican ThomasKuchel and Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Mike Mansfield introduced a compromise...
following the 1952 presidential election. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator ThomasKuchel, who had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren, won election to the...
Through his mother, Nixon was a descendant of the early English settler Thomas Cornell, who was also an ancestor of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell...
in 1954 to finish Nixon's term. Jan 2, 1953 – Jan 3, 1969 Republican ThomasKuchel 14 Re-elected in 1952. Retired to run for Governor of California. 19...
assume the vice presidency, Governor Earl Warren appointed ThomasKuchel to Nixon's seat; Kuchel assumed the office on January 2, 1953. In Idaho, Republican...
54 days, Senators Mansfield, Hubert Humphrey, Everett Dirksen, and ThomasKuchel introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would overcome it by combining...
incumbent U.S. Senator ThomasKuchel was one of the last Republicans elected from California at the state or U.S. Senate level. Kuchel had been re-elected...
election in California was held on November 5, 1968. Incumbent Republican ThomasKuchel was narrowly defeated in the June 4 primary by Superintendent of Public...
1960 because he was absent from the chamber while Senate Minority Whip ThomasKuchel (R–CA) announced that Goldwater would have voted in favor if present...
affidavit" claiming that U.S. Senator ThomasKuchel had once been arrested for a homosexual act in retaliation for Kuchel's support of the Civil Rights Act...
Brown. Engle began his term on January 3, 1959. He worked with Senator ThomasKuchel to pass the San Luis water project, the West Coast electric power intertie...
and My Gal (1942) as Mo K. Metcalf The Navy Comes Through (1942) as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands The Powers Girl (1943) as Jerry Hendricks Bataan (1943) as...
Barry Goldwater, initially supporting the moderate California senator ThomasKuchel, a candidacy that, Witcover remarks, "died stillborn". After the failure...
1960 Presidential election. In 1962, with popular incumbent Senator ThomasKuchel essentially guaranteed to win re-election, the Republican Party felt...
an internationalist and moderate Republican Congressman. After helping Thomas E. Dewey win the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, Scott held the...
he was approached by conservatives to challenge moderate Republican ThomasKuchel for his seat in the United States Senate in 1968, but he declined. For...
defended the Johnson administration's approach and Republican Senator ThomasKuchel said that an unconditional bombing halt would aid North Vietnam.: 225 ...
but the nomination and the election went to the moderate Republican ThomasKuchel. Subsequently, he ran several times for Mayor of Los Angeles on an anti-tax...
United States Senator (Class 1) from California 1964 Served alongside: ThomasKuchel Succeeded by George Murphy Party political offices Preceded by Clair...
by the appointment of John M. Pierce, effective November 1, 1953. Thomas H. Kuchel resigned, effective January 2, 1953, after his election as a US Senator...
Everett Dirksen 86th January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961 Everett Dirksen ThomasKuchel 87th January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 Hubert Humphrey Mike Mansfield...
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