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Hatfield">Henry D. Hatfield</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harley_M._Kilgore" title="Harley M. Kilgore">Harley M. Kilgore</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates">West Virginia House of Delegates</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1931–1935<br />1942–1950<br />1954–1955</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Rush Dew Holt</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1905-06-19</span>)</span>June 19, 1905<br /><a href="/wiki/Weston,_West_Virginia" title="Weston, West Virginia">Weston, West Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 8, 1955<span style="display:none">(1955-02-08)</span> (aged 49)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda, Maryland</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> (1949–1955)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> (until 1949)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Helen_F._Holt" title="Helen F. Holt">Helen Froelich</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1941)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rush_Holt_Jr." title="Rush Holt Jr.">Rush Holt Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Teacher" title="Teacher">Teacher</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rush Dew Holt Sr.</b> (June 19, 1905 – February 8, 1955) was an American <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a> who was a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> (1935–1941) and a member of the <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates">West Virginia House of Delegates</a> (1931–1935, 1942–1950,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1954–1955). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_family">Early life and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rush_Holt_Sr.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holt was born in <a href="/wiki/Weston,_West_Virginia" title="Weston, West Virginia">Weston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewis_County,_West_Virginia" title="Lewis County, West Virginia">Lewis County, West Virginia</a>, on June 19, 1905.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents were Chilela (née Dew) and Dr. Matthew Samuel Holt,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a small-town physician and horse trader. Matthew Holt was an <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>, who shifted his political support from the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> to <a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" title="William Jennings Bryan">William Jennings Bryan</a> in the 1890s, and then to <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America" title="Socialist Party of America">Socialist</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Debs" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene Debs">Eugene Debs</a>; Matthew Holt attended the Socialist Party's 1917 convention, where he participated in condemning American involvement in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rush Holt attended the public schools and <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_University" title="West Virginia University">West Virginia University</a> at <a href="/wiki/Morgantown,_West_Virginia" title="Morgantown, West Virginia">Morgantown</a>; he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Salem_University" title="Salem University">Salem College</a> in 1924. He became a high school teacher and athletic coach, then an instructor at Salem College.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rush_Holt_Sr.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holt was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> to the <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates">West Virginia House of Delegates</a>, serving from 1931 to 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this office, he was described as "a champion of the common man and a critic of privately owned utility corporations."<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1934, at 29, he was elected to the United States Senate, but because a Senator is <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">constitutionally</a> required to be at least 30 years old, he could not take his seat until after his 30th birthday in June 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holt was the youngest person ever popularly elected to the U.S. Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holt was elected with the support of the <a href="/wiki/United_Mine_Workers" class="mw-redirect" title="United Mine Workers">United Mine Workers</a> and the endorsement of Democratic West Virginia Senator <a href="/wiki/Matthew_M._Neely" title="Matthew M. Neely">Matthew M. Neely</a>. Holt proclaimed himself an unequivocal supporter of <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>, but according to William E. Coffey, "most knowledgeable observers ... viewed Holt as <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">politically left</a> of the president." However, by 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> critic of the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>, attacking, for example, the <a href="/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" title="Works Progress Administration">Works Progress Administration</a> as corrupt and inefficient.<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One scoring method found Holt to be the third most <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Democrat" title="Conservative Democrat">conservative Democratic</a> Senator to serve between 1937 and 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout his Senate career, Holt was a staunch <a href="/wiki/Isolationism" title="Isolationism">isolationist</a>. He was impressed by the findings of the <a href="/wiki/Nye_Committee" title="Nye Committee">Nye Committee</a> (1934–1936) and by <a href="/wiki/H._C._Engelbrecht" title="H. C. Engelbrecht">H. C. Engelbrecht</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Hanighen" title="Frank Hanighen">F. C. Hanighen</a>'s book, <i>Merchants of Death</i> (1934).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holt began making a number of public appearances in support of antiwar causes, including several radio addresses for the National Council for Prevention of War. He supported the <a href="/wiki/Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s" class="mw-redirect" title="Neutrality Acts of 1930s">Neutrality Acts</a> of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and also every amendment aimed at making those acts more stringent. During the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, Holt declared himself in favor of "strict, mandatory neutrality." He opposed increases in military spending, threatening to filibuster the 1938 Naval Expansion Bill. Holt did not favor American participation in international organizations, voting against <a href="/wiki/World_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="World Court">World Court</a> membership, and not supporting membership in the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>. He opposed <a href="/wiki/Reciprocal_trade_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Reciprocal trade agreement">reciprocal trade agreements</a> and "faithfully represented" West Virginia's pro-<a href="/wiki/Protective_tariff" title="Protective tariff">tariff</a> glass industry. During the <a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a>, despite being sympathetic to <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>, Holt voted against a loan to that country. Holt opposed the <a href="/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940" title="Selective Training and Service Act of 1940">Selective Training and Service Act of 1940</a> (also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act), which instigated peace-time conscription, actively participating in the long (six weeks) and often vitriolic debate on the act; the act eventually passed, 58–31, Holt voting against.<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These activities did not make Holt popular with his constituents; in his 1940 bid for renomination, Holt came in third. After his Senate term expired, on January 3, 1941, Holt continued living in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, supporting himself as a lecturer and author. He was an active antiwar lecturer, most often supported by the sponsorship of the <a href="/wiki/America_First_Committee" title="America First Committee">America First Committee</a>. He attended dozens of antiwar rallies across the United States, usually as the featured speaker. This speaking tour ended after the <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a>, and the America First Committee was dissolved. Holt's <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy">foreign policy</a> views remained the same, writing in 1942: "Our fight is not over. We must stand guard to see that the internationalists ... are not allowed to determine the future of our great country. They would commit us to everlasting wars everywhere."<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holt's reputation was damaged after his links to Nazi agent <a href="/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck" title="George Sylvester Viereck">George Sylvester Viereck</a> were uncovered. He'd knowingly tried to publish two isolationist books <i>Who's Who Among the Warmongers</i> and <i>The British Network</i>, was published by Flanders Hall, a small company with ties to registered Nazi agents. In an investigation of Viereck's links to Congress, Holt was singled out as one of four who'd knowingly collaborated.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holt received a high level of media attention during his Senate years and was the subject of hundreds of political cartoons from across America.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holt unsuccessfully sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1944 and the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1948. He switched to the Republican Party in 1949, and was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the <a href="/wiki/82nd_United_States_Congress" title="82nd United States Congress">Eighty-second Congress</a> in 1950.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/1952_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1952 West Virginia gubernatorial election">1952, Holt again ran for governor</a>, and earned 48% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-coffey_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coffey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1954, he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. Holt's political career ended where it started, and he died of <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> while in office on February 8, 1955, at age 49. He was interred in Macpelah Cemetery in Weston, West Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-bioguide_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bioguide-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rush_Holt_Sr.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holt's widow, <a href="/wiki/Helen_F._Holt" title="Helen F. Holt">Helen F. Holt</a> (1913–2015), filled Holt's unexpired term in the West Virginia House of Delegates (1955–1957). She was then appointed <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_West_Virginia" title="Secretary of State of West Virginia">Secretary of State</a>, serving from 1957 to 1959, becoming the first woman to hold high office in West Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His son, <a href="/wiki/Rush_D._Holt_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Rush D. Holt Jr.">Rush D. Holt Jr.</a>, later served as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a> from <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rush_Holt_Sr.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>West Virginia Blue Book</i>. 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Retrieved January 6, 2010.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rush_Holt_Sr.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050219054515/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,930751,00.html">Unsworn Senators</a>", <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, January 14, 1935. Article about Holt and <a href="/wiki/Richard_C._Hunter" title="Richard C. Hunter">Richard C. 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