Curio | December 4, 2025

On This Day | Langer Faces Seating Test in Senate

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Josh Wolsky

Chairman Hatch of the senate investigating committee stated Tuesday that formal consideration of action on a protest against the seating of Senator Langer would be delayed until after the funeral Thursday of the late Senator Adams, democrat, of Colorado. The committee was to have met in formal session on Thursday, but a new date will be set for the “earliest possible” time, probably next week. In the meantime the committee has study the copy of the proceedings of the hearings, now in printed form. The proceedings comprise 835 pages with close to half a million words.
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Why We Chose It

He is North Dakota’s most infamous politician and the competition isn’t close, and we share the stories of his career as we come across them. In this challenging moment, he was seated in the Senate and served until his death in 1959.