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1968 Wayne Morse Psychedelic Campaign Poster
For the 1968 US Senate race, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon appeals to the hippies. The poster is designed to appear as a rock band poster. Reads, "Wayne Morse and the United States Senate" in colorful psychedelic script. Measures 14" by 21". Condition is excellent. Has been rolled in the past, very light evidence of that. Unmarked and undamaged, nearly as new. Great piece of history. Morse was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1944. His relatively liberal views made him a target of Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, and McCarthy claimed he was a Communist sympathizer. Morse survived because of his home state's enthusiastic love for him. Morse later opposed Eisenhower and Nixon, and subsequently switched parties and became a Democrat. He won election to the Senate again in 1956. After losing reelection in 1968, Morse died in Portland in 1974.
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