To: research1234 who wrote (490316 ) 5/2/2022 11:46:44 AM From: Wharf Rat Respond to "It was the northeast, liberal republicans who voted for civil rights, "University of Minnesota , left before graduating to serve in World War I , and, after his discharge, returned to Pekin , where he pursued a number of business interests. In 1926, with his election to the office of city finance commissioner in Pekin, Dirksen began what was to become a lifelong career in public service. Defeated in 1930 in his bid for a congressional seat, he ran again in 1932 and won. A conservative Republican, Dirksen voted against most New Deal measures—except Social Security . He also opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt ’s foreign policy , adhering to an isolationist stance. In a foreshadowing of his later moderation and flexibility, however, Dirksen switched to bipartisan support of presidential foreign policy with U.S. entry into World War II .Republican Party . He backed Sen. Robert A. Taft for the 1952 presidential nomination , and he supported the anticommunist crusade of Joseph R. McCarthy until the Wisconsin senator was discredited in the middle of the decade.Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty , the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 .britannica.com
