Oregon Experience: Wayne Morse

Resources

Books

A. Robert Smith, The Tiger in the Senate: The Biography of Wayne Morse

Doubleday, 1962

Mason Drukman, Wayne Morse: A Political Biography

Oregon Historical Society Press , 1997

Web sites

Video Documentary: The Last Angry Man – Senator Wayne Morse

http://morsechair.uoregon.edu/_pages/pubs_resources/last_angry_man.html

the Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University or Oregon: About Wayne Morse”

http://waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/_pages/about_morse/about_wayne.html

Wayne L. Morse: A Political Maverick

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~uofla/Summer00/Prince.html

A short account of Morse’s record filibuster in 1953:

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Wayne_Morse_Sets_Filibuster_Record.htm

The Wikipedia entry on Morse – very good! (note the “External Links”):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse_Farm

The Morse Family Farm -- now a Eugene city park:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse_Farm

Ron Abell’s “Personal Observations of the Wayne Morse Re-Election Campaign of 1968” (PDF)

http://www.ronabell.com/uploads/Ron_Abell_Memoir__14--Personal_Observations_of_the_Wayne_Morse_Re-Election_Campaign_of_1968.pdf