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Montana senator Mike Mansfield, the new majority leader in 1961, contrasted sharply with his powerful and outgoing predecessor, Lyndon Baines Johnson. A soft-spoken man, Mansfield’s style of leadership seemed the antithesis of Johnson’s forceful arm-twisting.
As the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1961 to 1977, Mansfield shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate; his tenure of exactly sixteen years was the longest of any party leader in Senate history, until the record was broken by Mitch McConnell in 2023.
In 1952 Mansfield won a seat in the Senate, despite the accusations of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy that he was soft on communism. A prominent member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mansfield in 1957 became majority whip.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On February 17, 1964, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield announced the arrival of H.R. 7152, the controversial civil rights bill, from the House of Representatives. Typically, the Senate would refer a House-approved bill to its committee of jurisdiction.
On March 24, 1998, Mike Mansfield returned to the Senate to deliver the first Leader's Lecture in the Old Senate Chamber, which had been restored during his long tenure as Senate majority leader. Many of the senators who attended had not served with Mansfield.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield’s co alition on civil rights is still considered one of the most successful bipartisan efforts in the U.S. Senate during the 20th century.
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It has been said that Mike Mansfield shaped the character of the modern Senate more than any other leader in its history by allowing a Senate of equals to emerge and giving voice and a role to younger Senators.
