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Kentucky's Alben Barkley served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913 until 1927, when he moved to the Senate. In 1937, Senate Democrats chose him as their majority leader. At the 1948 Democratic convention, the 70-old Barkley won the vice-presidential nomination.
Barkley spent almost fifteen years there before being elected to the Senate in 1926. While in the House, he was a loyal supporter of President Woodrow Wilson's agenda and established a strong liberal voting record.
Born to tenant tobacco farmers in 1877, Alben Barkley 's political views were shaped in part by his impoverished upbringing. As a member of the House of Representatives, he established a reputation as a Wilson Democrat with strong party loyalties.
Senators who opposed Barkley referred to him derisively as "Dear Alben,” underscoring his subordinate relationship to the president. He quickly faced defeat when a number of Democrats, led by Montana’s Burton K. Wheeler, banded with Republicans to kill the Court packing plan.
Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative.
Alben W. Barkley served as the 35 th Vice President of the United States. Holding the position from 1949 to 1953, Vice President Barkley was popularly known as the “Veep.” Early Life. Alben William Barkley was born on November 24, 1877, in Graves County, Kentucky.
Alben W. Barkley: The Farmer's Son. by James K. Libbey. Alben W. Barkley experienced one of the more extraordi. nary and extended careers ever witnessed in American poli. tics. In the half-century after he won the Democratic primary for the post of county attorney in 1905, the Kentuckian served.
