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James W. Wadsworth, Jr.

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U.S. Senator

The Resume

    (August 12, 1877-June 21, 1952)
    Republican Senator from New York (1915-1927)
    Republican Representative from New York (1933-1951)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was the leading opponent of the Constitutional amendment giving women suffrage.
    His stance on women's suffrage cost him re-election in 1926.
    He opposed anti-lynching bills.
    He supported banning the poll tax in 1942, but reversed his position and opposed the ban the next four times it was voted on.
    He opposed minimum wage laws.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He opposed prohibition.
    He opposed the isolationism that was rampant in the Republican Party in the 1930s.
    He voted for the Powell Amendment in 1946, which denied funds for school lunch programs to schools that discriminated on the basis of race.

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 42 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 112 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 223 Votes: 52.91% Annoying