Word: steunenberg
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...helped elect William John McConnell Governor of Idaho and promptly married the Governor's daughter Mamie. Forgotten is the young attorney who in 1907 prosecuted William ("Big Bill") Haywood and two others of the Western Federation of Miners for instigating the fatal bombing of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg. Forgotten is the fact that Prosecutor Borah lost the case to a defense attorney named Clarence Darrow...
...Union (1890). There he began a general law practice ultimately worth $30,000 per year. He married the then Governor McConnell's daughter Mamie. His professional reputation grew when he prosecuted the Coeur d'Alene dynamiting case and the case following assassination of Governor Frank Steunenberg in his own yard. In 1907 the Idaho legislature sent him to the U. S. Senate where he has remained ever since...