JERRY VOORHIS
(Horace Jeremiah Voorhis)
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Nixon was an excellent orator even in his first effort at politics. It was when Nixon used that skill to smear his opponents that the admiration of his opponents turned to resentment and eventually this and his lack of morality in politics led the American people to turn on him.
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Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was a Democratic politician from California who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon, who defeated Voorhis for re-election in 1946 in a campaign cited as an example of Nixon's use of red-baiting during his political rise.
