William Huston Natcher was a Democratic congressman, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1953 until his death from heart failure in Bethesda, Maryland in 1994.
21 Facts About William Natcher
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William Natcher is the second longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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William Natcher received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Western Kentucky State College in Bowling Green in 1930 and an LL.
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William Natcher was President of Kentucky's Young Democratic Clubs from 1941 to 1946.
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William Natcher served in the United States Navy during World War II.
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From 1951 to 1953 William Natcher was Commonwealth's Attorney for Kentucky's Eighth Judicial District.
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William Natcher was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1953 from the 2nd district.
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William Natcher cast 18,401 consecutive roll-call votes between 1953 and 1994, never missing a single roll call vote over his forty-one-year Congressional career until his last days in office, the all-time record for both the House of Representatives and Congress as a whole.
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William Natcher was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 1993 to 1994.
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William Natcher did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960 and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
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William Natcher holds the record for the longest perfect voting record in the history of Congress.
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William Natcher did not miss a single vote for nearly the entirety of his 40 years of service, casting 18,401 consecutive votes from his 1953 swearing to his last appearance on the House floor on March 3,1994.
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William Natcher missed the first vote of his career the next day, when doctors advised him not to return to the Capitol.
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William Natcher died a few weeks later, never having returned to the House floor again.
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On March 4,1994, William Natcher was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President of the United States Bill Clinton.
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William Natcher continued to serve in Congress until his death on March 29,1994, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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William Natcher was a champion of road projects within Kentucky, especially the construction of a cable-stayed bridge between Kentucky and Indiana near Owensboro.
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William Natcher helped get the majority of federal funding for the new bridge, which now carries US Highway 231 across the Ohio River between Maceo, Kentucky and Rockport, Indiana.
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William Natcher fought for continued federal funding for library construction and initiatives.
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William Natcher was a pro-highway Congressman, encouraging road projects, including in the District of Columbia.
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William Natcher refused to allow federal funding for the Washington DC Metro until Arlington County officials agreed to have I-66 go through North Arlington neighborhoods.