rebecca felton was known as." the grand old lady of inpartly because her husband had beenoffice, but she had been very active in the women'swell-known. unfortunately she had also been very active in anti-civil-rights efforts, that is the darker side ry. but well-known in georgia. same with gladys pyle mentioned, she had been in state and won the popular vote, but she didn't have the necessary ao one of her male competitors. must have been infuriating, think. but she came intoinsenator lester hunt entered the senate office wiednu many victims of senator joseph mccarthy's baseless charges. one of them was lester hunt." betty: that is a sad story. a tragic moment in senate history. lester hunt had been a popular senator. a popular democratic senator from the state of wyoming, which was in itself a because wyoming was mostly a republican senator at that -- republican state at that point and still y. ec think-communist crusade, but there was another side of mccarthyisha lesbians in the u.s. lester hunt's son was homose