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PERKY, Kirtland Irving, (1867 - 1939) bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000238

Thanks for the pointer to the information, swanq. We'll correct the name and add a better date estimate next time we update the record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland_Irving_Perky

President Kennedy (1917-1963) appears to be talking with Florida Governor Farris Bryant (1914-2002), seated to the President's left. Behind the President, smoking his pipe, is U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield (1953-1977). Seated beside Senator Mansfield (looking away) is U.S. Representative Claude Pepper (1900-1989). In front (L-R) is Edward Grant Stockdale (1915-1963), the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, U.S. Congressman Dante Fascell (1917-1998), and the Governor's wife, Mrs. Julia Bryant (1918-1996). Congressmen Pepper and Fascell were Florida Democrats, and Senator Mansfield was a Montana Democrat, and the Senate Majority Leader. Stockdale was a former Florida State Representative. Governor Bryant, a Democrat, was in office from 1961-1965. – Excerpted from Florida Memory Reference with additional information added. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

the guy in the front middle is the dad on Wonder Years

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Democratic Senator from Texas, swerved in the Senate from 1901-1913

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weldon_Bailey

Senator Joseph Bailey, a conservative Democrat from Texas, was in the news in 1911, as an investigation that year led to his resignation from the Senate. Wikipedia says: "His political career was tarnished by an assault against Senator Albert Beveridge, and subsequent investigations brought to light suspicious income and financial ties to the oil industry. The scandal led to his resignation in 1911." A Google search finds one source that agrees with Wikipedia, and gives the date of the resignation as September, 1911 -- but another says it took place on January 3, 1913 -- the date when his term would have expired naturally. Whenever the deed was done, it was the end of Bailey's political career.