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J. William Fulbright

James William Fulbright: 1939-1941

J. William Fulbright is the most well-known graduate of the University of Arkansas, better known for his work as a United States senator than for his short tenure as president of the university. He received his first 16 years of education at the university, first attending the university’s Peabody Training School and then earning his Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1925. He then went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees while also traveling widely in Europe. Returning to the states in 1931, he attended law school at George Washington University and earned a law degree in 1934.

He returned to the University of Arkansas in 1936 to teach law and was appointed president of the university in 1939 after the death of John C. Futrall. Fulbright, only 34, was the youngest head of a college at the time. As president, he continued the programs that Futrall already had in place but he had barely begun to put his own stamp on the university when political fortunes changed. The g

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Elected to the Senate in 1944, J. William Fulbright of Arkansas is perhaps best known for the Fulbright Scholars Act of 1946, which created scholarships for Americans to study abroad and for foreign scholars to study in the United States. A long-time opponent of civil rights measures, in 1956 Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto, a statement that called for resistance to forced integration of public schools in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decisions. He voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Fulbright, who holds the record as the longest-serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1959-1974), managed the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that gave President Lyndon Johnson sweeping powers to respond to military provocation in South Vietnam. Later, troubled over the gradual escalation of the war in Vietnam, Fulbright held televised "educational" hearings on the crisis, which brought him national attention. In those hearings, Fulbright publicly challenged the "old myths and new realities" of American foreig

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J. William Fulbright

American politician (1905–1995)

J. William Fulbright
Fulbright in 1960
In office January 3, 1945 – December 31, 1974
Preceded by	Hattie Caraway
Succeeded by	Dale Bumpers
In office January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945
Preceded by	Clyde T. Ellis
Succeeded by	James William Trimble
In office 1939 – June 1941
Preceded by	John C. Futrall
Succeeded by	Arthur M. Harding
Born	James William Fulbright (1905-04-09)April 9, 1905 Sumner, Missouri, U.S.
Died	February 9, 1995(1995-02-09) (aged 89) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Elizabeth Kremer Williams (m. ; died )
Education

James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2023^[update], Fulbright is the longest-serving chairman in the history of the Uni