Anecessary fences.

The Senate's First Century

Commission on the Bicentennial

of the United States Senate

Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia, Chairman

Bob Dole, Kansas, Vice Chairman

George Mitchell, Maine

Strom Thurmond, South Carolina

Wendell H. Ford, Kentucky

Mark O. Hatfield, Oregon

Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Kansas

Paul Simon, Illinois

Terry Sanford, North Carolina

Walter J. Stewart, Executive Secretary

A necessary fence.

The Senate's First Century

Published on the occasion
of an exhibition sponsored by the
Commission on the Bicentennial

of the United States Senate

June 7 to November 5, 1989

with a foreword by Robert C. Byrd, Chairman

United States Senate exhibition staff

James R. Ketchum, Curator

Diane K. Skvarla, Associate Curator
Donald A. Ritchie, Associate Historian
Mary F. Phelan, Registrar

John B. Odell, Registrarial Assistant

Scott M. Strong, Museum Specialist

Erik B. Fatemi, Curatorial Assistant
Richard L. Doerner, Curatorial Assistant

Cover illustration: The United States Senate, A.D. 1850,
Robert Whitechurch (1819–1880), after oil by Peter
Frederick Rothermel, after daguerreotypes, engraving,
1855. United States Senate Collection

Photographic Credits: Architect of the Capitol: 16, 17, 31; William L. Clements Library: 38; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.: 28; The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: 22, 43; Library of Congress: cover, 14, 26, 27, 37, 40, 48, 51; Massachusetts Historical Society: 20; National Archives: 12, 23, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 45, 51, 56, 57, 59, 61; National Gallery of Art: 18; National Portrait Gallery: 15, 35, 58; New Hampshire Historical Society: 54; Robert L. Staples: 17; and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 25. Others by United States Senate Curator's Office.

Designed by Staples & Charles Ltd
Washington, D.C.

LCCN 89-60073

[S. Government Printing Office 1989