(7s) Longest Serving U.S. Senators #5 - Senator Richard Green Lugar (Republican Lord of Indiana)

Senator Lugar busted a move into office the same day as Orrin Hatch, making them co-senior Republicans in the Senate. Lugar was a simple-minded boy from the midwest, proven by the fact he became an Eagle Scout, which is mad dorkerous, even for the 1950s. He was involved in his family’s farm, and they made farm machinery (that operation run by Dick’s bro), which I’m sure was a big hustle back then as agriculture hadn’t completely bottomed out like it has now, and after some time fucking around in Indianapolis politics, he hit the big-time by being elected Senator by all the dumbass hicks of Indiana, who loved nothing more than the idea of a public school educated farmboy representing them nationally. Lugar’s brother actually was connected all along to the military-industrial complex, with the farm machinery business as a cover, and used these connections – and financial donations – to help get Richard into office. (An interesting sidenote, it was in the late 1960s that Lugar’s brother was involved in discreet genetic engineering projects at Northwestern University that he “accidentally” ingested a genetic steroid compound meant to strengthen your hereditary chromosones, and his wife became pregnant with Lawrence Lugar Jr., aka Lex, as in the prominent professional wrestler from the late ‘80s/early ‘90s.)
Nowadays, with his simplified Gomer Pyle style, Senator Lugar is considered the pre-eminent source within the Republican machine for helping coach young candidates who have basically been wealthy assholes from gated communities and private schoolings their whole life into people that can utilize key catchphrases and mental triggers put in place by the mass media machine to get themselves into Washington’s Congressional Country Club. Part of the reason Lugar holds his position so solidly, and for so long, is the loyalty the younger members behind him feel towards Dick for learning them how to properly tomfool all the uneducated, broke ass white people who, at least symbolically through the public use of “voting” machines, have to endorse Country Club membership.