Senate adopts anti-third-term resolution.

• Position: 1928 - Brief article

March 1928

The Senate approved by a vote of 56 to 26 a resolution introduced by Sen. Robert La Follette Jr., as follows: It is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our...