“One man clothed in righteousness is a match for all the hosts of error,” said Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, perched on a table, to reporters. “And I am pursuing sinners who ...

The Act was signed on July 2, 1964, by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dirksen, a conservative from downstate Pekin, believed equality of opportunity for all was a moral issue.

Everett Dirksen was once a man of vaulting ambition. He campaigned seriously for the Republican nomination for President in 1944. He badly wanted to be Taft’s vicepresidential running mate in 1952.

Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, the cagey, dealmaking Senate minority leader, became the key player in passage of the Voting Rights Act.

He’s known for his dead-on impressions of former Presidents Clinton and Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” but now Darrell Hammond is poised to play another famed political figure on stage.

Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), the Senate minority leader for nearly 11 years until his death in September 1969, had a famously foghorn voice with which he supposedly intoned, “A billion here, a ...

President John F. Kennedy pushes away his coffee cup as he meets in the White House cabinet room with the Senate's leaders, Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), left, and Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), Sept. 9 ...