(1884 - 1962)
Chairman, Select Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate
(1940s)
Chairman of the
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indians which held hearings into
the formal protests of treaty tribes on the Missouri River whose
homelands were threatened by dams Congress wanted to build when it
approved the Pick-Sloan Plan in 1944. For more on Josephy O'Mahoney, click here