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Borah, William Edgar (1865–1940)| US Republican politician. He was a senator for Idaho 1907–40. An arch-isolationist ‘irreconcilable’, he campaigned successfully against US entry into the League of Nations after World War I. |
| Borah was born in Fairfield, Illinois, and educated at the University of Kansas. He called the arms-limitation conference that took place 1921–22, chaired the Senate committee on foreign relations 1924–33, and endorsed the Kellogg–Briand pact to renounce war in 1927; he also fought against the repeal of the Neutrality Act in 1939, and resisted US participation in the International Court of Justice (see United Nations). |
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