Editing Profiles in Courage (section)

== Summary of senators profiled ==
* [[John Quincy Adams]], from Massachusetts, for breaking away from the [[Federalist Party]].
* [[Daniel Webster]], who like Kennedy represented Massachusetts in Congress, for speaking in favor of the [[Compromise of 1850]].
* [[Thomas Hart Benton (senator)|Thomas Hart Benton]], from [[Missouri]], for staying in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] despite his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories.
* [[Sam Houston]], from [[Texas]], for speaking against the [[Kansas–Nebraska Act]] of 1854, which would have allowed those two states to decide on the slavery question.
* [[Edmund G. Ross]], from [[Kansas]], for voting for acquittal in the [[Andrew Johnson impeachment trial]]. As a result of Ross's vote, along with those of six other [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], Democrat Johnson's presidency was saved, and the stature of the office was preserved.
* [[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)|Lucius Lamar]], from [[Mississippi]], for eulogizing [[Charles Sumner]] on the Senate floor and other efforts to mend ties between the North and South during [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]], and for his principled opposition to the [[Bland–Allison Act]] to permit free coinage of [[silver]].
* [[George W. Norris]], from [[Nebraska]], for opposing [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]]'s autocratic power as Speaker of the House, for speaking out against arming U.S. merchant ships during the United States' neutral period in World War I, and for supporting the presidential campaign of Democrat [[Al Smith]], the first Catholic to be a major party nominee.
* [[Robert A. Taft]], from [[Ohio]], for criticizing the [[Nuremberg Trials]] for trying [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crimes|war criminals]] under ''[[ex post facto]]'' laws. Counter-criticism against Taft's statements was vital to his failure to secure the Republican nomination for president in 1948.