<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Elizabeth Williams (1906--1985) Harriet Mayor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> University of Arkansas Pembroke College, Oxford George Washington University </Td> </Tr> <P> James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905--February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974 . Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . A Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations, he was also a segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto . Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee and later became known for his opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War . His efforts to establish an international exchange program eventually resulted in the creation of a fellowship program which bears his name, the Fulbright Program . </P> <P> Fulbright was born in Sumner, Missouri, the son of Roberta (née Waugh) and Jay Fulbright . In 1906 the Fulbright family moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas . Fulbright's parents enrolled him in the University of Arkansas's College of Education's experimental grammar and secondary school . </P>

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