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Missouri. A small-town American prototype, moderate Democrat Edward V. Long, 52, is a Baptist deacon who has branched out from a law practice into running two banks, plus several loan and life-insurance companies. In the Senate, stumpy, soft-spoken Ed Long will draw on a generation of political experience (as state senator and lieutenant governor) and the knowledge of foreign affairs that he claims as a widely traveled past director of Rotary International.
Michigan. Massachusetts-born Patrick V. ("Senator Pat") McNamara, 66, is a labor man all the way: as onetime president of the Detroit Pipefitters Union, Democrat McNamara commands the loyalty of old line A.F.L. leaders and his ultra-liberal voting record in the Senate since 1955 has won him the plaudits of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. Operated on for cancer last July, he remains a back-thumping extravert, admired for his "heart" rather than his dreary speeches.
South Dakota. Cherubic, pipe-puffing Karl Mundt, 60, has spent 22 years on Capitol Hill, twelve of them in the Senate. Starting off as a small-town schoolteacher and ardent fisherman, Mundt tried his hand as a college speech instructor, farmer and insurance agent, broke into politics as a member of South Dakota's Game and Fish Commission. A prewar isolationist turned internationalist, he bears right domestically—except on farm policy, where he favors liberal supports.
Rhode Island. Socialite Claiborne Pell, 41, a wealthy investment banker, is a newcomer to active politics, although his family has long been politically prominent (Great-Great-Granduncle George Dallas was James K. Folk's Vice President). A Princeton honor graduate and a onetime diplomat in Czechoslovakia and Italy, Democrat Pell speaks four languages, advocates a down-the-line program of liberal legislation from minimum wages to the Forand bill.
Wyoming. A hard-driving Cheyenne lawyer, Keith Thomson, 41, commanded an infantry battalion in Italy during World War II, will bivouac naturally with Barry Goldwater's conservative camp in the Senate. As Wyoming's lone Congressman since 1954, Republican Thomson plumped for Army reform, favored calling older reservists to active duty and campaigned against "welfare statism as opposed to free enterprise." He opposes aid to education, public housing—any kind of federal largesse.