Before he became a politician, Francis Higbee Case worked at various papers published in his home state of South Dakota. He was editor and publisher of the Custer Chronicle when he was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives. In 1950, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he got the nickname "Senator Comma" because of his obsession with detail.
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Case died in 1962. Two years later, the South Dakota Senate delegation lobbied to have the bridge that carries Interstate 395 over the Washington Channel renamed in his honor. They couldn't name the bridge he'd worked on after him. It was already named after Teddy Roosevelt.