Joseph Hurst Ball (November 3 1905 – December 18 1993) was an American journalist politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of labor unions. He helped draft the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Ball was best known for his internationalism and his support for a postwar world organization that became the United Nations. However after 1945 he was an opponent of the Marshall Plan..
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alma mater
University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Antioch College
birth date
1905-11-03
birth place
Minnesota, Polk County Minnesota, Crookston Minnesota
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