Borah
WILLIAM EDGAR, an American public official; born in Wayne BORAX BORDENTOWN co. Ill., in 1865; received his education after Marseilles and Havre in respect of at the Southern Illinois Academy, Enfield, Ill., and at the Kansas State University, Lawrence, Kan. He began the practice of law at Lyons, Kan., in 1890.
He was elected to the United States Senate from Boise, Idaho, whither he had removed, and was re-elected in 1913 and 1919. He belonged to the Progressive wing of the Republican party and was a prominent and powerful figure in debate and legislation. He was a pronounced supporter of measures looking toward an effective prosecution of the World War. When the Versailles Treaty was up for ratification in the Senate he opposed it vigorously.
BORAX (sodium biborate), a rather brittle, sweetish, alkaline mineral, found native as a saline incrustation on the shores of certain lakes in California, Persia, Tibet, India, China, Ceylon, and in parts of South America. When collected on the banks of the lakes it is impure, and goes by the name of tincal.