the House, Halleck parlayed his following among Congressional Republicans and the frequent public approval of Eisenhower and Richard Nixon into a successful challenge to the 20-year reign of Joseph W. Martin Jr. as the leader of House Republicans, beginning a three-term stint as the official Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. He was a strong opponent of the liberal social proposals of Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and supported the Vietnam War, but voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Along with Senator Everett Dirksen, he was the face of the Republican Party in most of the 1960s, and both made frequent appearances on television news and talk programs. The press jocularly nicknamed his joint appearances with Everett Dirksen as "The Ev & Charlie Show." After the heavy election setbacks of 1964, Halleck was defeated in his bid to remain Minority Leader by Gerald Ford, who was the nominee of the Young Turks. Legacy In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill renaming the Federal District Court building in Lafayette, Indiana, the Charles A. Halleck Federal Building. The Charles Halleck Student Center at Saint Joseph's College in Indiana was named after him. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Personal life Halleck married Blanche Annetta White in 1927, and she died in 1973. They had two children, Charles W. and Patricia. His son, Charles W. Halleck, became an attorney in Washington, D.C., and was a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Death Halleck died in Lafayette, Indiana, on March 3, 1986, and is buried next to his wife in Rensselaer. In popular culture Halleck was portrayed by actor Arthur Franz in the 1974 made-for-television film, The Missiles of October, a dramatization based on John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. References Further reading Peabody, Robert L. The Ford-Halleck Minority Leadership Contest 1966; Scheele, Henry Z. Charlie Halleck: A Political Biography. Exposition Press, 1966. External links 1900 births 1986 deaths Majority leaders of the United States House of Representatives Indiana lawyers American prosecutors Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni United States Army soldiers United States Army personnel of World War I Old Right (United States) People from Rensselaer, Indiana 20th-century