From the article:<p><i>In 1965, California's George Murphy joined the Senate, and kept candy in his desk to offer his colleagues, and for himself, though eating is not allowed on the Senate floor. When he left the Senate after a six-year term, other Republican senators maintained the custom. ...</i><p>Murphy replaced Pierre Salinger, who himself was was appointed to serve the remainder of a deceased senator's term:<p><i>In 1964, he [Murphy] was elected as a Republican to the Senate, having defeated Pierre Salinger, the former presidential press secretary in the Kennedy White House, who had been appointed several months earlier to serve the remainder of the late Clair Engle's unexpired term.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murphy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murphy</a><p>The deceased senator, Clair Engle, is best known for having participated, although paralyzed and unable to speak because of a brain tumor, in the vote to break the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act:<p><i>On June 10, 1964, during the roll call for the historic, successful effort to break the filibuster on what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when the clerk reached "Mr. Engle", there was no reply. The tumor had robbed Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting an arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote ("aye").[6] The cloture vote was 71–29, four votes more than the two thirds required to end the filibuster.[7] Nine days later, the Senate approved the Act itself.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Engle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Engle</a>