The union Democrat., 1869-02-20
SENATORIAL CAREERS,
who Have Been Repeatedly Re-elcctcd-A
Distiuguishcd List.

| Di,tiuguishcd List.
| Noticing remark of the Washington C9roa-
tcle that Senator Summers elected term of
service Is longer than that of any previous
Senator, the National htelligencer, thus cor
rects lis cotemporary:
Without disposition to derogate from the
high honor to sumner of being elected to a
fourth term. let us say to the Chronicle that
Thomas Hart Benton served thirty years con-
tinnouslv in the United States Senate, from
iS2l to 1851, and was in the last days of his
great service to the country denominated Pa
ter SR0tus. There is work of the deceased
Senator entitled Thirty Years in the United
States Senate perusal of which will in
| struct all men. This great political leader.
who, through three Presidential terms-two of
General Jackson and one of Van Buren--was
wont to stand up at the commencement of a
session of Congress and thunder to the couu-
try the po!iay of the Democracy, had the
amazing hardihood, as regarded from the
| present Butler standpoint. of advocating a
bard-money currency. With prophetic Wis
ion he described the prospective flow of gold
up the Mississippi (long before the discovery
/ of gold in California, and saw the royal coin
glitter in the interstices of the purses of the
people. There was much derisive laughter
and ridiculc of his idea, but he lived to see its
accomplishment. The people hope to see
golden period again in our circulating medi-
nm. A gold piece or silver coin is looked
| upon by them as an old friend, and treasured
by them as such. Only Butler regards it as a
mischief and . nuisance in currency; but he
was as unconscious Of the thought, for the
best years of his lie,
"A the mountain of its ore.
Or thcs Of its inestimable gem.
But We have disressed from the the main
purpose of our paragraph at the setting ont.
1t was to give the Senatorial service Of sever
al distinguished men.
William r. King served continuously in
the Senate from 1919 to 1874. He subse-
quently served from 1876 to lS52-in all thr-
ty years.
Webster was elected to the Senate in 1927.
and served continuously until lS4l, when he
went into the Cabinet of General Harrison.
in 1916 he was reelected, and served until
1851.
Clay was appointed in 1906, to serve ont
few months of an unexpired term. In 1909
he was again elected to serve out an nnexpired
term. In 1881 he was elected to the United
States Senate, and was reelected in 1887
He was again elected in iS4o. hut died in IS
50, at the National Hotel in this city
Crittenden served two wears in the United
States Senate from 1917 He was elected
in 1885, and was reelected in 1S42 to serve
out year of Clay's unexpired term, the lat
ter having taken a farewell of public life
IIA4was elected in 1913. He was again elect
ed in 1855.
James Alfred Pearce, of Maryland. was
Senator in Congress from IS43 to 1862, at
which latter date he deceased.
Willie P. Mangum served three full terms
in the Senate.
Nathaniel Macon served thirty-seven years
in the Senate and House. He was called the
Father of the House."
Felix Grundy as three times elected Sena-
tor from Tennessee.
Bayard, of Delaware. has been four, if not
FIVE times elected. to the United States Senate.
The distinguished father of Bayard was
twice elected United States Senator from Del
aware. after service as Minister to France.
In 1913 he was sent to Europe by President
Madison, where he rendered important ser
vice in several capacities. Bayard's brother
Richard II. Bayard. was also Senator from
Delaware at two different dates. His son is
elected to succeed him after the 4th of March.
Buchanan was three times elected United
States Senator
three terms, but served but little upon the
third one.
There NAV have been in our early history
statesmen who were elected for as long peri
DDS, or at as many different times as were
some of the first mentioned in this article,
! but we do net recall their names.
| The general public idea is that those emf
nent statesmen. Calhoun ,Cass, Walker. Wood
hurry, and DDuglas were long in the Senate.
but it is an error. Calhoun prefaced his
distinguished career hv service in his State
He was Secretary of War under Monroe. and
was subsequently Vice President He was
Secretary of State under President Tyler,
succeeding Upsher.
The early wears of General Cass' public life
were in the West. Hewas Secretary of War
under General jackson, and afterwards Min
lister at the Court Of ST. Cloud, where he was
chiefly instrumental in defeating the Qun-
tuple alliance.
Robert j. Walker was reelected Senator
in Congress from Mississippi hut became
Secretary of the Treasury under Polk. Wal
ker's great achievements we're In what reat-
ed to the annexation of Texas and the adop-
ton of the tariff of 1876.
Woodbury. discussed alike financial tariff,
or judicial questions in the most exclusive
and convincing manner, whether as Secreta-
ry. Senator or Judge upon the Supreme
| bench.
Douglas prefaced his Senatorial career of
great distinction by public service in his State
and as Representative in Congress.
The Senatorial careers of Clay, Webster
and Crittenden were checkered by reason of
calls to other forms of public duty-Cabinet.
Diplomatic or State. These are too familiar
for comment. and our purpose has been to
indicate how much of popular confidence bas
been reposed in eminent public men by their
selection as United States Senator, the high
est Office that State sovereignties can confer.
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