Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-14
Some Interesting, Facts about Senator's
and Representatives.

THE following facts are taken from Ben
Perley Poore's Congressional Directory,
recently issued:
The average age of Senators is not tar
from So; that of Representatives rot Tar
from As.
In the Senate there are five gentlemen
below the age of 40. In the House there
are five members under 80.
The Youngest Senator is Gen. Spencer,
Of Alabama, born November l, 1886,
and consequently 33 years old. The
Youngest Representative is Hon. Clinton
+. Cobb of North Carolina, born August
25, 1S42, and consequently but little
over 81.
The oldest Senator is HON. Simon Came
ron, of Pennsylvania, born March 8, 1899.
He is also the Oldest In Congressional Sc
niority, having taken his seat in the Senate
in 1845. He has, however, had two long
Interruptions in his Senatorial career, so
that his whole service amounts to eleven
years. He is the only member of either
House who was born before the COM
mencement of the present century.
The oldest member of the present House
Of Representatives, in Congressional SEMI
ority, is Hon. Fernando Wood, who took
his seat in 1841, in the Twenty seventh
Congress His age is but 81.
Hon. Garrett Davis, Senator from Ken
tucky, was earlier in the House than any
present member of that body, having, in
1889, taken his seat in the Twenty sixth
Congress. He is the only member OF
either House who sat in Congress more
than thirty years since. Mr.. Davis, how
ever, belongs to the present century, hav-
| ing been born in 1901, two months earlier
than Senator Vickers, of Maryland. In
point of long service Mr.. Sumner is the
aFather of the Senate" having served for
| almost nineteen years without Interrupt
| tion. He has five years more to serve on
his present term.
| Hon. Robert G. Schenck, of Ohio, is the
Father of the House." He entered it in
1S43, and (having been out from 1851 to
| 1867 is now serving his eighth term.
| Hon. Henry L.. Dawes, of Massachu
sets, is serving his seventh continuous
| term.
| Gen. Banks and Hon. Horace Maynard
are in the sixth term, not continuous.
| Hons. James Brooks and S. S. Cox, o1
| New York, and Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, o1
| Rhode Island, are each in their fifth term
| Mr.. Brooks was the pioneer Washington
| correspondent, and also the first of Eu
ropean correspondents for American pa
pers.
The youngest Senators are Messrs
Sprague and Kellogg, SO years; Melon
aid, 81 years; Osborn and Spencer, 33.
The youngest Representatives. are Hon
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, 81; Gen. J. s
Witcher, of West Virginia, 30; Hon
Charles NJ Hamilton, of Florida, 80; Hon
Logan FL. Roots, of Arkansas, 80, ant
Hon. C. L. Cobb, of North Carolina, 81
Nessrs. Hamilton and Roots were mem
bers of the last Congress.
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Vice Pres
ident of the United States, is er cfSci
President of the Senate. George G. Cor
ham, of California, is Secretary, havin!
been chosen in 1868 to succeed John W
Forney, of Pennsylvania, who had he'll
the Office seven years. John r. French
of North Carolina, is Sergeantat-Arms
Il Of the sixty-six Senators, forty-six ar
lawyers; three (Brownlow, Harlan, AM
| Upton) clergymen, and seventeen engaged
in ordinary mercantile or financial pu1
suits.