Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-01-19
Facts About Congressman.

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From data found in Mnjor Ben Per
ley Poorc's valuable Congressional
Directory, issued u few days since, ,and
already noticed ia our columns, ",
compilc the following facts, which will
Dc Interesting TO our lady readers, and
p0ssiblyto some others:
}Ihc average age Of Senators is not
far from 55 that OF Representatives
not iar from 45.
IN the Senate there are five gentle.
men below tho age OF 40. In the
House there are five members under
30.
The youngest Senator is Gen. Spen.
CDR oil Alabama, born November !,
sf]sh. and consequently 33 years old.
'fuc ou~se'.t REPRESENTATIVE is Hon.
Clinton j. Cobb, Of North Carolina,
born August 25, 1912, and consequent.
y but little over q.
The oldest Senator is Hon. Simon
Cameron of Pennsylvania, born March
8, 1880. lie is also the oldest in Con.
gressional seniority, having taken his
seat in the Senate in 1915. lie has,
however,, had two long interruptions
in his Senatorial career, so that his
whole service amounts TO eleven years
lie is the onl y member of either
House, who was born before the com.
mcncemeDt OF the present century.
The oldest member Of the present
House of Representatives, in Congress.
sional seniority, is Hon. Fernando
Wood, who took his seat in lS4l, in
the Twenty-Sevcnth Congress. Ills
age is but 81.
Mr.. Garrett Davis, Senator from
Kentucky, was earlier in the House
thanany present member OF that body,
having in 1889 taken his seat in the
Twcbty-Sixth Congress. lie is The
only member in either House who sat
in Congress more than thirty years
since. Mr.. Davis, however, belongs
to the present century, having been
IN 1901, two months earlier than Sen.
ator Vickers, of Maryland In point
OF long gconlinued service Mr.. Sumner
is the Father Of the Senate," having
served for almost nineteen years with.
out interruption. lie has five years
more to serve on his present term.
Hon. Robt. c. Schenck, of Ohio, is
The Father OF ;he IIonse." lie enter.
cd it in lS4S, and Chaving been ont
from 1851 TO 1863 is now serving his
eighth term.
lion. Henry L. Dawes, of Massachu.
sctis, is serving lis seventh continu-
Gus term.
Gen. Banks and Hon. Horace May.
nard are in their sixth term, not con.
tinuous.
Hons James Brooks and S. S. Cox.
of New York, md Hon. Nathan r.
Dixon, Of Rhode Island, are each in
their fiilh term
Mr.. Brooks was the pioneer Wash.
ington correspondent, and also the
first of European correspondent for
American papers.
1he youngest Seiiators are Messrs.
Spraguc and Kellogg, thirty nine
years; Mcdonald, thirty seven Os-
born and Spencer, thirty.lhree years
All "carpet-baggcrr, except Governor
Sprague.
The youngest Representatives are
Hon Thos Fitch. of Nevada, 81 Gen.
J. S. Wiicher. of West Virginia 30 /;
lion Charles NJ. Hamilton, ol Florida,
20; Hon. logan II. Roots, oi Arkan.
sas, %; and Hon. {. L. Cobb, OF
North Carolina, q. Mcssrs lluInil-
ton aud Roots were members OF the
last Congress.
Tho average length OF the Congress
sional biographies, is ten lines, The
longest is that Of Hon james W.
ProsSer, of Tennessee, who occupies
twenty-six lines, but they are so cram
med with incidents that they could
not well be abbreviated.
The hardest. worked Senator in com
mittrc scrvire is Hon james w. Pat.
terson, of New Hampshire, who is
chairman Of the Joint Committee on
Rctreuchment, and is member OF
three Others.
The blondes of tho Senate have il
all their o"n way in the Committee
on The Judiciary.
In the House the most fortunate
men on committees arc Hon. John
Lynch, OF Milne, who is chairman OF
two committees aud stands second ON
that Of Banking and Currency, and
Hon. Thos. A. Jenckes, of Rhode Isl
and, who is chairman of the Commit.
tee uf Patents, and runs those of Re
trcnchmcnt aud Civil Service.