The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-06
UNITED STATES SENATE.
CuriOsItIes OF the New Congregational
Directory.

CuriOsitles OF the New COngressiOna
Directory.
Major Ben Perley Poore has ISSUED
proof copies of the valuable congress
sional directory he complies as " Clerl
If the printing records. Taking the sen.
ate for illustration, one finds that there
is one senator, Simon Cameron, over "A
years of age; and one, Dorsey, of Ar.
kansas, just turned 81. The next young.
est is Conover, of Florida-both car.
pet-baggers. Precocity rims in the new
south. Spence, of Alabama, is but 81
Patterson, of South Carolina, does not
give his age, but looks about 35. There
are, besides those named, two senators
whose ages are 50; two of 40 years
two of AZ three of 43 four of A one
of As ; six of 46 years one of Al; three
of 40 years three of so; two of 81 !;
the same of SO one of 81 four of 55 ;
the same of Sc; two of 81; three of 5S
years; three of co; one of 81 f; one
each 81, 63, 64, 68 and 90 years of age.
The latter is the venerable and urbane
Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut.
There aretwo elderly senators who seem
anxions to conceal their ages. One is
General Logan, from whom Poore has
never been able to wax that secret.
Logan must be over fifty, but he seems
to have found the secret fountain of
Ponce de Leon, and never appears to
grow day older. The other elderly
gentleman who doesn't like to consult
the register of his birth is Gilbert, of
Florida. The united age of the seventy.
two senators now in the chamber is over
5000 years-being, without counting
Gilbert, Logan and Patterson, whose
names are not given, 1910 years in the
aggregate. Adding $50 for the three
gentlemen named, the total will be g.
100, or an average of 43 years and
months each. As will be seen, by far
the largest number are in the very
prime of life-fifty-two of the whole
number being between forty and sixty
years of age.
The natlvities of senators are thus in
dicated Pennsylvania claims eight sem
ators, including those who represent
the state New York has six senators,
including Messrs. Conkling and Fen.
ton; Massachusetts, has five sons in the
senate, including her own senators
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Yer
mont, Maine and Connecticut are rep
resented by native-born senator's, while
Vermont and Maine give two TO other
states Ohio has four of her sons in the
ceamber, including John Sherman, and
Virginia has five, including the two SEN
ators of the State New Jersey has two
native-born senator's, and one other
claims the state as his birthplace Mary
land claims three senators, her own and
one other; Delaware, Georgia and
North Carolina claim their own senator's
as natives; Illinois and Indiana give
l, .,
Morton and Gen. Logan both being
born in the state they represent Louis
lana claims her senator rs a native Ala
bama is the birthplace of one of the
Texas senators South Carolina has one
native-born senator; Michigan has the
same while Germany and Wales are
claimed for Schurz and Jones. Twenty
two states hold the birthplace of sew
enty senator's, the remaining being born
abroad.
Sixteen of the present senator's have
been governors of their respective
states, several them serving two or
three terms. Seventeen senators have
served in the house of representatives,
one twelve and two others ten years
each three have served eight years
each, two six years, and two others four
years each. Four have been elected !
presidential electors several others |
have run for the same honor. Three have |
been lieut.. governors, one vice-presi |
dent, two in the cabinet. Three have |
been foreign ministers, one a commits |
sioner of internal revenue, and another |
of Indian affairs. One has been survey |
or-general, four have been chief justices |
in their respective states, and nine have |
held judicial positions. Five have |
been attorney-generals, or in their
states as district attorneys. There are
thirty-nine who are designated as law
yers, and three others who have studied
law, but do not practice. Twenty-four
claim q collegiate education
nineteen what they term " academic :"
two went to West Point, and sixteen
speak of going to the common or pub
lie schools as their educational prepare
tion. OF occupations and professions
besides the law, there are six who write
themselves as painters, one as a civil
engineer, two as railroad presidents,
One as a miner, another as q coal-miner
and banker three have been printers
and editors, one is put down as editor,
TWO as manufacturers, two as physi-
clans, five as merchants, one as a lum-
Der merchant; two speak of themselves
IS having learned the carpenters trade,
TWO have had the right to add "rev-
erned" to their names, Il refer now
% Brownlow and Tipton); one other has
oeen a teacher, a college professor, law
yer, major-general, Washington cor
minister resident, editor,
md now United States senator Q refer
o Carl Schurz). AS to military service,
t appears that there are five major
generals who served in the Union army,
ind two who served in that of the Con
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