Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.
AGES OF CoNGRESSMEN.
The Oldest and Youngest Members of tho
House-Points About Other Leaders,

House-Points About Other Leaders.
The oldest man in this Congress is
John T. Wait, Of Connecticut, who was
born in 1911 and is seventy years Of
age. The youngest man is William Nc.
Adoo, Of New Jersey, who was born in
Ireland, October 25, 1858, and is thirty.
two years old. Next to him comes Char.
lie Voorhees,, of Washington Territory
who is the son Of Dan Voorhees, and who
is also thirty-two, but who was born in
June instead Of October. There are in
the present Congress four men who are
over seventy-Wait, Of Connecticut; Ell
bridge, of Michigan; Singleton, OF Mis-
sissippi, and Judge Kelley, OF Pennsylva
MIA. Twenty-seven members of the pres
ent Congress have ages ranging between
sixty and seventy; si1ty-seven are be
tween fifty and sixty years Of age; one
hundred and thirty eight are between
forty and fifty, and thirty.six are between
thirty and forty years of age. OF the
twenty seven between sixty and seventy
Ex-Governor Curtin. of Pennsylvania,
and General Frank Wolford, Of Ken.
lucky, are sixty-eight. Comstock, of
Michigan, the lumber millionaire is six
ty-seven. Hiestand, of Pennsylvania,
who has Thaddeus Stevens place, is six.
ty-one, and Charley O'Neill sixty four
though he does not look to be fifty. Ran,
ney, of Massachusetts, is sixty four,
Wadsworth, of Kentucky, sixty -four and
the tall, rough, angular Holman sixty
three. Judge Taylor, of Ohio, appears
to be fifty, but is really sixty-two, and
Abe Hewitt is siXty-three and shows ev
cry year of it. Reagan, of Texas, is six.
ty-seven, Morrison, of Illinois, sixty and
growing gray. Barbour, of Virginia, is
sixty five, and John Randolph Tucker,
same State, sixty-two, West of New
York, the paper-bag millionaire, i. Of the
same age as Tucker, and Geddes, of Ohio
is sixty one, and has yet many gray hairs
to get. Throckmorton, of Texas, is sixty,
Campbell is sixty.four, and Henderson OF
Illinois, sixty-one. OF the Congressman
between fifty and sixty Carlisle starts the
list a. fifty, Hit, of Illinois, follows at
tifty-one, and Warner, Of Ohio, the silver
dollar crank, is of the same age. General
Grosvenor is fifty-two, Sam Randall
ilfty-seven,- and Bragg fifty eight and as
wiry as a man of twenty. Rankin, of
Wisconsin, is about fifty-two; Caine, the
Mormon, is fifty-six, with enough chill
dren for sixty; and Tom Brown, of Indi-
ana, is also ffty-six
The one hundred and thirty EIGHT Con-
gressmen between forty ard fifty COM
prise some of the brainiest and most ac
tive members of the House. Reed, of
Maine, at forty six, is in his prime; Bou-
telle, at the same age, is fast growing
gray, and Governor Long, of Massachu.
sets, a year older, has not gray hair in
his head. Frank Hiscock, at forty six,
has head of silver, while Governor
McCreary, of Kentucky, and Villa n
Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, at the
same age, have no white hairs at all.
Major Mckinley is forty one years old,
EY.Secretary Of the Navy Golf is forty,
while the colored Congressman from
North Carolina, O'Hara, is forty .one.
Napoleon King has seen forty. y.three years
Symes, the man who succeeds Belford,
forty-fve, and John Joe Wheeler forty.
nine. Between the thirties and forties we
find Thomas, of Illinois, Perry Belmont,
who is thirty four, and Editor Pulitzer,
who Is thirty. eight. Wilkins, of Ohio, is
thirty. mine, Timothy Tarsney thirty. six,
Hemphill, of South Carolina, thirty six,
and Mahoney, who succeeds the gray
haired Richelieu Robinson, is thirty sew
on