The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-24
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Tho Speakers of the National House of Rep
reaeptntiHes.

resCDtAtiTeS.
Hon. Samuel ]. Randall, ssyu the Obi
cago Inter. Ocean, made very pleasant
rsisrenos to ex.5peaker Banks in his re-
marks on Thursday and spoke in feeling
terms Of the duty and dignity Of the Speak
ership. Mr.. Banks was the fret Speaker
OF Congress to go into Office as the repre-
sentative Of the ideas and principles Of the
Republican party. When he was elected
thero YVES much talk among the extremiats
Of tbs South Of the danger Of putting the
spokesman Of such ideas in Huch an Office,
bu! be became q model presiding officer,
as fair to his bltterest political opponents
as TO his closest political friends. He
stood SO straight in that era Of hot discus
sion that he received the commendstion Of
men OF all par!ies, and all that Mr.. Ran
dali and others said on Thursday did but
justlcs to man who in the later years Of
his life has had seant measure Of fair
treatment.
To DO Speaker Of the lower house Of
Congresa has always been held great
honor, and the list OF those who have
held the Office brings to the position all
the prestige that great names can give.
There hsvs besnin all thirty Speakers, not
counting Speakers elected pro tempore,
F. A. Mulhenborg, OF Pennsylvania, being
the first, taking Office April l, 1850.
Jonathan Trumbull, Of Connecticut, was
Speaker Of the Second Congress; Muhlen'
berg of the Third, Jonathan Dayton, Of
New Jersey, Speaker Of the Fourth and
Fifth; Theodore sedgwiCk, OF MGgsRchu-
nsts, Of the Sixth; Nathaniel Macon, Of
North Carolina, Speaker Of the Seventh,
Eighth aud Ninth; Joseph B. Varnum, Of
the Tenth aud Eleventh; Henry Clay, Of
Kentucky, of the Twelfth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth, tho
term being continuous except for the sec
ond session OF the Thirteenth Congress
when Lsngdon Cheves, oisouth Carolina,
was Speaker.
Henry Clay retired from the Speaker
ship at the close OF the Sixteenth Con-
gress in 1920, and John W. Taylor, Of New
York, was elected Speaker for the second
uession. Philip P. Barbour, Of Virginia,
was Speaker OF the Seventeenth Congress,
Horny Clay OF tho Eighteenth, John W.
Taylor OF the NiRetsenth, and Andrew
Stevenson, Of Virginia, the Speaker Of the
Twentieth, TWenty.arst, Twenty-sscond,
and the llrs! session of the Twenty-third.
John Bell, OF Tennessee, was Speaker for |
the second session Of the TWensy-third |
Congress, and James X. Polk, Of the same
State, Speaker OF the Twenty-iourth and |
Twenty.Gith Congresses. Robert NJ. T.
Hunter, Of Virginia, was Speaker Of the
Tweuty.tixth CopRrepe; John White, Of
Kentucky, Of the Twenty.seventh; John
W. Jones, Of Virginia, Of the Twenty
eighth; John W. Davis, Of Indiana, Of the
Twsnty.ninth; Robert o. Winthrop, Of
Massachusetts,, Of the Thirtieth; Howell
Cobb, Of Georgia, Speaker Of the Thirty
first; Linn Boyd, Of Kentucky, OF the
Twenty.seCond and Twenty-thlrd; NSth-
aniel P. Banks, Of Massachusetts,, OF the
ThiIty-iourth (trom Feb. 2, 1885. to March
4, 1857; James L. Orr, Of South Carolina,
Of the Thirty.Gith; William Pennington,
Of New jersey, Of the Thlrty.si1th; Gal.
unha A. Grow, Of Pennsylvania, OF the
Thirsy.sevonth; Schuyler OOlfRx, OF In.
dians, OF the Thirty.oighth, Thirty.nlnth,
and Fortieth.
The term Of Mr.. Coliax extended from
December Z, 1868, to March 4, 1869, cover.
ing some Of the most important work ever
done by Congress. He WA succeeded by
Jsmes G. Blaine, who was Speaker OF the
Forty.fnt, Forty-second and Forty.third
Congresses. Michael O. Kerr served as
Speaker Of the first session Of the Forty
fourth Congress. Samuel ]. Randall sue
cOedsd him as Speaker for the second ses-
sion, and was Speaker Of the Forty.6tth
and Forty-slxth Congresses. ]. Warren
Keller, OF Ohio, was Speaker Of the Forty
seventh Congress, and John G. Carlisle Of
the Forty.eighth and Forty.ninth, and he
has been reelected Speaker Of the Fiitieth
Congress.