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all tne antl-SlaVery men, all the Free
Sellers and most of the Know Moth
ings. The union of these elements
was the first really practical and for
minable shape taken on by the Re-
publican party. Banks had been
Governor of Massachusetts and serv-
ed later as a General in the Union
army. In this contest over the
Speakership-a contest in which the
issue was slavery-the successful can
didate was from Massachusetts, while
the defeated candidate was from
South Carolina, being William Aiken
of that State.
In the Thirty>fifth Congress the
Speakership came again to the Dem
ocrats. James L. Orr, of South Car
DINA, was chosen Speaker, the only
full term ever held by that State.
Orr was Governor of South Carolina
just after the war;
There was again sharp struggle
for the Speakership in the Thirty.
sixth Congress, 1S59-l86l. The Re-
publicans controlled this Congress,
and attempted to elect John Sher-
man Speaker. After two months they
succeeded in electing VIM, Penning-
ton, Of New Jersey. With Penning-
ton began line of Republican
Speakers, which continued unbroken
until 1875.
When President Lincoln was
inaugurated in 1861 he called the
Thirty-seventh Congress together in
special session on July 4, 1861. Gals
usha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
was elected Speaker, and he is alive
at the age Of 6S.
Schuyler ColfaX, of Indiana, was
Speaker OF the Thirty-eighth, Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congresses, re-
firing from that Office in 1869 to be-
come Vice President with Grant.
With the Forty-first Congress,
which assembled in December, 1869,
we come to one of the most famous
Speakers in James G. Blaine. He
was Speaker six years and was sue
ceeded in the Forty-Fourth Congress
by Michael G. Kerr, of Indiana.
Mr.. Kerr was the first Democsatic
Speaker to be elected after the war.
Kerr died before the end of his first
year in the chair "Sunset" Cox was
chosen Speaker pro tenn, and served
until the National Democratic Con-
vention which nominated Tilden
met in st. Louis in 1876. At that
time Cox was retired at the peremp>
tory order of Boss Kelly, the Tam
many chief, and Milton Taylor
presided to the end of the session.
Samuel j. Randall was chosen at
the assembling of the second session
of the FOrty-fourth Congress and
was reelected in the two Congresses
following. Mr.. Randall died in
April, 1890.
When Garfield was elected in
1880 the House of Representatives
again came into the hands of the
Republicans. j. Warren Keifer, of
Ohio was chosen Speaker of the For
ty-seventh Congress. He is the
least illustrious of the Republican
line.
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky
presided over the Forty eighth
Forty-ninth and Fifiteth Congresses.
He was transferred to the Senate on
the death of ]. B. Beck, and by a
coincidence based upon this unex-
pected transfer he voted on the
Tariff bill the same year in both
house, leading the opposition in
each house.
Tn Finy-first Congress, which ex-
pired March 4, was presided over by
f Thomas B. Reed, of Maine in one Of
the stormiest sessions ever held in
the House Of Representatives. This
Congress contained three ex.Speak-
ers, Banks, Randall and Carlisle
The present Congress has as a mem
Der only one ex-Speaker, Thomas B
Reed.