Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-11-08
IN OUR OWN STATE.
Figures Tell the Story.

Some interesting statistics in regarC
to the ages of Vermont legislators hav,
recently been compiled by the st
Adams correspondent of the Boston
Globe. He finds that the young mem.
movement has had no visible effect anG
that the young men have Jared no bet
ter this year than they were won't tC
do in times past, so far, at least, as the
legislature is concerned. The combined
ages of the senators make l547 wears
or an average age of 5l9 years for the
30 members. The oldest member is rs
years of age and the youngest 80 wears.
The senators from Bennington and
Rutland counties have the lowest aver
age age, or 45 years. Addison county's
average is 40, Calenonia's SO, Chitten-
den's SO, EsseX's CO. Franklin's 46,
Grand Isles 50, Lamoille's So, Oranges
81, Orleans so, Washington's So, Wind
hams 81, Windsor's SO. The age quail
ification for senators in Vermont is 30
years. There are in the senate five
members who are between 80 and 40
years of age, seven between 40 and 80,
ten between so and 60, seven between
GO and 20, and one between 20 and so.
The house OF representatives, being
the popular body, naturally uses the
young men a little better. The COM
bined ages Of the representatives make
Hos years, or an average age of 4S5
years, three years younger than the
average in the senate The Oldest rep
resentative, aged IS, comes from Orange
county; the youngest, aged 25, come
from Chittenden and Windham coun-
ties. Although the attainment of ma
Jorlty is the only age qualification for
representatives in this state, there are
but seven members of the present house
under 30 years of age, there are 43 be-
tween the ages of 30 and 40, rs between
the ages of 40 and so, 50 between the
ages of 80 and 60, 80 between the ages
of 10 and 50. The house being divided
IN politics affords an opportunity 70
observing the relative positions of the
young man issue. The oldest Republi-
can is IS years of age and the Youngest
.. The oldest Demociat is 90 years of
age and the youngest so. The average
aSa for the Republicans is Al wears, and
for the Democrats 49, years. The Dem
ocrats sent five men between so and 10
years of age, two between 40 and 50.
and three between 50 and Co.
The same conditions hold good in the
executive department. The avera G
age of the state officers is 40 wears. The
youngest is Frank E. Alfred, Judge adj
vocate general, 81 years, and the oldest
Truman G. Phinney, sergeant-at-arms.
81 Gov. Woodbury. is S. and, with
one exception, is the Oldest man who
has been inaugurated governor Of this
state since 1874. The exception is Gov.
Horace Fairbanks, who was also IS
when inaugurated.
The average age at inauguration of
all the governors of Vermont since the
of the state is 53J wears.
SO that Gov. Woodbury. exceeds this
average by only two and half years.
The youngest governors at Inauguration
We're Cornelius p. Van Ness, 1923, and
John b. Page, 1867, both being Al
although in 1870 George w. Hendee, |
lieutenant governor, at the age of So
became governor on the death of Gov. |
The oldest man ever in
augurated governor of Vermont was
Peter T. Washburn, at IS, in 1869. In
The Judiciary department of the state
government the average age is 545.
fhe oldest judge of the supreme court
IS Jonathan Ross, So, and the youngest
Laforrest II. Thompson, 46.