The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-19
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TAZEWELL ELLETT.
One of Virginia's new representatives
is Mr.. Tazwell Elicit of Richmond. rep
resenting the Third district. He is a
lawyer and politician of considerable
note in the Old Dominion, but has never
held public Office until this time. Mr..
Elicit finished his education at the ia
nous old Virginia Military Institute,
graduating in 1876. Then he went to
his law studies and graduated in 1873
with the degree of b. L. Since the lat
ter year he has pursued the practice of
his profession in Richmond, incidentally
devoting considerable spare time to
politics. He was Cleveland elector
from his State in 1888, served on the State
Democratic committee for three years,
and has held other responsible places in
the party organization. Mr.. Elicit is
q typical representative of the New
South, enterprising, energetic, a man of
affairs, yet not so wrapped up in mate
rial affairs as to prevent his taking an
interest in those things which mark the
student of the classic and the man of
refinement and education.
JOHN ]. JENKINS.
Mr.. John j. jenkins of the Tenth Wis
cOnsin district is an Englishman by birth,
who settled in Baraboo, Wis, in 1852,
when he was 8 years old. He attended
the common schools of the neighborhood
and notwithstanding his British birth abb
sorbed enough Americanism in 10 years
to inspire him to enlist in the Sixth Wis
consin volunteers when the war broke
out. In later years he has been closely
identified with politics of his State. He
was clerk of the circuit court of Baraboo,
was city clerk and city attorney of Chip
pewa Falls, went to the legislature from
his county, was county judge for period,
and was appointed United States attor-
ney for the Territory Of Wyoming by
President Grant in 1876. He is an ardent
Republican, and carried his district in
the congressional election by nearly TO-
900 votes against his Democratic oppo-
nent. Mr. jenkins is well known in Wis
consin and has been closely identified
with the growth and prosperity of his
State. He is man of many social quail
tiles, as well as possessing legal and bust
ness abilities Of high order
WILLIAM G. ANDERSON.
Here is man who left position in the
interior department few years ago, and
now comes back to Washington as a rep
resentative in congress. 1t is Mr. William
G. Anderson of the First Tennessee dis
trict, a Republican. He came to Wash
ington in 1889 as an examiner of con-
tested land claims in the general land
office, and was subsequently promoted
for merit, first to chief of the contest divi-
sion and then to chief clerk of the gener-
al land Office. During the campaign of
1892 he was assistant secretary of the Re-
publican Nation committee, with head
quarters in New York. He subsequently
returned to his home at Newport, Tenn,
to resume the practice of law, and was
nominated for congress in 1894, and
elected by a majority of $500 He is a
native of Tennessee, was raised on a
farm, and received his education in the
State where he was born. Mr.. Anderson
served i'll the State legislature in 1880,
and has been identified with the Republi-
can party in Tennessee for many years.
HENRY c. BREWSTER.
The claim of Mr.. Henry G. Brewster
of the Thirty-first New York district to
thorough Americanism is esta blished be-
yond peradventure by the fact that eel
der" Brewster of Mayfower fame was
MS ulIcCl dHCeSlOT. he is II MEMBER OIL
the Society of Mayfower Descendants.
of the Sons of the American Revolution,
of the Society of Colonial Wars and of
the Society of the War of 1872 Mr..
Brewster was born in Rochester, n. Y,
about 40 years ago, and at the age of Is
began life as a bank clerk. Five years
later he was promoted to cashier, and is
now first vice president and a member of
the board of directors in the bank where
he was once junior clerk. He is also
president of the Rochester Clearing
House association, director in several
railroads, stands high in the Presbyterian
church, and is an officer of the Roches-
ter Homeopathic Hospital. Mr. Brews-
ter has always taken an active interest in
the Republican party, and has contributed
largely OF his time and means toward sue
cess. lie was at one time vice president
of the Newa York State league of Republi-
can clubs, and president of the Monroe
County league.
CHAS. n. BRUMM.
Mr.. Charles n. Brumm of the Thir-
teenth Pennsylvania district left his law
studies when very young man to enlist
as private under the first call of Presi-
dent Lincoln for three months men. He
made record for himself while he re-
III 'hS uihitt anu at lHt
of the term of his first service re-enlisted
for three months. When he came out
of the army he resumed the study of
law, and was admitted to the bar in
1871. In 1873 he was a candidate for
congress and claimed that he was counted
out by 1872 votes He was elected to CON
gress, however, in the Forty-seventh.
serving through the Fiftieth. He has
been out for two terms, but comes back
again, as a Republican, by a safe ma
jority, to continue the record which he
achieved as a painstaking and conscien-
tious statesman in mis- previous terms of
service.
MELVILLE BULL.
Mr.. Melville Bull of the First Rhode
Island district, after going through Har-
ward college, in 1877, returned to Rhode
Island and engaged in farming. He is
still farmer, although of latter years
he has taken a constantly increasing
interest in politics. He was a representa-
tive from Middlestown in the Rhode Isl
and legislature in 1SS3-S5 and State
senator until 1892, when he was made
lieutenant governor. While in the legis-
lature he took considerable interest in
affairs which related to the militia, and
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