Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-18
THE HOUSE MEMBERS
A Statistical Analysis Of Each
State Delegation.
AVERAGE age is ABOUT FORTY SEVEN
Lawyers Are Still in the Majority
in the Lower House.
Err OCCUP ATIONs

A new Congress is an interesting study
from many points of view. The nation al
ways has its eyes On the men who make its
laws and their personalities are observed
very closely. A great deal has been written
of individual members, but statistical
glance at the lower house of Congress as a
whole and by states may be worthy of some
attention.
The House of Representativ consists at
present of 1856 members and four territorial
delegates. OF these 243 members and four
delegates are republicans. One hundred and
five members are democrats seven are pop
ulists and one silverite.
The oldest member is ex-Speaker Galusha
A. Grow of Pennsylvania, the youngest
Norman A. Motley of Missouri. Mr.. Grow is
seventy-two years Cf age. Mr.. Motley turn
ed the thirtieth mile stone of life on the
11th of the present month. The other con-
gressional youngsters. who are still in their
thirtieth year are: George B. Mcclellan of
New York, born November %. 1866; Thos
Settle of North Carolina, born March TO-
1S65, and John F. Fitzgerald of Massacnu-
sets, born February II, 1868.
Maine, New Hampshire. North Carolina,
Rhode Island, South Carolina and Utah are
states themselves. The other states draw
from their neighbors for one or more Repre-
sentatives New York is the native state of
the largest number of members of the
Fifty-fourth Congress, forty-two claiming
birth there. Pennsylvania Is close second
with forty, Ohio third with twenty-eisht
and Massachusetts fourth with eighteen
Indiana and Virginia gave BIRTH to fifteen,
Georgia and kentucky to thirteen, North
Carolina, Illinois and Tennessee to twelve,
New Jersey to ten, Mississippi to nine, Con-
necticut, Maine and Michigan to eight, Ala
bama Indiana South Carolina and Wis
consin to seven, Vermont and Iowa to five.
Arkansas, Louisiana and West Virginia TO
four, Rhode Island, Florida and Texas to
two and Kansas and Minnesota to one each.
Twenty-three members Of this House were
born outside of the United States. Four
were born in England and four in Germany
three each in ireland, Scotland and Ontario,
two in New Brunswick and one each In Den
mark, Hungary, Saxony and the province OF
Quebec.
The occupations in life of the various
Representatives are varied. The people still
continue to believe that lawyers are the
best fitted for law makers. for Dab of that
profession are returned. Forty-one farmers
have seats in the House. as have twenty
seven newspaper men. There are twenty
eight manufacturers, twenty-five bankers
twenty merchants, fourteen teachers of
various grades, nine lumbermen. eight doc
tors, seven business men, five miners, three
civil mining engineers. three clergymen,
active or retired: four engaged in real estate
or insurance or both, one architect, enc the
alter manager, one pharmacist one engaged
in shipping. one owner of oil wells, one
steamboat man. one railroad manager and
one manufaC turer of ice. The others do not
definitely state their avocation and some
are known to be gentlemen of leisure.
4 College Education.
The average age of the entire House of
Representatives Is forty-seven and one-half
years. There are one hundred and ninety
nineY college men and this does not include
those who claim only an academic educa-
ton. Virginia's ten members are all college
educated and Pennsylvania boasts of TWEEN
ty-eight out of thirty. The colleges repre-
scented are: Yale, ten; University of Michi-
gan. nine; Harvard and University of Vir-
ginia, seven each; Princeton and Dartmouth,
five each; De PAW and Iowa State, four
each: Mercer, Center. Union, Amherst,
Western Reserve and Virginia Military In
sttute three each; University of Alabama,
Andrew. Trinity On. CD Hamilton, Univer-
sity of Georgia. Lombard, McKendree.
Franklin, Ohio Wesleyan, Cumberland, Uni
versity of Mississippi, Columbia. Williams.
Georgetown Cd. c., Jefferson, Pennsylvania
College, Washing ton and Lee and Randolph
Macon, two each. Sixty-nine other colleges,
including oxford Eng). Carlsruhe and
Heidelberg tGer). West Point, University of
Pennsylvania, Naval Academy, Tufts and
Oberlin are represented by one graduate.
If the war was to be fought over again by
the veterans on the floor the Union soldiers
would have the advantage of numbers, at
least There are sixty-seven of them, Penn
sylvania sending the largest number. The
eX-confederateS number thirty-nine, Georgia
having the largest representation, seven.
statistical analysis of each delegation
follows. and the figures are worthy of some
attention:
Alabama sends nine Representatives; of
this number eight are sterling democrats
and the other, NJ W. Howard. populist, is
the youngest of the delegation thirty-three
years Of age, while Cobb is the oldest, just
turned sixty. The average age of the men,
bers is fortysix and one-half, and their
avocations are lawyers, seven; lawyer and
planter, one; farmer. one. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, the famous confederate cavalry
general. mas four comrades on the losing
side of the rebellion with him in the dele
CATION, and seven of the nine are college
men. Four were born In Georgia, one In
Kentucky, and four in Alabama.
OF six democrats who represent Arkansas
I'm the House Little. forty-two. and Neill,
fifty-seven, hold the extremes in the age
column. The whole delegation averages
fcrty-six years All are lawyers and four
the confederate army. Arkansas gave birth
to four and Tennessee and North Carolina
to one each of the delegation.
Mr.. Mcguire. at fortytwo years, is the
youngest Of the seven California members,
and he is the only democrat returned. Bow
ors is the oldest. He is sixty-one, and two
months older than EIillborn. The average
age Is fifty-one. In the delegation are six
lawyers and one who gives no occupation as
claiming his attention. Three members are
college men and two were Union soldiers.
Massachusetts and New York are the birth
places given by four of the representatives,
two to each state, while Maine. Missouri
and Scotland claim each one of the others.
Colorado sends two members to this Con-
gress. one populist and one republican.
Shaproth Is the younger of the two He was
born in Missouri, while Bell first saw the
light of day in Tennessee Both are law
yers and one a college man. Their average
age is fOrty-twO and one-half.
Connecticut, staid old state. sends four re-
publicans. whose average age is ffty-five
years. Russell, forty-three years old, is the
youngest and Sperry, siXty-eight, the old
est. Every member of the delegation Is
business man. Two We're born in Connecti-
cut and two in Massachusetts. Sperry
holds the record of having served twenty
eight and one-half years as postmaster of
New Haven.
Some State Delegations.
Mr.. Willis, who represents Delaware all
alone. is a republican. retired Methodist
minister tifty-ffve years old, and was born
in Maryland. He left the democratic party
during the war on account of the slavery