The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-01

1S41. The Twentieth to the Twenty -thi 4
congresses were ruled over by Andrew
stevenson Of Virginia, who resigned during
the Twenty-third and was succeeded by
John Bell Of Tennessee. who presided over
the second session OF that congress. s.o-
venson was minister to England from 1896
to 1S41.
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John Bell resigned as congressman to be
secretary of war to President w liam
Henry Harrison. When Tyler separated
himself from the whig party Bell re-
signed as secretary of war. The Tennes-
see legislature wished to make him SEN
ator, but he declined and practiced law
till 1S47, when he again entered politics
and was elected to the State and then to
the United States senate. In iSG0 be
headed the constitutional Union party. At
the beginning of the civil war he and seven
others issued a proclamation farcrlng
armed neutrality by Tennessee, and few
days after he made speech IN Nashville
in which he advocated siding with ihe
South. James *. Polk, speaker OF the
Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth con-
crosses, left congress to become the gov
lernor of Tennessee He was defeated
president by the democrats. He died soou
after the close of his presidential 'e:m.
The speaker of the Twenty-sixth cor
gress, r. NJ. T. Hunter of Virginia, was
defeated for the succeeding term, but was
elected to the chair again in the Twenty
eighth congress- After that he served
three terms in the senate, but at the OUT
break of the civil war he .baud on-d his
seat and was formally expelled. He vas u
member OF the Confederate congress and,
1T is said was to have been president or
the Confederacy, with Jefferson a. ~ Ms
general in chief OF the army, hui the
plans were changed and Davis became
president, and Hunter acted as secretary
of State for while, and then was elected
ito the Confederate senate Ia which he
opposed the Davis administration. After
the war he became treasurer of Virginia
for one term. He was appointed collector
OF Tappannock, Va, by Fo,mer President
Cleveland. Robert c. Winthrop ii iIassa
chusetts. speaker of the Thi itch cen
gress, was appointed to succeed Dunje!
Webster in the senate when ne became sec
rotary of state under President Fillmore.
Winthrop was defeated for governor en- the
whig ticket. His defeat was the means
Iof changing the constitution SO that
plurality would elect instead of requiring
majority. He was considered one of
the best orators of his day. and was chosen
to deliver the address at the laying OF the |
corner stone of the Washington monume Mt
He also made the address at its completion,
nearly forty years later.
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Howell Cobb of Georgia was speaker oil |
the Thirty-first congress. He was elected |
nineteen days after congress opened, after |
sixty-three ballots. In 1851 he was elected |
governor of Georgia on the Union ticket, |
and at the close of his term was again |
sent to congress. He was made secretary
of the treasury by President Buchanan in
1901, where he remained until peteA'ber
1860, when he resigned an. went back to |
Georgia lie soon became actively engaged |
in the cause of the South and was mem
Der of the provisional Contederlee con-
sress Later he was appon' d brigadier
ana then major general, but saw little ac-
tive service in battle. He was opposed l.,
the reconstruction measure. His death |
occurred in New York City in 1868. Linn
Boyd, SPEAKER of The Thirty second and
Ihirty-third congresses, was afterwards
governor of kentucky, and then retired
from public life. Nathaniel y. Banks,
speaker of the Thirty-f fourth congress, was
elected after nine weeks contest on The
one hundred and thirty third ballot. The
trst session OF this congress, which ad
Journed August IS, 1856, was the stormiest
ever held, and the extra session called on
august Il OF that same year was the short
est ever held, only lasting ten days.
Banks left congress in 1857 to become gov
ernor of Massachusetts. In 1860 he was
made president of the Illinois Central rail-
road. but resigned when the civil war
broke out, He was a major gene al in the
army, but his war record was not particli-
larly brilliant He closed his pubic ca
reer as member of the house. James l..
Orr of South Carolina was speaker of tie
Jhirty-htth congress, which closed his
career in congress. He opposed secession
In his State convention, but finally yieid-
ed He was chosen governor of South
Carolina in 1868. and afterwards a circuit
Judge of the State. In 1872 he was ar-
pointed minister to Russia, and died in
ST. Petersburg within t@o months after
his arrival there. William Pennington of
New Jersey was speaker of the Thirty
sixth congress- the only term that be
served in that body. The bal.cting was
carried on for eight weeks. and finally
John sherman, the republican candidate,
withdrew.
Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania was
speaker of the Thirty seventh congress.
After period of thirty years he was again
elected to congress- and is still a member
OF the body over which he once pres 'eei.
During thirty years that he was ont OF
congress he was principally engaged Ia
railroad building and he helped To build
the International and Great; Northern rail-
road. His headquarters wee at Palestine.
Schuyler Colfax OF IndianaI speaker of the
Thirty-eighth Thirty pintf and Fortieth
congresses, was elected .ixe president IN
lebS AT the expiration OF Iis term he was
rot renominated and Withdrew from poll
tics and went to lecturing: He died while
on lecturing tour in !the Northwest.
James G, Blaine OF Mail: was speaker of
the Forty-hrst, Forty second and Forty
third congresses His subsequent career
is we'll known. He was genat n, presiden-
tial nominee and secretary of state MI !
,hael G. Kerr of Indiana diei while (,
speaker of the Forty-fourth congress
samuel J. Randall OF Pennsylvania was ,
chosen speaker for the emaindsr of the ,
ERIN, and also for the r'orty-llfth and !,
Forty-sixth congresses; he remained in
congress till his death. j. Warren Keifer
OF Ohio was speaker OF the Forty seventh .
congress. After serving in the Forty /,
eighth congress he returned To III, prnr- ,