The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-20
LONG SERVICE OF SENATOR'S.
twenty. -four with a Record Of More Than
Twenty Years Each.

There are ninety United States Senator'S. and
~ the present Senate twenty-four members
have served more than twenty years. The
recent success AZ the Democratic primaries
In Alabama of John 7. Morgan insures him
another term. He took his scat in the Senate
on March 5. isC, and AZ the conclusion of his
next term will have been thirty-two years
consecutively in Office as Senator from Alabama.
Senator Jones 81 Arkansas will have eighteen
wears in the Senate 10 his credit On the COM
rletiCr ~ his term in 1909. Senator Teller
~ Co.o.sdo nrst entered the upper house
in 1919 and his present term does not expire
until 1909, but he resigned in 1882 10 become
Secretary of the Interior. an orfce which he
hold for three years, NJ the close Of which no
was returned ~ Congress- Mr.. Plat o' Com
~neCticut has been more than twenty-one years
n senator: his colleague, Senator Hawley. has
been in the Senat" nineto"% wears, Senator
Clllon. whose term expires in March next
and whose successor the next Illinois Legislature
will choose. has had seventeen years Of service,
while Senator Allison Of Iowa became n Senator
in 1919 and has been continuously In that Office
for twenty-seven years, and his term has stln
three years 70 run. senator Frye NJ Maine
was chosen nineteen years ago and his COZ
league, Senator Hale. wss chosen at the same
Time. Nf'll7fT tllt W ht~Hf'Ili-FAAN NhS
elected IN 1871 and has held his seat %continu-
olIsly since then senator Davis NJ Minnesota,
was elected In 81 audthe two MlssouriS Senators
CoCkrclI and Vest. are both Veterans in servtcs.
any project 10 replace either with n new
man being regarded in Missouri as little short
of evolutionary Mr.. Cockrell. who succeeded
Carl Schurz. has been a senator since 1873.
and Mr.. Vest. who succeeded Gen. Shields.
has been a senator since 1879. twenty-five
years and twenty-one years respectively.
Senator Vests term has three years TO run
and that Of senator Cockrell five.
4 small State which has been very tenactotS
in the support Of It's Senatorial representatives
elected in 1873 about Coincident with Tho Grim
of 70. u which much has been heard IN Nevada
and senator Stewart having been frst elected
in 1874, thirty-slN years ago. He was reelected
in 1912. but retired after sixteen ye Ars Of service
To reantpr the senate IN 1850. since which he has
served consecutlvely and has been reelected Tor
another term, AZ the conclusion of which ne Nj
have had eighteen wears ~ consecutive service
and twnnty-nine wears of actual serv1ce win
only one break. senator Chandler Of New
Hamp-hire has been IN once since 1857, sem
ator SeNell of New Jersey was first elected IN
iSsi, but has not been COnsecutlvely in The sem
a'a. Senator Aldrich Of Rhode Island has been
a senator since 1851 He succeeded Gen Burn
SIDE senator Rate NJ Tennessee was elected n
iss7 senator Daniel ~ virginia IN iss7, succeeds
ing ten Malone.
IL is usually a. ba observed that. with the con-
spicuor- exception Of Missouri, II is the smaller
states which adhere "a tho policy ~ successive
reflections for their Senators II is found
usually that y senator Of long eN perience can be
than one who is less familiar with tho conditions
of Washington life. and In small States the i'm
porfancs Of Federal patronag" Is not to b
iinderated