The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-04-08
KANSAS coNGREssMEn.
Since the State Was Organized Fors
ty-Nine Different Men Have
Been Chooses.
Kansas Citv JournaI.

Since the organization of the state
% 1861 Kansas has had 40 different
men in the lower house of congress.
OF these, Is, or exactly one-third, have
been anti-republican, going under the
names Of democratic, greenback, pop
ulist or reform. The representation
of the state in each congress has been
as follows, the date having reference
to the first congress in which the mem
bers took their seat:
1861-Marcus F. Conway, Lawrence,
age 81.
1894 Carter Wilder, Leaven-
worth, age 25.
1865, 1867 and 1S69-Sidney Clarke,
lawrence, age "a.
BID. P. Lowe, Fort Scott, ase 4S.
1878. A. Cobb, Wyandotte, age
10; d. P. Lowe; w. A. Philips, Salina,
lge AZ.
1S75-W. R Brown, Hutchinson, age
Is; John R. Goodlin, Humboldt, age
70; w. A. Philips.
1S77-D. c. Haskell, Lawrence, age
IS; W. A. Philips; Thomas Ryan. To-
peka, age 40.
1S79-John A. Anderson, Manhattan,
age As; Thomas Ryan; D. C. Haskell.
1SS1-Anderson, Ryan, Haskell.
1SS3-E. N. Morrill,, Hiawatha, age
10; S. r. Peters, Newton, age Al; Lewis
Hanback,, Osborne, age A; B. w. Per-
tins, Oswego, age AZ; E. H. Funston
lola, age 46; John A. Anderson;
Thomas Ryan.
1SS5-Morrill, Anderson Ryan, Pc
ers, Perkins, Hanback,, Funston.
1887-E. ]. Turner, Hoxie, age Al;
Morrill,, Peters, Perkins, Ryan, Ander-
ION, Funston.
1SS9-Harrison Kelley, Burlington
ige So; Morrill,, Perkins, Peters, An
ierson, Funston, Turner.
1891-Case Broderick, Holton, age
~; B. H. Glover, Cambridge, age "a;
John Davis. Junction City, age IS;
Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge, age
10; ]. G. Otis, Topeka, age So; William
Baker. Lincoln, age 60; e. H. Fun
ston.
1S93-W. A. Harris, Linwood, age
81; H. L. Moore. Lawrence, age Sc; T.
J. Hudson, Fredonia, age 40; Charles
Curtis. Topeka, age SO; William Baker,
Jerry Simpson, Case Broderick, John
Davis.
1895-Dick Blue, Pleasanton, age "a;
o. L. Miller, Kansas City. age 80; S.
S. Kirkpatrick, Fredonia, age 81; w.
A. Calderhead, Marysville, age 81;
Chester 1. Long, Medicine Lodge, age
35; Charles Curtis, William Baker,
Case Broderick.
1877. d. Botkin, Winfield, age 48;
Mason r. Peters, Kansas City, age So;
w. B. Mccormick, Phillipsburg,, age
so; E. r. Ridgely, Pittsburg, age So;
W. D. Vincent, Clay Center, age As;
Charles Curtis, Case Broderick, Jerry
Simpson.
1S99-W. ]. Bailey, Baileyville, age
IS; ]. D. Bowersock, Lawrence, age 81;
W. A. Reeder, Phillipsburg, age so; ].
NJ. Miller, Charles Curtis, E. r. Ridge.
ley, w. A. Calderhead, Chester I. Long
1000. F. Scott. lola, age Al; A. M.
Jackson, Winfield, age Al; Charles
Curtis, ]. D. Bowersock, w. A. Calder
head, ]. NJ. Miller, w. A. Reeder,
Chester 1. Long.
1903-The same as for 1901, save that
Phil Campbell took the place of Jack
son and Victor Murdoch the place of
Chester Long.
The first congressman In opposition
to the republican party was John R.
Goodin, elected in 1874 over Stephen
A. Cobb by the narrow majority of us.
Goodin ran as "reformer," and was
supported by the grangers, the green.
hackers and the democrats. There
was not then an opposition member
until 1891, when the populists came
into existence and that party carried
five out Of the seven districts, gaining
another one still when new congress-
man had been gained for the election
of 1892. From 1860 to 1890, a period
of 80 years, Kansas elected but one
congressman in opposition to the re-
publicans-a record scarcely paralleled
by that of any other state. In a gen.
eral way 1t is to be noted that the re-
publicans pushed their young men to
the front, while the democrats and
populists sought older men to repre-
sent them. The oldest man eve,
elected to congress from Kansas was
John Davis, who received his first nom
nation when his age was IS. Nearly
every congressman sent by the popu-
lists had passed the half-century mark.
The average Of their congressman was
81 years and fraction; the average
age of the republicans was 40 years
and fraction.