The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-21
Sketches Of Our Represent
atiVes in Washington
Which Will Appear ia
the Congressional Direc-
tory
EIGHT LINES FOR R. VI. PARKER
BREvITY CHARACTERIZEs MOST
OF THE sKETcHEs-aiEN ARE
MOSTLY LAWYERS, TH0EGH a
FEW ARE BANKERS.

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WASHINGTON. D. G.. Dec.S21, 1905.
In the Congressional Directory. print
ed copies of which are issued shortly at
ter the opening of every session OF Con-
gress. appear biogra phical sketches Of
the Senators and Representatives These
! sketches are furnished to the Committee
ON Printing by each Senator and Repre-
sentative, SO that they practically repre-
sent each individuals opinion of himself
One Of the longest sketches is that OF
Senator Chauncey N. Depew, and il
caused no end of comment four years ago
/ when the directory had the fact Of his
marriage to his present wife before that
/ event had taken pace. One of the short
est biographical sketches is that Of John
! Welborn, of Missouri. 1t is only three
lines in length.
There is not much egotism in the
sketches of the New Jersey delegation.
That concerning United States Senator
| John Kean recites the fact that he was
| born at Ursino, near Elizabeth, in 1852;
that he entered Yale University. studied
law, and was admitted to the New Jer-s
| sey bar in 1877. 1t tells Of his election
to the Forty eighth and Fiftieth Com
/ +bo+ I, Is fia,,t of ha
1 tional State Bank of Elizabeth; vice
president of the Manhattan Trust Conn
pany, and elected to the United States
Senate in 1899 to succeed James Smith,
Jr.. and reelected in 1905
The sketch of Senator Dryden is also
brief. 1t tells of his birth in Maine in
1899; of his entering Yale University and.
being obliged to Leave on account Of II
health, and of his graduation in 1865. 1t
4 is stated that he founded the Prudential
Insurance Company in 1875, becoming
its first secretary, and In 1881 its presi-
dent. 1t is also stated that he is inter
ested in large financial enterprises. and
was elected to the United States Senate
in 1902 to succeed the late William ].
Seweil.
/ Representative R. Wayne Parker tells
his story in eight lines anaa half Bern
in Newark in 1873; Graduated from
Princeton University in 1868; admitted
to the bar in 1870; member of the AS
sembly in 1885 and 1885; elected TO the
| Fifty-fourth Congress and every subse-
quent Congress.
Nineteen lines are deyetedsto his life's
story by Representative William Halsted
Wiley. He was born in New York city
in 1912; served through the Civil War,
took the degree of civil engineer at the
Rensselaer, Institute at Troy He was
engaged in the mining business, and fin-
ally went into business with his, father.
While a judge at the International Ex-
position at brussels in 1897 he received
the decorated order of Leopold from the
King.
Exceptionally brief are the biographies
of Representatives Loudensfager, Gard
ner. Howell. Fowler, Wood and Al en-.
OF Mr.. Loudenslager it is stated that he
was born in Cumberland County in 1852; !;
| that he engaged in business IN Philadel-
phia; was elected County CIork, in 1882
and reelected in 1887 aud to the Fifty
third Congress and continuously ever
since.
! John J. Gardner, affectionateiy known
as sOld Brains,'' was born in Atlantic
County in 1915 and was elected 10 the
| Fifty-third Congress and continuously
ever since. That is all his biographical
sketch has to say. His service in the
Assembly and State Senate are modestly
omitted. as well as his work ON the In
dustral Commission
/ Representative Benjamin f. Howell
was born in Cumberland County in 1874;
served through the Civil War in III Jer~
scy regiment, the Twelfth: was elected
Surrogate Of Middlesex County in 1882
and reelected in 1887, and elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress and thsfeafter.
ii Representative Wood Sswas born in
| Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was graduated
| from Princeton University, is q member
of the New Jersey bar was elected to
the New jersey Legislature in 1890 and
1900, and served as commissioner to
the Louisiana Purchase Exnostion. He
was elected to the Fifty eighth Congress.
j Charles n. Fowler was born al Lena.
Hl.. III 1852. He was graduated from
j Yale University and from the Chicago
Law School in 1878. He was elected 10
the Fifty-fourth Congress. and contina-
ously since.
Henry Crosby Allen was born At Pat