The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-17
SOME MIGRATORY STATESMEN
Men who Have Represented More Than One state IN
the Halls Of Congress-


tHe Hiuthiy sVs'isV.
Alexander Ramsey was Representa-.
tive form Pennsylvania district In
tho rwcnty.eighth and Twenty.ninth
Congresses. IIe served as territorial
governor of Minnesota from lS4o 10
1853, mayor Of NJ. Paul In 1856, and
governor Or tho state of Minnesota from
1850 to 1868. lie was then elected Uni.
ted States Senator, serving from 1858
10 1878, being afterward Secretary Of
War from 1870 10 1881.
James II. lane was 4 member Of the
Thirty.third Congress from an Indiana
district. having previously served In the
Mexican War and AZ lieutenant Cover.
ner Of his State. In the '50s he went
10 Kansas and was prominent In the
1859 no was elected United States
Senator but was not recognized BY
tho Senate, which ID not 10 be wondered
nj when Il Il reeolleeted that Kansas
was not admitted az d state until 1851.
Al the latter date he again went 10
Washington with the credentials Of a
Senator, serving until 1865, when be
was reelected. Having esponsed the
csuse Of President Andrew johnson as
against the Republican Congress, for
which he became extremely unpopular
III bis state, he committed suicide at
ieavcnworth In 1896.
Charles II. Van wyck represented q
New York district In tho Thirty.sixth.
Thirty seventh, and, afternervice az col.
onel and brigadier general In the civil
war In the FortIeth and Forty.nrst
Congresses. He removed TO Nebraska
In 1874. where he engaged In politics
filling minor positions, until he wns
elected United States Senator In 1891,
serving unit! 1887. lie was defeated as
the Populist candidate for governor in
1899, and died In Washington In 1905.
stephen D. Elkins was born in Ohio,
educated In the public schools and Uni.
vcysity Of Missouri, and admitted 10
the bar In thnt State, received his pc.
litical education In New Mexico, and Is
at present d resident OF West Virginia.
He was a Delegate In the Forty-third
and rorty.fourth Congresses from New
Mexico, after having held nearly all
the Territorial and United States Offices
IN that territory. At the end Of his
Delecatorial term he removed 70 West
Virginia, where he had acquired large
business interests. and served from
December. 1901, 10 the end Of Prcsi-
dent Ha~isou's administration a. Sec
etary OF War In 1895 he was elected
! to the United States Senate from West
Virginia and still continues TO be one
OF her Senators.
Charles A. Towne was Representa-.
tive from the Duluth tMinn.l district
Y HI, Il, ..he he El..-- sanrah cnngreas "A Re.
publican. He supported Bryan for Pres.
III 1896 and severed his relations with
the Republican party. In 1900 he was
appointed Senator 10 fll the vacan'
cy caused by tho death Of Senator cush'
Cushman X. Davis as Democrat, the
governor being Of that political faith
serving for about two months. Re
moving 10 New York City, he was cleo
/ ted 10 tho Fifty,ninth Congress, still
as Democrat, from one Of the City
districts.
Jesse Speight served ms Represen'
tativc from his native state Of North
Carolina In the Twenty.hrst Twenty
second Twenty.thid and Twenty
fourth Congresses. Removing TO Miss
| issippi, after serving in the State house
of representatives as speaker he was
elected United States Senator, serving
from ls45 to ls47 when he died
William Henry Harrison. President
Of the United States for one month
was the delegate in the Sixth Congress
from the Northwest Territory. After
the process of carving States out it wa
begun he was Territorial governor o
Indiana. Later he was representa-
tive from Ohio in the Fourteenth AM
! Fifteenth Congresses, afterward ser
wing as United States Senator from
| 1925 to 1928.
| William Blount was delegate to th'
4 Continental Congress in 1852, 1883 1856
1 and 1887. In 1900 was appointed GOV
ernor of the territory south Of the 0hi'
River by President Washington. ~
was chairman Of the convention whicl
framed the first State constitution o
Tennessee. N l70G and was elected
one OF her first United States Senators
serving from l7oo, until he wos i'm
peached, found guilty, and expelled fo
having instigated the Creek and Chero
kee Indians to aid the British in con
quering the Spanish Territory Of Wes
Florida, July 8, 1907 During the tria
he was elected to the State senate o
Tennessee and chosen It's president.
i John Chandler an uncle Of Senate
Zach Chandler, Of Michigan, was on
of those distinguished as representing
two States in Congress without chang
inr his residence He wys Represen
tatiye from Massachusetts, in the Mint
and Tenth CONGRESSES. at which tim
Maine was a part Of Massachusetts. II
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