Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01

cember I. 1867. After he went to Colo
RADIO he took an active part in politics.
being the only one of the seven brothers.
all of whom are reputed to be milliorairCs
he Was nominated on the repub-
llcan ticket as lieutenant governor.
but his name was taken off the
ticket because he was but twenty mine
years OF age and inside the prescribed age
limit Two years later he was again noni-
mated for the same place but he declined
to run, he stated that his business
interests would suffer too greatly by so
DONG. The smelling company. of which
he is one of the principal owners and
managers, is known as the 'smelter
trust He is married to a daughter of
henry Hirsh of New York.
Senator-elect Joseph Forney Johnston.
the colleague of Senator-elect Bankhead
was born in North Carolina in 1s4S He
was attending high school when the civil
war broke out, but he at once enlisted i'm
.ie tonfede rate army and served
throughout the entire period of hostilities
w men ne was mustered out of service he
had the rank. of captain. He was in many
battles. and was four times wounded
After the war he studied law. and prsc-
ticed until 1884 at Selma. Ala. Since that
year he has lived in Birmingham
He is presidenti of a national bank of
Birmingham. and was the first president
OF the Sloss Iron and Steel Company He
was elected governor in 1896, and served
during four years.
Robert l.. Owens. who will be one of the
senators from Oklahoma. is forty-eight.
years of age. and comes from the Indian
Territory end of the state, being a Chero-
kee indian in part. His friends expect
him to take quite a prominent part in the
deliberations Of the Senate. as in an all
around way he is looked upon as a man
of great ability.
From the Blue Grass State,
Senator-elect Thomas III. Paynter vho
succeeds former Senator Blackburn of
Kentucky. has been chief Justice OF
the court of appeals of the state.
He was born in Kentucky Decem-
Der 8. 1851 and was educated In the
public schools of that state. and also in
the famous Jacob Rand's Academy. and at
Center College. Danville. Ky. Since 1873
he has practiced his profession of law or
has occupied place on the bench He
was attorney for Greenup county from
1876 to 1873
Senator-elect Harry H. Richardson of
Delaware was born in Dover of that state.
He is man of great wealth, but has
taken up good many reforms in politics.
In 1880 he was the republican nominee of
his party for governor.
Senator William Alden Smith was born
in Michigan, May II. 1850. and made his
own way in the world against a good
many difficulties. He received common
school education and became a page in
the Michigan house of delegates in 1879
and later was page in the state senate
He studied law and was admitted to he
bar in 1888. One of his early strokes in
business was the purchase of a large
number of frame houses that stood In
the way of a proposed railway in the city
of Detroit. He secured the houses at a
very small price and purchasing land
nearby had them all removed to it and
for comparatively small expenditure be-
came the possessor of q very handsome
estate. He is the owner of the Grand
Rapids Herald and has served seven terms
in ih2 House Of Representatives. He was
especially prominent there in connection
with the beet sugar interest
Senator Spooner's Successor.
Senator-elect Isaac Stephenson of Wis
er. He is a man of great wealth and OF
vast interests in timber lands. He was
born in New Brunswick, June Is, 1s29
and went to Wisconsin in 1s41. He began
his career in that state as a farm hand
He became impressed very early in life
with the fact that timber lands would
eventually become very valuable and get
ting into the numbering business gradually
acquired one property after the other
He was always ready to invest in timber
lands and today is known as the pioneer
lumberman of the northwest He Is presi
dent of a number OF lumber companies,
and is also a banker. He was a men,
Der Of the Wisconsin legislature In 1866
and 1868. inclusive, and was in the House
of Representatives from 1888 to 1899.
Senator-elect Robert L. Taylor of Ten
nessee was born in that state July 81,
and was in tle House of Representatives
during the Forty eighth Congress He
defeated his brother for the Office Of gov
ernor. to which he was reelected.