The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-18
II Elected Speaker of Next
House He Will Be Second
Man West of Mississippi to
Hold Office.
LATE Mr.. HENDERSON
ELECTED TO OFFICE
That Iowa Statesman First
Westerner to Be Chosen
Speaker-Four Cars of
House from Kentucky.

fAmerican News Service)
Washington. d. c.. Nov. 1S.-If
Champ Clark Is elected speaker OF the
next House Of Representatives he will
be the thirty.fifth man chosen az the
regular presiding officer OF the lower
branch Of congress and the first ever
selected from the State OF Missouri.
Representative Clark would also be
the second speaker to hail from west
OF the Mississippi river. Iowa has the
distinction of being the only State
west Of the Mississippi that has been
honored with the speakership up to
the present time. The late David b.
Henderson Of Iowa. served as speaker
OF the Fifty.sixth and Fifty-seventh
congresses.
Massachusetts. Virginia and Ken.
lucky are the States which have been
most highly favored In regards to the
speakership. Each has had four of It's
representatives chosen to preside over
the House.
The four. speakers from Massachu.
sets were Theodore Sedgwick, of the
Sixth congress, Joseph b. varnum. OF
the Tenth and Eleventh congresses;
Robert G. Winthrop. Of the Thirtieth
congress. and Nathaniel p. Banks. of
the Thirty.fourth. when Mr.. Win.
throp was elected speaker of the Thir.
tieth congress Il was by q majority Of
one vote. which is the closest con.
test known.
The Virginia speakers.
The Virginia speakers were Philip
Barbour. who presided over the Sew.
served In the senate: Andrew Steven
son. who served from 1927 to 1854;
John w. Jones. who was speaker Of
the Thirty-eighth congress and died
SITTER completing his service. and r. NJ.
r. Hunter. who was speaker Of the
Twenty.sixth congress. and afterward
served - Secretary Of State OF the
Confederate Government.
The four Kentucky speakers were
Henry Clay. who presided over five Of
the early congresses: John White. OF
the Twenty.seventh congress: Linn
lloyd, OF the Thirty-second and Thirty
third congresses, and the late John g.
Carlisle. who occupied the speakers
chair In the Forty-eighth. Forty-ninth
and FIttieth sessions.
In Henry Clay. the State OF Ken
tucky holds the record for long SER
vice In the speakers chair. Mr..
Clay served nine and half years as
speaker. though his service was not
continuous. The next longest record
10 that OF Mr.. Cannon. who will have
served eight years when he yields up
the gavel to his successor next March.
Pennsylvania ard Indiana have
each had three speakers of the House.
Pennsylvania contributed the speaker
of the first congress. Frederick A.
Muhlenberg. who was one of three
brothers who immiGrated from Ger
many before the Revolution and all of
whom rendered distinguished services
10 the country Of their adoption. The
other speakers from the Keystone
State were OF later date. Galusha A.
Grow. who occupied the chair at the
beginning Of the civil war. and Samuel
J. Randall. who presided over the
House from 1876 to 1881.
"Nenest John" Davis.
John w. Davis. known as Honest
john" was the first speaker from In.
diana. He presided over the Twenty.
ninth congress and was afterward gov.
ernor OF Oregon Territory. Schuyler
Colfax 81 India was chosen speakes in
1863 and served until 1869. when he
became vice-President. The third
speaker from Indiana was Michael c.
Kerr, who was elected In 1875 and died
early In the following year.
Maine. Georgia. New Jersey. South
Carolina and Tennessee have each had
two speakers. From Maine came
James q. Blaine and the equally fam
ous Thomas B. Reed: from Georgia.
Howell Cobb and Charles F. Crisp:
nom South Carolina. Langdon Cheyes
and James L. Orr: and from Tennes-
see. John Bell and James X. Polk. The
two speakers from New Jersey were
jonathan Dayton. Of the Fourth and