The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-11-22
SPEAKERS
10 The House OF Represent
ativeS In Years Fast
And Something About Champ
Clark, A Candidate
For The SpeakGrshIp In The
Next House

Champ Clark is elected speaker OF
the next House Of Representatives he
will be the tbirty-fifth man chosen as
the regular presiding officer of the
lower branch of Congress and the
first ever elected 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 rives that has
been honored with the speakership
up to the present time. The late Dav-
Id B. Henderson of Iowa served as
speaker of the Fifty-sixth and Fifty.
seventh Congresses.
Massachusetts, Virginia, and Ken
tucky are the states which have been
most highly favored in regards to the
speakership. Each has had four Of
Its representatives chosen to preside
over the House.
The four speakers from Massachu-
settts were Theodore Sedgwick, of
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 1t was by majority of
uyhi ic no nj
known.
The Virginia speakers were Philip
Barbour, who presided over the Sew
enteenth Congress and afterwards
served in the senate; Andrew Steven
son, who served from 1927 to 1884;
John w. Jones, who was speaker of
the Thirty-eighth Congress and died
soon after completing his service, and
r. M. T. Hunter, who was speaker of
the Twenty-sixth Congress and after
ward served as 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
Boyd, of the Thirty-second and Thir-
ty-third Congresses, and the late John
g. Carlisle, who occupied the speak
er's chair In the Forty-eighth, Forty
ninth and Fiftieth sessions.
In Henry Clay the state of Ken
tucky holds the record for long SER
vice in the speakers chair. Mr.. Clay
speaker, though his service was not
continuous. The next longest record
Is that of Mr.. Cannon, who will have
served eight years when he yields
up the gavel to his successor next
March.
Pennsylvania and Indiana have each
had three speakers in the House.
Pennsylvania contributed the speaker
of the FIRST congress, Frederick A.
Muhlenburg, who was one of three
brothers who immigrated from Ger
whom rendered distinguished services
to the country of their adoption. The
other. speakers from this state were of
later date, Galusha A. Grow, who oc-
cupied the chair at the beginning of
the civil war. and Samuel ]. Randall,
who presided over the House from
1876 to 1881.
John w. Davis, known as Honest
john" was the first speaker from In
diana. He presided over the Twenty
ninth Congress and was afterward
governor of Oregon Territory. Schuy-
ler Colfax of Indiana was chosen in
1865 and served until 1869, when he
became Vice President. The third
speaker from Indiana was Michael G.
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 G. Blaine and the equally fam.
GUS Thomas b. Reed, from Georgia
Howell Cobb and Charles F. Crisp,
from South Carolina Langdon Cheves
and James l.. Orr, and from Tennes-
see John Bell and James e. Folk. The
two speakers from New Jersey were
Jonathan Dayton, of the Fourth and
Fifth Congresses, and William Penn.
ington, who presided over the Thirty,
sixth Congress.
The only speaker from Connecticut
was Johnathan Trumbull, who pre-
sided over the second Congress. The
only speaker from Ohio was Gen. j
Warren Keifer, who presided during
the Torty-seventh Congress and who
is member of the present House
From North Carolina came Nathaniel