The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-24
TERRELL IS NAMED
SENATOR FOR GEORGIA
EX-GOVERNOR SUCCEEDS LATE a.
s. CLAY IN UNITED STATES
SENATE.
APPOINTMENT ANTICIPATED
Action Of Governor Brown Was No
surprIse--New Senator Serves
Until Next June.

Atlanta.-Joseph Meriwether Ter
rell is the new United States senator
from Georgia.
The proclamation naming former
Governor Terrell to succeed the late
Senator Clay was made out by GOV
ernor Brown, and read at a surprise
dinner party given at the mansion in
honor of Georgia's junior senator:
The naming of Governor Terrell
will probably cause no surprise at all
throughout the state. He was the one
man most conspicuously mentioned for
the post, and the one who was uni
versally expected to win the coveted
honor.
Throughout the two heated cam
paigns of Governor Brown, he was the
power behind the throne; he organ
lied the state, and his hand was on
every detail of the organization that
won victory two years ago, and that
mustered 100000 men to the polls this
year.
A former governor of Georgia and
former attorney general of the state,
Senator Terrell has been conspicuous
for his interest in education for the
boys and girls Of the state. The es-
tablishment Of the eleven district ag-
ricultural schools which have since
come into being, was made an issue
in his campaign Of 1902, when he first
ran for governor, and authorized dur
ing his incumbency in that office.
Senator Terrell served in the lower
house in the sessions of 1884 and 1880
and in the senate which convened in
1890. He was elected attorney general
In 1892 and served until 1902, when he
resigned to make the race for gov
ernor. In that campaign he made over
100 speeches and defeated two able
opponents, Hon. DUPONT Query of
Bibb and ]. H. Estill of Chatham.
He served in the office of governor
for four years and eight months, be-
ing given an extra length of time, ow-
ing to the action Of the legislature in
changing the time of meeting of the
legislature from October to June. He
retired from the governors chair on
July /, 1906, and has since been en-
gagged in the practice of law in At
lanta.
The new junior senator from Geor-
gia is in the meridian of his mental
and physical faculties, being just 40
years of age. He was born in Green
Vile, Meriwether county, on June 6,
1851, the son of Joel E. G. and Sarah
r. (Anthony) Terrell. The county of
his birth was named for Gen David
Meriwether, an uncle Of his GRANDPA
Their, and the one for whom the grand
father was named. He was educated
in the common schools of the state
and studied law, being admitted to
the bar in 1882. -Four years later, on
October 10, 1886, he married Jessie
Lee Spivey of Greenville.
In manner the new senator is calm,
courteous and dignifed. He is man
of simple habits, frugal manner of liv-
ing, and absolutely without affecta-
ton. He knows and is known to tens
of thousands of Georgians.
The term for which Senator Ter
rell is named began at his appoint,
ment, and will terminate on the Sec
ond Tuesday after the legislature
meets next June; or whenever his sue
cessor is elected and qualities. Mr..
Terrell will be candidate before the
legislature or before the people if a
primary is called by the state COM
mittee, for the remainder of Sena'
tor Clay's term. expiring March 8,
1915.