Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-29
MR.. CLARK TO Be
FIRST SPEAKER
FROM M|zzOO
Would Also be Second to Hail
From West of the MISSISSIPPI
pi, Review of the Speakers
of the Past,
Morning Journal Bureau,
6l3 Munsey Building,
washington, d. q. Nov. n /

II CHAMP Clark rs elected pear"
tof the next house of representatives
he viii be the thirty-fifth man chosen
as the regular presiding officer of
the lower branch OF congress and the
first even selected from the state of
Missouri,
MIR. CLARK would also he the second
speaker to hail from west of the Mis-
sissippi river. Iowa has the dlstinc-
ton of heing the only state west of
the Mississippi river that has been
honored with the speakership up to
the present time. The late David T..
! Henderson Of Iowa, served as speaker
OF the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
congresses.
Massachusetts,. Virginia and Ken
lucky are the states which AVE been
most highly favored In regard to the
speakership. Each has had o of
its congressman chosen to preside over
the house.
The four speakers from Massachus-
etts were Theodore Sedgwick OF the
sixth congress-: Joseph II, Narnum of
the Tenth and Eleventh congresses;
Robert G. winthrop Of the Thirteenth
congress. and Nathaniel p. Banks of
the Thirty-fourth. When MIR. Win
throp was elected speaker of the
Thirteenth congress il vas by a ma
| loFltN OF one VOTE WHICH - lAt Ci''
est contest known.
The Virginia speakers were Philip
barbour, who presided over the Sew
| enteenth congress and afterward serv-
ed in the senate; Andrew Stevenson,
who served from 1897 to 1884; John
w. Jones, who was speaker of the
Thirty-eighth congress, and died soon
after completing his service. and r..
NJ. r. Hunter, who was speaker of the
T~wenty-sixth congress, aud atterward
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 Thirty
third congresses, and the late John @.
Carlisle. who occupied the speakers
chair in the Forty-eighth, F%orty-ninth
and Fiftieth congresses.
In Henry clay the state of Ken
lucky holds the record for long SER
vice in the speakers chair. Mr.. Clay
served nine and q half years ms
speaker. though his service was not
continuous. The next longest rec
ord is that Of Joseph G. Cannon who
viii have served eight years when he
yields up the gavel to his successor
next March
Pennsylvania and Indiana have
each had three speakers OF the house.
Pennsylvania contributed the speaker
Of the First congress. Frederick A..
| MuhlenburR. who was one of three
brothers who immigratcd from Ger
many before the Revolution. and all
Of whom rendered distinguished SER
vices to the country Of their adop-
ton. The other speakers from the
Keystone state were Of late date
GaIusha A. Grow. who occupied the
chair at the beginning of the civil
war. and Samuel J. Randall. who pre-
sided over the house from 1876 to
1891.
John w. Davis, Known as Honest
John" was the first speaker from IN
diana. lie presided over the twenty
| ninth congress, and was afterWard
governor Of Oregon territory. Schuyler
Colfax Of Indiana. was chosen speak
er in 1868, and served until 1863
when he became vice president. The
third speaker from the Hoosier state
was Michael G.. Kerr, who was elected
in 1875. and died early In the follow
ing yeer.
Maine. Georgia. New Jersey, South
| Carolina and Tennessee have each had
two speakers.
From Maine came James G.. Blaine
| and the tUOtllN lbiibhF h'fh'" -
Reed: from Georgia, Howell Cobh
ana charles T.. Crisp; from South
Carolina, Lagoon Cheves and James
l.. orr. and from Tennessee, join
Bell and James X. Polk. The two
speakers from New Jersey We're
Jonathan Dayton of the Fourth and
Firth congresses, and William Penn
ington. who presided over the Thirty
sixth congress.
The only speaker from Connect
cut was Jonathan Trumbull, who pre-
sided over the Second congress The
only speaker from Ohio was General
j. Warren Keifer. who presided dur
ing the Forty-seventh congress, aEd
who is q member OF the present
house. From North Carolina came
Nathaniel Mason, who became speak
er in 1901. He served as "a represoR-
tativc for nearly a quarter of a CEN
fury. and was known as the rather
Of tho house
John w. Taylor, Ia succeeded
Henry clay in the Sixteenth congress
was the only speaker from New york
with the exception of Theodore NJ
Pomeroy. who served as speaker for
one day at the beginning OF the Forty
first congress-. until MIR. Blaine who
had been elected could take his scat