The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-24
Only Clay Served as Long as
 Uncle Joe
REVIEW OF SPEAKERS
Clay Did Not Serve Six Consecutive Terms-Southern States Have Been
 Fairly We'll Represented By Speakers

in his sixth term.
 Henry Clay was elected six times tc 1 that office, but not for consecutive terms None other has served more than three
 terms and most of them for but a term
 or two, and one for only a day.
 In MT. Clay's day. 1s17 the powers oi
 the speaker were the subject of criticism
 in Congress and the newspapers. It was
 claimed that the best interests of the
 nation could be subserved by the cleo
 ton of committees. There was, however
 no radical change made as to the duties 1 Of the speaker or the incumbent.
 MT. Clay had served in the Senate and
 came to the House in 1911 when 3s years
 old, and was chosen speaker in 1874. He resigned to become commissioner to negotiate the treaty of peace at Ghent Dangdon Cheves of South Carolina was
 elected to his place. MT. Cheves had
 46 years old. Afterward he was a com
 missioner of claims, and judge and pres ident of the Bank of the United States,
 and reached ST years of life. MT. Clay again became speaker in 1s1i
 and served until November, 1920, when he
 withdrew to private life. John W. Fay
 Tor of New York succeeded him.
 Again in 1923 MT. Clay was returned to | Congress and elected speaker He served l till 1925, when he became Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams. Several | times subsequently, he was a candidate | for President
 | At the First Congress, 17S9, Frederick A. Muhlenberg was elected speaker, and was 1 followed by Jonathan Trumbull of Con- | necticut in the Second Congress. MT. Trumbull in 1795 went to the United States Senate. MT. Muhenberg was elect ed speaker of the Third Congress. | In 1795 Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey became speaker of the Fourth Congress and was reelected speaker of the Fifth Congress. He, too, went then to the Sen ate. MT. Dayton did not serve at the third session of Congress and was suc- ceeded in the speakers chair by George Dent of Maryland, a progenitor of Mrs. General Grant.
 In the Sixth Congress, 1799, Theodore Sedgwick, who had been a senator and president pro tempore of that body, again became a member of the House and was chosen speaker He was subsequently a supreme judge in Massachusetts. Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, who had been a member of the House | since 17sl, became speaker in 1891, sub- sequently serving inethe House until 1915. He was known as the father of the House. Then, going to the Senate, he served I until 1S2S where he was president pro I tenn, and candidate for Vice President in | 1925. He died in 1887 at so years of age. | Joseph B. Varnum became speaker in 1797 of the Tenth Congress, and was re- elected speaker of the Eleventh Congress, serving until March, 1S11. He was after ward a senator and also president pro tenn of that body. He was 52 years old | when speaker.
 l In 1S11, in the Seventeenth Congress, Philip Barbour of Virginia was elected speaker. He had served in the House l since 1914. In 1925 he became a United States judge in Virginia.
 l In 1927 he returned to Congress and in 1 1s36 became judge of the supreme court
 of the United States. He died in 1s41, aged 62.
 l In the Nineteenth Congress, 1925, John | W. Taylor of New York became speak | CT At this time the momentous Mis- souri compromise was passed. In the Twentieth Congress, 1927, Andrew Stevenson was elected speaker, serving l in the twenty-frst, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses, to 1884. He was afterward United States minister to Great Britain, but returning devoted the ball. ance of his life to the interests of the University of Virginia and agricultural pursuits.
 In 1884 John Bell of Tennessee, who had
 been in Congress since 1927, became speaker. In 1S41 he was Secretary of War for few months, and afterward a mem Der of the House and Senate. In 1860 he was a candidate for President James K. Polk Of Tennessee in 1885 was elected speaker of the Twenty-fourth Congress, and was reelected to the Twen- ty-fifth. He was member of the House from 1925 to 1S39, ard governor of Ten | nessee, and in 1S45 became President of tie United States
 In 1889 R. M T. Hunter of Virginia, who had been elected in 1887 to the House. became speaker on the twelfth day, In | 6t, when he went south and became Secretary of State of the Confederate government
 | John White of Kentucky was elected l speaker of the Twenty-seventh Con- gress in May 1S41, when but 31 years
 old. After his service in the House he was appointed a United States judge in
 Kentucky and died soon after. l John w. Jones of Virginia was elected
 speaker of the Twenty-eighth Congress | in 1S43, having come to the House in l 1885. He died soon after this service. l John W. Davis of Indiana. known as | Honest John,' was elected speaker | in 1S45. He served in Congress various terms. and in 184S was minister to
 China and afterward governor of Ore. 1 gon territory.
 In 1S47 Robert c. Winthrop of Mass.
 achusetts, when 36 years of age, be came speaker. He had been speaker Lof the Massachusetts house and served | several terms in Congress, and filled out MT. Webster's unexpired term ir l the Senate.
 Howell Cobb became speaker in 1s4! of the Thirty-ffrst Congress He had been elected to the House in 1S42 ant was afterward governor of Georgia and in 1857 became Secretary of tn. Treasury. He served in the civil war a: a Confederate brigadier general.
 Linn Boyd of Paducah, Ky, who came to the House in 1895, served a number of terms until 1855 He was speaker in 1851 in the Thirty-second Congress
 and in 1853, speaker of the Thirty-thir Congress
 In December, 1855, after the memora
 ble election Nathaniel P. Banks o
 Massachusetts became speaker. Wher he left the House he became governor of Massachusetts and served three terms there. In the union, army h, was a major general.
 In the Thirty-fifth Congress, 1857 James L. Orr of South Carolina becam. speaker. He had been representativ, .Sv 4