Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-17

Brief biographical sketches of the 1 candidates who have been nominated by the republicans for the election on | November follow:
 Frank Bosworth Brandesee. Frank Bosworth Brandegee, of New London, the Republican party's unan- | lmous nominee for United States Sen ator, is recognized throughout the en- tlre country as one of the strongest | men in the Senate today He has served in that body since May g, 1905, | having been reelected on January 20, l 1909. His nine years of service has been so able in the interests of Con- necticut and in the interests of the whole country that his influence today i IS greatly to the benefit of this state Frior to being elected United States senator he served three terms as a | II member Of Congress following experi- ence In the House of Representatives at Hartford, one term as Speaker of the House.
 Senator Brandegee is in the prime of iite being fifty years old. a big upstand- ing man of health and viEor. He WAS born in New London July 8, 1864. edu- cated In the schools of his native city ana was graduated from Yale College in The class Of 1885. Three years later he was admitted to the Connecticut bar ana at once took rank as an able and eonscientious and fearless lawyer His ability and the respect of all who came 10 know of and about him led the , community where he lived to send him
 10 the state Legislature and from there on to the higher honor and the weight
 Ter duties above enumerated.
 m congress, both in the House of , representatives and in the Senate, MT
 voted for the advancement of Con- necticuts business interests and Con-
 necticuts wage earners. His earnest
 advocacy of the rights of men to do
 business with fair chance to make an |, , honest profit, and his insistance on
 safe and saneAgovernmentaI policy that , will give back to American working s men prosperity because of protection 10 industries make him the man of the day to elect to the United States Sen
 ate.
 vl Marcus Hensey Holeomh. = Marcus Hensey Holcomb, nominee Il Tor Governor, is one of the judges of . the Superior Court of the state As such he has the respect of every law t yer in Connecticut. He has the high
 under him and of those who have been
 parties to suits over the hearing of
 which he has presided.
 q Judge Holcomb was born on a farm a in New Hartford. Litchfield County, t Connecticut, on November 18th, Is44
 the son of Carlos Holconab and Adah
 farmer.
 h Judge Holcomb attended public and g private schools, studied law with Judge q Jared P. Foster of New Hartford and s was admitted to the bar at Litchield
 Connecticut, in 1871. In 1872 he went o to Southington and commenced to I practice law and he has remained there
 ever since. For thirty years he was
 judge of probate for the district of
 Southingten and judge of the town
 court of Southington. He has been = treasurer of Hartford County and in Hn rx-o~ T - district. In 1902 he was a member e of the Constitutional Convention and in = 1905 he was Speaker of the House.
 In 1906 he was elected Attorney Gen : eral of Connecticut by 21.o00 plurality. = He has been president of the South l ington Savings Bank. a director in the = Southington National Bank, in the 1t Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, the
 Southington Cutlery Company. the d Aetna Nut Company and the Atwater y Manufacturing Company. and the re-
 ceiver of the Cooperative Savings So- | ciety of Connecticut
 In religious views he is a Baptist He
 has many fraternal ties, being thirty
 second degree Mason, a member of the n Order of the Mystic Shrine. of the a Knights of Pythias, of the Order of the $ Elks. the Order of Red Men, the O. U.
 A. M., and the Foresters.
 si Judge Holcomb states very concisely
 and forcibly the practical advice he 2 gives to others when he says that the = three essentials of success are hon
 esty, industry, and sobriety." ..
 Clifford B. Wilson.
 Clifford B. Wilson, Republican nom-
 inee for lieutenant governor: is at
 present Mayor of the city of Bridge / port, and is well known throughout the
 state as a leader in good government.
 He was born in Bridgeport, December s ?, 1879, graduating from the High
 School in 1898, studied law and was
 admitted to practice law in 1902. In a 1907 1t was Alderman Wilson by the
 suffrage of the voters and in 1908 the n young lawyer became President of the e Aldermanic Board and acting Mayor s The following year he was made Cor : oner for Fairfield County The people if of Bridgeport liked his record and in s November, 1911 elected MT. Wilson
 Mayor of the city of Bridgeport by e 2S0 plurality. and in November, 1913 2 put their further approval on him by re- electing him Mayor by 2142 plu- @ rality.
 Mayor Wilson is unmarried, of genial " and whole souled temperament, earnest and strong in his friendship, Mayor II Wilson is thirty second degree d Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows,
 Elks, Sons of Veterans and Schwae-
 bischer- -Mannerchor.
 Charles D. Burnes.
 s Charles D. Burnes, of Greenwich s nominee for Secretary of State. is a e prominent lawyer of Fairfield County
 He was born in Berlin. Conn. August s 4, 1871. He attended Wesleyan Uni d versity two years in the class of 1892
 was graduated from the Yale Law L. School in the Class of 1893, and was . admitted to the bar the same year and
 immediately began to practice at Soutf
 Norwalk. MT. Burnes went to Green
 wich in July, 1894, and was elected
 deputy registrar of voters and latel
 clerk of the borough court, and in 1Ssi Ie was elected Judge of the Borough . Court He is married and has one son " Judge Burnes was a member of tho
 General Assembly of 1907 serving al