The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
|On March 4 Four More Ala bamians Will Retire From the Lower House
ONE EX-CONGRESSMAN. NOW IS IN PUBLIC LIFE
|Jere N. Williams Is Only Living Ex. Congressman Who Was Elected From Alabama in Carpet bagger Days
Ky HUGH w. ROBERTS


 k~7HERE are living F former Ala 8 bama. congressman. On March :$--.-4 1. next year. there will be four AilSesaS2f others, Oscar w. Underwood,
 Ewho will become senator, Richmond P. kHobson. c. c. Harris and ]. J. Speight, gwho will retire to private life.
 | Of the F ex-congressmen, only one Is sstill in public life. John H. Bankhead, Id fter having been beaten by Captain Hob sson, was elected to the Senate, in which Abranch he is still serving.
 I The 12 former congressman are Jere N. HWilliams of Clayton Hillary A. Herbert 5of Washington, J. II. Bankhead of Jas- sper. Jesse F. stallings of Birmingham, fGeorge P Harrison of Opelika, William fF. Aldfich of Aldrich, Albert T. Good swyn of Wetumpka. M. w. Howard of Birmingham, Henry D. Clayton of Clay Hton. Thomas s. Plowman of Talladega, e3Sidney J. Bowie of Birmingham and Will s.liam B. Craig of Selma.
 il MT Williams was elected in 1875 to the HTorty-fourth Congress. He served the Fortyfifth Congress. He His the only living Alabamian who was Eselected to Congress during the carpet xbagger days. MT. Williams has retired from active life, and is a highly respected X citizen of Barbour county.
 The congressman most recently to be- jcome an ex-congressman is Henry D. kClayton also a native of Clayton. He ltwas elected in 1897 to serve in the Fifty tfifth Congress He retired last month to flaccept the Presidents appointment as zifederal judge of the northern and middle districts of Alabama.
 Il There are four ex-congressmen who are Ihrumbered among the residents Of Blr- |fmingham They are Jesse F. Stallings, .1Willam F. Aldrch, M w. Howard and Sidney j. Bowie. MT. Howard and MT. Aldrich were republican congressman MT. t tAldrich, in the Fffty-fourth Congress, un- seated Gaston A. Robbins, and in the RFifty-fifth Congress, unseated Thomas 5. |sPlowman. Thereafter he was known no Emore as congressman. MT. Howard served in the Fifty-fourth and Fffty-fifth ECoreresses He gained his seat by de- feating William H. Denson, and lost his \ seat at the polls to the present repre- .sentative of the Seventh district, John l.. \ Burnett.
 MT. stallings served the Second district
 from 1893 to 1901 in the Fifty-third- Fifty |Ifcl rth. Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con |sresses He was eventually succeeded by
 Ariosto A. Wiley, who, incidentally, was
 snother native of Clayton. MT. Wiley Is Vdeceased.
 MT Bowie the fourth ex-congressn1an
 how resident of Birmingham, was elect
 led by. the people of the Fourth district Fin 191 He served in the Fifty-seventh
 land Fifty-eighth Congresses and during
 lthe Fifty-ninth retired. He could have
 |served as long as he desired. Mir. Bowie
 Twas succeeded by William B. Craig of tlSelma, who completed the Fifty-ninth |.Congress and served through the Sixtieth land Sixty-hrst He then voluntarily re- |xtired and is now a prominent attorney of K his native city. Selma. He was suc- \ ceeded by Fred BlaclSmon of Anniston. twho is still in harness.
 M There were squally times In the Fifty Efourth Congress. Then MT. Aldrich and |fMr Howard. republicans, already men {fioned, served George P Harrison served E1uring that Congress and was succeeded EIn 1898 by Henry D. Clayton. General &fIarrison is now living in Opelika and ks one of the best known men of the Estate. Tn the Fifty-fourth Congress, A. fT Goodwin of Wetumpka, father of Ty- |kter Goodwin, obtained a seat by depriv- ling James E. Cobb of that honor. Mir.
 Goodwyn was known then as populite.
 His tenure of office was brief. Thomas IS Plowman. in that Congress, acquired |.a seat, but was unseated by MT. Aldrich.