Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-17
GALLINGER,, DEAN
OF SENATE, DIES
Had Been Prominent Fig
ure in National Affairs
Many Years
"A REMARKABLE CAREER
Began as Printer-Then Prac-
ticed Medicine for Twenty.
three Years
A REMARKABLE CAREER

Unlted states senator JACOB GalnngeT,
New Hampshire. died at hospital here
early today.
When Senator Gallinger returned from
washington to his summer home at
Salisbury Heights, near here. i'm July, he
was in poor health. few days ago his
condition became SO much worse that
upon advice of his physician he was
brought to hospital here. Death was
attributed to arterio-sclerosis.
At the Senator's bedside was Mrs.
Ralph Gallinger, widow of Senator Gal
linger's only son. who was killed in an
automobile accident few years ago.
The funeral will be held from the First
baptist Church at Concord on Wednes-
day afternoon. The body was removed
to Concord today.
Senator Gallinger is survived by
daughter, Mrs. Harry A. Norton, of Win
chester. Mass.
Senator Jacob Harold Gallinger, of
New Hampshire, was the oldest member
of the United States Senate, both in
years and in point of service. Ever since
1891 he had been conspicuous figure
In the Senate, taking not only leading
dominating figure in it's leadership and
in the councils of the Republican party.
As minority leader the Senator had been
active until quite recently. despite his
advancing years. His present term. the
NTH. would have expired in 1921.
= Born on a farm at Cornwall, Ontario
eighty-one years ago. he crossed the
border to the United States early in
life. He was a printer first then studied
medicine and practiced as a physician
and surgeon for twenty-three years. In
1872 he entered the New Hampshire
House of Representatives beginning po-
litical activities that continued to the
end of his life.
Senator Gallinger made the S0onding
speech for Benjamin Harrison for Pres
jdent in the National Republican Con-
vention of 1885,. and frequently was a
New Hampshire delegate to the ma
tional conventions. A military title he
bore in the early days, when he was
surgeon general of the New Hampshire
National Guard-brigadier general
was forgotten during his Washington
career where he was proud of the title
Of Doctor" He served in the House in
the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses.
During his continuous service Of twen-
ty-seven years in the Senate he had
been active on the committees dealing
with finance, appropriations, rules and
government of the District Of Columbia.
He fought long for his ocean mail sub
sidy bill to build up the American mer-
chant marine, and it passed the Senate,
only to fail in the House. He was the
Republican nominee for president pro
tenn. Of the Senate in 1911. Two months
later, when his son, Ralph Gallinger, was
killed in an automobile accident he suf-
fered so greatly from depression that
his friends were anxious over his condi-
tion for a long time.
Always forceful in his public decara-
tions, Mr.. Gallinger created sensation
by telling the Senate lobby committee in
1913 that President Wilson has come
''perilously near lobbying" in connection
with the tariff bill. He declared that
in his four years in the House and
twenty-five years in the Senate he had
never encountered improper influence
nor lobby methods, and that he had
mo interests outside of a little rocky
farm in New Hampshire" where he
raised hay and apples.
The Senator made a long fight against
confirmation of George s. Rublee, OF
: New Hampshire, as member of the
i Federal Trade Commission, which even.
tuallr resulted in Mr.. Rublee leaving the
board, after serving without confirma
tion and on recess appointments.
During the war Senator Gallinger haG
stood with the President on national de
fense measures. He had pending a res
s plution for day of prayer for the wei
rs fare of the American cause in the war.
~ Senator Gallinger married in 1861
& Mary Anna Bailey, of Salisbury, N. H.
who died in Washington in 1907.