The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-24
REPRESENTATIVES
FROM THIS TOWN
Thirty-onee Of IS Elected
Have Served Two or
More Terms
TWO WERE ELECTED
TEN TIMES EACH
They Were Judge Lemuel Whitney and
Samuel Elliot George L. Durham,
Present Representative, First to Be
Reelected Since 1902.

says the Brattieboro letter in the
Springfield Sunday Republican One
hears these criticisms so often about
not only the present, but preceding
legislatures that it seems proper to stop
for time to consider the matter and
see what the facts actually show.
Windham county furnishes % rep
resentatives and two senator's Sanford /
a. Daniels, one of the leading insurance I
agents, and L. c. Tenncy, who until !
recently had been manager for many
years Of the Scott farm at Dummerston
both of Brattleboro, represent Wind |
ham county in the. smaller house of the
general assembly. The representatives
are mostly hard-headed, well-to-do
farmers, who are leaders in their re
| spectivc towns. The state as well as
the county is fortunate in having in
the person of A. f. Cudworth of South
Londonderry, a representative who is a
lawyer of wide repute and an authori-
/ ty on parliamentary law and procedure
| Several times during tho present session
when The lawmakers did something ir-
regular and knew not the way ont. has
| Mr. Cudworth come to The rescue and
/ guided the ship of state over the tur-
bulent waters to a safe haven
4 George L. Durham, the representative
i from Brattlehoro, is a successful bust
4 ness. man. who for the second time has
answered the call of his town. He has
laid down personal and business duties
and has given himself nnreservedlv to
the work in hand. Mr.. Durham is a con
i structionist. With his brother. the late
4 Charles w Durham, he came here from
Maine some 80 wears ago and bought
a small retail shoe business. They did
something like Sl2e000 worth of bust
ness the first YEAR, From then until the
!. present time. the business has grown
continually until today the annual
> sales run into the millions. With such
men as these from all parts looking
t after the states affairs it is not reason
T able TO presume thar the legislature
will. be led very far astray
1t has been quite the custom in re-
D cent years for Brattleboro to elect a
) new man as representative FOR every
: session hut Mr.. Ddnham was reelected
/ for a second term, which he Is now
: serving. A reelection of representa-.
+ tive had not occurred before in Brat
+ tleboro since 1909, when DIR. James
5 Conland was chosen for second term.
In the early history of the town this
was not the method. Out OF the IS
IS men who have been elected to the office
d OF representative from time to time in
5 Brattleboro 81 of them have served
/. more than one term and from I7Sn
J. When Samuel Wells, who was the first
! Brattleboro representative, took Office
I up to 1869, there were but II men whc
n served only one term. From 1870 to the
4 resent time. only four men out OF tn,
d 20 elected have been called upon 10 at
IT tend the legislature as a Representative,
more than one tenn. These are Col
kittredge Haskins, who was chosen ii
1t 1872 96-9e; Col. George w. Hooker
ii elected in lSS0So, DIR. James Conland
T. who was elected to the office in 1854
/. 1902 and Mr.. Durham in l9I6-lS. Sine,
t. 1896, only one man has held the Office
I'd for more than two terms and that wa
7; the late Col. Kittredge Haskins. VIII,
Of served three terms. Judge Lemuel Whit
e ney served 10 terms during the wears
e 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1897, 1927. 1881
y; 1882, 1884. 1886. and Samuel Elliot pu
It in the same length OF time during iii
4 years 1913, 1914. 1915. 1922 1928. 1926
10 1926. 1928 1929 and 1880 Samue
Knight who was first elected in Isl
was the second man to act as repre-
sentative He was reelected during tn
Years 1888, 1884. 1885. 1889 and l791
Josiah Adams, John Moves and Samug
"a Clark. each served four terms, an
Israel Smith, Jehn W. Blake and Jona
than Hunt jr besides Col Haskins dc
NJ voted themselves for three terms TO th
or work.
.es The list of representatives also COZ
ire tains the names of such well-know
Il public spirited men in the earlier dav
.oo as John Sargent. BENJAMIN Butterfel,
70 Gardner Chandler, John w Blak
rs. Joseph Clark, Jonas Mann, Gardner
lat Hall. Edward Kirkland, Jonathan Dol
RAJ Bradley and Charles Chaplin, all {
u; whom served their day and generation
.he but passed from the scenes of this Iii
~ over 50 years ago.
er, Among those whom. many can +
ny member as strong stalwart defende
~ s of the town IS best interest, not on
the in the legislative halls, but in ever
AT good work, who have now passed o
are found the names of Dr. Henry
eo- Holton, Col Kittredge Haskins, Clarl
ta- G. Fits. James L. Martin, George
iue Hines. Oscar A. Marshall, julius
en-, Fstey, George W. Hooker, Edwal
ma Crosby, Jacob Estey, William II. Roe
'ies well and Seth n. Herrick-
&c In looking over the long list of re
ieFs Erasentatives Brattlebors has ha
as one is impressed with thc general hi.
had :; .asNo,stisIa 81 hal;o,-a -. ~.
ing. +or-as - =, - yah - u az -
guess that as time goes on the histo
om- CT the present legislature will show
try self to be fully on par with any tn
las gone before.