Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-10-11
Our Next United States Senator.

union there is strength.
Our Next United States Senator.
The recent republican primaries in
Vermont nominated Representative
Frank L. Greene of the First Con-
gressional District for United States
senator to succeed Senator Carroll >.
Page, who declined to be a candidate
for another term on account OF fall-
ing health says a Washington paper.
Vermont enjoys the unique dis
tinction among the states OF the
Union of having been continuously
represented in both the United
States Senate and the House OF Rep
resentatives by Republicans ever
since the organization OF the RepuDll-
can party. During this pc
riod of sixty-six years the Green
Mountain state has never elected
Democratic electoral ticket nor
Democratic governor. The Legls!a-
can in both the state Senate and the
| House of Representatives.
| When Representative Greene pass
es from the House to the Senate on
March A next. to take his seat as the
successor of Senator Page. he will be
the eleventh Republican senator
from Vermont in an unbroken party
line. His predecessors, Jacob Cola
, mer, Solomon Foote, Justin S. Morrill,
Luke P Poland, George F. Edmunds,
Redfeld Proctor, John w. Stewart,
Jonathan Ross, William P. Dilling-
ham and Carroll S. Page, constitute
a galaxy of strong men of national
reputation. Of the entire number
only one. Justin S. Morrill,, was di-
rectly promoted from the lower to the
| upper house of Congress, and Con-
gresham Greene will therefore be
| the second so honored. Neither Sen
ator Morrill, nor Representative
Greene ever held an elective public Of
flee before entering Congress. 1t IS
regarded as a remarkable recogn1-
ton of Mr.. Greene's standing in his
native state that he was unopposed
! in the primaries, and was by common
consent conceded in advance a NOM.
nation that is tantamount to an cleo
ton.
Frank Lester Greene
Frank Lester Greene, the next SEN
ator from Vermont was born in St.
Adams. VT, February 10 1870. Ow-
| ing to family reverses he was
obliged to leave school at the age >of
thirteen and look position as errand
boy in the audit office of the Central
Vermont railway. Taking up the
study of shorthand he quickly perfect
ed himself therein and in a years
time became stenographer in the
roads general freight department.
Subsequently he was promoted to
chief clerk post which he held until
| ko ilrn nj Cr
and entered the newspaper field as a
reporter for the ST. Adams Daily
Messenger. A year later he had ris-
en- to the position of assistant editor,
and in 1899 was rendered and &C
cepted the editorship.
Early taking keen interest in mil
itary matters. Mr.. Greene served in
the Vermont National Guard from
October 4, 1888 to 1900, advancing
from private to captain. When the
war with Spain broke out he recruit
ed Company B. First Infantry, YER
mont Volunteers and was mustered
into the United States service as its
captain serving for a time as adj
1 jutant general Third Brigade, First
Division Third Army Corps. At the
close of the war, terminating a SER
vice that nearly cost him his life due
to typhoid fever contracted in the
army, Capt. Greene was commission
ed Colonel and Aid-de-C Camp on the
staff of Governor Edward c. Smith
of Vermont.
In 1908 Col. Greene was delegate
at large to the Republican National
convention and in 1914 was chair
man of the Vermont State Republi-
can convention. Although serving
his state well as the governors ap-
pointee on various commissions, one
of which was called upon to prepare
and propose amendments to the state
constitution his first candidacy for
and election. to public office came
when he was chosen to represent the
state in the Sixty-second Congress in
filing out the unexpired term of the
late David j. Foster. He has remain
ed in the House ever since land has be-
come a recognized authority on leg
islation pertaining to the military es-
tablishment his counsel and influence
as a leading member of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs having
had much to do with the shaping of
laws in that field. He is also mem
Der of the House Steering Committee.
Mr.. Greene is married and has
three children. He holds the hon
orary degree Of Am. and LID. con-
ferred upon him by Norwich Univer-
sity. He is one of the regents of the
Smithsonian Institution.
While he regards all question in
Congress primarily from the broad
viewpoint of an American, Represen-
tative Greene is ever mindful of the
interest of his home state and no
more loyal Vermonter ever filled a
seat in Congress. 1t is his habit to
bring to bear upon all problems of
statecraft, whether Immediately af-
fecting his section of New England or
a national scope, a native shrewd-
ness and a penetrating insight that
give weight and balance to his con-
illusions. A keen sense of humor
and an ever-ready fund of anecdotes
have created for him place among
the best debaters in the lower
branch. SO that when he transfers his
!, sphere of activity to the northern
wing of the Capitol the transition
will mean a distinct loss to the
House and noteworthy acquisition