The Little River news., 1922-12-02
ROSTER OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS
Giving Politics, Religion, Age and Other Personal In.
 formation.

ene 11Ih NeHeIdl ASSemDly or Arkan-
 sas shows that our law makers fo.'
 1923 are a mature body of men. The
 average age of the 35 members of the
 Senate is A years and that of the
 House is 46 years. The oldest memb-
 CT of the Senate is Robert J. Wilson,
 aged 72, of Washington county, repre-
 senting the 9th District, who has serv-
 ed many terms in the legislature The
 youngest member is David c. Arnold,
 aged 26, of Texarkana, representing
 the 21st District consisting of Colum-
 bia, Lafayette and Miller. The old-
 est member of the House is Dr. s. A.
 Hoover of Drew county, who admits
 S1 years and who was elected to his
 second term and is still as active as many men half his age The honor of
 being the 'baby'' of the House is shar- ed equally by Mark Grimes of Arkan- sas and Cecil Portis of Ashley, each of whom is A years old
 The political complexion of the As sembly is strongly Democratic hi fact there are no Republicans in the Senate at all and only in the House. These are Luther H. Perry of Logan, Charles R. Spradley of Newton, D. G. Horn of Searcy and Joe Johnson of Madison. For the first time in tile history of the legislature there will be a woman member, rather two memD- CTS, Miss Erie Chambers of Pulaski and Mrs. Frances M Hunt of Jeffes- son.
 Twenty-two members of the Senate claim Arkansas as their native state, while 59 Representatives are net d. sha.ned to admit that they are natives Of rhe Wonder State. In the senate Illinois and Mississippi gre represent
 ,d by twc members each, while ken. tI,~y *as one and Tennessee three. In House Mississippi, Kansas, Penn syiyania. Colorado, Illinois and Aep- lucky ia,e one ca :b. l. ';isiana, !,..I- gia, Texas and South Carolina have two each and Tennessee has seven.
 VOcationally the lawyers dominate the senate with 16 members, while there are eight farmers, two editors, one county judge, one railroad con- ductor, one oil and gas, inspector, one and three merchants. A close distinction is drawn by one Sen- ator who classifies himself as an at torney while the other limbs of the law are classed as lawyers. The House is dominated by an agricultur- al bloc, there being 42 farmers, while the lawyers can claim only 20. There are four teachers, three insurance agents, one abstractor, one singing master, one county road superintend- ent, one Grand Secretary of the Royal Arch, one civil engineer, one justice of the peace, two expert accountants, one circuit clerk, one social worker, one home keeper (whose identity it is not difficult to ascertaim, two editors, two real estate agents, two preachers. Hyphenated Occupati ms are quite popular among the members of the House as shown by the fact that there ale two merchant-farmers, one farm, (the distinction is not clear), ono pub r-manufacturer, one banker-mer- chant, one farmer-teacher, one cditor- publisher, one farmer"banker and one farmer-b blacksmith.
 church utilization, there is as great a diversity as on vacations. The Metho- dists have almost a working majority of the Senate with 15 members, while the Baptists are second with Il ana there are two Presbyterians, one Christian, one Protestant and two who do not claim any religion One of the Baptists classifies himself as Hard she'll" The Methodists also predoml- nate in the House with 35 members, while the Baptists are a close secono with 25. The Christians come next with 13 while the Presbyterians have eight and the Episcopalians one. Three are listed as Protestants and one d. Orthodox. There are no Catholics i'll either branch of the General Assem- ply. Six members of the House do not give their denominational affiliations,
 Al least 21 members of the Senate have had previous legislative experi- ence of whom Carl Mum of Nevada R. K. Mason of Ouachita coun- ty, M. B. Norfleet of St. Francis coun- ty and Harvey Parnell of Chicot have been promoted from the Lower House and David c. Arnold of Miller county was a member of the Constitutional A larger number of for