The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-12-15
BUTLER COUNTY'S
SONS IN Congress
Boyhood Friends Receive
Honors In Recent
Elections.
louisville Herald)

washington, Dec. 8. Butler Coun-
~, KY, will hold a unique position
In the next Congress, for It was tba
Doyhood home of three men who
VIII sit in that body. As schoolboys
Senator John w. Harreld. of Okla
homa' and Congressman-elect Maur-
Ice ii. Thatcher of the Louisville, Dis
trict, lived within a hundred Yards
OF each other, while Congressman-
elect Everett B. Howard. of the First
Oklahoma District, lived less than
three miles away, at Morgantown.
the county seat. Howard and Har-
reid are cousins, and lived at each
others homes in childhood till they
seemed like brothers. Thatcher was
almost as intimate, and the three
were inseparable.
The thres Butler County Kentuck-
ians, who are to meet for the first.
time in many years in the coming
Congress, were. almost inssparabIe in
their younger days. Howard lived in
the county seat and his cousin. john
Harreld. spent every winter as a.
member of the Howard family, so he
could attend the schools of the vii
lage. When summer came Howard
was sent to the country and remained
as member of the Harreld family
till the school bell called him back
to town.
Always Together.
During their childhood days the
trio played, hunted and fished to-
gether and often discussed their am
billions to enter public life whsr they
grew up. But none of them achiev-
ed this ambition till he had left his
boyhood hC.le. Now all three are
to meet in the halls of Congress.
While g.. a young man Howard
emigrated with his parents to Okla
homa. travelling in the old-time prai-
rie schooner with an OK team draw
ing it. He grew up, became promi-
nent citizen in Oklahoma. served on
the state board of affairs. was elected
state auditor and then Gle term in
Congress. In the Republican land
slide of 1920 he was beaten but this
year he was again sent back to Con-
gress from the Tulsa district of Okla
homa. He is a Democrat.
Thatcher left the old home place
next, going to Louisville because it
offered him better prospects than
He studied and prac-
iced law there, became clerk of the
United States Circuit Court, United
States attorney. presiding officer OF
he Panama Canal commission. and
served also as city Councilman in
Louisville. He was elected a mem
Ter of Congress at this election of
November Z. He is a Republican
HarrcId Follows Cousin.
Harreld left Butler County after
lis two playmates did. He also took
Up law, and became the county at
orney of Butler County, Later he.
ollowed his cousk and also went to
oklahoma. There he became an Of
icial of the Federal Court, was nom
mated as a Republican for Congress-
n district usually overwhelmingly
democratic and carried 1t in 1915
his made him senatorial timber and
4 1920 he was elected as the first
republican senator from Oklahoma
Harreld and Howard met here in
921. Harreld as a senator and
toward as a member of the House.
has been many years since Harreld,
toward and Thatcher, the three hoy
God friends from Kentucky. have
et but they are counting on an in
resting recital of the event of
any years when they assemble IN
er the big white dome of the ma
onal capitol next spring as memr
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