Evening star., 1923-12-05

hrst chance to meet their colleagues,
as they know themselves.
Many interesting glimpses of the
human side of the 5S1 memb ars of the
House and Senate gathered from al
parts of the forty-eight states and
territories are found in this latest
autobiographical work. a number of
the members are conspicuous by the
notation unmarried which appears
In their biographies, while some of
the older married men boast OF the
number of their offspring. The war
records, Of many members of Congress
prove interesting reading.
Representative Frank ]. McNulty of
Newark, ". J., was born in Ireland in
1872; his father was a civil war vet
eran. In 1906 he was selected a m"rn-
Der of commission to study munich
utilities in England, Ireland and
Scotland by the National Civic Fed
Grafton.
Lester Hill Is Baby.
Representative Lester Hill. who
claims to be the baby member OF
Congress, Is a democrat from Ala
bama, twenty nine years old He
served in the Army during the world
war and claims to have been the
youngest president of a school board
ever to have been elected in this
country. He was elected president OF
the Montgomery board of education
when he was twenty-three years Of
age.
Representative James Byron Reed
of Arkansas was presidential cleo
tor in the last presidential election
and was selected as the messenger to
carry the returns for President and
Vice President to Washington.
Representative Tilman Bacon Parks
- Gt Il gnl az
tor i'll 1904 and was the messenger
elected to deliver the vote to the
Nice President in washington,
Representative Patrick 3. O'Su.'i-
van from the fifth district OF Con-
rectieut enlisted in the Navy III l%lS
1T Annapolis and served on the l. s.
=. North Dakota as ensign
Representative William Henry
Hoyce of Delaware admits that while
he was president of the board of edu-
cation at Georgetown, Del. he was
active in bringing about the erection
IF a modern school building ana es-
tablishing high school.
Rathbone Born Here.
Representative Henry r. Rathbone,
republican at large from Illinois, was
born in Washington, February u,
1870. His grandfather was United
states senator from 1861 to 1867. Rep
resentative Rathbone's parents We're
the guests of President and Mrs. Lin
coin in the box at Ford's Theater on
the night of Lincoln's. assassination.
and his father, an Army officer. was
severely wounded by the ass ain
Booth when he endeavored to pu,5t= set
the President.
Representative Morton Denison Hull
of Illinois is president of the Ray
mond Concrete Pile Company.
REPRESENTATIVE William T. Hull of
Illinois says he is a graduate of Lew
iss"n High School a business man and
il married.
Representative Allen F. Moore of
Illinois announces that he will not be
q candidate for reelection in 1924
Representative william T. Wilson
Of Indiana has held the position OF
teacher, principal and owner OF the
Evansville College from which he
graduated. Retiring from college
work he became an accountant for a
wholesale hardware firm, then secre-
tary-treasurer of an insurance com
pany. later becoming a certified ppb-
lie accountant During the war he
was an explosive license agent for
Vanderburgh Company, and a mem
ber of the Limit Club. In all politi-
cal campaigns in which Mr.. Wilson
has taken part he has led his ticket"
his biography says He is a thirty
second degree Scottish Rite Mason,
Il Shriner, a knight Templar and d
knight of Pythias, a member of the
Chamber - Commerce, a Presbyter-
ian, Rotarian and Turner.
Lawyer and Farmer.
Representative Frank Gardner of
Indiana. says that since 1911 he has
divided his time between the practice
of law and farming"
Representative Henry C. Garfield,
democrat from Indiana, says he
maintained himself and earned his
own way while attending college"
Representative Samuel L. Cook,
eleventh Indiana district, practiced
law for eighteen years end engaged
in some of the important litigation i'll
the circuit and supreme court of the
state.
Representative Hiram X. Evans of
Iowa, who was elected to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Horace NJ. Towner to be Governor of
Porto Rico. served eighteen and one
half years as a judge of the district
court of the third judicial district
Mrs: Evans is also an attorney,
having been admitted to practice be-
tore the supreme court of Iowa and
he United States Supreme Court.
Representative w. III. Sproul of
Kansas who succeeds Philip F. Camp
bell; has worked on the farm and
IN lead. zinc and coal mines" He
has practiced law twentv-nine wears
and incidentally engaged IN the bust
ness OF agriculture, stock raising and
oil and gas
Tydings Is Elaborate
Representative Millard E Tydines,
democrat, of Maryland, has twenty-six
lines of autobiography in the directory,
fourteen of which are devoted to his
Army record.
Representative William p. Connery,
Jr, of Massachusetts. entered the the
atrical profession as actor and after
ward became manager" He enlisted as
private, served nineteen months In
France. taking part in all major. opera.
tions, engagements and battles of the
101st infantry. He was promoted from
private to regimental color sergeant for
Ioeritorious service.
Representative Bob Clancy of Michi-
gan, formerly a government clerk in
Washington, says he is mot married
resides with parents"
Representative Arthur B. Williams of
his summer home. Gull Lake Kalamazoo
county" He is also eX-vce president
and general counsel of the Postum
Cereal Company, and ex-yice president
OF the Michigan Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
Representative Joseph Scott Wolff of
Missouri has nine children.
Representative. James +. Bulbright
o. Missouri. being without means,
earned the money to pay his school ex-
pef1ses while working on a farm and
teaching school,
Leavttf Was Ranger.
Representative Scott Leavitt of Mon
tana went to Oregon in 1901, where ne
took up homestead in the coast range
mountains. meanwhile working in a
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