Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
SENATOR WARREN,
DEAN OF CHAMBER,
DIES AT AGE OF IS

DIES AT AGE OF IS
Continued From First Page.)
were appointed by Vice President Curtis
to attend the funeral:
Senators Kendrick Of Wyoming, SIM
mons of North Carolina, Overman Of
North Carolina,s Smoot of Utah, Borah
of Idaho, Fletcher of Florida, Jones of
Washington. Smith of South Carolina,
Swanson of Virginia, Ashurst of Arizona.
Pittman Of Nevada, Sheppard of Texas,
Norris of Nebraska, Ransdell of Louis
lana. Robinson of Arkansas, Walsh of
Montana, Watson of Indiana, Hale of
Maine, johnson of California, Nickel
shire, McNary of Oregon, Harris of
Georgia, Reyes of New Hampshire,
Phipps of Colorado, Glass of Virginia,
Broussard of Louisiana, Norbeck of
South Dakota, Oddie of Nevada, Reed
of Pennsylvania. Copeland of New York,
Fess of Ohio, Metcalf of Rhode Island,
Bingham of Connecticut, Bratton of
New Mexico. Gillett Of Massachusetts,
Pine Of Oklahoma, Sackett of Kentucky,
Nye of North Dakota, Hayden Of Ari-
IONA, and Glenn of Illinois.
were appointed to attend the funeral:
Representatives Carter of Wyoming,
Wood of Indiana, Champion of Mich
igan, Wason Of New Hampshire, Byrnes
of Tennessee, Buchanan of Texas, TIL
son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas,
Cooper of Wisconsin, Stedman Of North
Carolina, Hauden Of Iowa, Pou of North
Carolina, French of Idaho, Smith of
Idaho, Evans Of Montana, Leavitt Of
Montana, and Eaton, Timberlake, Tay-
lor and Hardy, all Of Colorado.
Senator Warren was the third men,
Der Of the Senate and the twelfth men,
Der of Congress to die within the last
nine months. Less than a month ago
Senator Burton of Ohio, another vet
eran of the National Legislature. yield
ed to q lingering illness. and in Au-
gust Senator Tyson of Tennessee died.
In addition, nine members of the
House have died within less than a
year. They were: o. J. Kvale of Min
neSota, Leslie j. Steele of Georgia,
John ]. Casey of Pennsylvania, Whit
nell P. Martin of Louisiana, Charles
w. Roarke of Kentucky, Royal H.
Weller Of New York; Edward J: King
of Illinois, Charles L. Faust OF Mis-
kansas.
Senator Since 1890.
Time was when Thomas Hart Ben
tons service of 80 years in the Sem
ate of the United States constituted a
phenomenal record Many years after
ward that record was considerably sur
passed by William B. Allison, who was
Senator for more than IS years
to yield precedence to the record of
Francis Emroy Warren, who surpassed
the previous mark in 1923. He had
become Senator in 1890. the year of
Wyoming's admission into the Union,
and save for brief interval caused by
the Legislatures deadlock and conse-
quent failure to elect in 1893, he had
served continuously since that time.
Senator Warren also was the oldest
Senator in years of life as well as of
service, and was the only man in either
branch of the Congress who had served
in the Civil War and had received-for
his distinguished gallantry in the his
toric siege and Storming of Port Hudson
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
To this may be added that he was
more than any other man the founder
of the State of Wyoming. that his name
was officially given to the loftieSt noun
tain peak in that State, and that, for
his primacy in the sheep industry, he
shepherd since Abraham"
OF Bay State Ancestry.
Senator Warren was of Massachusetts
ancestry, of the line Of Joseph Warren
of Bunker Hill, and the son of Joseph
S. and Cynthia Estella (Abbott) War
rem. He was born at HinSdale, Mass,
on June 20, 1874. A precociouS child,
he was sent to school at the age of
three years, but before he reached his
teens he was compelled, because of his
fathers financial reverses. to abandon
the schoolhouSe for the farm. He
money sufficient to enable him to re-
turn to the local academy for three
years. Then he returned to farming
as the employe, and presently the
for one of the largest land
holders in that region.
AL this was Before he reached his
eighteenth birthday. Upon attaining
the latter and thus becoming eligible
for military service. he enlisted in the
49th Regiment of Massachusetts, Volun-
teers, at first as private and little
that capacity he served in 1862 and
1863. notably and finally in the des-
perately contested siege of Port Hud-
son. There. on May ~. 1863, he was
one of those who volunteered in the
"forlorn hope" the little company who
rushed upon the Confederate works in
advance of the storming party to fill
with faScineS the ditch in front of the
rampartS so that the storming party
could pass over it. Three-fourths of
the members of the "forlorn hope"
we're killed or wounded and among the
latter was young Warren, who was
stricken senseless by a fragment of a
shell. Thirty years later Congress voted
him its Medal of Honor, reciting in its
order that he volunteered in response
to a call and took part in the move
ment that was made upon the enemy's
works under q heavy fire therefrom in
advance of the general assault" And
66 years after that battle the Senate's
tribute to him on his eighty-flfth birth
day anniversary was voiced chiefly by
Senator Mcclellan Of Tennessee, a son
Of the Confederacy.
Goes West After His Majority.
After being honorably mustered out
of the Army, Warren returned to his
stock farm in Massachusetts,. But soon
afte" attaining his majority he went
West" For time he was foreman of
construction crew on the Rock Island
Railroad in Iowa. But presently o
friend wrote to him from the far west
ern region, which was striving for rec
ignition as an organized territory, tell
ing him Of an opportunity to become
manager Of q mercantile establishment