The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-10

HARRISBURG, West Virginia,
 Jan. 10-Guy Despard Golf, former
 United States Senator of West
 Virginia, has passed away at Thomasville, Georgia.
 If Golf had been able to say
 mo" and mean it at one time
 during his career, then the story ] of his life might have been vastly
 different from what it was
 In December of 1920 he wanted
 to return to private life. He had served as special assistant to the
 Attorney General of the United
 States under Woodrow Wilson was
 Colonel in the Judge Advocates office during the World War, and had just rounded out a term of service as General Counsel and
 member of the United States Ship
 ping Board
 , Fond of travel and study, he had
 planned an extended trip abroad
 Golf had bought his steamship
 ticket and was readyAto sail when President Harding summoned him
 to the White House.
 T want you to be Assistant to
 the Attorney General of the Unit ed States" said Mir Harding.
 Thank you, MT. President" re-
 piled Golf, but, no"
 MT Harding would not take sno' for an answer, and after he saw
 that his arguments were of no
 avail, he called in Irvine L. Len
 root, then Senator from Wiscon-
 sin. The two finally persuaded
 Golf to accept. He served for IA months, then resigned and return
 ed to his native state of West Vir- ginia to attend to private affairs.
 But before he realized it he was in politics again, this time as
 candidate for the Republican nom nation for his fathers old seat in
 the United States Senate. He not
 only won the nomination, but was
 successful in the general election ) in the year that his old friend
 and fellow townsman, John w. ! Davis, was the Democratic Presi-
 dential nominee. He took his seat in the United States Senate for
 the term commencing March 4, 1925.
 J West Virginian Senator Golf was born at Clarks- burg, w. Va. September 13, 1869, son of Nathan and Laura E. (Des- . pardD Golf His father was Sec retary of the Navy, for short time in the Hayes Cabinet and { served as United States Senator , from West Virginia from 1913 to 1 1919.
 I Senator Guy Golf married Anita . Baker of Wheeling, w. Va, in ! l9O6 They had one daughter I Mrs. Louise Reece, wife of Carroll 4 Reece, Representative in Congress { from the first district of Ten ! nessee.
 l Golf was educated in Kenyon ! College, Gambler, Ohio, and at ' Harvard University. He received his law degree from the Harvard ! law school in 1891, and began the Sr practice of law in Boston
 Shortly thereafter, however. he
 moved to Wisconsin and establish
 ed himself at Milwaukee where ; his rise to the legal profession was : rapid.
 In High Positions A four year term as prosecuting { attorney of Milwaukee County was followed by Goff's appointment in 1911 by President Taft as United States District Attorney for the Eastern district of Wisconsin. He was summoned to Washington ir
 1915 by President Wilson, who ap- ] pointed him Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the Unit { ed States. From that time on he held a marked position in Nation S al affairs
 Senator Golf was West Virgin ias "favorite son. for the Presi- '. dency of the United States ir 1928. He defeated President Hoo- yer in the Presidential preferen- tial primaries prior to the Kan sas City convention and won Is
 of the States delegation of IS
 delegates to his banner After Hoover was nominated however Golf again stumped the state urg- ing Hooyer's election.
 Staunch Republican Goff's committee assignments
 as a member of the Senate in- l. cluded the Judiciary. Interstate q Commerce, Privileges and Elec-
 tions, Claims, and Mines and Min |