Evening star., 1936-11-05
~ the Associated Press.

| Fy the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., November 5-Wu-
liam H. Smathers, A, Democratic
Senator-elect from New Jersey. is a
North Carolinian by birth. His South
ern drawl won the attention Of Re-
publicans and Democrats alike as he
campaigned successfully against the
veteran Republican, Warren Barbour.
A former judge, he was credited
with ridding Atlantic City of lawless-
ness. Smathers' hobby is dogs, and he
follows them over the fields in q hunt
when he seeks relaxation.
BOSTON. November S (P.-Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr., 34-year r-old Repub-
lican, became Massachusetts, United
States Senator-elect only four years
after he launched his political career
by winning a seat In the State House
of Representatives.
A grandson of the famed Henry
Cabot Lodge, who was a Senator for
81 years, Lodge likes to keep in the
background his family tradition. He
is Harvard graduate, former news
paper man, is married and has two
children.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., November S
(P.-Theodore Francis Green, Rhode
Islands Democratic Governor. who is
now United States Senator-elect, is
an energetic campaigner and tennis
devotee, despite his SO years.
He boasts a scholastic background
at Brown, Harvard and the UNIVERSE
ties of Bonn and Berlin. and traces
his ancestry to Colonial days. Green
is a bachelor millionaire, a lawyer,
and has wide business interests. He
has been perhaps Rhode Islands
most active chief executive.
CONCORD, N. H., November 5
OH. Styles Bridges. United States
Senator-elect from New Hampshire
at 80, is rising figure in the Re-
publican ranks. Two years ago his
election as Governor was his first
quest for public Office.
Bridges worked on a farm when
he became fatherless at 9 and has
maintained interest In agricultural
development. He Is fond of out
door life and often goes hunting or
fishing with his three children.
DOVER, Del, November R.-
James H. Hughes, white-haired, &c.
year-old lawyer-banker, spent As years
in politics as a Democratic worker
and leader before being elected to
the United States Senate from Della
ware.
He traces a typical "farm-boy-to-
success" career. He formerly was
editor and publisher of the Dover
Index and bank director. From
1897 to 1901 Hughes was secretary
of state.
MONTPELIER, VT. November S (P).
-Vermont's new Governor, George
D. Aiken, took up politics after build
ing a reputation and a business as
an agriculturist and nursery man.
He became part owner of an or
chard at 20 with borrowed capital.
Now he ships evergrowing plants to
every State in the Union. He is a.,
married and the father of four chill
dren. He is still farmer and swept
the farm vote in campaign for the
governorship.
B % STON, November (P-
Charles F. Hurley, a tall and husky
Democrat of Cambridge, at AZ is the
youngest man elected Governor of
Massachusetts, in Is years. He has
been State treasurer since 1880, the
first Democrat to hold that Office in
two decades.
In his scholastic days he played
base ball, foot ball and hockey. After
two years at Boston College he left to
seek employment and wound up in the
real estate business. He is married
and the father of four children.
CONCORD, N. H., November S (P,.
Francis Parnell Murphy, who manu-
factures millions of shoes annually, but
who once walked barefoot through
frosty pastures because he didn't have
any is New Hampshire's Governor
elect.
Murphy, Republican, has been in
terested in politics for years. Be-
sides his business and political activ-
tiles, he is sports enthusiast. He
is married and the father of five chill
dren.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., November 5
P,.-Robert Emmett Quinn. Rhode
Islands second Democratic Governor
IN succession, long has been identified
with the States political life.
He was a close ally of Gov.
Theodore Francis Green in the up
heaval of 1884 that saw the Demo-
Gratis sweep the balance of power in
State offices. He is AZ, short, stocky
and aggressive, plays golf, likes to at
tend horse races and is an accom-
plished orator.