Evening star., 1937-01-24
Capital Sideligghts
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Since the first session of the First Con-
gress, on March 4, 1789 there have been
more than 10000 members of the House
of Representatives. Only nine of these
have been elected IS successive times
including the present dean Of the House,
Representative Adolph j. SABBATH of
Illinois. ranking member of the Rules
Committee, and Edward T. Taylor of
Colorado. ranking member of the Ap-
preparations Committee, chairman of
the Interior Department Subcommittee
and chairman of the Democratic caucus,
and acting majority leader for eight
months in the last Congress. The 13
others we're: Kelly, Bingham and Butler
of Pennsylvania, Gillett of Massachu-
sets, Pou of North Carolina, Haugen of
Iowa and Vice President Garner Of
Texas.
Fifty-five years ago Taylor was first
principal of the Leadville, Colo, High
School. Twenty years ago he did a big
Job for the Democratic party-he Or
ganized the Bureau Of Naturalized Citi-
zens at the national headquarters in
Chicago and conducted the campaign
through "A Western States for the votes
for foreign-born citizens Of 46 different
The two Senators from Colorado illus
trate that youth, whether educated at
aristocratic Yale or on cattle ranch,
can win his way to political preferment
Senator Alva B. Adams is serving his
second stint" in the upper" branch of
the National Legislature-frst by ap-
pointment by the Governor in 1923 and
now by election in 1882. Senator Edwin
c. johnson was raised on a cattle ranch
in Western Nebraska, started working on
the railroad as a section hand. learned
telegraphy and became train diSpatcher;'
homesteaded in Northwestern Colorado
and his homestead was developed into
a cattle ranch. He served eight years in
the Colorado House, two as Lieutenant
Governor and four years as Governor.
Senator Chavez of New Mexico was
Senate clerk 18 years ago.
Representative Anne j. Forand Of
Rhode Island was secretary to a House
member six years ago.
Representative r. P. Hill of Oklahoma
has represented two States in Congress
first from the twenty-f1fth Illinois
district, "a years ago. and now from the
fifth Oklahoma district, where he was
serving as a district judge when elected.
Senator Ellison D. Smith of South
Carolina Is dean of the Democratic
Senators, while Senator William e.
Borah is dean of the Republican Sena-
tors and was elected two years ahead Of
Smith. Borah has served since March
4, 1907.
Next October Senator Theodore F.
Green of Rhode Island will have COM
pleted the proverbial three score years
and ten" He has had a crowded life.
replete with achievement Graduated
from Brown University when he was 20;
postgraduate work at Harvard, Bonn
and Berlin Universities; practicing law
since 1894; instructor in Roman law at
Brown University; lieutenant in Spanish
American War; in State Legislature 30
years ago; elected Governor in 1882
and reelected by largest vote ever cast
for any candidate in the State; hospital
trustee; Red Cross secretary: delegate to
international convention in 1912; director
Providence Athenaeum; organizer and
chairman of Board Of Brown Union;
DdIlh VII CCLUl IcCcltcE fdllO Idil-
roads and other businesses; chairman
Providence City Plan Commission; ma
tional president Morris Plan Bank Asso-
citation; trustee Brown University; pub
lie library trustee; member Council OF
Legal Education of American Bar Asso-
citation; active in countless eductional,
philanthropic and social organizations;
fellow of American Academy of Arts
and Sciences: hereditary member OF
the Society of the Cincinnati in State
of Rhode Island-and that's still skip
ping lot.
Representative Lawrence E. Imhoff
Of Ohio was an enlisted man in the
Marine Corps in the World War and
wounded three times in the Second
Battle of the Marne. After the war
he studied law and was admitted to
practice seven years ago.
Representative Walter G. Andrews OF
New York served on the Mexican border
and in France. He was wounded In
action and awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross.
Representative Robert l.. Bacon OF
New York also served on the Mexican
border and in the World War and was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal. He now holds the rank Of colonel
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