Evening star., 1939-12-03
Capital SideIights
BIZ viii P. Kennedy

The 26th woman member OF Congress,
Mrs. Clara G. Mcmillan of South Caro-
lima, who will be sworn in on January 3
as elected successor to her late husband,
Representative Thomas S. Mcmillan,
has gone home to Charleston to make
Merry Christmas" for her five sons.
She is already we'll known in Washing
ton, having spent much of her time
here during the past Is years while her
also an active D. A. r. worker, State
chairman Of the D. A. r. Legislative
Committee, and has repeatedly been a
delegate to the D. A. r. Congress. The
William James Gooding Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
was named for her grandfather. Mrs.
Mcmillan admits to no hobbies outside
of raising her sons, but she can farm,
is a good fisherman and enjoys hunting.
She is an organist and used to play the
church organ. She attended two col
leges-the Confederate College in
Charleston, S. c., and the Flora Mac
Donald College in Red Springs, N. c.
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and one brother, and at one time taught
school, She does her own thinking,
and those who know her predict that
some of the politicians in her district
have surprise coming to them. She
comes into her new job with a some
thing like six-to-one victory over three
opponents. She was urged to make the
race by Gov Bernard r. Maybank, the
Mayor of Charleston, Henry w. Lock-
wood, and the nine State Senators in
that congressional district. She has
requested that she be assigned to work
on three ommittees-InSular Affairs,
Public Buildings and Grounds and Ter
ritories Her secretaries are Mrs. D. j.
Guthridge, who is her sister, and Miss
A. M. Huguenin. Mrs. Guthrie was en-
ployed for two years in the office of
Representative Mcmillan.
When Mrs. Mcmillan returns to take
up her duties in the House her three
youngest sons will watch from the gal
lery as she takes the oath of office. Her
oldest son, Thomas Sanders Mcmillan,
jr., just turning 20, will graduate in Feb
ruary from the University of South Car
olina. He is familiarly known as
Sandy" and has the distinction of COM
pleting his college course in two and
half years. When he gets his A. B. de-
gree he will have some surplus credits
toward his A. M. degree. He also has
many friends in Washington and worked
for year as messenger in the Depart
ment of Justice while taking night
courses in George Washington Univer-
sity. In college he starred in football
and on the track. Next in line is James
Carroll, aged II, who is senior in the
Charleston High School. Jimmie" is
very like his father in physical makeup,
in characteristics and mannerisms and
intends Ito be politician" The third
son, William, Gooding, aged IS, is also
in high school,; the fourth, Edward
Webb, aged 10, is in junior high school.
Mrs. Mcmillan is planning to bring the
latter three back to Washington. Her
mother, Mrs. w. J. Gooding, is staying
with the family. Next summer the fam
lily will be reunited at their summer
home on Sullivans Island. where Fort
Moultrie Is located.
Mrs. Mcmillan is the second woman
to become House member from South
Carolina and will be the sixth woman
in the present Congress. The others are
Mrs. Norton. New Jersey. chairman of
the Labor Committee. who has been in
service Is years: Mrs. Rogers, Massa-
chusetts, in service IA years; Mrs. ODay,
personal friend Of the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, who came to the House
five years ago, and Miss Summers of
Illinois, serving her first term. Mrs Hat
tie Caraway, who came to the Senate in
1881, is the first and only woman ever
elected to the United States Senate,
although three others have had brief
service thsrA BY appointment.