Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Capitol SideIights
BIZ VIII P. Kennedy.

In the incoming Congress there will be
IA former members who have made
comebacks: Herman P. Kopplemann
and William j. Fitzgerald, Connecticut;
Jared Y. Sanders, jr, Louisiana; George
D. OBrien, Michigan; Miss Jeanette
Rankin, Montana; Elmer H. Wene, New
Jersey; Albert F. Better, New York; Will
liam r. Thorn, Lawrence E. 1mhoff and
Stephen M. Young, all of Ohio; Harry
L. Haines, Pennsylvania; Anne J. Forand,
Rhode Island: Robert l.. Ramsey, West
Virginia; Harry Sauthoff, Wisconsin.
Mr.. Koppelmann, so years old, was
publishers agent for newspapers and
magazines, served in the Hartford City
Council and was elected its president:
also was in the State Senate and served
three terms in Congress.
Representative Fitzgerald was a foun-
dry superintendent, member of the
State Committee to Investigate widows
Aid, first vice president of the Connect
cut Federation of Labor, State Senator,
State deputy labor commissioner for six
years and was elected to Congress in 1896.
Mr.. OBrien is 40 years of age, a law
yer, born in Detroit He defeated Rep
resentative Mcleod in 1886 and again
on November 5.
Representative Better is At, was super
visor of the town of Amherst and served
three terms in Congress.
Mr.. Imhoff, As was educated in rural
schools, and is lawyer. He was teacher
when he enlisted as a private in the
World War, served with the Marines,
was wounded three times in the second
Battle of the Marine. After the war he
took law course, was clerk of the court,
probate Judge and served three terms in
Congress.
Representative Young was born on a
farm, served two terms in the Ohio
General Assembly, was county prosecut-
ing attorney, Democratic nominee for
State attorney general in 1922, member
of the State Commission on Unemploy-
ment Insurance, served in the National
Guard on the Mexican border and was
elected at large to Congress in the Sew
enty-third and Seventy-fourth Con-
crosses. His father served in the House
and was elected to the United States
Senate.
Representative Haines was born at
Red Lion, Pa, 60 years ago. He served
three terms in Congress.
Mr.. Ramsey was graduated from West
Virginia University 80 years ago and has
practiced law and was county prosecut-
ing attorney. He also served in three
Congresses.
Representative Sauthoff is a Progress
sive, 81 years of age. Both his parents
were born in Germany. He taught school
in Wisconsin and Illinois Normal College,
was district attorney, private secretary
to Gov. John j. Blaine in 1921, repre-
scented Wisconsin in the international
conference between the United States
and Canada and also on the Mississippi
Valley Conference was curator of the
Wisconsin Historical Society and served
in the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth
Congresses.
The defeat OF the veteran Big Jim"
McAndrews in the 9Th Illinois district
brings in Charles S. Dewey, banker and
Yale man. He was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. financial adviser to the
Republic of Poland, honorary director
for life of the Bank of Poland and ma
tional treasurer of the Red Cross He
enlisted in the Navy during the World
War and served on the battleship Mis-
sissippi. He has been decorated by Po-
land, Rumania and Yugoslavia.
Homer A. Stebbins, victor in the 25th
New York district, is an author and
practicing attorney of 80 years expert
ence-a specialist in international and
public law, former teacher Of history at
Syracuse University and the College Of
the City of New York He lectured on
economics at Hunter College. He was .
captain in Military Intelligence during
the World War and candidate for Con-
sress in 1884. 1886. 1887 and 1888.