The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
MANY LAWYERS IN CONGRESS
PERHAPS THAT IS THE TROUBLE

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good union member will tell yor
that the trouble with contract ne.
gotiations is lawyers, and some
unions deliberately bar lawyers
when they go to the mat with the
boss.
Maybe that's the trouble witt
Congress-too many lawyers. TX
be exact, there are 243 in the
House, and 81 in the Senate. That's
a little more than half the House
and two-thirds of the Senate. Two
, of the eight women in the House
Reva Beck Bosone Cd, Utah) ane
Ruth Thompson OR, Mich.) were
judges. Many Senators are former
judges or mayors.
| And of course, most of them are
professional politicians. According
to a compilation Of the 82nd Con
gress by Congressional Quarterly
three-fourths of the members OF
the House and all but five Senators
have held other public office. There
are 27 ex-governors and 80 ex-
Congressman in the Senate.
The age range is 27 to 81, with
the Senators averaging Sc and the
Representatives So. Youngest is
freshman Rep. Patrick j. Killings
Or, Calif.) who is 27. Oldest is
Rep. Robert l.. Doughton CD, NC)
who is 81. Five others are over 80
Youngest Senator is Russell Long
Cd, La who is 80. Oldest is Sen
Theodore F. Green, who is SO. Sen.
Kenneth Mcclellan Cd, Tenn is 81
There are IA Senators between
70 and 80, and II between 60 and
50. There are Al between so and
SO. There are only four under 40.
They are Long, Nixon Or, Calif),
Smathers Cd, Fla.) and Humphrey
Cd, Minn.).
A few of the Congressman came
from the ranks of organized labor.
Reps. John F. Shelley Cd, Calif.),
Leonard Irving Cd, Mo- and
George M. Rhodes Cd, Pa.) were
AFL officials. John +. Fogarty Cd,
RID was president of the brick
layers union.
Senator Wallace F. Bennett OR,
Utah), on the other hand, is an ex-
president of the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers. Manufac-
turers of name-brand products in
clude Rep. Thurmond Chatham of
North Carolina (blankets) and Sen.
Homer E. Capehart of Indiana
electrical appliances).
There are several former minist-
ers in the House, including Adam
C. Powell, Jr. Cd, N. Y.) and
Charles A. Eaton Or, NJ). There
are 70 teachers and professors in
the House; II in the Senate. The
House has eight doctors and dent
lists; the Senate one dentist. Many
Congressman are farmers.
A majority in both houses are
veterans, many with amazing war
records.
If you wanted to name the aver
age Congressman, he would prob
ably be Smith or Jones. There are
four Smiths in the House and three
in the Senate; four Jones in the
House; and four Johnsons Gf you
count Sen. Olin d. Johnston Cd,
SCI. 4
Rep. Adolph j. SABBATH Cd, Ill.,
set a record December 28 for con-
tinuous service in Congress. The
84-year-old Dean of the House,
with almost "A years to his credit,
surpassed the previous record of
former Senator Justin S. Morrill,
of Vermont, who died in 1898.
SABBATH came to this country from
Czechoslovakia as a penniless I'M
migrant. He has fought over the
years for fairer immigration laws,
and for the rights of the "little
man." In his long Congressional
career he has served under eight
presidents, starting with Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Illinois Congressman, be-
cause of his high seniority, holds
the Craftsmanship of the powerful
Rules Committee, which has an I'M
portant voice in deciding the order
in which legislation goes to the