predecessor successor death_place birth_place jr/sr party term_end birth_date term_start image article_title state name
jeff davis william m. kavanaugh little rock , arkansas rogersville , tennessee united states senator democratic january 29 , 1913 2 november 1872 january 6 , 1913 john heiskell.jpg john n. heiskell
 arkansas john netherland heiskell
john n. heiskell

john netherland heiskell -lrb- november 2 , 1872 -- december 28 , 1972 -rrb- was the second u.s. senator to reach the age of 100 .
he served as senator from arkansas for a period of just 23 days , from january 6 to january 29 , 1913 .
he was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of then senator jeff davis .
heiskell was a publisher by trade .
he owned and edited the `` arkansas gazette '' from 1902 until his death .
the paper garnered two pulitzer prizes -lrb- one for meritorious public service in 1958 -rrb- under his editorship .
in 1958 , heiskell received the elijah parish lovejoy award as well as an honorary doctor of laws degree from colby college .
he was also president of gazette publishing co. .
despite his short time in the senate , heiskell 's longevity eventually made him , not only the oldest living former senator , but also the last surviving person to have been a senator in the 1910s .
heiskell was a grandson of two prominent tennessee politicians , john netherland and frederick heiskell .
