Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1949 — Page 27
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Section Three Twelve Pages
Ralph F. Gates
Paul V. McNutt . . . now a New
By VICTOR PETERSON
; SINCE Jonathan Jennings stepped down
as Indiana's first governor in 1822, a oi line of chief executives has followed his footsteps. Shes - Vacating the No. 1 post, each has merged with the people to become another Mr. Citizen. Today the state numbers five living former governors. They are Ed Jackson, Republican, Orleans, 1925-29; Paul V. McNutt, Democrat, New York, 1933-37; M. Clifford Townsend, Democrat; near Marion, 1937-41; Henry F. . Schricker, Democrat, Indianapolis, 1941-45, and Ralph F. Gates, Republican, Columbia . City, 1945-49, # ~ ”
GOVERNOR SCHRICKER is back at the same old stand running the state. The only man: twice
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elected to Indiana’s key post, he is swinging into the fast tempo required of a Hoosier governor. |
His first job was to ride out a stormy general __
assembly session. His tasks are a far cry from his nonpolitical duties of the past four years as vice president. of the Fletcher Trust Co. » » »
MEANWHILE, his predecessor has returned to his niche in Columbia City as a partner in the law firm of Gates & Gates. A narrow flight of wooden steps leads to the second floor offices where Mr. Gates shares space with brothers John and Benton, Vestiges of his governorship are evident near his desk. There are stacked boxes: of his personal papers. “I'm very well pleased to be back in business.” he said. “My only political desire is to get my party to become something more than a ‘me too’ organization. On the street, in his office, he is Ralph to young and old. Nearly every day ne climbs the on Sil os the third floor of the Whitley County ouse to visit or a case vefore Circuit Judge Lowell Pefley.. "ee
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Mr. Gates has done considerable speaking
since his return. In June he will address the
eighth grade at commencement exercises. » ¥ ® . FORMER GOVERNOR TOWNSEND and his wife are sunning themselves far from Indiana. Now in Sarasota, Fla., they are known as. Cliff and Nora to some 920 other families living in trailers in City Traller Park. Their trailer easily is distinguishable from the others for her xenias and his corn. “I planted some Indiana corn last New Year's day just to see if it would grow in Florida soil,” the ex-governor-farmer said. One stalk bears a
yellow-ear of Ohio corn. Close inspection shows the ear to be wired on, the practical joke of a neighbor, J. F. Thomas, a former Ruckeye. . At 64, Mr. Townsend has learned to take life in easy strides. Trout fishing in he bay and watching the Boston Red Sox spring training games are favorite pastimes. A son, Max, looks after the family 360-acre farm near Marion,
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M. Clifford Townsend MR. McNUTT is the globe-trotting variety of former governors.
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Today the silver-haired, handsome dynamo of
Indiana Democratic politics id the mid-thirties
lives with his wife in a fashionable New York
City apartment, A nationally-known attorfiey., he maintains a downtown law office at 84 William St, in New York's financial district, and an office in Wash+ ington, D. C, An imposing figure, Mr. McNutt practices cor poration law, principally for large insurance underwriters, but makes Comparatively few courtroom appearances. Now inactive politically, and presumably uninterested in political office he is the unsalaried consultant for the Economic Co-operation Administration’s China program. He plans to go to Chins and Manila ‘soon tor a two-month business trip. His “daughter, Louise, has a government job in Washington:
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. Orleans for 11 years.
FOR FORMER Gov. Jackson it has been & round trip from log house te Statehouse to log house, Now 75 and recovering from his third stroke, Mr. Jackson still exhiliits the virility which
‘muds him well known as a man of the great outs
doors, : — ' Believed to be a descendant of President Andrew Jackson,” Indiana's ‘governor of the late twenties has been living in his new log house near Iii health forced him to leave Indianapolis and his law practice ater. his term - expired, He dcscribes his years in the country &s his happiest and looks forward eagerly, like any grandfather, to visits from his grandchildren. It 1s high on & windy hill that his cabin is set. Through the windows the bright sunlight of spring pours and Mr. Jackson likes to look out on the broad acres where his Aberdeen Angus eattle graze. Like the other Statehouse alumni, he stepped rom oifios to shed fhe dlank. of GuvatnOr 484 bes come Mr, Citizen,