People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — HIS LONG SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

HIS LONG SERVICE.

John Sherman Has Been a Senator Longer Than Any Other Man. John Sherman of Ohio has now served a longer time in tbe United States senate than any other man ever served. He has passed the reoord made by Thomas H. Benton of Missouri, tho “thirty years senator.” Mr. Benton was a member of the senate 80 years and 6 months, or from, Oot. 8, 1830, to March 8, 1861. John Sherman entered the senate in March, 1861, and has been there ever sinoe, exoept during the four years that ho was seoretary of the treasury under President Hayes. Mr. Sherman’s actual service to data, as shown by the official records of the senate, is as follows: March 21, 1881, to March 8, 1877 16 years, 11 months and 18 day* March 4, 1881, to Nov. 29, 1898—16 years, 8 months and 85 days; total servloe, 81 years, 8 months and 12 days. Only five other men have served a quarter of a oentury as members of tha senate. They are William R. King of Alabama, whose servioe aggregated 80 years; Justin 8. Morrill of Vermont, who will complete his thirtieth year next March; George F. Edmunds of Vermont, who resigned after a career of 26 years and some months in tho senate and is a very lively old man today; Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, who was in the senate 26 years and 6 months, and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, whose senatorial career aggregated Just a quarter of a oentury. —Chicago Times-Herald.