Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SENATE [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SENATE

Peculiarities In Hnmbsrjhlp of the Great Legislative Body. Not only does the Senate represent in its membership almost every phase of professional and industrial activity, but many of its members were experienced in legislative work before coming to the Senate. Of the eighty-eight senators twenty-six served *in the House of Representatives. Fifteen senators have served as governors of states. Senator Warren served two terms as governor of the territory '*f Wyoming, and his second term ended with the admission of the territory as a state. He was then elected first governor of the state. Fifteen senators have a record of service in the confederate, army anu one was in the confederate navy. Nine senators were in the Union army. Senators Pettus of Alabama and Bate of Tennessee were in the Mexican war. —Washington Star.