by design | Jun 1, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Louisiana: John H. Overton By Ray Hill Short and pudgy, John Holmes Overton served as United States senator from Louisiana from 1933 until his death in 1948. Throughout the first part of his senatorial career, Overton suffered from his affiliation...
by design | May 26, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Making a New Senator By Ray Hill Estes Kefauver, Tennessee’s senior United States senator, was having a bad day on Thursday, August 8, 1963. Kefauver was in the midst of the rough and tumble of debate while the Senate considered an appropriation bill for NASA. The...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
From Big Band Leader to Politician Victor A. Meyers Victor Aloysius Meyers lived to be 93 years old, a fact which astonished some of those who knew him. Tacoma, Washington, attorney John J. O’Connell said, “You’d think a man who had that much fun tasting the good...
by design | May 11, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Washington State Hugh B. Mitchell By Ray Hill Hugh Burnton Mitchell was a scholarly man with an earthy streak who had made his way through life as a sports reporter when he found the Great Depression had left him unable to finish his courses at...
by design | May 4, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Rise & Fall of a Congressman John M. Coffee of Washington State By Ray Hill For a decade, John Main Coffee served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reporter Jack Pyle of the Tacoma News Tribune summed up Coffee’s career after a failed comeback attempt in...
by design | Apr 27, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Washington State Russell V. Mack By Ray Hill By trade, Russell Vernon Mack was a newspaperman, owning and publishing the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian before getting elected to Congress. Educated at Stanford University and the University of...
