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Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island

by Ray Hill | Aug 18, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Before Strom Thurmond, Theodore Francis Green was well known for some years as being the oldest member of the United States Senate. First elected when he was sixty-nine years old, Theodore Francis Green frustrated several generations of aspiring...

The Gentleman From Oregon: Rufus Holman

by design | Dec 29, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

The Gentleman From Oregon: Rufus Holman By Ray Hill Oftentimes the success of a candidate for public office has as much to do with the particular times, the mood of the public at a given moment. One of the advantages of being a United States senator is the length of a...

‘Dear Alben’ – FDR and Senator Alben W. Barkley

by Ray Hill | Oct 18, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives

By Ray Hill The relationship between any two people is usually at least somewhat complicated; between two personalities like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alben Barkley of Kentucky, it was especially so. Barkley, despite not being one of the more senior members of the...

The Professor In Politics: J. William Fulbright of Arkansas

by Ray Hill | May 19, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives

  By Ray Hill While growing up, one of the names I heard most frequently on the television news was that of J. William Fulbright, the senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. Of course that was during a time when there were...

The Senator And Mrs. Vanderbilt: Senator Peter Gerry of Rhode Island

by Ray Hill | Apr 28, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives

By Ray Hill There are few people in our community who haven’t either heard of or visited the magnificent Biltmore House.  Biltmore was the vision of George Washington Vanderbilt II, the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.  George Vanderbilt’s father, William,...
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