by design | Oct 8, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Poet in Congress: John S. McGroarty of California By Ray Hill “One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you in which you say I promised to have the Sierra Madre mountains...
by design | Oct 1, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Tragedy of William Knowland By Ray Hill William Fife Knowland seemingly had everything; born into a wealthy and powerful family, he eventually found himself in the United States Senate representing California. Rising to become the Majority Leader of the U.S....
by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Frederick Gillet & the Fight for Speaker By Ray Hill The mutiny earlier this year inside the GOP caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives is not new, although it hasn’t happened in a long while. In fact, the last time it did occur was one hundred years...
by design | Sep 17, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Oklahoma’s Crazy Congressman: Manuel Herrick By Ray Hill If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone suggest a member of Congress was crazy, Elon Musk would be a pauper by comparison. Yet in the case of Manuel Herrick of Oklahoma, it was not simply the opinion...
by design | Sep 10, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
E. W. Marland of Oklahoma By Ray Hill The life story of Ernest Whitworth Marland is a tale of the rise and fall of an American businessman and politician like a Hollywood movie. It is the story of rising to amazing heights and falling just as far. Marland made an...
by design | Sep 4, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Edward H. Moore of Oklahoma By Ray Hill There was a time when Republicans in Oklahoma were pretty scarce in many areas of the state. Yet there were traditionally Republican areas in the Sooner State and during the decade of the 1920s, Oklahoma boasted two GOP United...
