by design | Oct 15, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Friend of the Workers: Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina By Ray Hill Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston was a fixture in the politics of his native South Carolina for decades. Twice elected governor and elected to the United States Senate in 1944 where he remained...
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...
