by design | Dec 25, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Life With Wild Bill By Ray Hill George Graham Vest, an outstanding attorney and U. S. senator from Missouri, is still remembered to this day for his tribute to dogs. Vest had been hired by Charles Burden whose dog, Old Drum, had been killed by his brother-in-law,...
by design | Dec 17, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Tribune’s Sentinel: Charles Wayland Brooks By Ray Hill From 1940 until 1949, Charles Wayland Brooks served in the United States Senate. A successful attorney who had fought in the First World War, Brooks was known to his friends as “Curly” because of his hair;...
by design | Dec 10, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Raymond E. Willis of Indiana By Ray Hill Raymond Eugene Willis was literally born into the printing business. His father, Frank, had been a veteran of the Civil War and owned the Waterloo Press. The son of “a country editor” and one of six brothers and eight children,...
by design | Dec 3, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Legislative Craftsman: Robert F. Wagner of New York By Ray Hill Robert Ferdinand Wagner was born in Germany and rose to become a towering figure in the United States Senate. Eight-year-old Bob Wagner and his parents left their village near Wiesbaden for the United...
by design | Nov 26, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Merry Mortician: Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebraska By Ray Hill Kenneth Spicer Wherry is completely unknown to most readers today, but the Nebraskan was one of the better-known members of the United States Senate during his time. A superlative salesman, Wherry had...
by Ray Hill | Nov 21, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Ray Blanton is little remembered today save for one thing: the corruption of his administration. Compared to many of Tennessee’s more significant historical figures, Blanton’s political career was not long, but it was impossible not to notice the man who...
