by design | Oct 22, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fight for Majority Leader, 1937 By Ray Hill Sometime during the night of July 14, 1937, the heart of Joseph T. Robinson stopped beating. Arkansas had honored Joe Robinson with every distinction she could bestow upon a single individual, electing him to Congress,...
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...
