by design | Jun 15, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Old Time Democrat: Senator Pat McNamara of Michigan By Ray Hill Patrick Vincent McNamara was the kind of Democrat that is almost entirely extinct in today’s world. A traditional, working-class Irish Catholic and local labor leader. The child of a laborer, McNamara...
by design | Jun 8, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Michigan Philip A. Hart By Ray Hill Senator Philip A. Hart was part of “the Greatest Generation,” those Americans born between 1900 and 1925, most of whom fought in the Second World War. Many of them were old enough to recall the First World War, and...
by design | Jun 1, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Louisiana: John H. Overton By Ray Hill Short and pudgy, John Holmes Overton served as United States senator from Louisiana from 1933 until his death in 1948. Throughout the first part of his senatorial career, Overton suffered from his affiliation...
by design | May 26, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Making a New Senator By Ray Hill Estes Kefauver, Tennessee’s senior United States senator, was having a bad day on Thursday, August 8, 1963. Kefauver was in the midst of the rough and tumble of debate while the Senate considered an appropriation bill for NASA. The...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
From Big Band Leader to Politician Victor A. Meyers Victor Aloysius Meyers lived to be 93 years old, a fact which astonished some of those who knew him. Tacoma, Washington, attorney John J. O’Connell said, “You’d think a man who had that much fun tasting the good...
by design | May 11, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Washington State Hugh B. Mitchell By Ray Hill Hugh Burnton Mitchell was a scholarly man with an earthy streak who had made his way through life as a sports reporter when he found the Great Depression had left him unable to finish his courses at...
