by design | Apr 30, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Noah M. Mason of Illinois looked like precisely what he was: an old schoolteacher. Diminutive in stature, white-haired and frequently with a stern expression etched into his face, Noah Mason served for twenty-six years as a congressman from Illinois. ...
by design | Apr 23, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
James W. Wadsworth of New York By Ray Hill The name James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. is rather reminiscent of “Gilligan’s Island” and Thurston Howell III. To say that James Wadsworth was well-connected is likely a gross understatement. His grandfather, James S. Wadsworth,...
by design | Apr 16, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For twenty-eight years, the Fourth Congressional District of Michigan was represented in Congress by Clare E. Hoffman. Known for his acerbic wit, Hoffman was oftentimes characterized as being cantankerous, but when he died, there were constant comments...
by design | Apr 9, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill During the eighty-one years that comprised the life of Dewey Jackson Short, folks knew he was here. Short was a true son of the hill country of the Ozarks and a gifted speaker who could hold his audiences spellbound, sometimes referred to as the “Hillbilly...
by design | Apr 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Harold Knutson of Minnesota By Ray Hill By 1948, Harold Knutson had been in Congress for thirty-two years. Knutson, a Republican, had risen to perhaps the highest position a congressman could aspire to outside of the speakership; Knutson chaired the immensely...
by design | Mar 26, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Last Campaign: Overton vs. Orgill, Part III By Ray Hill The death of Edward Hull Crump on October 16, 1954, changed Shelby County and Memphis politics forever. As Memphis was on the cusp of the first mayoral election without the influence of E. H. Crump in half a...
