by design | Oct 12, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
Tennessee’s Junior U.S. Senator: Nathan L. Bachman By Ray Hill There was a time when successful politicians knew how to scrap, but were also able to entertain and charm. Evidently, that time has come and gone. One excellent example of such a politician was Nathan...
by design | Oct 5, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Colorado Eugene D. Millikin For sixteen years, Eugene Donald Millikin represented Colorado in the United States Senate. An attorney by profession, Millikin had one of the best tax minds in Congress and was considered an expert in the field of...
by design | Sep 28, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘Big Ed’ Johnson of Colorado By Ray Hill For the better part of two decades, Edwin Carl Johnson dominated the politics of Colorado. A hulking man over six feet tall with a thick, shaggy head of hair, Johnson was fondly known as “Big Ed” to his many friends in the...
by design | Sep 21, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Colorado Edward T. Taylor By Ray Hill Edward Thomas Taylor served 32 years in the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado. Taylor didn’t get to Congress until he was 50 years old and stayed there until his death at age 83. By the time...
by design | Sep 14, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Costigan of Colorado Edward P. Costigan By Ray Hill The most widely read news magazine in the world, TIME, aptly noted, “One way to spoil a party of which you disapprove is to leave it, making a disturbance as you go.” That was the description TIME used to report the...
by design | Sep 7, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross By Ray Hill It is fair to say there was not a speck of get-along-go-along in the character of Harold Royce Gross, a former newscaster who spent 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the...
