by design | Oct 27, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Bert H. Miller of Idaho By Ray Hill Numerous individuals have enjoyed very long congressional careers, serving decades in Washington. Bert H. Miller was not one of them. Aside from appointments to the United States Senate, which are frequently intended to be...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Idaho’s Conservative: Herman Welker By Ray Hill It’s been 66 years since Herman Welker died and very few outside of his native state of Idaho remember his name. Welker served a single term in the United States Senate, but during his time as a member of the world’s...
by design | Oct 13, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Cowboy Entertainer: Glen H. Taylor of Idaho By Ray Hill Someone once described politics as show business for ugly people. Certainly, show business and politics are related and may very well be kissing cousins. Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Arnold Schwarzenegger,...
by design | Oct 6, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Southern Gentleman Winfield Dunn Editor’s Note: The Knoxville Focus is running this reprint of Ray Hill’s column from September 2013 on former Governor Winfield Dunn to honor his passing last month. By Ray Hill Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was born July 1, 1927,...
by design | Sep 29, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
D. Worth Clark of Idaho By Ray Hill David Worth Clark was something of a political wunderkind in his day, first winning election to Congress at age thirty-two. While he only served a single term in the United States Senate, it was during one of the most critical...
by design | Sep 22, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Mississippi William M. Colmer By Ray Hill William Meyers Colmer is one of the longest-serving members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Congress. Colmer was elected to the House at a time when Southern states were ruled by one party and...
