by Ray Hill | Nov 30, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, was well known for having a volatile temper and had won a well-deserved reputation as a feudist. It was not uncommon for the peppery senator to become involved in a physical altercation, even...
by Ray Hill | Nov 23, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill “I have no hesitancy in insisting that Government in an emergency do everything that can reasonably be done to relieve human suffering and distress.” That was the philosophy of John William McCormack throughout his long political career and he lived...
by Ray Hill | Nov 16, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill “Any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one.” So said Sam Rayburn of Texas. Completely bald, thickly built and one who never forgot his humble beginnings. Sam Rayburn was the looniest serving Speaker of the U. S. House of...
by Ray Hill | Nov 2, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill James F. Byrnes had resigned from the Supreme Court of the United States to accept the responsibility for running much of America’s war effort at the personal request of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Byrnes had given up a lifetime appointment, but...
by Ray Hill | Oct 26, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The autobiography of James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was appropriately named All In One Lifetime. Byrnes served as a Congressman, U. S. senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Assistant to the President, Secretary of State and...
by Ray Hill | Oct 19, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Few modern day Speakers of the U. S. House of Representatives are as little remembered as Henry T. Rainey of Illinois. One reason for that is likely because his tenure as Speaker was quite brief; Rainey served as Speaker of the House from march 9,...
