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Show Sam Rayburn to Speak at Victory Dinner Tomorrow . elected in 1958 with a large ma-jj ma-jj ;rity. He is a member of the i Democratic Advisory Council. Sen. Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey, the young World 1 War II pilot and former U. S. ' Congressman, who is a recognized recog-nized authority on foreign af- Sen. Philip A. Hart of Michigan, Michi-gan, was elected to the Senate last November after serving as lieutenant governor of his state since 1954. Senator Hart campaigned cam-paigned in a heliocopter, piloted by his wife, daughter of the late Walter O. Briggs, Detroit indus- , I trialist. I Rep. Samuel S. Stratton of New York's 32nd District, for-l for-l mer mayor of Schectady. He was ! the first Democrat to win the Congressional seat in his District in 42 years. Mrs. Ella Grasso, secretary of state for Connecticut and also a teacher, sociologist, economist, politician, journalist and mother. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn will head a list of Democratic dignitaries who will speak at the National Victory Dinner sponsored by the Democratic Demo-cratic National Committee at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Saturday, February 28. The dinner will honor newly-elected newly-elected Democratic Governors, Senators and Representatives, and will celebrate the Democratic Demo-cratic sweep at the polls in the last election. Among the important person-; alities, most of whom will be introduced to the Washington dinner audience for the first time, are: Rep. David S. King of Utah, the son of the late U. S. Senator from Utah, won in November by getting 52 per cent of the vote after a voter poll had given him a pre-election estimate of 42.6! per cent of the vote. ( Gov. J. Howard Edmondson of ; Oklahoma, who at 33 is the! country's youngest governor. A brother of Rep. Ed Edmonson, he was elected last November by the largest plurality in his state's history. He had served as Tulsa County Attorney prior to his election of governor. Gov. J. Millard Tawes of Maryland, Mary-land, who won every one of the state's 23 counties and all 28 of Baltimore city's wards in his sweeping victory. Gov. Tawes has a long record of public service, serv-ice, during much of which he was State Comptroller. j Gov. Leroy Collins of Florida, J who has been chief executive of his state since 1955, having been iin the state legislature for 20' ! years prior to that. Gov. Collins is chairman of the Southern Governors' Gov-ernors' Conference and of the National Governor's Conference. Gov. Stephen McNichols of Colorado, the former FBI agent who was elected governor of his state in 1956 after serving as lieutenant governor. He was re- |