Show young members of parliament our youngest congressman is necessarily more than twenty five years old in accordance with the provisions of the constitution but the british house of commons has members several years younger one of the newly returned members william alien is twenty one and frederick smith and mr dalziel are bot yet twenty four they do not break the record of political precocity however for william pitt was only eighteen when he made his maiden speech in the house the speech that led burke to eay that the young orator was not a chip of the old block but the eld block itself chicago herald |