Show SENATOR pittman A key pittman newly elected to the senate from nevada Is the first klon kloa diker to acquire a seat beat in the upper house or of congress it is a long journey from mississippi to cape nome and back via tonopah to the united states senate but this is the route taken by senator pittman and to go over this roundabout trail to senatorial honors occupied just twenty years in choosing a mississippian for the united states made vacant by the death of senator george S nixon nevada has managed ag ed to have her senatorial delegation composed entirely of natives of mississippi senator francis G newlands was born there about a quarter of a century before the junior senator As has been the case with more than 90 per cent of the members of the united states senate senator Pitt mans first ambitious ambitions were for the law when senator pittman was graduated from college he took with him film a small inheritance and a legal diploma from southwest university at clarksville Clarks ville tenn and the pacific coast ho he practiced law and speculated in real estate at tacoma and seattle going to alaska in 1897 |