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Show JPEAKERSHIP OF THE HOU8E. Only One Ohio Man Hat Held the Office No New Yorker Since 1872. Among tho earliest duties which will dovolve upon tho recently elected membors of tho Flfty-clghth Congress will bo tho choice of a speaker, and present Indications mnUo It probablo that tho speaker will bo chosen from tho west. Tho speaker of tho Klfty-sovcnth Congress, David B. Henderson, was tho first to be chosen from tho territory wost of tho Mississippi. Tho first speaker was V. A. Muhlen-burg Muhlen-burg of Pennsylvania. The post ol Bpcakcr was hcjd In the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses by Jamci K. Polk, afterward president. Speakers of tho llouso of Representatives Represen-tatives who hnvo been candidates fof president are numerous and Includo Henry Clay, John Hell and James U. DIalnc. Scnuyler Colfax after having been speaker, was vice president of the United States. The oldest surviving speaker Is Galusha A. Crow, bom In 1823 and speaker from ISCt to 1803. Tho last J)emocrutlc speaker, Chasles V. Crisp, was a natlvo ot England. Eng-land. Two surviving speakers, John Q. Carlisle nnd Thomas 11. Heed, though elected Representatives In Kentucky nnd Mnlno respectively, ro now residents of tho city of Now York. Taero has never been a speaker from tho Pacific coast nnd It Id a sotuo-what sotuo-what curious eircumstauco that Ohio, though pro-omltjent In nearly all other political offices, has had In the country's coun-try's history but one speaker, John V. Klefer, who served only a single term. Tho state of Now York has had no speaker slnco tho closo ot tho Nlno-ccnth Nlno-ccnth Congress In 1S27, though New York has been, during tho whole of that period, the most populous stato and tho ono having tho largest congressional con-gressional icprescntatlon. Tho speaker of the Fifty-eighth congress con-gress when chosen will prcsldo'ovcr a larger number of Members of Congress Con-gress than .any of his predecessors, tho total membership ot tho next house being 38C. |
