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...late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded his father as U. S. Representative from Minnesota. James Jeremiah ("Jerry") Wadsworth, 26, Yale 1927, son of the ex-Senator from New York, is now a New York Assemblyman. A candidate for the New York...
First woman chairman was Mrs. Norton of New Jersey who as head of the District of Columbia Committee became "Mayor of Washington." Good Democratic care was taken of Minnesota's Kvale, Ione Farmer Laborite. in committee assignments...
House Organization. On paper the Democrats had a bare majority with which to organize the 72nd House. Even if Republicans won in New Jersey they would still be two votes shy of control. Farmer Laborite Paul John Kvale, slick-haired young Congressman from Minnesota, might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote...
...though the ticket was split, the whopping majority of 8,990. The Johnson victory brought the total number of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives to 214, tied the Republicans, put the theoretical balance of power once more in the hands of smooth-haired young Representative Paul John Kvale, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite...
...bring up at the last session oil embargo legislation demanded by independent producers against the big importing companies. Representative-elect Harold McGugin announced from Topeka that he would vote Democratic on House organization- a possibility which would produce a 217-217 tie to be broken by Farmer-Laborite Kvale. Three days later the death of Wisconsin's Republican Henry Allen Cooper, House dean (see p. 34), reduced G. O. P. strength to 217, threatened a hard Democratic campaign to tie the House...