Word: warren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate's patriarch last week had a birthday. Republican Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming was 85. The Senate rose and cheered...
...occasion called attention to the fact that Senator Warren, besides being the oldest Senator, had established a new duration record. No man in U. S. history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March...
Tribute to Senator Warren's years was paid by Tennessee's Democratic Senator McKellar who wished him many happy returns of the day, recited his venerable record and said: "I take off my hat to him . . . make my bow in admiration of him . . . congratulate him on his clean and splendid life...
Lifting his heavy body to legs widely bowed by much riding on Wyoming ranges, Senator Warren expressed his appreciation for this "unexpected and generous tribute." Said he: "I have to plead guilty to the accumulation of my years. . . . When I entered the Senate I stated correctly the date of my birth; I did not hide it as, perhaps, some have done; I have never changed it in the records and so I find that this is the next to the last day of the eighty-fifth year of life...
Tears rolled down the rugged Warren cheeks and were frankly wiped away by a large white handkerchief as the Senate rose en masse to applaud unstintedly its laconic patriarch...