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Georgia girl appointed House Page by father. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. E.E. Cox, Democrat of Georgia, and his daughter, Gene, whom he has appointed to serve as his personal page, this session in the house. Gene, who is 13 years old and can speak three languages, will be the first girl in the history of Congress to serve as a page, 1339

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Georgia girl appointed House Page by father. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. E.E. Cox, Democrat of Georgia, and his daughter, Gene, whom he has appointed to serve as his personal page, this session in the house. Gene, who is 13 years old and can speak three languages, will be the first girl in the history of Congress to serve as a page, 1339

First girl page in National House of Representatives. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. For the first time in history, a girl has been appointed a page in the House of Representatives. She is 13-year-old Gene Cox, daughter of Rep. and Mrs. E.E. Cox of Georgia. She was appointed by and will serve her father this session. Gene can speak 3 languages, 1/3/39

Baby Congressman. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. 25-year-old Rep.-elect Lindley Beckworth, Democrat of Texas, who will be the youngest member of the House this session, arrives at his office for the opening of Congress on January 3, 122838

The lady from Alabama. Washington, D.C., Nov. 13. Alabama's Junior Senator, Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves was back at her desk at the Capitol today and eager for the opening of the special session which convenes on Monday. She was appointed to the senate by her husband Gov. Bibb Graves to fill seat vacated by the appointment of Hugo L. Black to the Supreme Court. 111337

Woman becomes Senior Senator for first time. Washington D.C. July 26. For the first time in the history of the country a woman has become a Senior United States Senator. Through the death of Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson this honor falls to Senator Hattie W. Caraway, Democrat of Arkansas, who is shown in this new informal made at her office today. 72637

To christen U.S.S. Savannah. Washington, D.C., May 3. Jane Dowden who is the niece of Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. of Georgia was chosen to christen the cruiser Savannah at Camden, New Jersey this Saturday. She is shown with her uncle Sen. Russell as she visited at the Capitol today, 531937

Woman becomes Senior Senator for first time. Washington D.C. July 26. For the first time in the history of the country a woman has become a Senior United States Senator. Through the death of Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson this honor falls to Senator Hattie W. Caraway, Democrat of Arkansas, who is shown in this new informal made at her office today. 72637

Sen. Magnus Johnson of Minn. calls at the White House. Miss Mabelle Teigan at the wheel is daughter of the Sen. Secy ... Mr. Henry G. Teigan, Mrs. R.F. Granquis is in the rear seat is also daughter of Mr. Teigan. Both ladies are employed in the Senator's office

Woman becomes Senior Senator for first time. Washington D.C. July 26. For the first time in the history of the country a woman has become a Senior United States Senator. Through the death of Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson this honor falls to Senator Hattie W. Caraway, Democrat of Arkansas, who is shown in this new informal made at her office today. 7/26/37

Georgia girl appointed House Page by father. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. E.E. Cox, Democrat of Georgia, and his daughter, Gene, whom he has appointed to serve as his personal page, this session in the house. Gene, who is 13 years old and can speak three languages, will be the first girl in the history of Congress to serve as a page, 1/3/39

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Speaker signs last minute bills. Washington D.C., Aug 21. Rep. John J. O'Connor New York, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, "shoots" Speaker Bankhead as he signs the last minute bills passed by the House before their adjournment tonight. Others in the picture are Rep. Mary T. Norton (left) of New Jersey; and Mrs. Bankhead, 82137

Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill, D of Ind.

Rep. Gerald Boileau - Public domain photograph

Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Pres. & Mrs. Coolidge receiving 3 [...] New York Rep. Business Men's Assn., [10/23/24]

State of North Carolina. An act for appointing deputies from this state, to a convention proposed to be held in the City of Philadelphia in May next, for the purpose of revising the federal constitution .... Read three times and ratified in Gene

[Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

McLAUGHLIN, JAMES CAMPBELL. REP. FROM MICHIGAN, 1907-1927

Closed old court; will open in? Frank J. Wideman, Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division, will represent the government in the first case to go before the Supreme Court in the new building, and he holds the honor of arguing the last case to be heard in the old Supreme Court quarters. He has won 10 out of his last 11 cases. He represented the government, and won, in the Sandy-Fox case last session, which involved the Five Civilized Indian Tribes vis the United States. He will defend the government in the Douglas-Willicutts case, in which Edward B. Douglas seeks a return of tax money from Levi M. Willicutts, Collector of Internal Revenue, 10/4/35

Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Harry E. Wilhelm, 43, a World War veteran and unemployed huckster of York, PA., won himself a job today on his ability to recite from memory the 6,757 words of the Constitution and Amendments. In his quest for work, Wilhelm called on Rep. Sol Bloom, Chairman of the United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission, to whom he announced he was the only man in the world who could recite from memory the Constitution. Interested but skeptical, Bloom promised Wilhelm a job if he could back up hi claim. With Bloom checking the words, Wilhelm made good on his boast and is now an employee of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission mail room. 9/13/37

DEITRICK, FREDERIC SIMPSON. REP. FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 1913-1915. SNAP

CASEY, JOHN JOSEPH REP. FROM PENNSYLVANIA, 1913-1917

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