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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 6

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5 gubernatorial chair of Illinois to become United States senator. William Pitt Kellogg resigned the senatorship to become governor of Louisiana. J.J. Frittindin twice resigned his seat in the senate to become attorney general in the cabinet. Philander C. Knox resigned the same portfolio to accept an election to the senate. Daniel Webster twice resigned his place int he senate to become secretary of state. Elihu Root gave up the latter office for a United States senatorship. Instances of this kind might be multiplied but these are sufficient to show that the values are not always estimated in the same way. It would seem too that the natural order of congressional promotions would be from the house to the senate but it is true that only thirty percent of the senators have begun
 
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