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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 69

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This work, however, deals particularly with the men who have been elected or appointed to the senate without previous experience in the house, but have returned to the house to finish their national political career. Many of them are quite unknown except for the meager records of congress or an occasional mention in the histories of their state, but the list also includes some of the most familiar names to the students of history - Thomas Hart Benton, John J. Crittenden and John Quincy Adams. It is the aim of this study to discover the causes of this apparent demotion and to outline, as far as possible, the work of these men in each department and to note where their influence was most exerted. To write a full history of each is unnecessary; the aim is to point out in a general way the attitude of the senators who have gone back to the house, toward the subject of interest during their

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68 This work, however, deals particularly with the men who have been elected or appointed to the senate without previous experience in the house, but have returned to the house to finish their national political career. Many of them are quite unknown except for the meager records of congress or an occasional mention in the histories of their state, but the list also includes some of the most familiar names to the students of history - Thomas Hart Benton, John J. Crittenden and John Quincy Adams. It is the aim of this study to discover the causes of this apparent demotion and to outline, as far as possible, the work of these men in each department and to note where their influence was most exerted. To write a full history of each is unnecessary; the aim is to point out in a general way the attitude of the senators who have gone back to the house, toward the subject of interest during their