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Tom Corwin and other statesmen in cloakroom tales of Congress
A column recounts anecdotes from the cloakrooms of Congress featuring Tom Corwin and fellow lawmakers. It highlights how humor, campaigning stories, and old-line figures like General John B. Clark and Joe Blackburn were told to illustrate political wit and the era’s culture of speechmaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Corwin
Tennessee Mountains
Joe Blackburn
General Clark
Senator West
Governor Hall
der. Newton
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Thomas
Orloan
Griggs
Georgia
Bob ‘Taylor
Congress
Tempessee Mountains
Bob
Charles Fremont Cochran
St. Joe Mo
Platte Purchase
Atchison, Kan
Stentor
House of Representatives
Cochran
Cleary
Atchison
Mont Cochran
Kansas
George Graham Vest
Misasouri
Senate
Iton
J. B. Montgomery
Portland, Or
House
Missouri
John S. Phelps
Montgomery
Vest
West
Blackburn
New England
Woodford
Benezer Blackburn
Marse Dodah Blackburn
Marse Joe
Ole Marster
Joe
Marse Blackburn
Marie Joe
John B. Clark
Clark
John Sherman
Sherman
Helper
Robert
Bob Clark
Willard I
Hall
Old Virginia
West Virginia
John G. Clark
Armory
Boston
Harpers Perry
Willard N de Virginny