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The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
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On December 11 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the legislature elected Democrats Robert Latham Owen of Muskogee and Thomas Prior Gore of Lawton to the U.S. Senate. Owen, born 1856 in Virginia with Cherokee heritage, and Gore, 37, the first blind senator, lost sight in childhood while a page in Mississippi.
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Guthrie. Ok., December 11-Robert Latham Owen, of Muskogee. and Thomas Prior Gore, of Lawton, both Democrats, were formally elected to the United States Senate Tuesday by the Oklahoma Legislature.
Owen was born at Lynchburg, Va.. February 2. 1856. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry with a mixture of Cherokee Indian blood. His father, Robert Owen, was a distinguished Confederate soldier and later became president of the Virginia & Tennessee railroad.
The Senator's mother was a daughter of Chisholm, the last hereditary war chief of the Cherokee nation.
Senator Gore has the double distinction of being the first blind member of the United States Senate and of being the youngest man in that body, being only thirty-seven years old. His sight was destroyed in childhood when he was a page in the Senate of Mississippi, his native State. At that time he was boarding in the home of United States Senator J. Z. George. and it is said those associations first inspired him with the dream of some day being a United States Senator. which has been his life's ambition. He has great oratorical ability and is a lawyer of note.
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Guthrie, Ok.; Muskogee; Lawton; Lynchburg, Va.; Mississippi
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December 11
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The Oklahoma Legislature elected Robert Latham Owen and Thomas Prior Gore as U.S. Senators. Owen, of Cherokee descent, born 1856 in Virginia, son of a Confederate soldier. Gore, 37, blind since childhood as a Mississippi Senate page, inspired by Senator George, became the first blind and youngest U.S. Senator, noted for oratory and law.