DARTMOUTH IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE GOVERNMENT

In the January issue of THE MAGAZINE an incomplete list of the Dartmouth men in the New Hampshire legislature now in session was printed. The following complete list which was compiled from official sources has been furnished by Harlan C. Pearson '93.

State Senate: president, Jesse M. Barton '92, of Newport; Joseph B. Perley '05 non-grad., of Enfield; Charles W. Fletcher '01 non-grad., of Rindge; Calvin Page '02 Hon. of Portsmouth.

House of Representatives: Charles F. Emerson '68 chairman of the committee on education, Hanover; Benjamin W. Couch '96, chairman of the committee on the judiciary, Concord; Samuel Kent Bell '09, chairman of the committee on railroads, Exeter; Ernest L. Bell, D. M. S. '94, chairman of the committee on fish and game, Plymouth; William I. Richardson '88 and Edward J. Cummings '04, Littleton; John H. Bartlett '94, Portsmouth ; Edward J. Rossiter '95, Claremont; Walter F. Duffy '96, Franklin; Eugene W. Leach 'Ol, Concord; Robert A. French 'O6, Nashua; William N. Rogers '15 non-grad., Wakefield.

Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth are the collegiate Big Three under the state house dome this winter, the trio being made up of Governor Keyes (Harvard), President Barton (Dartmouth), and Speaker of the House Morrill (Yale).

An unusual number of Dartmouth men are connected with the New Hampshire state government aside from the legislature. Two of three members of three important commissions are Dartmouth men, as follows: Chairman Albert O. Brown '78 and Clerk William B. Fellows '80, of the tax commission; T. W. D. Worthen '72 and William T. Gunnison '92, of the public service commission : Chairman Dwight Hall '94 and Robert Jackson 'OO, of the excise commission. Arthur H. Chase 'B6 is state librarian, and two of the three trustees of the state library are George W. Stone '78 and Edwin F. Jones '80.

On the supreme court are Chief Justice Frank N. Parsons '74, John E. Young '78 William A:. Plummer '88, Robert J. Peaslee '08 Hon., and Reuben E. Walker '16 Hon. Robert G. Pike '72 was chief justice of the suoerior court at the time of his recent decease, and two other members are John Kivel '76 and Robert N. Chamberlin '05, Hon. Joseph S. Matthews '84 is deputy attorney general.

Henry C. Morrison '95 is state superintendent of public instruction, and E. W. Butterfield '97 is one of his deputies. James H. Fassett '90 is a member of the board of trustees of state normal schools, and Ernest L. Silver '99 is principal of the school at Plymouth.

Sherman E. Burroughs '94 is chairman of the state board of charities and corrections. Dr. Charles H. Duncan '98 is state bacterologist, and Dr. Russell Wilkins, D. M. S. '96. is physician at the state prison. John R. Childs '09 is with the state highway department, William J. Ahern, Jr., '07, with the state forestry department, and E. C. Mabie '15, with the state tax commission. Harlan C. Pearson '93 is secretary to Governor Keyes, having served five other governors in the same capacity.

Dr. Benjamin W. Baker, D. M. S. '98, is superintendent of the state school for feeble-minded. Dr. George E. Penden '93 recently was appointed state medical referee for Rockingham county.

Doctor Wilkins, above-mentioned also deserves mention in the list of Dartmouth men taking part in our present Mexican "war." He is regimental surgeon, with the rank of major, of the First New Hampshire Infantry, stationed at Laredo, Texas.

Edward K. Woodworth '97 was master of ceremonies at the official inauguration of Governor Keyes on January 4, and at the inaugural ball in the eveing George H. Moses '90 was chairman of the reception committee.