DARTMOUTH MEN ELECTED TO GOVERN TWO STATES

The political season just closed resulted in the election of two more Dartmouth men to high public office, Channing H. Cox '01, who will succeed Calvin Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, and Albert O. Brown '78, who will succeed John H. Bartlett '94 as Governor of New Hampshire. Both were candidates on the Republican ticket.

Channing Cox was born in Manchester, N. H. in 1879 and there spent the early part of his life, graduating from the Manchester high school and entering Dartmouth in the class of 1901. After graduating from Dartmouth he studied at the Harvard Law School and in 1904 received the degree of Doctor of Laws, beginning his practice immediately thereafter. He soon became interested in politics and began his career in Boston as a member .of the Common Council from Ward 6 in 1906. He was then sent to the State Senate from the same Ward and became in turn Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Republican floor leader. In 1918 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and during the presidential campaign of Governor Coolidge was acting Governor.

At Dartmouth Channing Cox was a member of the Kappa Kappa, Kappa fraternity and Casque and Gauntlet. He also belonged to the Glee Club and was Associate Editor of the 1901 Aegis.

Allbert O. Brown was born at Northwood, N. H. in 1853. He attended Coes Northwood Academy, graduating from there in 1874 and entering Dartmouth in the class of 1878. In addition to the A.B. degree which he received when he was graduated from Dartmouth he holds a degree of LL.B. from Boston University Law School, granted in 1884 and an A.M. from Dartmouth awarded in 1911. Governor-elect Brown was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1884 and practiced in Manchester until 1912. He has been Chairman of the New Hampshire Tax Commission since 1911, was President ot the N. H. Constitutional Convention in 1918, President of the Amoskeag Savings Bank from 1905 to 1912, and has been Treasurer and Secretary of that institution since 1912. He is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the New Hampshire Bankers' Association, and the Executive Committee of ; the United States Council of State Banking Associations. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.