THOMAS, Elmer
Source:
Baltimore (Maryland) Sun Sunday 11 Dec 1927 p 135
Senator Carl
Hayden, Democrat, Arizona, and Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat of Oklahoma, have
not been conspicuous in the House, though Mr. Hayden has been the sole
representative of his state in the lower branch for the last 16 years. Mr. Hayden was born at Tempe, AZ in 1877 and
was educated in the Normal School of Arizona and Stanford University. At 27 he
was made a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, beginning a
political career which has kept him in public office every since. He was
elected treasurer of Maricopa County in 1904 and Sheriff in 1906 and 1908. He was a major of infantry in the world war
and returned to run successfully for Congress.
Mr. Thomas, of Medicine park, Oklahoma, which he himself established,
was born in Putnam County, Indiana in 1876.
He taught school to pay his way through Central Normal School at
Danville and DePauw University at Greencastle. Admitted to the bar in 1900, he
moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he became interested in business. When
Oklahoma was admitted to statehood in 1907, Mr. Thomas was elected to the State
Senator and was three times reelected. He resigned to run for Congress, but was
caught in the Democratic landslide of 1920, so that he did not realize his
ambition until two years later. He was reelected and then promoted to the
Senate. Of the strangers there are: …