Senate's New Faces

To the Senate next January will go nine new Republicans and two new Democrats. The Republicans:

Clayton Douglass Buck, 52, Delaware, a shy, reserved engineer, banker and gentleman farmer who has been called Delaware's "least-known prominent citizen." A descendant of one of the State's oldest families, a relative of the Du Ponts by marriage, he has made a career of public service: in the State Highway Department for nine years, as Governor for eight.

Homer Ferguson, 53, Michigan, a jurist-investigator who has become Detroit's symbol of civic virtue (see p. 18).

Albert Wahl Hawkes, 64, New Jersey, president of Congoleum-Nairn Inc. (see p. 19).

Edward Vivian Robertson, 61, Wyoming, liberal, Welsh-born owner of Cody's finest general store and livestock ranch. Suave, handsome E. V. Robertson, who once refused a $7,500 AAA soil-conservation check, is no machine politician; he has his own ideas about progressive government. He will also have one of the Senate's oddest hobbies: making ranch-building models out of matchsticks.

George Allison Wilson, 58, Iowa, who moved up from the Governorship by beating Senator Clyde L. Herring (who had the personal blessing of lowan Henry Wallace). A rugged six-footer who likes to fish and to work in his garden, Wilson is an honest but unspectacular politico whose hat has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school in 1907.

Harlan J. Bushfield, 60, South Dakota, a conservative machine politician who once proposed a "National Debt Week" for citizens to reflect on New Deal spending, hoped in 1940 to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. As Governor since 1939, hulking Harlan Bushfield has been noted chiefly for his economies.

Chapman Revercomb, 47, West Virginia, a young lawyer with liberal leanings and remarkable beginner's skill at politicking (see p. 19)

Kenneth S. Wherry, 50, Nebraska, victor over noble but aging Liberal George Norris (see p. 20). Go-Getter Wherry is simultaneously lawyer, funeral director, farmer, owner of three Ford agencies, Mayor of Pawnee City (pop. 1,600). In his spare time, as Republican State Chairman, he revived his State's moribund political organization, antagonized many a veteran politico with his brashness, but got results at the polls.

Edward H. Moore, 71, Oklahoma, a rugged oil-millionaire ex-Democrat drafted by Republicans to beat New Deal Stalwart Josh Lee (see p. 18).

The Democrats:

James Scrugham, 62, Nevada, a New Dealish onetime college professor, who has been Nevada's lone Representative since 1933, has worked hard in committee on naval appropriations, has voted with the Administration on practically everything except farm and trade measures which would affect his cattle-growing constituency. Balding, husky-throated James Scrugham will take the late Key Pittman's place in the Senate.

John Little McClellan, 46, Arkansas, a former Congressman who called himself a New Dealer "but no rubber stamp." Intense John McClellan tried to get into the Senate in 1938 by tackling the machine Hattie Caraway had built around Arkansas's U.S. Marshals, had better luck this year when the State's other Senator, John E. Miller, resigned to take a Federal judgeship.

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