. The Southern States. s no opponent forReeds sarcasm orBurrows parlia-mentary methods,but usually carriesthe day throughsheer physicalstrength and hon-esty of purpose. McMillin is oneof those men whobelieve, when theyhold an opinion,that others musthold it too. Hedoes not under-stand that two mencan think differ-ently on any sub-ject, given thesame premises bywhich to arrive at aconclusion. It is this stubborness ofcharacter, this simplicity of faith thathas kept him in national politics throughseven Congresses and reelected him tothe eighth. He was born in Munroe county, Ken-tucky, in 1845 ;
. The Southern States. s no opponent forReeds sarcasm orBurrows parlia-mentary methods,but usually carriesthe day throughsheer physicalstrength and hon-esty of purpose. McMillin is oneof those men whobelieve, when theyhold an opinion,that others musthold it too. Hedoes not under-stand that two mencan think differ-ently on any sub-ject, given thesame premises bywhich to arrive at aconclusion. It is this stubborness ofcharacter, this simplicity of faith thathas kept him in national politics throughseven Congresses and reelected him tothe eighth. He was born in Munroe county, Ken-tucky, in 1845 ; took a college courseat Lexington, and studied law andbegan the practice of it in Celina,Tennessee, in 1871. He made his firstappearance in politics as a member ofthe House of Representatives of Ten-nessee in 1874. He entered nationalpolitics as an elector on the Tilden andHendricks ticket in 1876, shortly afterwhich he was commissioned by thegovernor as special Judge of the CircuitCourt. His personality was fully im-. CLIFTON R. BRECKINRIDGE, ARKANSAS. pressed on all State issues, and whenthe election for the Forty-sixth Congresscame around he was sent to be one ofthe body politic in Washington. He isis a valuable member of the Ways andMeans Committee, and during lastCongress was a member of the Com-mittee on Rules. Clifton R. Breckinridge is the repre-sentative of the old Pine Bluff districtin Arkansas. He is above all the bonyand sinewy Breckinridge. He is a sonof old John C. Breckinridge, BuchanansVice-President, and has the same slowway of arriving atconclusions and thesame tenacity insticking to them asthe elder Breckin-rido-e himself. Helacks the personalmagnetism o tmany members ofhis family, but hisopinions are usu-ally sought bysome of the moreflashy members ofCongress, and hisad\ice has morethan once beentaken by the lead-ers of the House toextricate his partyIrom some politi-cal jambaree. Heis a member of theWays and MeansCommittee and is one of the scholars ofthis
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