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THE CONGRESS: Partridge for Greene

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Appointed last week by Vermont’s Governor Weeks† to succeed the late Senator Frank Lester Greene was Frank Charles Partridge of Proctor, Vt. Senator-designate Partridge, 69, president of Vermont Marble Co., started as a page in the State Senate, was president of his Amherst class (1882, thirteen years before Calvin Coolidge), studied law at Columbia, served the U. S. State Department as its solicitor (1890-93). He has held minor diplomatic and consular jobs. Coincident with the Partridge appointment a general Senate election was ordered for Vermont on March 31, preceded by a party primary March 3.

† Governor Weeks will sit as a Representative in the next Congress.

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