Photo from the Attic: Enter Longworth – Roll Call

Photo from the Attic: Enter Longworth

By Roll Call Staff

Posted January 5, 2011 at 6:39pm

Ohio Republican Rep. Nicholas Longworth (far left) is sworn in as Speaker as the 69th Congress begins in 1925.

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