Took his degree in law at Columbia, but never practiced.

Always interested in politics; been in the state senate twelve years; two children, boy and girl.

I guess Mort Bassett can do most anything he wants to--you can't tell where he'll land." "But the next steps are obvious," suggested Harwood, encouragingly--"the governorship, the United States Senate--ever onward and upward." "Well, yes; but you never know anything from _him_.

_We_ don't know, and you might think we'd understand him pretty well up here.

He declined to go to Congress from this district--could have had it without turning a hand; but he put in his man and stayed in the state senate.