As a legislator, debater, orator and statesman he had but few equals and no superiors.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
His paternal grandfather, Jacob, had emigrated from Kentucky to become one of the early settlers of Russell Township-a farmer, store-keeper, state legislator and mover and shaker in his own right, as described in one of Pap's papers.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
That law'll be changed in a hurry, because any legislator that tried to hold out against changing it would be drawn and quartered by his constituents-and has enough sense to know it.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton