One of the veterans in Washington is Utah's senior Senator William Henry King, who served two years in the House before 1900, was elected to the Senate in 1916, has been there ever since.
New Deal support got him re-elected in 1934. But he fought the President's Court Plan, opposed Term III. Last week, in Utah's Democratic primary. Oldster King went up against a 100% New Dealer, a former small-town lawyer, Representative Abe Murdock. When the votes were counted, Washington's King found himself deposed by a 3-to-1 landslide. Back to private life, at the age of 76, goes King, after 24 years in the Senate.