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Governor Moody is five years younger than Governor of Virginia Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Richard E. ("Dicky") Byrd, famed Pole man. Governor Moody is, then, "youngest U. S. Governor." But he is no younger than Sam Houston* was in 1827 when he became Governor of Tennessee.
**Two years ago at "Ma's" inaugural the band played:
Put on your old grey bonnet
With the blue ribbons on it
And hitch old Dobbin to the shay.
For from Gulf to Coston
Folks are bound for Austin
For Ma's inaugural day.
‡Two years ago she had on a black satin gown with grey fur trimming, imported from Manhattan.
§Two years ago her speech was barely audible.
*Popularly supposed to have named his two daughters Ima and Ura.
*Sam Houston was born in 1793, to Texas in 1832.