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The election of Harry Cresswell to Congress was a very simple matter. The Colonel and his son drove to town and consulted the Judge; together they summoned the sheriff and the local member of the State legislature.
"I think it's about time that we Cresswells asked for a little of the political pie," the Colonel smilingly opened.