Guy Cordon

Guy Cordon was born in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, on April 24, 1890. He moved with his family to Roseburg, Oregon, in 1896, and attended the public schools in that city. In 1909, at the age of 19, he became the deputy tax assessor of Douglas County, Oregon, serving until 1916. In 1914, Cordon married Ana Allen, and they had two children. During World War I he enlisted in the Army and served in the artillery. ==Political career==

In 1917 he began serving as the county tax assessor, remaining until 1919. While in the Senate, Cordon suggested a Senate rule (adopted as Rule XXVI part 12, known as the Cordon Rule) that Senate committee reports should indicate how provisions in a bill would change current law. Cordon served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs from 1954 until his term expired in 1955. ==Later years==

After leaving the Senate, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., from 1955 to 1962, when he retired. During the early 1950s, Frank Herbert, who would later become a famous science fiction author, was one of Cordon's speechwriters. Guy F. Cordon died in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 1969, at the age of 79 and was buried in Roseburg at the Roseburg Memorial Gardens. ==See also==