Padgett
LEMUEL P., member of the House of Representatives from the 7th Tennessee district. Born in Columbia, Tenn., 1855, graduated from Erskine College, South Carolina, 1876. Three years later he began the practice of law at Columbia. From 1898-1900 he was a member of the Tennessee State Senate and in 1901 was elected to Congress, since that time he has been re-elected for every term. When the Democratic party obtained a majority in the House in 1911 Congressman Padgett became Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and directed the Committee's action during the war with Germany.
Since December, 1917, he was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
PADUA (ancient Patavium), a fortified city and province of Italy (Padova). Its celebrated university, founded in the 13th century, had formerly students from all parts of the world. Among and among the professors Fallopius, Galileo, and Guglielmini. The university library comprises 100,000 volumes. There is also an academy of sciences.
The churches, and especially San An- PADUCAH tonio, are less remarkable for architecture than for their paintings and interior decorations. Manufactures woolens, silks, ribbons, and leather. Pop. province about 575,000; city, about 120,000.