easily over two other candidates and then narrowly defeated incumbent Senator David I. Walsh in the Republican landslide of November 1924 led by President Calvin Coolidge, a former governor of Massachusetts. Time magazine chose him for its November 17, 1924 cover. He served one term in the Senate from 1925 to 1931, and decided not to seek re-election in the face of a difficult primary challenge. In June 1930, he declined to state his position on prohibition or its repeal when queried by prohibition advocates. Personal life On November 25, 1915, Gillett married Christine Rice Hoar, the widow of his former colleague in Congress, Rockwood Hoar. In 1934, he published a biography of George Frisbie Hoar, an earlier congressman and senator from Massachusetts, and his wife's father-in-law from her previous marriage. During his time in Washington, Gillett spent his free time driving his 1926 Pontiac Coupe and playing golf in the morning. In retirement, he wintered in Pasadena, California. He died in a hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 31, 1935. Gillett was buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in Westfield. Legacy As of 2022, Gillett is the most recent Speaker of the House to have also served in the U.S. Senate. At 31 years, 11 months, and 27 days, he was also the longest-tenured incumbent congressman to have ever been elected to the Senate until June 2013, when Representative Ed Markey (36 years, 8 months, and 13 days) was elected to the same Senate seat that Gillett previously held. References External links Gillett Family Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Rockwood Hoar Papers Westfield Athenaeum Archives 1851 births 1935 deaths Amherst College alumni Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Speakers of the United States House of Representatives Harvard Law School alumni Republican Party United States senators from Massachusetts Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts Deans of the United States House of Representatives People from Westfield, Massachusetts