AUTOBIOGRAPHIES "•AND PORTRAITS'- Of the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court AND Fifty-fifth Congress. /// t-^-o Vohiim's VOL. II The Neale Company. General Book Publishers and Engravers, 4^1 1 1 ill Street, WASHINGTON, D.C.-ii-v^^ia^v?^ MDCCCXCIX. copyright. 1898. by The Neale Company .-/// rifrJits reserved. TWoeoPiesRec^ivEQ. , ((...fE8.27Ja99...ii '•'''•"■■' ii''«:*W''''' -jtestofeir HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONTINUED JOHN E. FOWLER JOHN EDGAR FOWLER John Edgar Fowler, of Clinton, was born on a farm in Sampson County. N. C September 8, 1S()6; was educated in the common schools of the county and Wake Forest College; taught two years after leaving college ; read law at the University of North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in LS94; was formerly a Free-Silver Democi'at, but upon the nomination of Mr. Cleveland in \H\)2 left the Democratic and allied himself with the Populist party ; was nominated for the State house of representatives the same year as a Populist, but was defeated by 7 votes; was nominated as a Populist for the State senate in 1894, and was elected ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 17,989 votes, against 12,534 votes for Frank Thompson. Dem- ocrat. He represents the third congressional district of North Carolina, which has a population of 160.288. and em- braces the nine counties of Bladen. Craven. Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Jones, Moore, Onslow, and Sampson. ANDREW F. FOX ANDREW FULLER FOX Andrew Fuller Fox. of West Point, Clay County, Miss., was born April 2(), 1S49. in Pickens County, Ala. ; studied law in the office of Gen. E. C. Walthall, at Grenada, Miss., in 1876 and 1877 ; was admitted to the bar in 1877, and has since that time been constantly engaged in the active practice of law in Mississippi ; was a delegate to the Dem- ocratic national convention in 1888 ; was elected State senator in 1891, which position he resigned to accept the office of United States attorney for the northern district of Mississippi, to which he was appointed June 27, 1S93; resigned the latter office September 1, 1896. and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 8.148 votes, against 3.086 votes for R. K. Prewitt. Peo- ple's party, 347 votes for W. D. Frazee. Republican, and 161 votes for S. S. Matthews, Republican. He represents the fourth congressional district of Mississippi, which has a population of 213.236, and embraces the thirteen counties of Calhoun, Carroll, I'hickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Kemper, Montgomery. Noxubee, Pontotoc, Webster, Win- ston, and Yalobusha. JOHN WESLEY GAINES JOHN WESLEY GAINES John WiTsley Gaines, of Nashville, was boru near that' city August 24, 1861 ; was educated and taught in the public country schools ; was graduated in medicine from the University of Nashville and Vanderltilt University in 1882, and began the study of law upon the day of his graduation, and was admitted to the bar in 1884 ; was a Cleveland elector in 1892, and led the ballot, and after- wards became the leading exponent of free silver in his district ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat by a majority of 4,774 votes over all opponents. He represents the sixth district of Tennessee, which has a population of IDfi/ll)?, and emliraces the seven counties of Cheatham, Davidson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, and Stewart. JOHN J. GARDNER JOHN J. GARDNER John J. Gardner, of Atlantic City, was born in Atlantic County in 1845 ; was raised a waterman until sixteen years of age, when he enlisted for three years in the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers ; in March, 1865. enlisted for one year in the United States Veteran Volunteers; is a farmer and conveyancer; is also connected with insurance busi- ness ; was elected alderman of Atlantic City in 1807 and mayor in 1868; reelected mayor seven times; was coro- ner of the county one year; city councilman one year; member of the New Jersey State senate fifteen years, from 1878 to 185)3; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congi-ess as a RepuV)lican. receiving 31,418 votes, against 13.961) votes for A. E. Conraco. Democrat and National Sil- ver candidate. 1,036 votes for J. B. Adams, Prohibitionist, 1,076 votes for R. L. Temi^le. National Democrat, and 115 votes for G. Yardley. Socialist Labor. He represents the second congressional district of New Jersey, which has a population of 183,316. and embraces the four counties of Atlantic, Burlington, Mercer, and Ocean. HENRY R. GIBSON HENRY R. GIBSON Henry R. Gibson, of Knoxville, was born on Kent Island, Queen Anne County, Md., in 1837; was educated at Bladens- bur^, Md., and at Holiart College, Geneva, N. Y., from which institution he graduated in 1S62 ; served in the commissary department of the Federal army from March, 1863. to July, 1865; in September, 1865. entered the Albany (N. Y.) Law School; in December, 1865, was licensed to practice law by the supreme court of New York, at Albany; in January, 1866, removed to Knoxville, Tenn., and there began the practice of law; in October, 1866, removed to Jacksboro, Campbell County, Tenn.; in 1868 was appointed commis- sioner of claims by Gov. William G. Brownlow ; in 1861) was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention which framed the present constitution of the State. l)ut refused to sign or vote for the constitution l)ecause of some obnox- ious provisions, especially one making the prepayment of a poll tax a qualification for voting; in 1870 was elected a member of the State senate ; in 1872 was a Republican nominee for presidential elector; in 1874 was elected a member of the Tennessee house of representatives; in 1876 moved back to Knoxville and formed a law partnership with Judge L. C. Houk, afterwards Congressman ; in 1879 founded the Knoxville Ucjudilicau and became its editor; in 1880 was the Republican nominee for district presidential elector; in 1881 was appointed post-office inspector and as such investigated the postal service on the Mississippi River and its triliutaries and the star-route service west of the Rocky Mountains ; in 1882 became editor of the Knoxville Daihj HENRY R. GIBSOX Chronicle, then the only morning Kepublican daily between the Ohio River and the Gulf; in ISSS was appointed United States pension agent at Knoxville for the southern district, composed of twelve States ; in 18S6 was elected chancellor of the second chancery division of Tennessee for a term of eight years, receiving 1S.S2S votes, against 5.225 votes for his opponent ; in 1891 published "Suits in Chancery,'' a book that has become an authority in the courts of Tennes- see and other States ; in 1892 the degree of LL. D. was con- ferred upon him by Hobart College, his alma mater; in 1894 was elected by the Kepublicans of his district to the Fifty-Fourth Congress, and in 1896 was reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress, receiving 28.112 votes, against 9.448 votes for W. L. Ledgerwood. Democrat, and 234 votes for W. C. I\Iur- phy, Prohibitionist. He represents the second district of Tennessee, which has a population of 196.582, and which embraces the eleven counties of Anderson. Blount, Camp- bell, Jefferson. Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union. CHARLES W. GILLET CHARLES W. GILLET Charles W. Gillet, of Addison, was born in Addison, N. Y., November 2(j. 1840; graduated at Union College, Schenectady. N. Y., class of iSlil ; enlisted as a private in the Eighty-Hixtli Regiment New York \'olunteers, August, 1861 ; was made adjutant of the regiment November, 1861, and served as adjutant until discharged the service for disabilities in 1S63; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repul)lican, receiving 27. 19-2 votes, against 17.1)94 votes for Henry W. Banes, Democrat. 369 votes for De Merville Page. Gold Democrat, and S65 votes lilank and scattering. He represents the twenty-ninth district of New York, which has a population of 174,676, and em- braces the four counties of Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, and Steuben. FREDERICK H. GILLETT FREDERICK HUNTINGTON GILLETT Frederick Huntington Gillett. of Springfield, was born at Westtield. Mass., October 16, Lsol : graduated at Amherst College in 1S74 and at Harvard Law School in 1877; was admitted to the bar in Springtield in 1877 ; was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts from 1S79 to 1882 ; was elected to the Massachusetts house of represen- tatives in 1890 and 1891 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19.793 votes, against 7,778 votes for T. A. Fitzgibbon. Democrat. He represents the second district of Massachusetts, which has a pojiulation of 173,951, and which embraces: Franklin County — towns of Erving, Leverett, Montague, New Salem, Northfield. Orange, Shutesbury. Sunderland, Wax'wick. and Wendell; Hampden County — cities of Chicopee and Spring- field and towns of Brimheld, Hampden, Holland, Long- meadow, Ludlow, Monson. Palmer, Wales, and Wilbraham ; Hampshire County — city of Northampton and towns of Amherst, Belchertown, Easthampton, Eu field, Granby, Green- wich, Hadley, Pelham, Prescott, South Hadley, and Ware ; Worcester County — towns of Athol, Barre, Brookfield. Dana, Hardwick. New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham. Peter- sham. Phillipston, Koyalston, Templeton, Warren, West Brookfield, and Winchendon. 35 JOSEPH V. GRAFF JOSEPH V. GRAFF Joseph V. Graff, of Pekin. Tazewell County, was born at Terre Haute, Ind., July 1, 1S54; graduated at the Terre Haute high school at the age of sixteen years ; also attended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., one year, but never completed a collegiate course ; studied law and was admit- ted to the bar while living at Delavau, 111., in 1879 ; was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Minne- apolis in 1892 ; has never before held a public office, except president of the board of education, which jiosition he held at the time of his election to the Fifty-Fourth Congress, but has engaged in the practice of the law ever since his admission to the bar; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Eepublican, re- ceiving 25,144 votes, against 2o,413 votes for N. E. Worth- ington. Democrat ; 471 votes for D. R. Sheen, Prohibitionist, and 392 votes for Theodore Holly, Populist. He represents the fourteenth congressional district of Illinois, which has a population of 1()0,681, and embraces the six counties of Fulton, Marshall, Mason, Peoria, Putnam, and Tazewell. WILLIAM H. GRAHAM WILLIAM H. GRAHAM William H. Graham, of Allegneny, was born in Alle- gheny, Pa., August 3. 1S44 ; attended the public schools of that city until thirteen years of age, when the death of his father forced him to leave school in order to aid his mother in the support of a family of younger children ; while employed in a brass foundry the Civil War broke out, and at the age of seventeen he enlisted in a Pitts- burg company, but Pennsylvania's quota being full, they chartered a steamer, went down the river to Wheeling, and were accepted there, becoming Company A, Second Virginia Infantry : after a service of two years the regi- ment was mounted, becoming the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry ; saw very active service under Generals Averill, Crook, and Sheridan ; was in service uutil close of the war, witnessing the surrender of General Lee at Appo- mattox ; was wounded in engagement at White Sulphur Springs, Va.; after the war engaged actively in business and has been very successful ; is now the president of the Mercantile Trust Company and Central Accident Insurance Company of Pittsburg ; has also been active in Repub- lican politics : served three successive terms as recorder of deeds, Allegheny County ; represented his city during four sessions of the Pennsylvania legislature ; was elected to the Fifty-Fiftli Congress as a Republican at a special election held Novenil)er 21). ISIIS. to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of William A. Stone. He represents the twenty-third congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 164,215, and embraces the city of Alle- gheny and all the townships and boroughs lying north of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers in the county of Allegheny. WILLIAM L. GREENE WILLIAM L. GREENE William L. Greene, of Kearney, was born on a farm in Pike County, Ind., October 3. 1849 ; removed with his par- ents to Dubois County in the same State, where, during his early youth, he worked on a farm in the summer months and attended school in winter, thus acquiring an education which fitted him to enter the academy at Ire- land, Ind.. which institution he attended for three years ; engaged in the profession of teaching, which vocation he followed until he began the study of law ; in 1876 was admitted to the bar in Bloomington. Ind., and liegan a successful practice in the Indiana courts; in LS88 removed with his family to Kearney, Neb., where he still resides, and resumed the practice of his profession ; as a practitioner he has been very successful, and made for himself more than a State reputation as a criminal lawyer; in politics was originally a Democrat, but in 181(0 cast his lot with the Populist party, being one of the founders of that or- ganization ; in 181)2, without solicitation on his part, was brought out before the legislature of the State as a can- didate for United States Senator, and came within two votes of being elected to fill the position which Senator W. V. Allen now occupies, his support, at his instance, going to Mr. Allen and assuring that gentleman's election ; in 181)5 was elected judge of the twelfth judicial district of Nebraska; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 19,378 votes, against 14,841 votes for Addison E. Cady, Republican, and 436 votes for A. D. George. Prohibitionist. He represents the sixth congres- sional district of Nebraska, which has a population of 176,556, and embraces the thirty-three counties of Banner, Blaine. Boyd, Boxbutte. Brown. Buffalo. Cherry. Cheyenne. Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Garfield, Grant, Greeley, Holt, Hooker. Howard, Keith, Keyapaha, Kimball, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Rock. Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sher- man. Sioux. Thomas, Valley, and Wheeler. WILLIAM S. GREENE WILLIAM STEDMAN GREENE William Stedman Greene, of Fall Eiver. was born in Tremont. Tazewell County, 111., April 28, 1841 ; removed to Fall River with hi.s parents in 1844 ; was educated in the public schools of that city, and was a clerk in the insurance business from 1858 to 1865 ; commenced business as auc- tioneer, real estate and insurance agent in 1866; was elected member of common council in 1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879, and was president of the body the latter three years; elected mayor in 1880; also alternate delegate to Re- publican national convention which nominated President Garfield; was reelected mayor in 1881. but resigned the same year, being appointed postmaster by President Gar- field ; in 1886 was again elected mayor ; was a candidate in 1887 and 1888, but was defeated; in July. 1888, was appointed by Governor Ames general superintendent of prisons for the State, and served until 1898, when he was removed by the Democratic governor for political reasons ; was again candidate for mayor in 1894 and defeated ; elected mayor in 1895 by 734 majority, in 1896 by 1,514 majority, and in 1897 by 3,121 majority, and declined a reelection in 1898; was appointed postmaster by President McKinley, and entered upon his duties April 1, 1898; resigned this position and was elected as a Republican to Congress May 81, 1898, to fill the unexpired term of the late John Simp- kins for the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 4,858 votes, to 604 for Charles T. Luce, Democrat, 1,400 for Charles S. Randall, Independent Republican, 844 for Walter J. Skahan, Socialist Labor, and took the oath of ofKce June 15, 1898. WILLIAM STEDMAN GREENE He was married in Fall River in 1866 to Miss Mary E. White ; they have three children — Mabel L., Chester W., and Foster R. Mi\ Greene's great-grandfather on the paternal side, Job Greene, Jr., vi'as an officer in the Revolutionary War, and on the maternal side his great-grandfather was Benjamin Miles, of Rutland, Mass., who was one of the minute men of Concord, and afterwards emigrated to Ohio. Mrs. Greene's ancestors on the paternal side came from the mother country in the Mayflower, and on the maternal side her great-grandfather, Major Samuel Phillips, achieved distinction by especial service in the war of the Revolu- tion. He represents the thirteenth district of j\Iassachu- setts, which has a population of 171.535 and which embraces Barnstable County — towns of Barnstable, Bourne. Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, p]astham. Falmouth. Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfieet, and Yarmouth; Bristol County — cities of Fall River and New Bedford and towns of Acushnet. Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Somerset. Swansea, and Westport ; Dukes County — towns of Chilmark. Cottage City, Edgartown, Gay Head, Gosnold. and Tisbury ; Nantucket County — town of Nantucket: Plymouth County ^towns of Marion, Matta- poisett, Rochester, and Wareham. MICHAEL GRIFFIN MICHAEL GRIFFIN Michael Griffin, of Eau Claire, was born September 9, 1842, in Ireland ; emigrated with his parents to Canada in 1847. to Ohio in 1851. thence to Wisconsin in 1856; re- ceived his education in the common schools of Ohio and Wisconsin ; first resided in Sauk County. Wis., until 1868, and then removed to Kilbourn City. Wis., where he re- mained until 1876, removing in that year to Eau Claire, where he has since resided ; enlisted as a private September 11. 1861. in Company E. Twelfth Regiment Wisconsin Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being promoted successively to the grade of second and first lieu- tenant ; served at the siege of Mcksburg, in the Meridian campaign, and in the Atlanta campaign, and marched to the sea and north through the Carolinas with Sherman ; was wounded at Atlanta July 21, 1864, and was mustered out July 16, 1865; was a member of the county boai'd of Colum- bia County. Wis., in 1874-75; meml)er of assembly in 1S76; city attorney of Eau Claire in 1878. 1879, and 1880; State senator in 1880 and 1881, and department commander of the Graud Army of the Republic in 1887-88 ; served as quar- termaster-general of the State, with rank of lirigadier-gen- eral, in 1889 and 1890 ; was admitted to the bar May 19, 1868, and has since been engaged in the practice of law ; was elected in 1894 to the Fifty-Third Congress as a Republican, to fill the vacancy occasioned l)y the death of Hon. George B. Shaw, and at the same election to the Fifty-Fourth Con- gress, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repub- lican, receiving 24,073 votes, against 12.047 votes for Caleb M. Hilliard. Democrat, and 791 votes for James H. Moseley, Prohibitionist. He represents the seventh congressional district of Wisconsin, v,'hich has a population of 150,331, and embraces the seven counties of Buffalo. Eau Claire Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin, and Trempealeau. FRANCIS M. GRIFFITH FRANCIS MARION GRIFFITH Francis Marion Griffith, of Vevay. was born in Switzer- land County, Ind., August 21, 1849 : was educated in the country schools of the county, the high school at Vevay. and at Franklin College ; has l)een engaged in the practice of law at Vevay for over twenty years ; served as State senator from 1SS6 to 1894 ; was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-Fifth Congress at the special election held August 10, 1897, to till the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. William S. Holman, receiving 19,342 votes against 18,268 votes for (Jharles W. Lee. Republican, and 778 votes for Uriah M. Bi-owder, Populist. He represents the fourth congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 176,889, and embraces the ten counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio, Ripley, and Switzerland. JAMES M. GRIGGS JAMES M. GRIGGS James M. Griggs, of Dawson, was born at Lagrange, Ga., on March 29, 1861 ; was educated in the common schools of Georgia and at the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he was graduated in Maj% 1881 ; after graduation taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883, and commenced the l^ractice of law in 1884 at Alapaha. Berrien County. Ga. ; was for a short while engaged in the newspaper Ijusiness : removed to Dawson in 1885 ; was elected solicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) of the Pataula judicial circuit in 1888, and was reelected in 1892; in 1893 resigned; was appointed judge of the same circuit, and was twice reelected without opposition ; resigned this office in 1S96 to make the race for Congress ; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,454 votes, against 3,868 votes for J. E. Peterson. Republican, and 3,035 votes for J. A. Sibley, Populist. He represents the second congressional district of Georgia, which has a population of 180,300, and embraces the hfteen counties of Baker, Berrien, Calhoun. Clay. Colquitt. Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth. 36 CHARLES H. GROSVENOR CHARLES HENRY GROSVENOR Charles Henry Grosvenor. of Athens, was born at Pom- fret, Windham County, Conn.. September 20, 1833; hi,s grandfather was Col. Thomas Grosvenor, of the Second Con- necticut IJegiment in the Kevolution, and his father was Maj. Peter Grosvenor, who served in the Tenth Connecticut Eegiment in the War of 1S12 ; his father carried him from Connecticut to Ohio in May. LSoS. but there was no school- house near where he settled until he was fourteen years old, when be attended a few terms in a country log schoolhouse in Athens County, Ohio ; taught school and studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1.S57 ; was chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio State Bar Association from its organ- ization for many years ; served in the Union army, in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers, from July. ISGl, to November, LSG.") ; was major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, commanding a brigade at the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864 ; has held divers township and village offices ; was a member of the State house of representatives of Ohio. 1874-78, serving as speaker of the house two years ; was presidential elector for the fifteenth district of Ohio in 1872. and was chosen to carry the electoral vote of the State to Washington ; was pi-esi- dential elector at large in ISSO ; was a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia. from April. 1880. till 1S8S. and president of the board for five years ; was elected to the Forty-Ninth, Fif- tieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Eepublican, receiving 24,333 votes, against 19.791) votes for Finck, Demo- crat, and 74 votes for Crippen. Prohiliitionist. He represents the eleventh congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 174,315, and embraces the six counties of Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Perry, Ross, and Vinton. WILLIAM W. GROUT WILLIAM W. GROUT William W. Grout, of Barton, was born at Compton, Province of Quebec, of American parents, May 24, 1836 ; received an academic education and graduated at Pougb- keepsie Law Scbool in L857 ; was admitted to the bar in December of same year ; practiced law and was State's attor- ney 1865-fi6 ; served as lieutenant-colonel Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers in I^nion army ; was made brigadier-general of Vermont militia at time of St. Albans raid in 1864 ; was member of Vermont house of representatives in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874. and of the senate in 1876, and president /»'o tempore of that body ; was elected to the Forty-Seventh, Foi-ty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26.319 votes, against 6,202 votes for Henry E. Fitzgerald. Democrat, 209 votes for Thomas J. Aldrich, Populist, and 7 votes scattering. He represents the second congressional district of Vermont, which has a population of 162,482. and embraces the seven counties of Caledonia. E,ssex, Orange. Orleans, Washington Windham, and Windsor. ^ ^H ^^^» f4 '■jg ^'l ^^^^^H ^ ^^B ^' ■ 1 GALUSHA A. GROW GALUSHA A. GROW Galusha a. Grow, of (Ueiiwood, Susquehanna County, was born in Asliford (now Eastford), Windham County, Conn., August 31, 1823; hi.s father died when he was three years old ; his mother, with her six childi'en, removed to Susquehanna County, Pa., in May. 1834 ; worked on a farm summers and went to the common school winters until the summer of 1837. when he began a regular course of study at Franklin Academy, Susquehanna County, and entered the Freshman class, Amherst (Mass.) College, September, 1840; graduated July, 1844; was admitted to the bar of Susquehanna County. April 19. 1847; declined a unanimous nomination for the legislature in August, 1850; was elected to Congress the following October, succeeding David Wil- mot ; was elected from the same district six consecutive terms, once by a unanimous vote ; was defeated in a new district, composed of Susquehanna and Luzerne Counties, in 1862 ; was elected the first three times as a Free-Soil Democrat, the last three as a Eepublican ; entered Con- gress in December, 1851. being the youngest member of that Congress ; was chairman of the committee on the Territories in the Thirty-Fourth and Thirty-Sixth Con- gresses ; was elected Speaker of the Thirty-Seventh Congress July 4, 1861 ; was a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1864, 1884. and 1892; was chaii-man of the Pennsylvania State Republican committee in 1868 ; from 1871 to 1876 was president of the International and Great Northern Railroad Company ; in the fall of 1879 declined G A LUSH A A. GROW the mission to Russia, tendered by President Hayes : Feb- ruary 20, 1894, at a special election to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-Third Congress, caused by the death of William Lilly, was elected Congressman at Large, receiving 486,260 votes, against 297.966 votes for James D. Hancock, Demo- crat; was reelected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress by a plurality of 246.462. and a majority over all of 204,715, receiving 571,085 votes, against 824.628 Democratic votes. 22,980 Prohibition votes, 17,299 Populist votes, and 1.465 Socialist Labor votes ; was reelected Congressman at Large to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 711,246 votes, against 418.800 votes for De Witt C. De Witt, Democrat. 18.091 votes for George Alcorn, Prohibitionist, 7,482 votes for John P. Correll, People's party, 1.432 votes for Fred. W. Long. Socialist Labor, and 668 votes for Isaac G. Pollard. National Democrat. His plurality over De Witt. Democrat, was 297.446 ; majority over all, 269,778. which was the largest plurality and the largest majority ever given in any State of the Union to any candidate for any office. He is a Representative at Large from Pennsylvania. JAMES GUNN JAMES GUNN James Gunn. of Boise, was born in the State of New York March 6, 1843 ; emigrated with his parents when he was but a few years old to Wisconsin, settling in the western part of that State ; received a common-school and academic education ; volunteered as a private in Company G, Twenty-Seventh Wisconsin Infantry, with which regi- ment he served until the close of the war, ])eing mustered out with the rank of captain ; in the early summer of LSCUi he went to Colorado, where he resided nine years, making his home in the counties of Gilpin and Clear Creek ; was mayor of Georgetown three years ; in 1875 moved to the Pacific Slope, living temporarily in Nevada and California ; a mining excitement broke out in Idaho in 1880 and 1881, and he joined the rush of prosjjectors to that State, making the town of Hailey, in Wood River Valley, his home ; was elected to the senate of the first State legisla- ture in 1890 ; was nominated by the Populists for Congress in 1892 and again in 1894. and though defeated each time, received a third nomination from the People's Democratic Fusion in 1890, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 13.487 votes, against 6.054 cast for John T. Morrison. Republican, and 8,984 for W. E. Borah, Silver Republican ; is Representative at large from Idaho. ALVA L. HAGER A. L. HAGER A. L. Hager, of Greenfield, Adair County, was born near Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N. Y., October 29, 1850 ; in the spi'ing of 185*,) his family removed to Iowa and settled near Cottonville, Jackson County ; in 1863 removed to Jones County and engaged in farming near Langworthy ; received his education in the common schools and high schools of Monticello and Anamosa ; in the fall of 1874 entered the law school at Iowa City, and graduated therefrom in June of 1875 ; began the practice of the law at his present home in Greenfield in the fall of 1875, and has pursued that profes- sion up to the present date ; in the fall of 1891 was elected to the State senate ; was chairman of the Iowa Republican State convention of 1892 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,904 votes, against 22,522 votes for L. T. Genung, Fusionist, and 137 votes for T. D. Thomas, Prohibitionist. He represents the fifth con- gressional district of Iowa, which has a population of 168,175, and which embraces the nine counties of Adair, Audubon. Cass, Guthrie. Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pot- tawattamie, and Shelby. EDWARD LA RUE HAMILTON Edward La Rue Hamilton, of Niles, was bora iu Berrieu County, Mich., December 9, 1857 ; educated at public schools ; was prepared to enter the University of Michigan in 1876, when his father died ; had to provide a living for his mother, and took charge of the farm ; in 188'2 removed to Niles : entered Judge H. H. Coolidge's law office, and was admitted to the bar in 1884; Ijegan making political speeches that same year, and has ever since been an active campaign worker ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- publican, receiving 26.518 votes, against 22,994 votes for Roman I. Jarvis, Free-Silver Democrat. He represents the fourth congressional district of Michigan, which has a population of 180.179, and embraces the six counties of Alle- gan, Barry, Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph, and Van Bureu. LEVIN I. HANDY LEVIN IRVING HANDY Levin Irving Handy, of Newark, Del., was born Decem- ber 24, 1S6L at Berliu, Md.; he attended public and private schools in Maryland and New York ; taught school in Somerset County, Md., and came to Smyrna, Del., to teach, in 1881 ; was superintendent of free schools in Kent County 1887-90; was chairman of the Democratic State central committee 1892-96 ; was editorial writer on Wilmington Every Evening 1894-95; is a popular lecturer and has, since 1890. delivered lectures in lyceum courses in many sections of the country ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,407 votes, against 11.159 votes for J. S. Willis. Union Kepublican, 7,123 votes for Robert G. Houston, Republican, 844 votes for Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., Honest-Money Democrat, and 462 votes for William Faries, Prohibitionist. He is a Representative at Large from Delaware. 37 ALFRED C. HARMER Alfred C. Haemer, of Philadelphia, was born in Ger- juantown (now part of the city of Philadelphia), Pa.: was educated at public schools and at Germantown Acad- emy ; was engaged in mercantile pursuits ; is identified with railroad enterprises, and is largely engaged in mining and land operations ; was elected to the city councils of Philadelphia in 1856, and served four years ; was elected recorder of deeds for Philadelphia in 1860, and served three years ; was elected to the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, Forty-Fifth, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Seventh, Forty-Eighth, Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 47.958 votes, against 14,484 votes for Wright. Populist and Democrat, and 387 votes for Christian. Prohibitionist. He represents the fifth congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 267,422. and embraces the eighteenth, nine- teenth, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, thirty- first, thirty-third and thirty-fifth wards of the city of Philadelphia. CHARLES S. HARTMAN CHARLES S. HARTMAN Charles S. Hartman, of Bozeman, Mont., was born at Monticello, Ind.. March 1, 1S61 ; read law with Owens & Uhl ; removed to Montana in January, 1882 ; was admitted to the bar in 1884, and in November, 1884, was elected probate judge of Gallatin County, Mont., and served two years as such ; in 1888 was a candidate for the legislature from Gallatin County, and was defeated ; in 1889 was a member of the constitutional convention, and has held no other oflBce ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty- Fourth Congresses as a' Republican and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Silver Republican (no Demo- cratic or Populistic nomination being made against him), receiving 33.932 votes, against 9,429 votes for 0. F. God- dard. Gold Republican. He is a Representative at Large from Montana. R. B. HAWLEY R. B. HAWLEY R. B. Hawley, of Galveston, was born in Memphis, Tenn., in 1850; was brought up and educated in that city, and is of Southern ancestry ; voted for Grant in 1872, and always thereafter acted with tlie Repul)lioan party in national con- tests ; became a citizen of Texas in 1875 ; has been a mer- chant, importer, and manufacturer in the city of Galveston continuously for twenty years; always maintained an active interest in politics ; was three times elected president of the Galveston board of education ; presided several times over State conventions, and attended as a delegate national conventions, but never offered for any political office until the campaign of lS9fi. when he was unanimously nominated by his party for Congress, and was elected as a Republican, receiving 17,936 votes, against 15.715 votes for J. H. Shel- burne, Democrat, and 5.476 votes for Noah Allen. Populist. He represents the tenth congressional district of Texas, which has a ijopulation of l('t(),30S, and eml)races the nine counties of Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fayette, Fort Bend, Galveston. Gonzales, Lavaca, and Matagorda. JAMES HAY JAMES HAY James Hay, of Madison, was born in Millwood, Clai-ke County, Va., January ij, 1856 ; was educated at private schools in Maryland and Virginia, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Washington and Lee University, Vir- ginia, from which latter institution he graduated in law in June, 1S77 ; moved to Harrisonburg. Va.. in 1877. where he practiced law and taught school until June. 1879, when he removed to Madison, Va., and devoted himself exclusively to his profession : was elected attorney for the Common- wealth in 1883, and reelected to that office in 1887, 1891, and lSi)5 ; was elected to the house of delegates of Vir- ginia in 1885 and was reelected in 1887 and 1889 ; was elected to the State senate in 1893; was a member of the State Democratic committee for four years, and was a member of the Democratic national convention of 1888 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, re- ceiving 17.447 votes, against 13,250 votes for Robert J. Walker, Republican, 358 votes for J. Samuel Harnes])erger, bolting Democrat, and 195 votes for Mr. Forsyth, Prohibi- tionist. He represents the seventh congressional district of Virginia, which has a population of 155.197. and em- braces the counties of Albemarle. Clarke. Frederick. Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock. Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren, and the cities of Charlottesville and Win- chester. JOEL P. HEATWOLE JOEL PRESCOTT HEATWOLE Joel Prescott Heatwole, of Northfield, Minn., was born in Waterford, Elkhart County. Ind., August 22, 1856 ; is a pi-iuter by trade : taught country and village schools ; engaged in the newspaper business ; served three terms as president of the Minnesota Editors and Pul)lish- ers Association ; secretary of the Republican State Central Committee four years, and chairman two years ; elected a delegate at large to the national Republican convention in ISSS ; member of the Board of Regents of the Univer- sity of Minnesota six years ; ran for Congress in 1892 and was defeated ; elected mayor of Northheld, in March. lHi)4 ; elected to the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress; member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs : member of the Committee on the Twelfth Census ; Chairman of the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics ; was member of the sub-com- mittee of three on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, having in charge resolutions relating to Cuban affairs ; was member of the Conference Committee on the part of the House having under consideration the resolution in regard to Cuba which was passed during the second ses- sion of the Fifty-Fifth Congress. Is a Republican. He represents the third congressional disti-ict of Minnesota, which has a population of 187,215, and which embraces the ten counties of Carver. Dakota, Goodhue. Lesueui-, Mc- Leod, Meeker, Renville, Rice, Scott and Sibley. JAMES A. HEMENWAY JAMES A. HEMENWAY James A. Hemenway, of Boonville, was born March 8, 1860, at Boonville, Ind., and, with the exception of a few years, has continued to reside at Boonville ; was educated in the common schools ; commenced the practice of law in 1885 ; in LSSG and again in 1888 was elected prosecuting at- torney of the second judicial circuit of Indiana; in 1890 was selected as the member of the Republican State committee from the first district; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth C!ongress as a Republican, re- ceiving 21.907 votes, against 20,856 votes for Thomas Duncan, Democrat, and 1,313 votes for Josephus Lee. Populist. He represents the first congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 186,263, and which embraces the six counties of Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburg, and Warrick. DAVID B. HENDERSON DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON David Bremner Henderson, of Dubuque, was born at Old Deer, Scotland. March 14, 184U ; was brought to Hlinois in 1846 and to Iowa in lS4i) ; was educated in common schools and at the Upper Iowa University; studied law with Bissel & Shiras, of Dul)U(iue, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1865 ; was reared on a farm until twentj'-one years of age ; enlisted in the Union army in September. 1861, as private in Company C, Twelfth Kegi- ment Iowa Infantry \'olunteers, and was elected and com- missioned first lieutenant of that company, serving with it until discharged, owing to the loss of his leg. February 16, 1863; in May. iSli:! was appointed commissioner of the board of enrollment of the third district of Iowa, serving as such until June. 1864. when he reentered the army as colonel of the Forty-Sixth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volun- teers, and served therein until the close of his term of service; was collector of internal revenue for the third district of Iowa from Noveml)er, 1865, until June, 1869, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson ; was assistant United States district attorney for the northern division of the district of Iowa about two years, resigning in 1871 : is now a member of the law firm of Henderson. Hurd, Len- ehan & Kiesel ; was elected to the Forty-Eighth, Forty- Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 29,654 votes, against 19,231 votes for George Staehle. Democrat. He represents the third congressional district of Iowa, which has a pop- ulation of 184.437. and embraces the nine counties of Blackhawk. Bremer. Buchanan. Butler, Delaware, Dubuque, Franklin, Hardin, and Wright. CHARLES L. HENRY CHARLES L. HENRY Charles L. Henry, of Anderson, was born July 1, 1S49. in Green Township, Hancock County, Ind.; his parents removed with him in his early youth to Pendleton. Ind.; was educated in the common schools and pursued his studies through part of a collegiate course at Asbury (now De Pauw) University, at Greencastle. Ind.; studied law with Hon. Hervey Craven ; graduated from the law department of the Indiana University, at Bloomiugtou, in 1872, aud immediately commenced the practice of law at Pendleton ; removed to Anderson in 1875, where he has since resided ; was elected to the State senate in 1880 from the counties of Grant and Madison, aud served in the sessions of 1881 and 1883 ; is married : was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress from the seventh district, and the State being reapportioned he was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress from the new eighth district as a Republican, receiving 30,045 votes, against 27.413 votes for John R. Brunt, his Democratic Populist opponent. He represents the eighth congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 170.337. and embraces the seven counties of Adams, Blackford, Delaware, Jay, Madison, Randolph, and Wells. 38 E STEVENS HENRY E. STEVENS HENRY E. Stevens Henry, of Eockville. is of Scotch-Irish an- cestry and was born iu Gill, Mass., in 1836, removing when twelve years old with his parents to Eockville, Conn.; was educated in the public schools and grew up in and with that prosperous manufacturing city; a successful business man, his fellow-citizens have in many ways shown their confidence in him ; he has been and is connected with many of the local financial institutions; is also a farmer and breeder of thoroughlired stock, and until recently president of the Connecticut Jersey Breeders' Association ; has served his town and city in various capacities, and last as mayor of Eockville ; was a representative in the lower house of the Connecticut general assembly of 1S88 ; State senator from the twenty-third senatorial district in 1887-88 ; delegate at large to the Chicago national Eepub- can convention in 1888 ; treasurer of the State of Connec- ticut from 1889 to 1898. He was the Eepublican nominee for Congress in 1892, but was defeated by a small majority ; again a candidate in 1894 he was elected to the Fifty- Fourth Congress by a majority of 5,207 over his Demo- cratic opponent, running over 700 votes ahead of the State ticket in that election ; was reelected in 1896 to the Fifty- Fifth Congress, receiving 27,623 votes, against 10,859 votes for Joseph P. Tuttle, Bryan Democrat, 2,114 votes for E. Henry Hyde, Jr., National Democrat, 501 votes for James I. Bartholomew, Prohibitionist, and 342 votes for Samuel Joseph, Socialist Labor, receiving a plurality of 16,764, and the largest majority ever given a congressional candi- date in the State of Connecticut. He represents the first congressional district of Connecticut, which has a popula- tion of 172,261, and embraces the counties of Hartford and Tolland, including the cities of Hartford, New Britain, and Eockville. PATRICK HENRV PATRICK HENRY Patrick Henry, of Brandon, was born in Madison County, Miss., February 12, 1843; entered Mississippi College, at Clinton, afterwards Madison College, at Sharon, and when the war commenced was at the Nashville (Tenn.) Military College ; in the spring of lS(il enlisted in the Confederate service in the Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment ; served through the war, and surrendei'ed at Greensboro, N. C, April 26. 1865, as major of the Fourteenth (consolidated) Missis- sippi Regiment ; returning home, farmed until 1878 in Hinds and Rankin Counties, when he commenced the practice of law at Brandon ; was a member of the legislature in 1878 and 1890. and delegate from the State at large to the constitutional convention in 1890 ; was elected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7.327 votes, against 192 votes for S. A. Beadle. Republican : 231 votes for J. M. Mathews, Republican, and 897 votes for G. M. Cain, Populist. He represents the seventh congressional district of Missis- sippi, which has a population of 186,692. and embraces the nine counties of Claiborne. Copiah. Franklin. Hinds, Jeffer- son, Lincoln. Madison. Rankin, and Simpson. ROBERT L. HENRY ROBERT L. HENRY Robert L. He^-ry was boru May 12, 18G4. in Linden, Cass County, Tex.; when fourteen years old, went to Bowie County, and there lived till January, 1895, when he located in McLennan County : graduated with the degree of M. A. from the Southwe.stern University of Texas in June. 1885; was valedictorian of his class; read law, and in January, 1886, was admitted to the bar; practiced for a short time, and then took a course at the University of Texas, and graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1887; was elected mayor of Texarkana in 1890; resigned this position to ac- cept that of first office assistant attorney-general ; removed temporarily to Austin ; served in this capacity for neai-ly eighteen mouths; was appointed assistant attorney-general October 3, 1893 ; held the latter position for nearly three years; filled out an unexpired term and one full term, and then located in Waco for the practice of law ; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Bowie County for several years ; w^as a member of the Democratic execu- tive committee of the State when Webb Finley was chair- man; was elected as a mem]:)er of the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 26.151 votes, against 9.634 votes for W. F. Douthit, Populist, and 11,632 votes for T. A. Pope. Republican. He represents the seventh congressional dis- trict of Texas, which has a population of 182,894, and embraces the seven counties of Bell, Brazos. Falls. Lime- stone. McLennan. Milam, and Robertson. WILLIAM P. HEPBURN WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN William Peters Hepburn, of Clarinda, was born Novem- ber 4, 1833, at Wellsville, Columbiana County. Ohio; was taken to Iowa (then a Territory) in April, 1841 ; was edu- cated in the schools of the Territory and in a printing oflBce ; was admitted to practice law in 1854 ; served in the Second Iowa Cavalry as cai^tain. major and lieuten- ant-colonel during the War of the Rebellion ; was a dele- gate from Iowa to the Republican national conventions of 1860 and 1888 ; was a presidential elector at large for the State of Iowa in 1876 and in 1888 ; was elected to the Forty-Seventh. Forty-Eighth. Forty-Ninth. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24.786 votes, against 23.960 votes for W. H. Robb. nominated by both the Dem- ocratic and Populist conventions. He represents the eighth congressional district of Iowa, which has a population of 173,484, and embraces the eleven counties of Adams. Ap- panoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont. Lucas, Page, Ringgold, Taylor. Union, and Wayne. JOSIAH D. HICKS JOSIAH D. HICKS JosiAH D. Hicks, of Altoona. wa.s born in Chester County, Pa., August 1, ]844. and removed to Blair County in the year 1847 ; received his education principally at the com- mon schools of Blair and Huntingdon Counties ; removed to Altoona in the spring of 1861 ; enlisted in the Union army as a private soldier from that place in the fall of 1862, and served nearly eighteen months ; was admitted to practice law in his county and State courts in 1875 ; has always been an active Republican ; served his party as county chairman and also as member of the State com- mittee ; in 1880 he was elected district attorney of Blair County, and in 1883 was accorded a unanimous renomina- tion and was reelected ; in 1884 he formed a law partner- ship in Altoona with his former preceptor. Hon. Daniel J. Neff ; this partnership continues at the present time under the hrm name of Xeff. Hicks & Geesey ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,974 votes, against 17.297 votes for R. A. McNamara, Democrat, 781 votes for J. W. Bracken. Prohiliitionist, 104 votes for C. Pietsch, Populist, and 7.468 votes for J. E. Thopp, Protectionist. He represents the twentieth district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 213.202, and embraces the four counties of Bedford. Blair, Cambria, and Somerset. SAMUEL G. HILBORN SAMUEL GREELEY HILBORN Samuel Greeley Hilborn. of Oakland, was born in Miuot, Audroscoggiu Count}' (then Cumlierlaud). Me., De- cember 9, 1834 ; wa.s educated in the common schools, Hebron Academ.y. and Gould's Academy, Bethel, Me., and Tut'ts College. Massachusetts, from which latter institution he graduated in 1851) ; taught school in Oak Grove Acad- emy, Falmouth. Me. ; read law in the office of Fessenden & Butler, Portland. Me. ; was admitted to the bar in 1861, and immediately went to California : located in Vallejo, Solano County, and engaged in the practice of the law ; served in the State senate from 1875 to 1879 ; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1879 ; was appointed I'nited States district attorney for the district of California in 1883. and removed to San Francisco, where he resided while filling the office ; changed his residence to Oakland in 1887, continuing the law business under the firm name of Hilborn & Hall in San Francisco : was elected to the Fifty-Second Congress as a Republican, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Joseph McKenna, appointed United States circuit judge, and was returned elected to the Fifty-Third Congress by 13,163 votes, against 13,130 votes for Warren B. Fnglish, Democrat. 3,521 votes for J. L. Lyon, People's party, and 278 votes for L. B. Scranton. Prohibitionist, but was unseated April 4. 1894. in favor of Warren B. English, who contested his election : was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a liei)ublican. receiving 19,778 votes, against 16,119 votes for Warren B. English, Democrat and People's party. 387 votes for John H. Eustice. Socialist Labor, and 327 votes for W. Shafer. Prohibitionist. He rep- resents the third congressional district of California, which has a population of 162,750, and embraces the six counties of Alameda. Colusa. Contra Costa. Lake. Solano, and Yolo. EBENEZER J. HILL EBENEZER J. HILL Ebenezer J. Hill, of Nonvalk. was born in Redding, Conn., August 4, 1845; prepared for college at the public school in Norwalk and entered Yale with the class of 1865, where he remained two years : in 1892 he received from Yale University the honorary degree of Master of Arts; is now president of the Norwalk Gas Light Company, and vice-president of the National Bank of Norwalk : has served twice as burgess of Norwalk. twice as chairman of the board of school visitors of Norwalk ; was the fourth district delegate to the national Repultlican convention of 1S84; was a member of the Connecticut senate for 1886-87 ; served one term upon the Repulilican State central com- mittee ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 30.658 votes, against 1,404 votes for Seymour, National Democrat ; 15,723 votes for Houlihan, Silver Democrat, and 430 votes for Wooster, Prohibitionist. He represents the fourth congres- sional district of Connecticut, which has a population of 203,623, and embraces the two counties of Fairfield and Litchfield. WILLIAM H. HINRICHSEN WILLIAM H. HINRICHSEN William H. Hinrichsex. of Jacksonville. 111., was born at Franklin, within a few miles of his pre.sent home. Ma.y •27, 1S5U : was educated in the pnblic schools and the State Universitj' at Champaign. 111.: worked on a farm, in a country store, and a railroad office, and Hnally engaged in newspaper work ; was suoces-sivelj" editor of the Jackson- ville CuiiriiT and Quincy HcrahL two of the leading pro- vincial dailies of the State; was elected to the office of justice of the peace in 1S71. and reelected in 1878; was appointed deputy sheriff' of his county in 1S74. and serveil three terms in that position: was elected sheriff in ISSO: was elected clerk of the house of representatives of Illinois in 1891 : was elected secretary of state in 18112; has been a delegate to every Democratic State convention since 1S72. and was a delegate at large to the Democratic national con- vention of LSDfi ; was a member of his county committee from 1S71 to ISNS. most of the time as chairman or .sec- retary : has served as a meml)er of the Democratic State committee since 1888, and was chairman of it in 1895; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, re- ceiving 26.615 votes, against 20.472 votes for John I. Rinaker, Republican, and 468 votes for M. M. Coojjer. i'ro- hibitionist. He represents the sixteenth congre.ssional district of Illinois, which has a population of 1(54.418. and embraces the eight counties of Calhoun. Cass, Greene. Jer- sey. Macoupin. Morgan, Pike, and Scott. ROBERT R. HITT ROBERT ROBERTS HITT Robert Roberts IIitt. of Mount Morris, was lioru at Urbaua, Ohio. Januarv Kl. ls;:!4: removed to Ogle County, 111., iu 1.So7: was educated at Rock River Seminary (now Mount Morris College) and De Pauw liniversity ; was first secretary of legation and charge d'affaires (h1 iiiier'nii at Paris from Decemi)er. LS74. until March, 18S1 ; was Assist- ant Secretary of State in ISSI ; was elected to the Forty- Seventh Congress November 7. 1SS2, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. R. M. A. Hawk ; w^as elected to the Forty-Eighth. Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty- First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving o-2,".)41) votes, against ir).-J41 votes for C. 0. Knudson. Democrat, and SIS votes for James Lamont. Prohibitionist. He represents the ninth congressional dis- trict of Illinois, which has a iio])ulation of 198,486, and embraces the seven counties of Lioone. Carroll. Jo Daviess, Lee. Ogle. Stephenson, and Winnebago. ALBERT J. HOPKINS ALBERT J. HOPKINS Albert .1. Hopkins, of Aufoi-a, was born in Dekalb County. 111., August 15. 1S4(): graduated at Hillsdale (Midi.) College in June. 1H7(>; studied law and roininenced prac- tice at Aurora. 111.; was State's attorney of Kane County from 1872 to 1S7(5; was a member of the Kepuldican State central committee from 1S7.S to ISSO; was presidential elect(»r on the Hlaine and Logan ticket 1SS4; was elected to the Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repulilican. receiving :!'J.07:! votes, against 12,iS(il votes for S. N. Hoover. r)emf)crat. and SIS votes for A. N. Dodd. Pi'ohihitionist. He represents the eighth congressional district of Illinois, which has a popu- lation of LiO.l'J^). and embraces the six counties of Dekalb. Dupage, (irundy. Kane. Kendall, and McHenry. MILFORD W. HOWARD MILFORD W. HOWARD ]\lii.F()i;i) ^^ . Ildw AKii. of l-'ort I'ayiic. was horn in Floyd ('oiiiity, (ia.. DeceiiilxT is. isCi-J; was elected to the Fifty- Fourth Couji'ress and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving G.IOS votes, against 5.62!S votes for W. I. Bullock. Free-Silver Democrat, 4.'.KS2 votes for J. J. ('urtis, l{epul)lican. and 454 votes for (ieorge H. Parker, (i old-Standard Democrat. He represents the seventh con- gi-essional district of Alabama, which has a population of 180,451, and embraces the eight counties of Cherokee. Cull- man. Dekalb. Etowah, Franklin, Marshall, St. Clair, and Winston. WILLIAM M. HOWARD WILLIAM MARCELLUS HOWARD William Marcellus Howard, of Lexiugton, Ga.. was born at Berwick City. La., of Georgia parents. December (>, 1H57: was graduated from the University of Georgia; Itegan practice of law February. LS80; was elected solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit of (xeorgia by the State legislature in 1SS4: was reelected to that office in ISSS and in 1SU2. and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving il.dSS votes, against "J. 962 votes for G. L. Anderson. Populist, and 2.701 votes for W. P. Henry, Repub- lican. He represents the eighth congressifjual district of Georgia, which has a population of 170.801, and embraces the twelve counties of Clarke. Ell)ert. Franklin, (ireene, Hart, .Taspe)-. Madison, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Oconee. Putnam, and Wilkes. p m ■ ft^ i^^ ] ^^■^ i,. 1 n|' 1 "I^F . K % wi ^1 1 1 ^^&.2:__ ''ul^^^l J JAMES R. HOWE JAMES R. HOWE James R. Howe, of Brooklyn, was horn in the city of New York, January '21, iSoD ; liis ance:>t(irs were among the early settlers of New England; received his education in the common schools of his native city, and from his youth up has been engaged iu the dry goods business ; is trustee in a numlier of public institutions in the city; is vice-president of the Amphion Musical Society, and a member of the I'nion League Club; his nomination came to him unsought, and he was elected to the Fifty- Fourth Congress as a Republican from a strong Democratic dis- trict, and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a liepublican. receiving 15.814 votes, against 14,-2S7 votes for William Fickermann, Democrat, :^54 votes for Daniel Walsh, National Democrat, and 1)41 votes for C. A. Kosen- blath. Socialist Labor. He represents the sixth congres- sional district of New York, which lias a population of 163,648, and embraces the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and .seventeenth wards of the citv of Brooklvn. BENJAMIN F. HOWELL BEiNJAMlN F. HOWELL Benjamin F. Howell, of New Brunswick, was born in Cuml)erland County, N. J.. January, 1S44; in 1.S62 enlisted ill the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers and served until the close of the war: engaged in husiness in South Amboy until 1(SS2, when he was elected surrogate of Middlesex County, and was reelected in 1S!S7 for a second term : was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Minne- apolis in l.S9'2 ; is president of the People's National Bank of New Brunswick, vice-president of the First National Bank of South Amboy, and director of the New Brunswick Savings Institution ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and re- elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,308 votes, against l(i.()S7 votes for John .\. Wells. Demo- crat : 511 votes for ^Marshall, Prohiliitionist, 9S6 votes for Jones, National Democrat, and 14.S votes for Henry. Socialist Labor. He represents the third congressional district of New Jersey, which has a population of 159,H)8. and embraces the three counties of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Somerset. JOHN A. T. HULL JOHN A. T. HULL John A. T. Hull, of Des I\Ioine.s. was Imrn at Sabina, Clinton County. Ohio, ^lay I. 1S41 ; removed with his pai-ents to lowH in Ls41) ; was educated in public schools, Asbury (Ind.) Lniversity. and Iowa Wesleyan College, at Mount Plea-sant : was graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School in the spring of lS(i2 ; enlisted in the Twenty- Third Iowa Infantry July. lS(i2; was hrst lieutenant and captain ; was wounded in the charge on intrenchments at Black L'iver .May 17, LS68 ; resigned October, LS()8 ; was elected secretary of the Iowa State senate in IS72 and reelected in 1S74. 187G, and 1S78 : was elected secretary of state in ls78 and reelected in ISSO and 1.S82 ; was elected lieutenant-governor in 18S5 and reelected in 1SS7 ; is engaged in farming and nianufa<-turing : was elected to tlie Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25.578 votes, against 19,352 votes for F. W. Evans. Fusionist. He represents the seventh congressional district of Iowa, which has a population of ltjl,o20. and embraces the six counties of Dallas, Madison, Marion. Polk, Storv. and Warren. ANDREW J. HUNTER ANDREW J. HUNTER Andrew J. Hunter, of Paris, wa.s horn in Ureencastle. Ind.. December 17. iSol ; removed with his parents while a child less than one .vear of a^^e to Edjjar County, ill.: at- tended the common scliool nntil he was fifteen years old, and was then sent to the Edgar Academy, where he hnished his education ; commenced his Imsiness life as a civil engineer, spending three years in that employment : studied law with Kerby Benedict : was admitted to the bar. and has since practiced his profession at Paris: was elected to the vState senate in 1SG4. and served four years ; w'as ap- pointed and served as a memlter of the board of investi- gation of State institutions : in 1S70 was nominated l)y the Democrats for Congress in the fifteenth district against Gen. Jesse H. Moore ; in 1HS2 was again nominated for Congress against Joseph G. Cannon ; was elected county judge of the Edgar County court in ISSC). and again in iMiJO. serving six years ; in 1SI)2 he was nominated by the State con- vention as a candidate for Congressman at Large, and was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress as a Democrat, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 24,011 votes, against 2'2.7yo votes for Benson Wood, Republi- can, 816 votes for J. J. Sewell. Populist, and 344 votes for C. C. Griffith, Prohibitionist. He represents the nineteenth congressional district of Illinois, which has a population of l(i5.71)(), and embraces the nine counties of Clark, I'oles, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, and Richland. DENIS M. HURLEY DENIS ^\. HURLEY Denis M. Hurley, of HmoklN u. was Ihii-ii in the city of Limerick. L-elancL llarch 14. LS-io : came to reside in Brooklyn in June. LS50 : removed to New York City in LS54. and returned to Brooklyn in 1S(5(>, where he has since resided : was educated in the public schools and learned the carpenter's trade : is in the contracting business, and at present is connected with The W. H. Beard Dredging Company, of New York City ; was an unsuccessful candidate (if the lAepulilican i)arty for member of assembly in the first assembly district of Kings County in 18S1-S2: was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,268 votes, against U.'.Kil votes for John JM. Clancy. Democrat, and 1,5(>1 votes for AVilliani ('. IJedfield. (iold Democrat. He represents the second congressional district of New York, which has a population of l()9.44i). and embraces the first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh, and twentieth wards of the city of F)rooklvn. JOHN J. JENKINS JOHN J. JENKINS John J. Jenkins, of Cliippewa Falls, was horn in Wey- mouth. England. Angnst "20. ISJ:} : settled in Baraboo, Wis., in June, 1S5'J : attended the conunon schools a few terms; served during the war as a memlier of Company A. Sixth Wisconsin \'olunteers : served as clerk of the circuit court of Baraboo. Sank County, as city clerk and city attorney of Chippewa Falls, as mcmlier of the assembly from Chip- pewa County, as county judge of Chippewa County, and was appointed United States attorney of the Territory of Wyoming by President (irant in March. 1.S76 ; v\'as elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a liepublican. receiving '2S.14U votes, against 14,S2:^ votes for Frederick H. Kemington. Silver Democrat, and 21 votes for Peter A. Oscai-. Prohibitionist. He represents the tenth congressional district of Wisconsin, which has a jxiimlation of l-li).S45. and embraces the eleven counties of Barron. Baytield. Burnett. Chippewa. Douglas, Dunn. Pierce, Polk, Sawyer, St. Croix, and Washburn. !^ THOMAS M. JETT THOMAS M. JETT Thomas M. Jktt, of Hillsboro. 111., was born on a farm in Bond Connty. 111.. May 1, lS&2 ; attended the common schools of the counties of Bond and Montgomery, in the said State of Illinois, until he was twenty years of age; after that he attended college two years at the Northern Indiana Normal School. X'alparaiso, Ind.; taught school for three terms; read law with Judge Phillips, of Hillsboro, 111., and was admitted to practice in May, 1887; was elected State's attorney of ]\I(>ntgomery County, 111., in iSSi). and served two terms, covering a period of about eight years ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22.;]58 votes, against 2().51)!^^> votes for W. F. L. Hadley. L'epii))lican. and 471 votes for Frank H. Ashcraft, Prohibitionist. He represents the eighteenth con- gressional district of Illinois, which has a population of 164.8(56. and which emln'aces the six counties of Bond, Favette, Madison. Montsomerv. Moultrie, and Shell>v. HENRY U. JOHNSON HENRY U. JOHNSON Henry U. Johnson, of Kiclmioiid, was bom at l'anil)ndge City. Wayne County, Ind.. October 28, 1S50: receiv^ed his education at Centreville Collegiate Institute and at Earlbani College, located in Wayne County : is not a graduate ; studied law and was admitted to practice at the Wayne County bar in February. 1872 : was elected prosecuting at- torney for Wayne County in 187() and reelected in 187S ; was elected to the State senate from ^^'ayne County in ISSG and served in the legislative sessicnis of ls.s7 and iSSi); was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24.0S:5 votes, against 21.s(i7 votes for Charles A. Hobinson. Populist. He represents the sixth congressional district of Indiana, wbicb has a jiopulation of l(il.S26. and eniltraces the eight counties of Fayette, Frank- lin. Hancock. Henrv. Rush. Shelby. I'nion, and \^ avne. MARTIN N. JOHNSON MARTIN N. JOHNSON Martin N. Johnson, of Peterslnirg. was born in Wiscon- sin in the year iSoO. and removed to Iowa the same year; graduated at the Iowa State University in 1873 ; taught two years in the California Military Academy at Oakland ; studied hiw, and was admitted to the har in 1S7(); served a term in each l)ranch of the Iowa legislature, and was a Hayes elector for the Dubuque district in the electoral college of 1S76 ; removed to Dakota in LSS2. and took up government land, on which he still resides; was elected district attorney in ISSC) and reelected in 1S8S ; was a member of the constitutional convention of North Dakota in 1889 and chairman of the first Republican State con- vention the same year: received 42 out of a total of 80 votes in the Republican legislative caucus in November. 1889. for United States Senator, but was beaten in the joint convention by a coalition of Democrats with the minority of the Republican caucus ; was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25.238 votes, against 21.172 votes for John Burke. Fusion, and 349 votes for J. A. Garver. Prohibitionist. He is a Repre- sentative at Large from North Dakota. WILLIAM A. JONES WILLIAM ATKlNSOiN JONES William Atkinson Jones, of Warsaw, was born in War- saw. Va.. March '2\, 1S41) : in the winter of LSij-l-Bo entered the Virginia Military Institute, where he remained until the evacuation of Kichmond, serving, as occasion required, with the cadets in the defense of that city ; after the close of the war studied at Coleman's school, in Fredericksburg, until October, 1868, when he entered the academic department of the l^niversity of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1S70 ; was admitted to the l)ar in July. 1S70, and has continued to practice law since : was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to tlie Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15.525 votes, against 10,752 votes for Tyler. Repuldican. 21(i votes for Winder. Prohibitionist, and 82 votes for De Shazier. Socialist Labor. He represents the fii'st congressional district of \'irginia, which has a population of 1S7,010. and embraces the counties of Accomac. Caroline, Essex. Gloucester. King and Queen. Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Nortlininl)er- land. Richmf)nd. Spottsylvania. and \\'estm()reland. and the city of Frederickstiurg. WILLIAM C. JONES WILLIAM CAREY JONES William Carey Jones, of Spokane. Wat^b.. \va^ l)()in April 5. LS.Vx at Keni.^en. Oneida Count}-. N. Y.; educated chiefly at high >ch()ol and seminaiy in We.st Salem. Wis., and Ihiiver.sit}- of Wisconsin, at Madison ; admitted to the bar at Madelia, Minn., in 187(>, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of the profession ; besides holding the oftice of city attorney several terms, was twice elected district attorney for the twelfth district of the Territory of Washington, viz.. in 1S86 and ISSS; elected to the office of attorney-general of the State of Washington upon the ailmission of the State into the Union in iSSij. and again in Isy-J; elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Free- Silver Republican on the fusion ticket, receiving 51.158 votes, against o7.1)89 for S. C. Hyde. Republican. He is a Representative at Large from the State of Washington. CHARLES F. JOY CHARLES FREDERICK JOY Charles Frederick Jot, of the city of St. Louis, was born in Morgan County, 111.. December 11. lS4i) ; received his early education in the schools of that county, and in 1S70 entered the academic department of Yale College, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts June 25. 1874 ; engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis in September, LS7(i, and since that time has devoted himself exclusively to his profession ; was returned elected to the Fifty-Third Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,969 votes, against 14.902 votes for John J. O'Neill. Democrat; 241 votes for Joseph B. Follett. Populist, and 147 votes for James H. Garrison, Prohibitionist, but was unseated on contest in favor of John J. O'Neill, his Democratic opponent, April 3, 1894 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,353 votes, against 24.676 votes for J. T. Hunt. Democrat. He repre- sents the eleventh district of Missouri, which has a popu- lation of 187,802, and embraces the fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, twenty- fourth, and twenty-sixth wards, two precincts of the fifteenth, four precincts each of the twenty-second and twenty-eighth wards, and one precinct of the twentieth ward of the city of St. Louis. JOHN E. KELLEY JOHN EDWARD KELLEY John Edward Kelley, of Flaiidreaii, S. Dak., was born March 27, 1853, in Columbia County, Wis.; was educated in the public schools of that State, and has been a close student, especiallj' upon literary topics, nearly his whole life; removed to Dakota (then a Territory) in 1878, and took up land from the government in the county in which he now resides ; is engaged in the newspaper busi- ness; in 1890, when the Independent political movement took place, he was an active participant, and was elected to the legislature in that year ; in lSt)-2 was nominated by the People's party for Congress, and was again nominated over his own protest in 181)4, but was defeated at both elec- tions, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiv- ing 41,125 votes, against 40,04;3 votes for Robert J. Gamble, Republican, and 500 votes for the Prohibition candidate. He is a Representative at Large from South Dakota. WINFIELD S. KERR WINFIELD S. KERR WiNFiELD S. Kerr, of Manstield, is a graduate of the law department of the University of Michigan, and is by profession a lawyer ; served four years in the Ohio State senate ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,650 votes, against 24,574 votes for J. R. Coffinberry, Democrat, and 232 votes for R. F. Mosher, National Democrat. He represents the fourteenth congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 17S.20V). and embraces the six counties of Ashland, Huron, Knox, Lorain. Morrow, and Richland. JOHN H. KETCHAM JOHN H. KETCHAM John H. Ketcham, of Dover I'lains. was born at Dover, N. Y., December 21, 1832 ; received an academic education ; became interested in agricultural pursuits ; was supervisor of his town in iS.jl and 1855 ; was a member of the State assembly of New York in 1856 and 1857 ; was a member of the State senate of New York in 1860 and 1861 ; entei-ed the Union army as colonel of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Volunteers in October. 1862, and was appointed brigadier- general by brevet, afterwards brigadier-general, serving until he resigned, in March, 1865, to take the seat in Con- gress to which he had been elected ; was afterwards ap- pointed major-general l)y brevet ; was elected to the Thii-ty- Ninth, Fortieth, Forty-First, and Forty-Second Congresses ; was often a delegate to Republican State conventions, and was a delegate to the national Kepublican conventions in 1876 and 1896; was commissioner of the District of Colum- bia from July 3, 1874, until June 30, 1877. when he resigned, having been elected to the Forty-Fifth Congress ; was elected to the Forty-Sixth. Forty-Seventh, Forty-Eighth, Forty- Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, and Fifty-Second Congresses, when, owing to impaired health, declined a renominatiou ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,531 votes, against 15.956 votes for Richard E. Connell. Democrat, and 462 votes for Henry Metcalf, National Democrat. He represents the eighteenth congres- sional district of New York, which has a population of 179.790. and embraces the three counties of Ulster, Dutchess, and Putnam. WILLIAM H. KING WILLIAM HENRY KING William Henry King, of Salt Lake City, was born in Fillmore City, Millard County, LItah, in June, LS63 ; at- tended the district schools, the Brigham Young Academy, and State T7niversity, and then went to Ann Ai'bor, Mich., from which institution he was graduated ; is a practicing lawyer, being a partner of Senator Brown ; in 1882 was elected to various ofhces in Fillmore City and Millard County, and lietween that time and the year LS89 held for four years the office of county attorney ; was also county clerk for two years, city attorney for six years, city assessor and collector for two years, city recorder for two years, member of the city council for two years, and was also school trustee, and tilled various other minor offices ; was elected a member of the legislature when twenty-two years of age, and reelected two years later ; in 1889 removed to Prove City. Utah, and entered actively upon the practice of law ; in 1891 was elected to the Territorial legislature, and was selected as president of the council or upper house ; was also elected county attorney of Utah County, and served in that capacity for four years; was city attorney of Provo City for a number of years ; in July, 1894, was appointed asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of Utah by President Cleveland, and immediately after was confirmed by the senate and entered upon the duties of the office, which con- tinued until the advent of Statehood, January 4, 189G ; upon retiring from the bench formed a partnership with Senator Arthur Brown and Judge H. P. Henderson, of Salt Lake City ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 47,356 votes, against 27,813 votes for Lafayette Holbrook, Eepublican. and 2,279 votes for Warren Foster, Populist. He is a Representative at Large from LItah. WILLIAM S. KIRKPATRICK WILLIAM SEBRING KIRKPATRICK William Seeking Kirkpatrick, of Eastoii. Pa., was born April 21, 1844, at Easton ; was educated at Lafayette Col- lege ; studied law with Hon. H. D. Maxwell, formerly presi- dent judge of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania: was admitted to the bar October 2, 1S65 ; was solicitor of Easton for several years after his admission to the bar; was appointed president judge of the third judicial district in the early part of 1874 to fill an unexpired term, and served in said office until January. 1875; was nominated on the Republican ticket for the ensuing term and failed of an election by only about 300, the regular Democratic majority in the judicial district being 8,400; presided over the Republican State convention of 1882 as temporary chairman ; was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1884 ; was appointed attorney- general of Pennsylvania by Governor Beaver, and unani- mously confirmed by the senate January 18, 1887, and served as such till January 21, 1891 ; was at one time lecturer on municipal law in Lafayette College, and for a numlier of years has been a trustee of that institution ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,072 votes, against 16,743 votes for Laird H. Barber, Democrat. He represents the eighth congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 152.8(57, and embraces the four counties of Carbon, Monroe, North- ampton, and Pike, WILLIAM W. KITCHIN WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN William Walton Kitchin, of Roxboro. N. C, was born near Scotland Neck. K. C. October D, L*5(i(i ; was educated at Vine Hill Academy and Wake Forest College, where he graduated in 1SS4 ; edited the Scotland Neck Democrat in 1885 ; after studying law, first under his father, Hon. AV. H. Kitchin, and then under Hon. John Manning, at the Uni- versity of North Carolina, was admitted to the bar in 1887; located at Roxboro in January. 188S. where he still practices his profession ; was chairman of the county executive committee in 1890; was the nominee of his party for the State senate in 1892 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19.082 votes, against 18,639 votes for Hon. Thomas Settle, Republican, and 507 votes for A. J. Dolby, Populist. He represents the fifth congressional district of North Carolina, which has a population of 177.537. and embraces the nine counties of Alamance, Caswell, Durham. Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Rockingham, and Stokes. RUDOLPH KLEBERG RUDOLPH KLEBERG EuDOLPH Kleberg, of Cnero, was born June 26. LS4:7, in Austin County. Tex.; received a liberal education at private schools ; joined Tom Green's lirigade of cavalry in the Con- federate army in the spring of LSIU. and served until the close of the war: completed his education after the war; studied law in San Antonio. Tex., and was admitted to the bar in 1872; established the Cuero Sf((j- in 1873; elected county attorney in 187G; reelected in 1878, and entered the general practice of the law ; formed a law partnership with Hon. William H. Crain. his predecessor, in 1SS2 ; was elected to the State senate as a Democrat in the fall of 1882 ; was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Texas under President Cleveland in the fall of 1885. and served four years ; reentered the practice of the law with his former partner, the late Hon. William H. Crain; was elected on April 7, 189(5. as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his partner; was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,159 votes, against 15,489 votes for H. (irass. Republican, 4.254 votes for J. M. Smith, Populist, and 210 votes scattering ; was reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress by a majority of about 4.000 over Capt. B. L. Crouch. Republican. He represents the eleventh congressional district of Texas, which has a popu- lation of 189.958. and embraces the twenty-nine counties of Aransas, Atascosa, Bee. Cameron, Calhoun, Dewitt. Dimmit, Duval, Encinal. Frio. Goliad. Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Jackson, Karnes, Lasalle. Live Oak, McMullen. Nueces. Refugio. San Patricio, Starr. Lhalde, Victoria, Webb, Wharton, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavalla. FREEMAN KNOWLES FREEMAN KNOWLES Freeman Knowles, of Deadvvood, was Iwrii in Harmony, Me., October 10, 1846 ; was educated at Bloonilield Acad- emj', Skowhegan, Me.; enlisted in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment June 16, 1S6'2, while not yet sixteen years of age ; served three years and nineteen days in the Army of the Potomac ; w^as captured at the battle of Reams Station August 18, 1864, and kept a prisoner at Libby, Belle Island, and Salisbury, N. C, until the war closed ; immediately after the war he moved to Denison, Iowa, where he entered upon the study of the law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in April, 1869 ; continued to practice law until 1886, when he removed to Nebraska, and liegan the publication of the Ceresco T'nncs; removed to the Black Hills in 1888, and began the publication of the Meade County Times at Tilford : subsequently he moved his plant to Deadwood, and began the publication of the Ercnln(j Independent, a daily paper ; the Independent is an aggressive labor papei", and is the recognized organ of the Federation of Miners and other labor organizations, which accounts for his nomination and election ; is no politician, having never attended a State or congressional convention ; his nomination was the spontaneous desire of the elements which he represents and which predominate in this sec- tion ; is a Populist, and was one of the organizers of the party in South Dakota ; never before held any public office : carried his own county by a majority of 651 votes, and carried every county in the Black Hills, and was elected in the State at large to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 41,233 votes, against 40,57o votes for Coe I. Crawford, Repulilican. He is a Repi'esentative at Large from South Dakota. WILLIAM S. KNOX WILLIAM S. KNOX William S. Knox, of Lawrence, was born in Killingly, Conn., September 10, 1843 ; went to Lawrence when nine years of age, and has resided there since ; graduated at Amherst College in class of 1.S65 ; admitted to Essex bar in November, 1S66, and has since practiced law in Law- rence ; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1874-75, serving on the judiciary com- mittee ; was city solicitor of Lawrence in 1875, 1876. 1887. 1888, 1889, and 1890 ; is president of the Arlington National Bank of Lawrence ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, re- ceiving 17,786 votes, against 11,308 votes for John H. Har- rington, Democrat. He represents the fifth congressional district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 172,178, and embraces: Essex County — city of Lawrence, and towns of Andover, Lynnfield. Methuen. North Andover, and Pea- body ; Middlesex County — cities of Lowell and Woburn, and towns of Dracut, North Reading, Reading, Tewksbury, and Wilmington. MONROE H. KULP MONROE H. KULP Monroe H. Kulp. member for the seventeenth district of Pennsylvania in the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Con- gress, was born in Barto. Berks County, Pa., October 23, 1858. and is the son of Darlington R. and Elizabeth Gil- bert Kulp. Nine years later his parents, who were de- scendants of leading families of that section of the State, removed to Shamokin. Northumlierland County, where his father engaged in the lumber business, which he followed during the rest of his life. He took an active interest in the advancement of what was already a thriving coal town. After attending the public schools of the neighbor- hood for several years, the son. Monroe, as was the custom, went to work at the collieries, and in a few years com- menced to learn the lumber business. By the time he was twenty years of age he had filled nearly every posi- tion in the two lines of work in which he had been en- gaged. The influence of his father, his interest in public affairs, and his association witli the rank and file in his daily vocation thus brought him in touch with all classes. As he grew older and came in contact with other men, Mr. Kulp felt the importance of having a more thorough education than the public schools afforded, and. in 1878, he entered the State Normal College, Lebanon. Ohio, and in 1881 he graduated with honors from Eastman National Business College, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. He immediately commenced his business career by accepting the position of bookkeeper and cashier for Kulp. McWilliams & Co., which x^lace he held until the dissolution of the firm, in MONROE H. KULP 1886, when he became the general manager for his father, who assumed the entire lumber interests of the company. He continued to serve in this capacity during the long illness of his father, having entire charge of all his enter- prises, until October, 1895, when, together with his brother, Ct. Gilbert Kulp, and D. C. Kaseman, the former bookkeeper of the concern, he formed the tirm of Monroe H. Kulp & Co., and added general construction to their already large business, forming connections with other firms, which enabled them to supply all kinds of timber and lumber used within their territory. Finding the supply of proper timber rapidly disappearing, Mr. Kulp, in 1897, secured about 25.000 acres of land in Union and Centre Counties, and organized Monroe H. Kulp i Co., Incorporated, and the Lewisburg and Buffalo Valley Railroad Company, of which he became the president and general manager, in addition to his posi- tion as general manager of Kulp, Thomas & Co., of Milroy, Pa. He has numerous other Imsiness interests, all indicative of his energetic nature and his love of progress, and the most important of these are found in his office as president of the North and West Branch Telephone Company and a director in the Rhamokin Water Company, the White Deer Creek Water and Supply Company, the Salt Lake Oil and Gas Company, and the Anthracite Sewer Company. In the same year, in company with C. R. Savidge, of Sunbury, Pa., he purchased from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company about eighty-seven acres of undeveloped real estate ad- joining the borough of Shamokin, and laid out the two important additions. Fairview and Edgewood. which have since l^ecome noted for their value for building and manu- facturing purposes. Being, thus, essentially a business man, Mr. Kulp, while an ardent Republican, never took an active interest in politics in his own behalf until 1890, when, at the solicitation of many friends, he was a candidate for the legislature. Owing to the fact that his nomination would MONROE H. KULP have caused an unequal distribution of the offices among the several sections of the county he withdrew from the field, notwithstanding that his success was generally looked for. This action made him more popular than ever. and. in 1894, without any solicitation whatever, he was made the nominee of the party for Congress. The district had always been strongly Democratic, and the nomination was looked upon as more honorary than prohtalile. l)ut so actively did Mr. Kulp take up the work, and so faithfully did the friends he had made by his genial disposition and trustworthy qualities stand by him that when the returns came in it was found that the adverse vote had been overcome and he had been elected by a majority of nearly 1.000. During his term in the House of Representatives ■Mr. Kulp served as a member of the committee on piiljlic lands and manu- factures, being chairman of a sub-committee of the former, in chai-ge of the pul)lic land office of the United States. In his work in this new field he applied the same principles which had won for him a name in other lines, paying the strictest attention to the wishes of his constituents, without distinction as to party affiliations or financial standing. His reelection in 1S96. by an increased majority, was only the natural result of his splendid first term record. ]\Ir. Kulp was married on June 8, 1897, to Sara Washington Detweiler, of Harrisburg, and took up his residence in Shamokin, where he might devote his time to his numerous business enter- prises and public duties. He represents the seventeenth district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 138,795, and embraces the counties of Columbia. Montour, North- umberland, and Sullivan. JOHN F. LACEY JOHN FLETCHER LACEY John Fletcher Lacey, of Oskaloosa. was born at New Martinsville, Va. (now West Virginia), May 30, 1841 ; re- moved to Iowa in 1855; received a common-school and academic education ; enlisted in Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, in May, 1861, and afterwards served as a private in Company D, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry, as sergeant-major, and as lieutenant in Company C of that regiment; was promoted to assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Brig.-Gen. Samuel A. Rice, and after that ofScer was killed in battle was assigned to duty on the staff of Maj.-Greu. Frederick Steele ; served in the Iowa legislature one term, in 1870; is a lawyer and author of Lacey's Railway Digest and Lacey's Iowa Digest ; was a member of the Fifty-First. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving "21.970 votes, against 20.769 votes for Frederick E. White. Democratic and Populist fusion nominee, and 268 votes for Abner Branson, Prohi- bitionist. He represents the sixth congressional district of Iowa, which has a popuhition of 155.354, and embraces the seven counties of Davis, Jasper, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, and Wapello. JOHN LAMB JOHN LAMB John Lamb, of Richmond, was born in Sussex County, Va., June 12, LS40. where his father was engaged in teach- ing school; removed to Charles City County, the home of his parents, when five years of age ; the death of his father, in 1855, left him at the age of fifteen years the main sup- port of his mother's large family of small children ; his early education ahnost ceased at this point, but his energy and application enal)led him to master, by study at night, after the day's work was done, the science of civil engi- neering ; at the first alarm of war in 1S60 he went to the front as a volunteer in the Charles City Troop, afterwards Company D, Third Virginia Cavalry (Wickham's brigade); served through the entire war with distinguished gallantry ; was repeatedly wounded, once very severely, and laid dow-n his arms at Appomattox as captain of his company ; after the war returned to his native county and took up the business of farming ; was soon elected sheriff of his county, and subsequently served his people as treasurer, surveyor, and chairman of the county Democratic committee ; is an ardent and enthusiastic advocate of the free coinage of silver, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,034 votes, against 12,716 votes for L. L. Lewis, Eepuljlican, 288 votes for Elisha L. Lewis, ISO votes for William H. Lewis, 85 votes for John Mitchell, Prohibitionist, and 14 votes scattering. He represents the third congressional district of Virginia, which has a popu- lation of 172,081, and embraces the counties of Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William, and New Kent, and the cities of Richmond and Manchester. CHARLES B. LANDIS CHARLES B. LANDIS Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, was born July 9, 1858, in Millville, Butler County. Ohio ; was educated in the public schools of Logansjjort. and graduated from Wabash Col- lege, at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1883 ; served for four years, from 1883 to 1887, as editor of the Logansport (lud.) Joiinial, and at the time of his nomination for Congress was the editor of the Delphi (Ind.) Jo/inidl; in 1894 was elected president of the Indiana Republican Editorial As- sociation, and reelected in 1895 ; was elected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Eepublican. receiving 23,616 votes, against 23,367 votes cast for Joseph B. Cheadle, Fusion candidate. He represents the ninth congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 165.S25, and em- braces the seven counties of Boone. Carroll, Clinton, Foun- tain, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Tipton. SAMUEL W. T. LANHAM SAMUEL W. T. LANHAM Samuel W. T. Lanham, of Weatherford, was born July 4, 1S4(), in Spartanburg district. S. C; received a commou- school education ; entered the Confederate arnij' when a boy, and served in the Third South Carolina Regiment ; removed to Texas in 1S66 ; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861) ; was district attorney of the thirteenth district ; was Democratic elector for the third congres- sional district of Texas in 1880; was elected to the Foi'ty- Eighth Congress from the eleventh district, and was reelected to the Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First and Fifty- Second Congresses ; declined to stand for reuoraination in 1892; in 1896 was nominated and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,935 votes, against 17,510 votes for Charles H. Jenkins, Populist, and 747 votes for J. Peter Smith, Gold-Standard Democrat. He repre- sents the eighth congressional district of Texas, which has a i^opulation of 174,048, and embraces the thirteen coun- ties of Brown, Coleman, Coryell, Comanche. Erath, Hamil- ton, Hood, Lampasas, Mills, Parker, Runnels, Somervell, and Tarrant. ASBURY C. LATIMER ASBURY C. LATIMER AsBURY C. Latimer, of Belton, was born July 3L 1851, near Lowudesville, Abbeville County, S. C; was brought up on his father's farm; spent much of his life in active participation in agricultural pursuits ; was educated in the common schools then existing ; took an active part in the memoraljle campaign of 1S76 ; removed to Belton, An- derson County, his present home, in LSSO ; devoted his energies to his farm ; was elected county chairman of the Democratic party of his county in IS'.tO and reelected in 1S92; was urged to make the race for lieutenant-governor of his State in 1890. l)ut declined ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,745 votes, against 659 votes for Anson C. Merrick. Regular Republican, and 192 votes for J. Gray, Independent Repulilican. He represents the third congressional district of South Carolina, which has a population of 152.0(50. and embraces the five counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Newberry, Uconee, and Pickens. GEORGE P. LAWRENCE GEORGE PELTON LAWRENCE George Pelton Lawrence, of North Adams, was born in Adams, Mass., May 19, LSoiJ ; graduated at Drury Academy, 1876, and at Amherst College, IMSU; studied law at Colum- bia Law School ; was admitted to the bar in 1883, and has since practiced law at North Adams; was appointed judge of the district court of northern Berkshire in 18S5; resigned in 1894 upon being elected to the Massachusetts senate ; was a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1895, 1896, and 1897 ; was president of that body in 1896 and 1897, being elected each year by unanimous vote; was elected to the Fifty-Fiftli Congress as a Republican (to fill the unexpired term caused by the death of Hon. A. B. Wright on August 14, 1897), receiving 11.932 votes, against 7,491 votes for Roger P. Donoughue, Democrat. He rep- resents the first congressional district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 17(),'297, and emliraces: Berk- shire County — towns of Adams, Alford, Becket, Cheshire. Clarksburg. Dalton, Egremont. Florida, Creat Barrington, Hancock, Hinsdale. Laneslioro. Lee, Lenox, Monterey, Mount AVashington, New Ashford, New Marlboro, North Adams, Otis, Peru, Pittsfield, Richmond, Sandisheld, Savoy, Shef- field, Stockbridge. Tyringham. Washington, West Stock- bridge, Williamstown, and Windsor; Franklin County — towns of Ashfield, Bei'nardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Deerfield, Gill, Greenfield, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, Shelburne, and Whately ; Hampden County — city of Holyoke and towns of Agawam. Bland- ford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell. Southwick, Tolland, Westfield, and West Springfield ; Hampshire County — towns of Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Hatfield, Hun- tington, Middlefield, Plainfield. Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington. JOHN J. LENTZ JOHN JACOB LENTZ John Jacob Lentz. of Columbus, was born near St. Clairsville. Belmout County, 0.. January 27, 1S56 ; attended district school and the St. Clairsville High School ; taught school four years, and graduated from the National Normal University. Lebanon. Ohio, in 1S77 ; attended University of Wooster one year, and graduated from University of Mich- igan with degree of A. B. in LSS2 ; took both law coui-ses at Columbia College, New York City, receiving the degree of LL. B. in LSSo ; admitted to the bar at Columbus in October, LSS8. and since 1SS7 has been a member of the law firm of Nash & Lentz ; for live years was one of the examiners of the city teachers, and was appointed a trustee of Ohio University by Governor ^IcKinley : in the Demo- cratic State convention at Cincinnati, 1S1)3, received votes for governor from a dozen or more counties, although not a candidate and refusing to permit his name to l)e pre- sented to the convention : was elected national president of the American Insm-ance Union in September. 1896; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 23.8LS votes, against 23.712 votes for David Kemper Watson. Republican, who had been elected two years before by 1.591 majority over Joseph H. Outhwaite. He represents the twelfth congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 158,026, and embraces the two counties of Fairfield and Franklin. RUFUS E. LESTER RUFUS E. LESTER RuFUS E. Lester, of Savannah, was Itorn in Burke County, Ga., December L2, 1S87 ; graduated at Mercer Uni- versity, Georgia, 1S57 ; admitted to the bar in Savannah and commenced the practice of law in 1859; entered the military service of the Confederate States in 1861 ; re- mained in the service till the end of the war ; resumed the practice of law at the close of the war ; was State senator from the first senatorial district of Georgia 1870- 1879 ; was president of the senate during the last three years of service ; was mayor of Savannah from January, 1883, to January. 1889 ; was elected to the Fifty-First, Fifty- Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and re- elected to the Fifty-Fiftli Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,786 votes, against 2.670 votes for Miller. Populist, and 4,716 votes for Doyle, Republican. He represents the first congressional district of Georgia, which has a population of 169.809, and embraces the ten counties of Burke, Bulloch, Bryan, Chatham, Emanuel. Effingham, Liberty, Mcintosh, Screven, and Tatnall. ELIJAH B. LEWIS ELIJAH BANKS LEWIS Elijah Banks Lewis, of JMoiitczuina. was horn in I)ooly County, (in.. March 27, 1854; removed to Montezuma, liis present home, at tlie age of seventeen years; was educated in the (•oiiinKni schools of Dooly and Macon Counties: has had a l)iisiness traiiiin.y. his father making him his partner in tlie hanking and mercantile lousiness hefore his ma- turity, and is still ill (he iiankiiiL;' and mrrcaiit ilc husiness ; always took an active interest in pdlitics. working for his friends and })olitical party, hut never accepted any office until 1894. when he was elected to the 8tate senate for the years 181)4 115 : was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7.451) votes, against ;i.01)() votes for Seahorn Montgomery. l{epul)lican. lie n'lireseuts the third congressional district of Georgia, which has a popu- lation of 151),()5!S. and cinhraces the thiitfMMi counties of Crawford. Dooly, Houston, Tjee. jMacon. Pulaski. Scliley, Stewart, Sumter, Twiggs, Taylor, Wehster, and Wilcox. JAMES H. LEWIS JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS James Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle, was born in Danville. Va.. May LS. 1S63 ; removed with his parents to Augusta, Ga., in LS(56 ; was educated at Houghton College, that city, and the University of Virginia; enteied the law office of Gen. A. E. Lawton, of Savannah. Ga., and after a course of study was admitted to the bar in LSS2, at the age of nine- teen ; located in Seattle, Wash., November, ISSo ; was elected to the Territorial senate, as a Democrat, for the eleventh district ; declined the nomination for Congress in 1890; was nominated for governor in lS".)-2, and declined the nomination liecause opposed to the platform ; was one of the two nominees of the Democrats in the legislature of 1894 for United States Senator: in the national Demo- cratic convention in Chicago, 1896, his name was pre- sented by the State of Washington for Vice-President of the United States, receiving 17 votes, cast by Oregon, Washington, California, and Alabama; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 52,5fi6 votes, against 38,'20*2 votes for W. H. Doolittle. Republican, Lewis's majority being 14,364. He is a Representative at Large from the State of Washington. He was the author of the first resolution demanding the recognition of the belliger- ency of Cuba, tendered in the special session of the Fifty- Fifth Congress. It was at this time that he took the position that the subject of the resolution was so privi- leged that it took precedence to all governmental ques- tions, and then followed the parliamentary battle l)etween JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS him and the Speaker which resulted in giving him a na- tional reputation as a parliamentarian and leader on his side of the House. Later. Lewis was the first to advocate secession from Congressman Bailey, who, as the leader of the minorit}^ sought to bind the Democrats in caucus to the anti-expansion policy. Lewis fought the proposition in caucus, claiming that the Democratic party from the beginning was the party of expansion and acquisition. After a long struggle the caucus split in two and adjourned without a decision. Subsequently an amendment of Mc- Eae, of Arkansas, amended by Cochran, of Missouri, em- bodying Lewis's views, was accepted by the caucus. At the close of Congress Lewis entered the army in the war be- tween the ITnited States and Spain, was assigned to Gen. Fred Grant's staff, served to the close of the war and was mustered out after the treaty of peace liad been submitted. He returned to Congress, continued his tight for investiga- tion into the evils which caused the distress in the army. at all times pressing for the disclosure of the men or insti- tutions that had been responsible for defrauding the gov- ernment and furnishing the soldiers with decayed and improper supplies. He continued his warfare in behalf of the Democratic party, claiming it to be the author of tbe acquisition doctrine, asserted that through the minority the present war was fought, and the fruits of that contest were to be credited to the existence of the minority of the Fifty-Fifth Congress, being the Democrats and the Silver forces. ROMULUS Z. LINNEY ROMULUS Z. LINNEY RoMt'Lis Z. LixNEY. of Taylorsville. Alexander County, was l)orn in Rutherford County. N. C, December 26, 1841 ; was educated in the common schools of the country, at York's Collegiate Institute, and at Dr. Milieu's school at Taylorsville ; served in the Confederate army as a private soldier until the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was severely wounded; having been discliarged from the army because of his wound, he returned to Taylorsville and joined the class in Dr. Milieu's school of which Hon. William H. Bower was a member ; studied law with Judge Armheld; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1S()S ; was elected to the State senate in 1870. 1878, and again in 1.SS2; is by profession a lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Repul)lican. receiving li).419 votes, against 18.006 votes for Rufns A. Doughton, Democrat, and 64 votes for William M. White. Prohibitionist. He represents the eighth congressional district of North Carolina, which has a pop- ulation of 190.7S4, and embraces the eleven counties of Alexander. Alleghany. Ashe. Burke, Caldwell. Cleveland, Forsyth, Gaston, Surry, Watauga, and Wilkes. LUCIUS N. LITTAUER LUCIUS NATHAN LITTAUER Lucius Nathan Littauer, of U lovers ville. was born Jan- uary 20, 1859, in Gloversville, N. Y. ; is the son of Nathan and Harriet S. Littauer ; removed to New York City in 1S()5 ; was educated there at Charlier Institute ; entered Harvard University, and was graduated in the class of 1878 ; was a member of Harvard University crew and Uni- versity football team ; immediately engaged in the glove- manufacturing business of his father at Gloversville. to which he succeeded in 1882. and is at present engaged extensively therein ; is otlicer and director of many com- mercial and financial institutions : never before held pub- lic office ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Kepublican, receiving 32.188 votes, against 67(5 votes for John C. Greene. Sound-Money Democrat, 1,640 votes for James T. Sweetman. Prohibitionist, and 3,495 votes lilank and scattering. He represents the twenty-second congres- sional district of New York, which has a population of 185.123. and embraces the four counties of Fulton. Ham- ilton, Saratoga, and St. Lawrence. JOHN S. LITTLE JOHN S. LITTLE John S. Little, of Greenwood, was born at Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Ark., March 15, 1858 ; was educated in the common schools and at Cone Hill College, Arkansas ; was admitted to the bar in 1874 ; 1877 was elected district attorney for the twelfth circuit of Arkansas, composed of Sebastian. Scott, Crawford, and Logan Counties, and was reelected for four successive terms ; was elected a repre- sentative to the legislature in 1884 ; in 1886 was elected circuit judge for a term of four years; in 1893 was chosen as chairman of the State judicial convention; in September, 1894, was elected, without opposition, as a Democrat, to fill the unexpired term of C. R. Breckinridge in the Fifty- Third Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress without opposition ; was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Democrat, receiving 19.109 votes, against 6,483 votes for Charles D. Ercoves. Republican. He repi-esents the second congressional district of Arkansas, w'hich has a population of 206,187, and embraces the fourteen counties of Bradley. Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Garland, Gi-ant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Polk, Saline, Scott, and Sebastian. LEONIDAS F. LIVINGSTON LEONIDAS F. LIVINGSTON Leonidas F. Livingston, of Kings, was born in Newton County. Ga.. Ain-il 3. LS82 ; is of Scotch-Irish descent ; his grandfather immigrated to this country from North Ireland, and served under General Washington during the Revolu- tionary War ; was educated in the common schools of the county ; is a farmer by occupation and has always lived on his farm ; was a private soldier in the Confederate army from August, 1861, to May, 1865 ; was for two terms a mem- ber of the house of representatives and one term a member of the State senate; was chairman of the committee on agriculture in both the house and senate ; was vice-president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society for eleven years and president of the same for four years ; was president of the Georgia State Alliance for three years, but resigned when elected to Congress ; has been prominent in all political struggles in his State for many years ; was elected to the Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and' Fifty-Fourth Con- gresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Demo- crat, receiving '.).258 votes, against 6,715 votes for Hendrix, Republican. He represents the fifth congressional district of Georgia, which has a population of 165,638, and embraces the eight counties of Campbell. Clayton, Dekalb. Douglas, Fulton, Newton, Rockdale, and Walton. JAMES T. LLOYD JAMES T. LLOYD James T. Lloyd, of Shelbyville, was born at Canton, in Lewis Count j% Mo., August 27. LS57 ; he graduated from Cliristian University at Canton, Mo., in 1S78 ; lie taught school for a few years thereafter ; he was admitted to the bar, and then practiced his profession in Lewis County until 1885, when he located at his jn-esent home, where he has since resided ; he has held no ofiice except that of prosecuting attorney of his county from 1881) to 1893, until his election to Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat at a special election held June 1, 1897, to fill the vacancy occasioned Ijy the death of R. P. Giles, Democrat, receiving 18,809 votes, against 18,158 votes for C. N. Clark. Repulilican. and 1.078 votes for Joseph Mil- ler, Populist. He represents the first congressioiial district of Missouri, which has a population of 179.844, and em- braces the ten counties of Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Marion, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, and Shelby. WILLIAM LORIMER WILLIAM LORIMER William TiORiMER, of Chicago, was liorn in Manchester, England. April 27, 1861. and is of Scotch pa7-entage ; came to this conntiT with his parents ^^hen five years old and settled in Detroit, Mich., in LS66 ; subsequently the family removed to Bay City, Mich., thence to Ohio, where they lived on a farm for a short time, and finally settled in Chicago in 1870; he attended a private school in Chicago; his father having died, he was left at the age of twelve years to his own resources ; was first an apprentice in the business of sign painting and later worked for the Wilson Packing Company, for Armour & Co., and for a street rail- road company ; in the spring of 1S86 he engaged in the real estate business, and later became a member of the firm of Murphy & Lorimer. which still exists, and is now also engaged in the building and brick manufacturing business; was superintendent of the main water extension of the city of Chicago under Mayor Roche, and superin- tendent of the water department under Mayor Wash- burne ; in 1892 was the nominee of the Kepublican party for clerk of the superior court, but was defeated ; has always been active in politics and is one of the leaders of the Republican party: was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 35,045 votes, against 28.309 votes for J. Z. White, Democrat, 594 votes for Craigmile, Prohibi- tionist, and 561 votes for Crenshaw. Xational Democrat. He represents the second congressional district of Illinois, which has a population of 268,462, and which embraces part of Cook County, the tenth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth wards of the city of Chicago, and the towns of Cicero, Elk Grove. Hanover, Lamont. Leyden, Lyons. Maine, Norwood Park. Palos, Proviso, Riverside, and Schaumburg, EUGENE F. LOUD EUGENE FRANCIS LOUD Eugene Francis Loud, of Sau Francisco, was horn in Abiugton, Mass., Mai-ch 12, 1847; at the age of thirteen went to sea and to California ; in 1862 enlisted in California Cavalry Battalion, which formed a part of Second Massa- chusetts Cavalry ; was -vith the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley nntil the close of the war; returned to California and studied law; was in the customs service ; followed mercantile business ; was member of California legislature in 1884 : was cashier and tax collector of city and county of San Francisco ; was elected to the Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,351 votes, against 10,494 votes for Joseph P. Kelly, Democrat, 8.825 votes for A. B. Kinne, People's party, 757 votes for Henry Daniels, Socialist Labor, and 404 votes for T. H. Lawson. Prohiliitionist. He repre- sents the fifth congressional district of California, which has a population of 228,717, and embraces the three coun- ties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. HENRY C. LOUDENSLAGER HENRY C. LOUDENSLAGER Henry C. Loudenslager, of Paulsboro, was born in Mauricetown, Cumberland County. N. J., May 22. 1852 ; removed with his parents to Paulsboro in 1856, where he has resided since ; was educated in the common schools of •his county ; after leaving the home farm he engaged in the produce commission business in Philadelphia. Pa., in 1872, and continued in it ten years ; was elected county clerk in 1882 and reelected in 1887 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 33.659 votes, against 17.118 votes for John T. Wright, Populist Democrat, 1,516 votes for Rudolphus Bingham, Prohibi- tionist, and 150 votes for Frank F. Mills. Socialist Labor. He represents the first congressional district of New Jer- sey, which has a population of 198.193. and embraces the five counties of Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem. WILLIAM C. LOVERING WILLIAM C. LOVERING William C. Lovering, of Taunton, was born about sixty years ago in Rhode Island ; was educated in Cambridge, Mass., at the Cambridge high school and the Hopkins Classical School ; has been engaged in cotton manufactur- ing nearly all of his life, being the president and chief manager of the Whittenton Manufacturing Company, in Taunton ; is also interested in many other manufactories, in which he is director and manager; served for a short period in the war as engineer at Fort Monroe : retired from the service an invalid ; was State senator for two years, 1874-75 ; was a delegate to the national Republican con- vention that nominated (jarfield in 18S0; was nominated by acclamation in the congressional convention of the twelfth district September 22, 1896, and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 21,107 votes, against 6,354 votes for EUiridge Gerry Brown. Democrat. He represents the twelfth congressional district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 173,068, and embraces Bristol County — city of Taunton, and towns of Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Mansfield, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, and See- konk ; Norfolk County — towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Cohasset, Holbrook, Randolph, Stoughton, and Weymouth ; Plymouth County — city of Brockton and towns of Abington, Bridgewater, Carver. Duxbury. East Bridgewater. Halifax, Hanover. Hanson. Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Lakeville, Marshtield, Middleboro, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rockland, Scituate, West Bridgewater. and Whitman. PHILIP B. LOW PHILIP BURRILL LOW Philip Burrill Low, of New York, was born in Chelsea, Mass., May 6. IHM ; graduated from high school after ooni- pletiug a preparatorj^ college course : adopted the pro- fession of his father — shipmaster: volunteered and was appointed acting ensign in tlie United States nav_v and served in the North Atlantic sipiadron during 18(52-6^; resigned and entered conunercial circles of Boston until 1865, when he removed to New York, where he has since been identified with the shipping and maritime interests: was organizer and first commander of the New Yt)rk State naval militia : received the nomination for Congress by acclamation in 181(4 as the l{e]iul)lican candidate in the fifteenth New York district, and was elected to the Fifty- Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth ('ongre.ss as a Re- publican, receiving lJ9.(»0"2 votes, against '22,52() votes for William K. Burke. Democrat. 122 \()tes for ()scar A. Uage, l.S()4 votes for Enoch K. Thomas. 224 votes for Archie E. Fiske. 107 votes defective, and (i71 votes blank. He rep- resents the fifteenth congressional district of New York, which has a population of 228,8:^8, and includes that por- tion of the twenty-first assemltly district between the center of Seventy-Ninth Street and the center of Eighty-Sixth Street, that jiortion of the twenty-second district above the center of Seventy-Ninth Street, in the city of New York, and the twenty-third assembly district of the county of New York. 4^ H< ARCHIBALD LYBRAND ARCHIBALD LYBRAND Archibald Lybraxd. ivpipsentative of the eighth district of Ohio in the Fifty-Fifth ami Fifty-Sixth Congresses, was 1)orn in Tarlton. Pickaway County. Ohio. May 23. 1840. At the age of seventeen years lie removed to Delaware, where he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, receiving his education at that institution. In ISdl. at the breaking out of the Civil War. he enlisted as a private in Company I, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From this company he was soon transferred to Company E. Seventy-Third Ohio, and promoted to first lieutenant. He remained in the service with the Seventy-Third Ohio for three years, the last two of which he was captain of his company. He liarticipated in the many l)attles in which his regiment was engaged, among which were Rich Mountain. Second Bull Run. Frederickslmrg. Chancellorsville. and Getty.sburg. Captain Lybrand served part of his time as aid-de-camp on the stafTs of Generals Steinwehr and Sigel : went west with Hooker, and took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain. He participated in the battles of the Atlanta campaign, receiving two .slight wounds, one at the battle of Peach Tree Creek and the other at Dallas, (la. At the close of the war he returned to Delaware, and in LS69 was elected mayor of the city. Captain Lybrand then took up the study of the law. and was admitted to practice in LS7L He praciriced his profession for two years, when he was called to an active partnership in the Delaware Chair Company, . to which enterprise he has given his energy and attention JRL •IHJ<. I/.D L) BRAXl) ever since. In issl Captain liVbrand was appointed post- master at Delaware by President Chester A. Arthur, and served one term of four years. In the sprin^^ of ISIIC) he was nominated for Congress by tlie Keimlilicans of the eighth congressional district of Ohio, and was elected l)y a handsome majority over the candidate on the Democratic- Popnlist-Prohihition ticket. His services in the Fifty-Fifth Congress were indorsed by his constituents in his renom- ination and election to the Fifty-Sixtii Congress. The counties in the eighth district, which he represents, are Champaign. Delaware. Hancock. Hardin. Logan, and I'nion ; population, 17."),"J17. WILLIAM McALEER WILLIAM McALEER William McAleer. of Philadelphia, was horn in County Tyrone. Ireland. January fi. lS:iS; ininiigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1S51 : attended public and pri- vate schools ; is a tiour merchant, having engaged in business with his Father and brothers in ISOI ; was elected a menilter of councils from the hfth ward in ISTI for a term of two years : was elected by select and common councils in 1S73 a member of the board of guardians of the poor for a term of three years, and reelected five consecutive terms; was vice-president and president of the board ; was president of the First District Charity Organi- zation for a number of years ; was president of the Hibernian Society, which was organized in 1771 : is presi- dent of the board of presidents of the benevolent societies of Philadelphia; is a member of the ('ommercial Ex- change; was vice-president and president of the same; was a director of the Chamber of Commerce ; was unani- mously elected to the State senate in ISSH for a term of four years, and received the nomination for president pia frill jHiir by the Democratic members in issy ; was elected to the Fifty-Second and Fifty-Third Congresses ; was not a candidate for the Fifty- Fourth Congress; was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-Fifth Congre.ss, receiving 11.965 votes, against y.o-")!; votes for Frederick Halterman. Kepub- lican. and 2. 2:36 votes scattering. He represents the third congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a popu- lation of 12*.l,764. and embraces the third, foui'tli. Hfth, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, and .seventeenth wards of the city cf Philadelphia. SAMUEL W. McCALL SAMUEL WALKER McCALL Samuel Walker McCall. of Winchester, was liorn in East Providence. Pa.. February "iS. isr)l ; gradnated at Xew Hampton ( X. H.) Academy in 1S7(). and at Dartmouth Col- lege in 1S74: was admitted to the l)ar. and since lS7(i has practiced law in Boston, except one year when he was the editor of the Boston Daili/ Adrcrtiscr; was elected a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives of ISSS. issy. and 1S*.I2 ; was a delegate to tlie natimial itejiulilican con- vention of ISSS; was elected tf) the Fifty-Third and Fifty- Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Kepublican. receiving '22,05-1: votes, against 7.")i)(i votes for Fredeiick H. .Jackson. Democrat, and thirteen votes scattering. He represents the eighth congressional district of Ma.ssachu.setts. which has a population of 20o.4(i7. and embraces the cities of Cambridge. Mcdford. and Somerville. and towns of Arlington and Winchester, in Middlesex County, and the tenth and eleventh wards of the city of Boston, in Suffolk Count v. JAMES T. McCLEARY JAMES THOMPSON McCLEARY James Thompson McCleary. of Alankato. was bom at Ingersoll, Ontario, February 5. lS5o: was educated at the high scliool there and at McGill University. Montreal; tauglit foi' some years in Wisconsin. r)eing tor two years superintendent of Pierce County schools ; resigned in l.SSl to become State institute conductor of Minnesota and pro- fessor of history and political science in the State Normal School at Mankato. continuing in this position until .lune, Isy-J ; during summer vacations conducted institutes in Wisconsin, the Dakotas. Virginia. Tennessee, and Colorado; in IHSN published "Studies in Civi-cs."and in lSi)4 a '"Manual of Civics." which are used in the best .schools of the country ; in lSi)l was chosen ju'esident of the Minnesota Educational Association; was elected to tiie Fifty-Third and Fifty- Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 29,481 votes, against *21,182 votes for Frank A. Day. Democrat and Populist, and 1,085 votes for Richard Price, Prohibitionist, lie represents the second congres.sional district of Minnesota, which has a population of 1S8,4S0. and embraces the eighteen counties of Blue Earth, Brown. C!hippewa. Cottonwood, Faril)anlt. Jackson. Lac qui Parle, Lincoln. Lyon. Martin. Murray. Nicollet. Nobles. Pipe- stone, Redwood, Rock. \\'atoinvaii. and Yellow MtMlicine. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN GEORGE B. McCLELLAN Gkorge B. McClellan. of New York City, was boru No- vember 23, ISO"), in Dresden. Saxony, where his parents had gone on a visit : graduated from Princeton College in l.SS(i ; w^orked as a reporter and in editorial positions on several New York new'spapers : was treasurer of the New Y'ork and Brooklyn liridge from ()ctol)er 14. ISSI), to Iteceniber ;]1. LSl)"2 : was admitted to the liar in June. 1S1I2; since then has practiced his profession ; appf)inted colonel and aid-de-canip to (iovei'nor David B. Hill, January 1, iSSl) ; in 18*.)2 was elected president of the board of aldermen of the city and county of New York for a term of two years, beginning January 1. IHDo ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress ; was renominated by the Democratic party and nominated by the National Democratic party, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l2.Sir» votes, against 11. (i:iS votes foi' Charles A. Hess. Kepuhlican, 881 votes for M. Al. Miller. Populist. 385 votes for Charles B. Copp. Socialist Labor. 93 votes for W. S. Hobbs, Prohi- bitionist, and 385 votes blank and scattering. He repre- sents the twelfth congressional district of New York, which has a population of 130.311. and embraces the eleventh, sixteenth, and eighteenth assembly districts of the (•(umty of New York. N. B Mccormick N. B. Mccormick N. B. McCoRMicK. of Phillip.sburg, was born in Fayette County. Pa.. Xovemlier "Jd. 1S47: was brought up on a farm: received his education in the common schools of his native county; removed to Marion C!ounty. Iowa, in 18(57, where he settled upon a farm and engaged in the Inisiness of farm- ing and stock raising until his removal to Phillips County, Kansas, where he settled upon a homestead in 1S77; while engaged in farming studied law in the office of G. W. Stin- son. in Phil]ipsl>urg. and was admitted to the ))ar in lSS-2; soon thereafter formed a partnership with Hon. S. W. McElroy. under whom he served as deputy county attorney for four years; was elected county attorney of Phillips County in 18^)0 and reelected in l8',l-_'. and served in that capacity four years: refused a third nomination: was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist and a free-silver advocate, receiving 1 8.(5:^7 votes, against 16.006 votes for A. H. Ellis, Republican, and 1.547 votes for J. C. Bui'ton. Democrat. He represents the sixth congressional district of Kansas, which has a population of 179,147, and which includes the twenty-two counties of Cheyenne, Deca- tur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln. Logan, Mitchell. Norton. Osborne. Phillips. Rawlins. Rooks. Russell, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace. PHILIP D. McCULLOCH, Jr. PHILIP D. MCCULLOCH, JR. Phujp I>. McCri.LOcii. .lu.. of .Marianna. Lee County, wa.s horn in Murfreepilxiio, Jiiitherlnnl ('oiinty. Tenn.. on the 2'id of June. iSol ; is a son of Dr. Philip I), and Lucy V. Mc('nllo«-ii (//rV Hurrus) : reinospil with his parents when three years of age to Trenton, (iilison County. Tenn., wliere he was reared : was educated at Andrew College, in that place; began the study of law in 1S71 at the age of twenty ; was admitted to the har of Tennessee in August, iST'i. and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that time : removed to Marianna. Lee County. Ark., in February. 1S74. where he lias .since resided; was elected as the Democratic nominee to the oiKce of prosecuting attorney of the Hrst judicial district of the State in September. LS7S ; was renominated and elected for three successive terms: at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again : he was the Democratic presidential elector for the first congressional district in LSSS ; was nominated !>> the I H'nioci'atic congressional convention, at Paragonld. on the l.'Jtti of .Inly. lSl)-2. for the Fifty-Third Congress by acclamation and was elected, and was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democnit. i-eceiving 1*0.414 votes, against ().17S votes foi- V. A\ . Tucker. Itepul)licaii. He rep- resents the first congressional district of Arkansas, which has a population of "Ji'fl.Jdl. and eml)races the Hfteen coun- ties of Clay, Craighead. Crittenden. Cro.ss. tireene. Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Mis.sissippi. Phillii)s. Poinsett. Randolph, Sharp, St. Francis, and Woodruff. JOHN Mcdonald JOHN Mcdonald John McDonald, of Hockville. ^Id.. was l)orn in Ireland. May 24. 1887; was educated in the .schools of Ireland: came to this country and enlisted in the United States army in Boston, Mass.. in 1857 ; joined his regiment the following December in Arizona: participated in several Indian camjjaigns in that Territory and in (.'alifornia : in 1S(')1 was ordered to the seat of war: served in the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac throughout the war; after the war was ordered to the West, where he again took part in several campaigns against hostile Indians; was retired as a captain of cavalry July 1. 1S(JS. for disa- bilities incurred in the line of service ; was elected to the Maryland legislature as a Repul)lican in 18S1 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 2"J.40(I votes, against 18,487 votes for Blair Lee. Democrat, and 817 votes for Samuel IL Hockman. Prohibitionist. He rep- resents the sixth congressional district of Maryland, which has a population of 172.'2()8, and embraces the five counties of Allegany, Frederick, Garrett. Montgomery, and Wash- ington. JOHN A. Mcdowell JOHN ANDERSON McDOWELL John Anderson- McDowell, of Millers) uirg. was born in Killhuck. Holmes County. Ohio. September 25. ]S5:{; his father's family moved to a farm in Monroe Township. Holmes County, where he received his first years of school- ing in a country school : later, the family returned to Killbuck. where he clerked in his father's store, and at- tended the village school in the winters ; attended the Millersbnrg High School and Lebanon Normal University; was graduated from Mount Union College: began teach- ing a country school at seventeen : taught seven winter terms; was principal of Millersbnrg High School two years and superintendent of Millersbnrg schools for seventeen years : was county school examiner for seven years ; has been engaged as instructor in teachers' institutes in sev- eral counties in Ohio, also instructoi- in the summer school of Wooster University ; has been directly interested in agricultural pursuits for several years; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, I'eceiving •2(>.1(I5( votes, against "21. Kill votes for Addison S. McClure. liepublican. 857 votes for I. N. Kieffer. Pi'ohil)itiouist. 104 votes for Homer E. Cole. National Prohibitionist, and o4 \otes scattering. He represents the seventeenth congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 17().744. and embraces the five counties of Coshocton. Hohnes. Licking. 'I'uscarawas. and Wavne. THOMAS McEWAN, Jr. THOMAS iMcEWAN. Jr. Thomas McEwan. Jr., of Jersey City, was horn at Pater- son. N. J.. February '2(5. LS54 : is a lawyer liy profession. and wa.s formerly a civil engineer: was assessor of the fourth district. Jersey City, for two years, lSS(i-S7 : was I'nited States counnissioner and chief supervisor of elec- tions for the district of New Jei'.sey from August. 1S'.I2. to October, 1S1)8 ; was a delegate from Hudson County to the Republican national conventions of Isy-J and lsy(i; has been secretary and one oi the governors of the I'nion League Club of Hudson County until iSlKi ; has also been .secretary of the Hudson County Kepulilican general com- mittee for about fifteen years, up to January. lsy;j ; has ])een a delegate to and secretary of every Republican con- vention of Jersey City and Hudson County for altout hfteen years, to January. ISDi*. and also a delegate to all the State conventions of the lieimlilican party in that period; in 1S98 was elected a membei- of the as.seml)ly in a Democratic district in Hudson County by a plurality of Si.") over Dr. Stout, who was the representative the yeai' before ; in the legislative session of 1S1)4 was cho.sen the Republican leader of the house, he Iteing tlie only mem- ber who. while serving his first term in the house, has been so honored on either side in many years; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Republican, receiving 30.557 votes, against 2(i.(IS(l votes for Young. Democrat. 17.") votes for McCracken. Pro- hibitionist. S75 votes for Wortendyke. National Democrat. 1.073 votes for Campliell. Socialist Labor, and •_':!•') votes for Ginner. Silver Democrat. He represents the seventh congressional district of New .ler.sey. which has a popula- tion of '25tt.093. and embraces all of Hudson County, e.xcept the citv of Bavonne. WILLIAM W. MclNTIRE WILLIAM WATSON MclNTIRE William Watson McIntike, of Baltimore City, was born in P'ranklin County, Pa., of Scotcb-lrish and German parentage. June 29, 1S5ellion ; forced in early life to provide for a dependent family, he learned tbe trade of macbinist. and moved in July. LS7"J, to lialtimore City, wbere be obtained employ- ment in tbe machine shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, at Mount Clare ; worked here till 1M74. when be received an appointment in tbe LTnited States Railway Mail Service : remained in this service till 1SS5, after tbe election of Mr. Cleveland, when he resigned and became general agent of the United States Life Insurance Company for the State of Maryland and tbe District of Columltia. which position he still holds : for a sliort time attended school at the Hagerstown Academy; while in tbe railway mail service studied law and was admitted to tbe Baltimore bar: in 1SS7 was elected as a Repulilican to tbe city council of Baltimore City, succeeding a Demo- crat, and was reelected in ISSS; in tbe caini)aign of ]sy5 w'as treasurer of tbe Maryland Repul)lican State and city committees, and was elected to tbe Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Hepul)Iican. receiving 24.S*t9 votes, against 16.424 votes for William J. Ogden. Democrat, and ()7o votes for Arthur Frey. Prohibitionist. He rei)resents the fourth congres- sional district of Maryland, which has a population of l,s:].(l()5. and embraces in tbe city of Baltimore the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, eight- eenth, and nineteenth wards. FRANK A. McLAIN FRANK ALEXANDER McLAlN Frank Alexander McLain. of frloster. was born January 29, 1853, and reared on a farm in Amite County, Miss.; at- tended the common schools of the country and graduated in the A. B. course at the University of Mississippi in June, 1874 : commenced the practice of law in Liberty. ^liss., 1880 ; was elected to the State legislature in 1881 for a term of two years ; was elected district attorney for his judicial district in ISS:]. in which capacity he served for three consecutive terms of four years each : was elected to the constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1S9() as floater delegate from the counties of Amite and Pike : re tired voluntarily from the ofiice of district attorney January 1. 1896, and resumed his law practice at Gloster. IMiss.. where he now resides : was elected as a Democrat, prac- tically without opposition, to H!l out tlie unexpired term in the Fifty-Fifth Congress of William Franklin Love, who died October 17. 1898. He represents the sixth congres sional district of Mississippi, which has a population of 166,913, and embraces the fourteen counties of Adams. Amite, Covington, (ireene. Hancock. Harrison. Jackson. Jones. Lawrence. Marion. Fearl River. Perry. Pike, and Wilkinson. BENTON McMILLIN BEINTON IWciWILLliN Bknton McMilun, of Carth.iLic. wus Imin in Monroe Couuty, Ky.. iSepteniber 11. 1S4'> : \v;is educated at Pliilo- math Academy, Tennessee, ami Krntucky University, at Lexington; studied law ui.der -I iiduc K. L. Gardenliire and was admitted to tlie bar; comnifiicnl the practice of law at Celina. Tenn., in 1,S71 ; whs clcitfd a member of tbe house of representatives of tbe Tennessee legislatuic in November. 1.S74. and served out liis trim; whs commissioned by the governor to treat with tbe Sljitc of Kentucky for tbe purchase of territory in IS?"); \\;is cbosen an elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in b^7(»: was commissioned by tbe governor special judge ol fiie eircuit court in 1S77 ; was elected to the Forty-Sixth. I'mtx -Seventh. Forty-Eighth. Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-Fii>l . I'ifty- Second. Fifty-Tiiinl, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and icilrcted to the Fiftj-Fiftb Congress as a Democrat, receixin^; 1S.(»70 vote.s, against 12.^69 votes for ('. II. Whitney. i;e|Mibln-an. In 1S9S be was elected governor of Tennessee, mid will resign his seat in Congress. He represents the lumih congressional district of Tennessee, which has a po|Mihii imi of 1 .■)1).*.)40. and em- braces tbe thirteen counties of (Ijx. ( iimlxM-land. Fentress, Jackson. Macon. Overton. I'ickelt. riitnani. Khea. Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, and Wil.sim. THOMAS C. McRAE THOMAS CHIPMAN McRAE Thomas Chipman McRae. of Prescott. was born at Mount Holly. Union County. Ark.. December 21, IS-M ; received a limited education at the ]iri\ate schools at Shady Urove. Columbia County. Mount Holly. Union County, and Falcon. Nevada County. Ark. ; in boyhood he worked on a farm, and one year in a wholesale mercantile establishment at Shreveport. La., and one year in a retail store at Falcon. Ark. : received a full course of instruction at Soule Busi- ness College. New Orleans. La., in 1S7(I: graduated in law at the Washington and Lee University. \'irginia. in class of 1S71 72: was admitted to i)ractice in State circuit courts in Kosston. Nevada ('ounty. Ark.. January S. 1S73. in the Arkansas supreme court January 27. lS7(i. and in the United States Supreme Court January 4. hSSG ; was a mem- ber of the State legislature of Arkansas in 1S77, in which year the county-seat was changed, and he moved from Rosston to Prescott. where he has since practiced his pro- fession : was a member, of the town council of the incor- porated town of Prescott in 1S79; was a presidential elector for Hancock and English in ISSO; was chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1SS4 ; was delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1SS4. and is now the Democratic national committeeman for Arkansas: was elected to the Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First, Fifty- Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and re- elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,321 votes, against 8.244 for J. B. Friedheim. Republican. He represents the third congressional district of Arkansas, which has a population of UKI.SO"). and embraces the six- teen counties of Ashley. Calh(nin. Chicot. Clark. (Columbia. Desha, Hempstead. Howard. Lafayette. little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita. Pike. Sevier, and Union. ■ P ■ H |Hk>^ 1 *v 41 • tr' ■^ ^^^ ^Bt' ' '^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1 ■- ^H • « JOHN W. MADDOX JOHN W. MADDOX John W. Maddox, of Koine, was born on June 3, 1848, in Chattooga Count}', Ua. ; received a common-school edu- cation ; enlisted in the service of the Confederate States at the age of fifteen and served as a private until the end of the war between the States ; read law in Summer- ville, Ga.; was admitted to the bar at the September term, 1877. and practiced law there until 1886 ; was elected county commissioner in January, 1878 ; was elected to the State legislature iu October, 1880. and reelected in 1882 ; was elected to represent the forty-second senatorial district in 1884 : was elected judge of the superior court, Rome circuit, iu November, 1886, and reelected in November, 1890; resigned that office September 1, 1892, to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10.719 votes, against 5.087 votes for W. L. Massey, Republican, and 4.256 votes for J. W. Garrity. Populist. He represents the seventh congressional district of Georgia, which has a population of 179.259, and which embraces the thirteen counties of Barton, Catoosa, Chattooga. Cobb, Dale, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield. JAMES G. MAGUIRE JAMES G. MAGUIRE James G. Maguire. of San Francisco, was born in l^os- ton, Mass.. on the 22d of February. 1858 ; removed with his parents to California in April. 1S54 ; was educated in the public schools of Watsonville. Santa Cruz County. ChI.. and in the private academy of Mr. Joseph K. Fallon, of that place. Upon leaving school he served an apprenticeship of four years at the trade of blacksmithing; afterwards taught school for a year and a half; in 1S75 was elected to the legislature of the State of California, serving two years; in January. 1S75 ; after his return home engaged in mer- cantile pursuits until 18H4, at which time he was appointed superintendent of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, which jiosition he held for seven years ; now owns some marine property that is operated in connec- tion with a stone quarry located near Sturgeon Bay ; is also a licensed master of steam vessels : was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1S77 and reelected in ISKO and 18S1 ; was elected to the State senate and served in that body in 1883 and 1885 ; was president iim tcnipoi-i' of the senate during the latter term : was also a member of the Wisconsin tish commission for four years ; has held numer- ous local offices at various times and is at present mayor of the city of Sturgeon Bay: was elected to the Fifty- Fourth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26.471 votes, against 16,845 votes for George W. Cate. Democrat and Populist, 580 votes for John Evans. Prohibitionist, and 4 votes for Nelson H. Ken- dall, Labor. He represents the eighth congressional dis- trict of Wisconsin, which has a population of 179,408, and embraces the seven counties of Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Outagamie. Portage, Waupaca, and Wood. JOHN M. MITCHELL JOHN MURRAY MITCHELL John Murray ]\1itciiell. of New York, was born at (io West Ninth tStreet, in the ujiper portion of the eighth congressional district. March 18, 1858. and has ever since lived in the same honse in which he was born : his father. William Mitchell, was chief justice of what is now known as the appellate division of the supreme court in the county of New Y'ork. and was also justice of the court of appeals, the highest court in the State: was graduated from Colum- bia College in 1877 with the degree of A. B.. and was class valedictorian, though the youngest member of the class; completed a course in the Columbia Law School in the spring of 1871). receiving the degree of LL. B.. and was admitted to the bar immediately thereafter : spent the fol- lowing year in travel in Kuiope and the East, and de- voted himself to the study of international law and reviewing his other studies : on his return he was given the degree of A. M. by Columbia College, and at once entered upon the duties of law clerk in a law office : two years later he opened a law office of his own : in lss;» he entered into partnership with his two brothers. Edward and William, the former of whom was United States at- torney for the southern district of New York l)y appoint- ment of President Harrison : in the spring of 1894 he became associated in the practice of law with John R. Dos Passos and his brother. Benjamin F. Dos Passos, the well-known lawyers and authors of several standard law books ; in the fall f)f 18i)4 he was nominated l)y acclama- tion for Congress: the result of the election showed an JOHX MURRAY MITCHELL apparent plurality of o(i7 votes for his opponent, which count, however, was found to be erroneous; a contest of the right to the seat terminated in seating Mr. Mitchell b}' a vote of 162 to 39; he was again nominated by accla- mation and stood for election against his former com- petitor, and was elected by a majority of 1,'261), and was the only gold candidate elected south of Twenty-Third Street ; was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a lie- publican, receiving 10.4S8 votes, against 1).219 votes for his Democratic (»pponent. and 140 votes for William F. West- ertield. Socialist Labor. He represents the eighth congres- sional district of New York, which has a population of 125,778, and emliraces the second, third, and seventh assembly districts of the county of New York. (Note. — This district now runs from Peck Slip to Catharine Street, on the East River ; along Catharine Street to the Bowery ; up the Bowerv and Third Avenue to Twentv-Third Street ; across to Seventh Avenue ; down Seventh Avenue to Sixteenth Street : then over to Eighth Avenue ; down Eighth Avenue to Bleecker Street, and thence to Broadway, down tiie east side of Broa. 1S9(>. liy the Populists ff>r Congress, and was elected ta JOHN AUSTIN MOON the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 19.498 votes, against 17.716 votes for W. J. Clift. Republican. 227 votes for J. L. Hopkins, Prohibitionist, 133 votes for W. J. Farris, Populist, and 2 votes scattering. He represents the third congres- sional district of Tennessee, which has a population of 199,972, and embraces the fifteen counties of Bledsoe. Brad- ley. Franklin, Grundy. Hamilton, James. Marion. McMinn, Meigs. Monroe, Polk. Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White. PAGE MORRIS PAGE MORRIS Page Mokris. of Duhith. was horn .June ;J0. 1S58, at Lynch- luirg. Va.; educated at u private school and at William and Mary College and the Virginia ililitary Institute : gradnated at the lattei- institution in IST^J. and was at once appointed assistant jirofessor of niatheniatics : in \S1'6 was appointed professor of inatlieniatics in the Texas Military Institute, and icniovcd to Austin. Tex.; in lS7(j was elected professor of ajiplied mathematics in the Agricultural and ^lechanical College of Texas, located near Bryan, in that State, where he remained for three years; studied law 'vhile teaching in college, and was admitted to the l)ar at Lynchburg. \ a., wliither he had returned, in ISSO; in 1SS4 was nominated Ity the Republicans and ran for Congress in the sixth district of Virginia against John W. Daniel. Democrat, and was defeated : in ISHO removed from Lynchburg to Dulnth. where he has since resided: in Februai-y. iSSi). was elected municipal judge of the city of Duluth ; in March, 1H94. was elected city attorney by the city council of Duluth: in August. ls'.»."). was appointed. liy the governor, district judge of the eleventh judicial district of Minnesota: in July. iSiJG, was unanimously nom- inated, by the Republican congressional convention, for C'on- gress, accepted the nomination, and immediately sent to the governor his resignation of the office of judge, to take effect Septemlier 1. so that he might make the campaign: on November :!. is'.M). was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Republican, receiving oO.-jPJ votes, again.st "iy.SOy votes for ('harles A. Towne. Populist and Democrat. He represents the sixth congressional district of Minnesota, which has a poi)ulation of 1S4.S4.S. and embraces the twenty counties of Aitkin. Anoka. Beltrami. Benton. Carl- ton. Cass. Cook. Crow Wing. Hnl)liard. Itasca. Lake. Millelacs, Morrison. Pine. St. Louis. Sherlnirne, Stearns, Todd. Wadena, and Wriirht. SIDNEY E. MUDD SYDNEY EMANUEL MUDD Sydney Emanuel Mtdd. of Laplata. was born February 12. 1S5S. iu Charles County. Md. ; was educated at Ueorge- town ( D. C.) College and St. .lohn's College. Annapolis. Md., graduating from the latter in 1878: read law privately and attended the law department of the University of \irginia ; was admitted to the bar iu ISSO. and has prac- ticed since : was elected to the State house of delegates in 187i) and reelected in bSSl ; was an elector on the itionist. He rei)resents the tifth congressional district of Maryland, which has a population of 15o.".)12. and embraces Anne Arundel. Calvert. Charles. Howard, I'l'iuce Ceorge. and St. Mary"s ('ouiities. and the .seventeenth ward of Baltimore Citv. FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS Francis G. Newlands. of Keno. was l)orn in Natchez, Miss., August 28, 1848 ; entered the chiss of 1867 at Yale College and remained until the middle of his junior year; later on attended the Columbian College Law School at Washington, but prior to graduation was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of the District of Columbia and went to San Francisco, where he entered upon the prac- tice of law : continued in the active practice of his pro- fession until 1886, when he became a trustee of the estate of William Sharon, formerly United States Senator from the State of Nevada: in 1888 he l^ecame a citizen of the State of Nevada : engaged actively in the agitation of the silver question and was for years vice-chairman of the national silver committee : was also active in the irriga- tion develoj)ment of the ai'id region, and other questions relating to the West ; he was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congi-esses. and, having received his nom- ination fi-om both the Silver party and the Democratic party, was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 6,529 votes, against 1,819 votes for M. J. Davis, Repuldican, and 1,948 votes for J. (A Doughty. Populist. He is a Repre- sentative at Large from Nebraska. JAMES NORTON James Xorton. of Mullins, was born October S. 1843, in Marion (.'ounty. S. 0. ; received an academic education : left school in lH(il to enter the armj- : served through the war in the army of northern Virginia. He was more than once wounded, a minie ball at one time passing through the body and right lung. From this wound he had sufficiently recovered to be able to return to the army just in time, with Petersburg, to be captured. After the war he re- entered school. Init did not finish regular course : in 1870 was elected county school commissioner and reelected 187"2 : served as a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina iSSIv 87 and 1890-91 ; was elected comp- troller-general of the State 1894. and reelected 1896. which office he resigned to accept a seat in the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress. He won the nomination for Congress, to till the vacancy caused by the resignaticm of John L. ^IcLaurin. over five competitors, and was elected as a Democrat, without opposition, October, 1897, having received the en- tire vote cast. He represents the sixth congressional dis- trict of South Carolina, which has a population of 158,851, and embraces the counties of Clarenden, Darlington. Flor- ence, Horry, Marion, Mai-lboro, and part of Williamsburg. JAMES ALBERT NORTON JAMES ALBERT NORTON James Albert Norton, of Titiiii. Seneca County, Ohio, was born in Seneca County. Ohio, on November 11, 1843; was educated in the TiflHn schools; enlisted in United States service in August, 1S()2. sergeant Company K, One Hundred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was promoted to first lieutenant and adjutant One Hundred and Twenty- Third United States Colored Infantry in l.Sfi4; mustered out of service at close of the war in iSli.j ; Ijegan the prac- tice of medicine in 1867; continued that profession until lS7i); was admitted to the bar in 1S79 : served six years in the Ohio house of representatives from 1878 to 1879; was speaker ^^ro tenipoyc of that l)ody for two years; was appointed commissioner of railroads and telegraphs by (i()V. James E. Campbell, and served in that capacity during Governor Campbeirs. and part of the first term of (iovernor McKinley's. administration, when he resigned to accept position in railroad service, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving •28,87S votes, against 23,506 votes for Stephen R. Harris, Republican. 458 votes for J. H. Rhodes. Populist, and 249 votes foi .b)hn W. Belson, Prohibitionist. He represents the tliii'- teenth congressional district of Ohio, which has a popula- tion of 185.324, and embraces the six counties of Crawford. Erie, Marion, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wyandot. BENJAMIN B. ODELL, Jr. BENJAMIN B. ODELL. Jr. Benjamin B. Odell. Jr., of New burg. N. Y., was born in Newburg January 14, 1854 ; was educated in the pul)iic schools, also at Bethanj' (W. Va.) College and Columliia Col- lege. New York City ; since his majority he has been en- gaged in a commercial career, principally in the ice business and electric lighting ; never has held a public oliice before ; has always been active in politics: for the past ten years has represented the seventeenth district on the Kepuljli- can State committee and was chairman of the executive committee during the past campaign : was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving •J'J.C^'i votes, against 15,50(1 votes for Uavid A. Morrison. Democrat, and 445 votes for R. A. Widen- mann. National Democrat. He represents the seventeenth congressional district of New York, which has a population of 164.052. and embraces the three counties of Orange, Rock- land, and Sullivan. HENRY W. OGDEN HENRY W. OGDEN Henry W. Ogden. of Benton, was born at Abingdon. Va.. October '21. 1S42; at the age of nine years removed with his father to Warrensburg, Johnson (.'ounty. Mo.; was educated in the common schools, working on his father's farm in spring and summer and attending school in winter : entered the Confederate service and served through the war in the Trans-Mississipi)i department; was Hrst lieutenant of Company D. Sixteenth Missouri Infantry, and afterwards on the staff of Brigadier-General Lewis, second brigade. Parsons's division of Missouri infantry : was paroled at Shreveport on the Sth of June. ISGO; remained in Louisiana and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which occupation he has followed since continuously : was a member of the con- stitutional convention in 1S71I and of the State house of representatives in ISSO; in 1SS2 was chairman of the com- mittee on ways and means; reelected in 1884, and was speaker of the house from 1884 to 1888; was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-Third Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of N. C. Blanchard to he Ignited States Senator ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and re- ('lected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10.775 votes, against 4.726 votes .for B. W. Bailey. Populist, and 647 votes for Robert P. Hunter. Republican. He rep- resents the fourth congressional district of Louisiana, which has a population of li)3.760. and enil)races tlie parishes of Bienville. Bossier. Caddo. De Soto. Crant. Natchitoches. Rapides. Red River. Sal)ine. Vernon, Webster, and Winn. MARLIN E. OLMSTED MARLIN EDGAR OLMSTED Marlin Edgar Olmsted, of Harrisburg, was born in Ulysses Township. Potter County. Pa. : educated in com- mon schools and Coudersport Academy ; at an early age w^as appointed assistant corporation clerk by Auditor-Gen- eral (afterwards Governor) Hartranft ; one year later was promoted to corporation clerk, in charge of collection of taxes from corporations under Pennsylvania's peculiar revenue system ; was continued in same position by Har- rison Allen, auditor-general ; read law w'ith Hon. John W. Simonton (now president judge of twelfth judicial district) at Harrisburg ; was admitted to the bar November 25. 1878 ; was at the time of his election president and gen- eral counsel of Beech Creek Railroad Company, also of Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Company, and counsel for Lehigh Valley Kaihoad Company : Delaware. Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad Company ; New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (.'ompany : Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company ; Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company : Fall Brook railway system ; Western I' nion Telegraph Company : Pullman Palace Car Company ; Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, and many other corporations ; was elected to represent Dauphin County in the proposed constitutional convention in 1891 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,(114 votes, against 462 votes for Jacob F. Klugh, Demo- crat, 1,101 votes for Benjamin H. Engle. Prohibitionist. 1,948 votes for Abraham Mattis. People's party, and 22 votes scattering. He represents the fourteenth congres- sional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 171,384, and embraces the three counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, and Perry. •l^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l ^^^H \^ 1 1 ^£' ■i^' -■ ''^ -f .y^JisA 1 "■..i^k 1 1 JOHN E. OSBORNE JOHN E. OSBORNE John E. Osborne, of Rawlins, Wyo., was born in West- port, Essex County. N. Y., June 9. 1858; graduated from the high school of his native town at the age of eighteen years, after which he began the study of medicine, and graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of ISSd : removed to Rawlins. Wyo.. immediately thereafter, and engaged in the practice of his profession ; later en- gaged extensively in raising live stock upon the open range : he was elected in 1883 to the Wyoming Terri- torial legislature ; was appointed in 1888 by (iovernor Moonlight to the position of chairman of the Territorial penitentiary building commission ; was the same year elected mayor of the city of Rawlins ; was selected as an alternate to the Democratic national convention in 181)2, and at the November election of the same year was elected governor of Wyoming; at the expiration of his official term as governor, he was unanimously renominated by his party for a second term, but owing to important Inisiness engagements declined the honor ; was chosen a member of the Ijimetallic Democratic national committee for the State of Wyoming in 1895 ; was chairman of the Wyoming delegation to the national convention at Chicago in 1896, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,310 votes, against 10,044 votes for Frank W. Mondell, Republican, and 628 votes for William Brown, Populist. Mr. Osborne is a Representative at Large from Wyoming. PETER J. OTEY PETER J. OTEY Peter J. Otey. of Lynchlmrg. was born in that city l)eceml)er 22, 1840: was educated at the Virginia Military Institute and graduated July 1. 1860; while a cadet he participated in the defense of Virginia in the John Brown raid : on graduating he entered the profession of engi- neering on the Mrginia and Kentucky Railroad, under the distinguished Claudius Crozet ; in April. 1861. he joined the Confederate army and participated in the western campaign culminating at Donelson and Shiloh ; returned with his command and was with the army of northern ^'irginia and remained in the infantry until the close of the war: was badly wounded at the battle of New Market in the Valley of Virginia : after four months he returned : commanded a brigade under Early : his career lias been that of a thor- ough business man in railroad, banking, and insurance since 186^1. from which time he has been active in the politics of his State, though never asking for office till 181(4. when he was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17.187 votes, against 11.702 votes for Duval Rad- ford, National Democrat, and 748 votes for J. H. Hoge, Republican. Major Otey represents the sixth congressional district of Virginia, which liiis a population of 184,498. and embraces the counties of liedford. Campbell. Charlotte, Halifax. Montgomery, and lioanoke. and the cities of Lynchburg, Radford, and Roanoke. THEOBOLD OTJEN Theobold Otjen. of Milwaukee, was born in West China, St. Clair County. Mich.. October 27, 1851 ; was educated at the Marine City (Mich.) Academy and at a private school in Detroit conducted by Prof. P. M. Patterson ; was em- ployed as foreman in the rolling mill of the Milwaukee Iron Company at Milwaukee from 1870 to the fall of 1872 ; entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in October. 1873; graduated March 25, 1875, and was immediately admitted to the bar at Ann Arbor; practiced law in Detroit until the fall of 1883. when he removed to Milwaukee, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of law and in the real-estate Inisiness ; was elected a member of the common council of the city of Milwaukee in April, 1887, and was reelected for three suc- cessive terms, serving seven years in all ; was a trustee of the Milwaukee Pul>lic Library from 1887 to 1891, and a trustee of the Milwaukee Public Museum from 1891 to 1894; ran for comptroller of the city of Milwaukee in April. 1892, but went down to defeat with the rest of the Republican ticket under the Bennett law tidal wave ; was nominated as the Republican candidate for Congress in 1892 and ran against Hon. John L. Mitchell, now Senator. l)ut was de- feated ; was again the Republican candidate in 1893 for the seat in Congress made vacant by the election of Mr. Mitchell to the Senate, but was again defeated ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Republican, receiving 25,896 votes, against 21,429 THEOBOLD OTJEN votes for Robert Schilling, Democrat and Populist, and 433 votes for Robert May. Socialist. He represents the fourth congressional district of Wisconsin, which has a population of IHI.OOO, and embraces the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteentli wards of the city of Milwaukee, and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, and Oak Creek. JESSE OVERSTREET JESSE OVERSTREET Jesse Overstreet. of ludianaiJolis. was born in John- son County, Ind.. December 14, 1859 ; received a common- school and collegiate education, and was admitted to the bar in ISSO ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 29,075 votes, against 24,1. and embraces the four counties of Bureau, Lasalle. Livingston, and Woodford. JOHN S. RHEA John S. Rhea, of Russellville, was born in Russellville. Logan County, Ky., March 9, 1855 ; educated at Bethel College, Russellville. Ky., and Washington and Lee Uni- versity, Lexington, Va. ; licensed to practice law in the fall of 1873. and has been in constant practice since ; was elected prosecuting attorney for Logan County in 1878, and again elected in 1882 ; was elected presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1884 for the third district of Kentucky, and elector for the State at large in 1888; was a delegate from the third district to the national Demo- cratic convention in 1892, and. with the Hon. Henry Wat- terson, a delegate who was then of the same oiind and faith, voted against the nomination of Grover Cleveland ; was delegate from the State at large to the national Demo- cratic convention in 1896, and put the name of Senator J. C. S. Blackburn in nomination before the convention for President; Mr. Watterson was not a delegate to this convention ; elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Dem- ocratic Populist, defeating Hon. W. Godfrey Hunter, Repub- lican, Hon. Chas. W. Milliken, Aid Society, and Hon. W. R. Vaughn. Independent. He represents the third congres- sional district of Kentucky, which has a population of 176.471. and embraces the eleven counties of Allen. Barren, Butler, Cumberland. Edmonson, Logan, Monroe, Muhlen- berg, Simpson, Todd, and Warren. JAMES D. RICHARDSON JAMES DANIEL RICHARDSON James Daniel Richardson, of Murfreeshoro, was horn in Rutherford County. Teun., March 10. 1S48 ; was edu- cated at good country schools ; was at Franklin College, near Nashville, when the war began, and entered the Con- federate army at eighteen years of age, l)efore graduating; served in the army nearly fonr years, the first year as private and the remaining three as adjutant of the Forty- Fifth Tennessee Infantry : read law after the war and began practice January 1, l.S()7. at Murfreesl>oro ; was elected to the lower house of the Tennessee legislature, took his seat in October, 1S71. and on the first day was elected speaker of the house, he l)eing then only twenty- eight years of age; was elected to the State senate the following session, 1873-74 ; was grand master of Masons in Tennessee 1873-74, grand high priest of the (irand Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons of the State 1882, and inspector- general, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite„ thirty-third degree, in Tennessee; was a delegate to the St. Louis Democratic convention in 187(5. was elected to the Forty- Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,089 votes, against y,000 votes for S. Houston, Republican, and 2,384 votes for W. E. Erwin, Populist. He represents the Hfth congres- sional district of Tennessee, which has a population of 153,773, and embraces the eight ct)unties of Bedford. Can- non, Coflee, Dekalb, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, and Ruther- ford. EDWIN R. RIDGELY EDWIN REED RIDGELY Edwin Eeed Ridgely, of Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kan., was born May 9. 1S44, in a log cabin on bis parents' timber farm near Lancaster. Wabash County. 111.; education was acquired in the local district school during the winter months ; during his early life his time was devoted to farm labor; early in 1862, at the age of eighteen, enlisted as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served continuously to the end of the war; in 1S69, in company with his brother, Stephen S. Kidgely, moved to Girard, Kansas, where they engaged in general merchandising under the firm name of Kidgely Bros., and have conducted this business almost continuously since; at the present time they are conducting a general store in Pittsburg, Kan. ; in the early seventies he engaged in the Texas cattle trade, personally sharing in and direct- ing the gathering of cattle on the range and driving them to the Kansas markets ; subsequently he extended his cattle operations to the Pacific Coast, including Washington Ter- ritory. Oregon, and California ; lived in Ogden, Utah, from 1889 to 1893 ; his first vote was cast for U. S. Grant in 1868 ; quit the Republican party in 1876 because of its -financial policy ; has continuously from that date advocated the exclusive issue of all money by the government by using all the gold and silver offered as material on which to print the money power, supplementing these with paper to regu- late and control the total volume ; is an earnest advocate of public ownership and operation of all public utilities, and thinks it both a necessity and duty of the state to EDWIN REED RIDGELY supply all iineniployed people voluntary access to all the necessary means of production and distribution among themselves of food, fuel, clothing, shelter, and education ; that all such labor above these needs should be utilized by the state in creating public improvements ; to meet demands for revenue, also to undo and prevent the dangerous cen- tralization of wealth in the hands of a few people, he advo- cates a graduated property and income tax ; was nominated by the People's and Democratic parties and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving ■27,0;i4 votes, against •2"2,4y9 votes for S. 8. Kirkpatrick, Republican. He represents the third congressional district of Kansas, wliich has a popu- lation of "201,584. and embraces the nine counties of Chautauqua, Cherokee. Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labatte, Montgomery. Neosho, and Wilson. JOHN F. RIXEY JOHN FRANKLIN RIXEY John Franklin Rixey, of Brandy, Culpeper County, Va., was educated in the common schools. Bethel Academy, and the University of Virginia; is a lawyer and farmer; was Commonwealth's attorney for Culpeper County twelve years, the only office he ever held till elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,030 votes, against 13,114 votes for Pati-ick Henry McCaull, Republican, 140 votes for Joseph H. Pancoast, Prohilntionist. 24 votes for James Selden Cowdon. 47 votes for W. C. C. Coleman, 1 vote for C. N. Lee. and 1 vote for T. N. Blackford. He represents the eighth congressional district of Virginia, which has a population of 147,968. and embraces the ten counties of Alexandria. Culpeper. Fairfax. Fauquier. King Ceorge. Loudoun, Louisa. Orange. Prince William, and Staf- ford, and the city of Alexandria. EDWARD ROBB EDWARD ROBB Edward Kobb. of Perryville. was horn at Brazeau, in Perry County. Mo.. March H*. ISoT : his father was Dr. Ijncius F. Eobb : was ednoated in the coninion schools. Brazeau Academy. Fruitland Normal Institute, and the Missouri State University ; graduated from the law depart- ment of the Missouri State University in March. 1S7'.I. and the May following;- located in Perryville. where he has since been engaged in the practice of liis profession ; was elected prosecuting attorney of Perry County in ISHO. and reelected in 1SS2; was elected a memher of the legislature in 18S4, and reelected in ISSti; was appointed assistant attorney-gen- eral of the State in .Tanuary. lss',1. hy Gen. John M. Wood, which position he held foi- the term of four years : was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22.81(1 votes, against li).0(i2 votes for George Steel. Republi- can. USSB votes for (4eorge Bond, Populist, and S scattering. He represents the thirteenth congressional district of Mis- .souri, which has a population of lS7.1ti)4. and embraces the fifteen counties of Carter. Dent. Iron. .Jefferson. Madison, Perry. Reynolds. Shannon. Ste. (lenevieve. St. Francois, Texas. Washington. Wayne. Webster, and Wright. EDWARD E. ROBBINS EDWARD E. ROBBINS Edward Everett Robbins. of Greensbnrg. was horn in Westmoreland County, i'a., September 27. LSGO ; was edu- cated in the pulilic schools, in Indiana Normal School, and Eldersridge Academy ; graduated at Washington and Jef- ferson College in the class of 1881 ; was registered as a law student at Greenslnirg in the same year, and in 18S2 entered the Columbia Law School in New York ; took the course there under Prof. Theodore W. Dwight. and was admitted to the Westmoreland bar April 8, 1884, and at once engaged in the practice of law ; was nominated for district attorney in 1886 ; was elected in 1888 to the State senate, and served in that body till 1892 ; was chairman Republican county committee in 1885; is major and quarter- master of the second brigade. State militia ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 32,149 votes, against 19,464 votes for Samuel S. Blyholder. Demo- crat, 1,068 votes for John B. Bair. Prohibitionist, and 1.968 votes for St. Clair Thompson, People's party. He repre- sents the twenty-first congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a poijulation of 245.746, and eml)races the four counties of Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, and Westmore- land. SAMUEL M. ROBERTSON SAMUEL MATTHEWS ROBERTSON Samuel Matthews Kobektsox. of iJatou liouge. was bom ill the town of Plaquemine. La., .lanuai-y L lS.")-2 ; received his p]-eparatory education in the ('ollegiate Institute of Baton Rouge; was graduated from the Louisiana State Uni- versity in 1S74 : completed a course of law study and was admitted to practice in 1S77 ; was elected a member of the State legislature from the parisli of East Baton liouge in LS7i> for a term of four years; in ISSO was elected a mem- ber of the faculty of the Louisiana State Lniversity and Agricultural and Mechanical College ; tilled the chair of natural history in that institution and the position of com- mandant of cadets until he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress to till the vacancy created by the death of his father. E. W. Bobertson ; was elected to the Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, re- ceiving 11,872 votes, against 8.(iS(i votes for C. C. Dunson, Bepublican, and 924 votes for W. M. Thompson, Populist. He represents the sixth congressional district of Louisiana, which has a population of 208.S()2. and embraces the par- ishes of Acadia, Avoyelles. East Baton Bouge. East Feli- ciana. Livingston. Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, West Baton liouge. West Feli- ciana, and Washington (Kl parishes). JAMES M. ROBINSON JAMES M. ROBINSON James M. Robinson, who represents the twelfth Indiana district in the Fifty-Fifth Congress, and has been reelected, resides at Fort Wayne. Ind.. near which city he was born in 1861. He is of Scotch-Irish descent, his forefathers hav- ing come to this country in its early history, and settled in the States of New Jersey and Virginia. Both his parents, David A. Robinson and Isabelle Bowen Rol)inson, were born in the State of Pennsylvania, but removed in early life with their parents to Richland County, Ohio, and settled ou a farm, and, after theif marriage, to Allen County, Indiana, in the district now represented by their son and in which he was born. The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the country .school ; at the age of ten years he moved to the city with his parents and attended the public school until he was four- teen years of age. when he became collector for a daily paper of which he had Iteen a carrier boy for several years ; at fifteen he took employment in a shop at Fort Wayne as a machine baud, and from that time till the present has supported and kept house with his mother. While working at his trade he studied law for five years; quitting the shop in ISSl. he entered a law office and in 1SS2 was admitted to practice in the State and United States Courts : in 1SS6 and 1888 he was unanimously nomi- nated for State attorney, in both elections leading his ticket, in the former by 1,500 votes: was defeated in 1892 by four delegate votes for the congressional nomination, but was unanimously nominated by the Democrats in 1896, JAMES M. ROBIA'SOX aud elected to the Fifty-Fifth (_'oiigre.ss. leading his ticket 700 votes ill Fort Wayne alone ; was again unanimously nominated for Congress in 1S'.)8 and elected, leading his ticket in the district 1,100 votes. Mr. Kobinson has made many political and other speeches in Indiana and has been heard a number of times on the tioor of the House of Representatives. He represents the twelfth congressional district of Indiana, which has a ])opulation of 162,210. and embraces the six counties of Allen, Dekalb, Lagrange. Noble. Steuben, and Whitley. LEMUEL W. ROYSE LEMUEL W. ROYSE Lemuel W. Royse, of Warsaw, was born January 19, 1848, in Kosciusko County, Ind. ; at the age of twelve years his father died, and he was left penniless, and there- fore was compelled to depend upon his own efforts for a living; attended the common schools until he was sixteen years of age ; he then took upon himself the support of his mother and two sisters younger than himself ; by studying at home he acquired sufficient knowledge to teach school in the winter season, when he was nineteen years old ; while he was teaching school he began reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874, at Warsaw, Ind. ; in 1876 was elected prosecuting attorney for the thii-ty-third judicial circuit of Indiana, which office he held two years ; was elected mayor of the city of Warsaw in 1885 and held this office until 1891 : was on the Repuljli- can electoral ticket in 1S84 ; was a member of the Repul> lican State central committee from 1886 till 1890; in 1892 was a delegate to the Minneapolis convention which nom- inated Harrison for his second term ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,514 votes, against 23,928 votes for C. K. Ellison. Fusionist. He represents the thirteenth congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 169,489, and embraces the seven counties of Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, St. Joseph, and Starke. CHARLES A. RUSSELL CHARLES ADDISON RUSSELL Charles Addison Rtssell. of Killinyly. was Ixii-n in Wor- cester. Mass.. March 2. 1852 : received a public school and collegiate education, graduating from Yale College in the class of IST;!; was aid-de-canii) (colonel) on (Jovernor Bige- low's staff 1HS1-S2; was a member of the house, general assembly of Connecticut, in ISS:] : was secretary of state of Connecticut lSS5-(S(i : is engaged in the woolen i)usiness; was elected to the Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty- Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Kepiildican. receiving 15.2(i9 votes, against 7.6(55 votes for Joseph T. Fanning, Silver Democrat, 500 votes for Henry L. Hammond. Cold Democrat, 408 votes for William Tngalls. Prohiliiticmist. and sixteen votes scat- tering. He represents the thii'd congressional district of Connecticut, which has a populati'in of IlM .7'.»"_'. and em- braces the counties of New ijondon and Windham, including the cities of New London and Norwich. EDWARD SAUERHERING Edward Sauerhering. of Mayville. was born at Mayville, Wis.. June 24, 1864 ; was educated in the Mayville public schools and high school and graduated from the Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1885; his occupation is that of a pharmacist ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,957 votes, against 17,480 votes for William H. Rogers. Democrat, and 1,025 votes for Jesse Meyers. Prohibitionist. He repre- sents the second congressional district of Wisconsin, which has a population of 166,442. and embraces the four counties of Columbia, Dane, Dodge, and Jefferson. JOSEPH D. SAVERS JOSEPH D. SAYERS Joseph D. Sayers, of Bastroj). was horn at (irenada. Miss.. September 28, ISJI : removed with his father to Bastrop, Tex., in 1851 ; entered the Confederate army eaiJy in 18(51 and served continuously until Aj)ril. I8(i5; was admitted to the bar in lS()(i and l»ecame a partner of Hon, (ieorge W. Jones: served as a nicinher of the State senate in the session of 1S78; was chairman of the Democratic State executive committee during- the years 1875 78; was lieutenant-governor of Texas in 1879-80; was elected to the Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty- Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l'(M» votes, against 17,0iy votes for W. C. P. Breckin- ridge, Fusion. He represents the seventh congressional district of Kentucky, which has a population of 141,461, and embraces the eight counties of Bourlion. Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Owen, Scott, and Woodford. JOHN F. SHAFROTH JOHN F. SHAFROTH John F. Shafroth. of Denver, was born in Fajette. Mo.. June 9. 1854 ; entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1872, and graduated in tlie litei'ary department in the class of 187.") ; studied hiw in the office of Hon. Samuel C. Major, in his native town : was admitted to the l)ar in August. 1876. and soon thereafter formed a jjartnership with his preceptor : practiced law at Fayette. Mo., until Oct<)l)er, 1879. when he removed to Denver, Colo., where he has ever since pursued his profe.ssion ; in April, 1SS7. he was elected city attorney of Denver, and was reelected to the same position in April. ISS'.); since ]ss7 he has lieen in partnership with Judge Flatt Rogers, of Denver; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress as a Repui)lican. and re- elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Silver Republican, receiving (i7.8-21 votes, against 9.()'25 votes for Thomas E. McClelland. Republican, and 1.00<) votes for W. F. Steele. Prohibitionist. He represents the first cong're.s.sional district of Colorado, which has a population of •J((4.(i59. ami em- braces the thirteen counties of Arapahoe. Boulder. Jeffer- son. Lake. Larimer. Logan. Morgan. Park. Phillips. Sedgwick. Washington. Weld, and Yuma. RICHARD C. SHANNON RICHARD CUTIS SHANNON Richard Cutts Shannon, of New York City, was born in New London. Conn., Feln-iiary 12, 1S;3',) ; w^as edncated in tlie public schools and at Colby University, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1862 ; enlisted as a private in Company H, Fifth Maine Volunteers. May 10, 1S()1 ; was pi-omoted to second sergeant, and in Octo- ber, ISOI. commissioned first lieutenant of the same com- pany ; in Octol)er, 1862, was commissioned captain and assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, serving continu- ously till the end of the war, receiving the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers: in 1871 was appointed by President Grant secretary of the United States legation at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and served until March, 1875, when he resigned ; in 1876 took charge of the Botan- ical Garden Railroad Company, an American enterprise in Brazil, of which he subsequently became the vice-president and general manager, and finally the president; in 1SS5 was graduated from the law school of Columbia University, and having been admitted to the New York bar, became a member of the firm of Purrington & Shannon, with which he is still connected : in 1891 was appointed by President Harrison envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republics of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, and served until May, lSi)3, when he was relieved by Hon. Lewis Baker, appointed by President Cleve- land ; is an alumni trustee of Colby University ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,513 votes, against 14,(167 votes RICHARD CCTTS SHAXXOX for Thomas Smith. Demot-rat. 1.021) votes for Joseph H. Madden. National Democrat, ")1*4 votes for Isador Phillips. Socialist Labor. 505 votes for John J. I\]urphy. I'opnlist. 411* votes for Thomas F. Kightmire. Inde}iendeiit Republi- can. \)\ votes for France M. Hammond. Prohibitionist. I'l votes defective, and 427 votes blank. He represents the thirteenth conjjres.sional district of New York, which has a jiopulation of lS().'2S::i, and endiraces portions of the tliir- teenth. fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-ninth assembly districts of the countv of New Yoi-k. WILLIAM B. SHATTUC WILLIAM B. SHATTUC William B. Shattuc, of Madisoiiville. was born at North Hector, N. Y.. June 11. 1S41 ; removed to Ohio when eleven years old. and received his education in the public schools of the State ; was a commissioned officer in the Union army during the rebellion, in the army of the frontier; • for thirty years previous to 1895 was an officer in the railway traffic service, and is now retired from business ; lives at Madisoiiville, Hamilton County, Ohio; in 1895 was elected one of the State senators from Hamilton County to the seventy-second general assembly ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving '27.093 votes, against 17,466 votes for T. J. Donnelly. Democrat. He represents the first congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 169.280, and emliraces the first, sec- ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, eighteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and thirty-first wards of the city of Cincinnati. Anderson, Columbia. Spencer, Symmes. and Sycamore Townships, and Northeast. Southeast. Bond Hill, and St. Bernard precincts of Mill Creek Township. CARLOS D. SHELDEN CARLOS D. SHELDEN Carlos D. Shelden, of Houghton, was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repnhliran. receiving '2il.()12 votes, against 1 "2.479 for Henry A. Seymour, Democrat Populist. He represents the twelfth congressional district of Michi- gan, which has a population of 180,658, and embraces the sixteen counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickin- son, (xogebic. Houghton. Iron. Isle Royal. Keweenaw. Luce, Mackinac. Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, and School- craft. JAMES S. SHERMAN JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN James Schoolcraft Sherman, of Utica, was born in Utica, N. Y.. October '24, 1S55 ; received an academic and collegiate education, graduating from Hamilton College in the class of 1S78 ; was admitted to the l)ar in ISSO, becoming a member of the firm of Cookinham & Sherman ; was elected mayor of Utica in March, 1SS4. as a Republican, receiving a substantial majority in a Democratic city; was chairman of the Republican State convention in Saratoga in 181)5 ; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-First. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,996 votes, against 16,512 votes for Cornelius Haley. Democrat, and 852 votes for William D. Towsley, Prohibitionist. He represents the twenty-fifth congressional district of New York, which has a population of 168.530. and embraces the two counties of Oneida and Herkimer. JOSEPH B. SHOWALTER JOSEPH B. SHOWALTER Joseph B. Showalter. of Butler, was born in Fayette County, Pa.. February 11. 1S51 ; received a public-school and academic education ; taught school for six years ; studied medicine at Long island College Hospital and College of Physicians and Surgeons, in l?altimore. graduating from the latter institution : practicetl medicine for a number of years at Chicora. Pa. : is engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas : was elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives in l>SS(i as a Kepuldican. for a term of two years ; elected to the l^ennsylvania State senate in ISSS for a term of four years ; was chaii-man of committee on health and sanitation ; secured the passage through the senate of the medical examiners' bill and other important measures, one of which was his bill founding tlie Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Chiklren under School Age. in Philadelphia : has l)een a trustee of said institution since its organization : was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress, representing the twenty-tifth district of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Beaver, Butler. Lawrence, and Mercer : was reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress. Novem- ber -S. IS'IS. In IST^) Dr. Showalter man-ied Miss Ella Marion McKee. daughter of Hon. David McKee. of Slipperyrock. Pa. ALONZO C. SHUFORD ALONZO CRAIG SHUFORD Alonzo Craig Shufokd, of Newton, was born in Catawba County. N. C, March 1, 185S ; was educated in the common schools of the county and at Newton College; is a farmer by occupation; joined the Alliance in 18^9; was made county lecturer and later district lecturer; was elected delegate to the labor conference in St. Louis in February. 1S1)2; also delegate for the State at large to the Populist convention in Omaha -luly 4, same year: was elected vice- president of the State Alliance in ]sl»4: was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 17.166 votes, against 14. '291 votes for Samuel Peniberton. Democrat. He represents the seventh congressional district of North Carolina, which has a pop- ulation of 169.490. and embraces the ten counties of Cabar- rus. Catawba. Davidson. Davie. Iredell. Lincoln. Montgomery, liowan, Stanly, and Yadkin. JERRY SIMPSON JERRY SIMPSON Jerky Simpson, of Medicine Lodf^e. was l)<)ni in the Province of New Urunswick, Miircli ol. IS4'J; wlien six years of a^c his parents removed to Oneida County. N. Y.: at the a^ife of fourteen he he^ran life as a sailor, wliich pursuit lie I'ollipwed for t weiity-tlu-ee years: durin;,' liis career as a sailm- lie had conmiand of many lar<. •.)(>(> votes for Chester I. Long, h'epuhlican. I le represents the seventh congressional district of Kansas, which has a population of liTS.'JdS. and embraces tlie thirty-six counties of Jlarher, Barton. Clark. (!omanche. Edwards. Finney, Ford. Grant, (iray. Greeley. Hamilton. Harper. Harvey, Haskell. Hodgeman. Kearney, Kingman. Kiowa. Lane. McPliersou. Meade. Morton, Ness. Pawnee. Pratt, h'eiio. Kice. h'ush. Scott, Seward. Sedgwick, Stafford. Stanton. Stevens. Sumner. and Wichita. THETUS W. SIMS THETUS WILLRETTE SIMS Thetus Willkette Sims was Iwrn April 25. 1852, in Wayne County, Tenn.; was raised on a farm; was edu- cated at Savannah College. Savannah. Tenn.; graduated in the law^ department of the Cumberland University at Leb- anon, Tenn., June, 1S7G; located at Linden. Tenn.. where he has resided ever since in the practice of his profession; was elected county superintendent of public instruction for Perry County. Tenn., in 1SS2, and held that office for two years ; was chosen an elector on the Cleveland and Stevenson ticket in ls'.l2: was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l(i.5()8 votes, against 13,()li) votes for Hon. John E. McCall, Republican, and 1.1:^0 votes for Hon. J. S. Leach. Populist. He represents the eighth congressional district of Tennessee, which has a population of l(n.S2<*. and embraces the ten counties of Ben- ton. Carroll. Chester, Decatur. Hardin. Henderson. Henry. Madisou. McNairv, and Perrv. HARRY SKINNER HARRY SKINNER Harry Skinner, of (ireem ille, was horn in Penjuimans Connty, N. C. May 25, 1S55 ; attended the Hertford Academy, read law at the Kentucky University in 1.S74 75. and was licensed to practice in North Carolina in ].S7(i: has since resided in Greenville, N. C, and continuously i)racticed his profession ; in 1S7S was chosen by unanimous vote as town councilman; in IS'.HI was elected to the lower house of the North Carolina legislature, and served as chairman of the committee on internal improvements, on the judiciary committee, and chairman of the house branch of the com- mittee on redistricting the State ; has served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of his county, chair- luan of the ])enu)cratic executive committee of the first con- gressional district, and on the State central committee : is at present chairmai] of the Populist executive committee of his county and on the State central committee: is a trustee of the State I'niversity: was elected to the Fifty- Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congi-ess as a Poj)- ulist, receiving •20,875 votes, against 14,831 votes for W. H. Lucas, Democrat. He represents the first congressional district of North Carolina, which has a population of 172.- ()(>4. and embi-aces the sixteen counties of Beaufort. Cam- den, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck. Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin. Pamlico. Pasquotank. Penpiimans. Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington. JAMES L. SLAYDEN JAMES L SLAYDEN James L. Slayden, of San Antonio, was born June 1, 1853, in Graves County, Ky. ; was educated at the country schools of his native State and at Washington and Lee University. Virginia; is a cotton merchant; was a member of the Tw'euty-Third legislature of Texas in 1892 ; declined reelection, and was elected to the Hfty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14.744 votes, against 13.588 votes for George H. Noonan. Repul)lican. and 3.210 votes for Taylor McRae. Populist. He represents the twelfth con- gressional district of Texas, which has a population of lofJ.dSS. and embraces the thirty-seven counties of Ban- dera, Bexar. Blanco, Brewster, Buchel. Comal. Concho. Coke, Crane. Crockett. Ector. Edwards. Foley. Gillespie. Glasscock, Irion. Jeff Davis. Kerr. Kendall. Kimble. Kinney. Llano. Mason. Maverick. McCulloch. Medina. Menard. Midland, Pecos, Presidio. San Saba. Schleicher. Sterling, Sutton. Tom Green. Upton, and Valverde. DAVID H. SMITH David Highbaugh Smith, of Hodgensville, Larue Coiiuty, Ky.. was born December li), 1S54, in Hart County, Ky., near Hammonville; was educated in the public schools of that vicinity and at the colleges at Horse Cave, Leitchfield, and Hartford, all in Kentucky: has been practicing law since March, lS7(i ; was elected county attorney for Larue County at the August election, ISTS, for the term of four years; was elected superintendent of common schools for Larue County in October, iSTi-i ; resigned the office of county attorney in August, ISSI, and at the August. ISSl. election was elected to represent Larue County in the house of representatives of the general assemlily for two years; at the August. 1SS5. election was elected to represent the thirteenth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Green, Hart, and Larue, in the State senate for the term of four years ; reelected at the August, LSH*). election for four years ; while in the State senate was chairman of general statutes committee and member of committees on rules and judiciary; the new constitution, adopted by the State in 1S91. created the office of president pro fciujKnr of the senate ; at the first meeting of the senate there- after was chosen unanimously by the Democratic mem- bers for that position, and was elected for the term of two years, at the end of which term he was again the unanimous choice of the Democrats for the place, and was again elected for a second term of two years ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 21,655 votes, against '20."222 votes for Hon. John W. Lewis. Eepublican, l,i)iy votes for Hon. J. E. Durham, Populist, and 317 votes for Hon. W. N. Likens. Prohibi- tionist. He represents the foui-th district of Kentucky, which has a population of U)2,055, and eml)races the thir- teen counties of Breckinridge. Bullitt, Grayson. Green, Hardin. Hart, Larue. Marion. Meade. Nelson. Ohio. Taylor, and Washington. GEORGE W SMITH GEORGE W. SMITH George W. Smith, of Murphysboro. was born in Putnam County, Ohio, August 18. 11-146 ; was raised on a farm in Wayne County, 111., to which his father removed in 1850 ; learned the trade of blacksmithing ; attended the common schools ; graduated from the literary department of McKen- dree College, at Lebanon, 111., in 18(38 ; read law in Fairfield, 111., after which he entered the law department of the university at Bloomington, Ind., from which he graduated in 1870; was admitted to the practice of law liy the sui)reme court of Illinois the same year, since which time he has resided in Murphysboro, in the active practice of his pro- fession ; in 1880 he was the Republican elector for his congres- sional district (then the eighteenth) and cast the vote of the district for (iarfield and Arthur; is married : was elected to the Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty- Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 2'2.(>(ifi votes, against 17,811 votes for J. J. Hall. Democrat. He represents the twenty-sect)nd district of Illinois, which has a population of 159,186. and embraces the nine counties of Alexander, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope. Pulaski, Saline, Union, and Williamson. SAMUEL W. SMITH SAMUEL W. SMITH Samuel W. Smith, of Pontiac, was born in the town- ship of Independence. Oakland Countj', Mich., August 23, 1852 ; was educated at Clarkston and Detroit, and, after admission to the bar of Oakland County, graduated in the law department of the University of Michigan ; commenced to care for himself at the early age of twelve years, engaged in teaching school at sixteen years of age, and for the last eighteen years has practiced law where he now resides; in 1S80 was elected prosecuting attorney of Oakland County, and x'eelected in 1(S82 ; in 1884 he was elected to the State senate ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,889 votes, against 23,473 votes for Quincey A. Smith, Demo-Populist. He represents the sixth congressional district of Michigan, which has a population of 190.539, and emltraces the coun- ties of Genesee, Ingham, Livingston. Oakland; townships of Lavonia. Eedford. Greenfield, Nankin. Dearborn, and Spring- wells, of the county of Wayne, and the twelfth, fourteenth, and sixteenth wards of the city of Detroit. WILLIAM A. SMITH WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH William Alden Smith, of (irand Rapids, was born at Dowagiac, Mich., May 12. iSo'.) ; received a common-school education ; removed v^^ith his parents to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1872 ; was appointed page in the Michigan house of representatives by the speaker. John T. Rich, in 1879 ; was assistant secretary of tlie Michigan State senate in 1882 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1883 ; was a member of the Republican State central committee in 1888, 1890, and 1892 ; was the Republican candidate for Congress in the fifth congressional district in 1894 and elected, and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repuljlican, receiving 26,819 votes, against 22,155 votes for George P. Hummer, Fusionist. He represents the fifth congressional district of Michigan, which has a population of 178.081, and embraces the three counties of louia, Kent, and Ottawa. HORACE G. SNOVER HORACE G. SNOVER Horace G. Snover. of Port Austin, Huron Count j% was born at Romeo, Macomb County. Mich.. September 21, 1847; received his early education in the public schools of Romeo and in the Dickenson Institute, located there ; graduated in the literary department of the Univei'sity of Michigan, in the classical course, in 1S69, and in the law department in 1871 ; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since, except for two years, during which he was principal of the public schools of Port Austin, Mich., to which place he removed in the fall of 1874: was probate judge of Huron County from January 1. ISSI. to January 1, 1885; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repulilican. receiving 22.761 votes against 18,267 votes for O'Brien J. Atkinson. Fu- sionist. He represents the seventh district of Michigan, which has a population of 181.435. and eml)races the coun- ties of Huron, Lapeer. Macomb. Sanilac, and St. Clair, and Grosse Point and Hamtramck Townships of Wayne County. JAMES H. SOUTHARD JAMES HARDING SOUTHARD James Harding Southard, of Toledo, was born on a farm in Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Janu- ary 20, 1851 ; is the son of Samuel and Charlotte Southard. Samuel Southard came to this country from Devonshire, England, about I8oo, and located in Lucas County, where he has since resided ; Charlotte Southard came to Lucas County from central New York with hei' i)arents at a later date. He attended Hopewell district school. Toledo public schools, and studied at Adrian, Mich., and Olierlin, Ohio. ]n-eparatory to entering Cornell University, where he graduated in 1874 ; began to study law in 1875 and was admitted to practice in 1877 : in 1882 was appointed assistant prosecuting at- torney of Lucas County : afterwards was twice elected prosecuting attorney of said county and served in that office six years : was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 21Mi(>3 votes, against 25,Gi)8 votes for S. Brophy, Democrat. He represents the ninth district of Ohio, which has a population of 190,685, and embraces the four counties of Fulton. Lucas, Ottawa, and Wood. GEORGE N. SOUTHWICK GEORGE N. SOUTHWICK George N. Southwick. of Albany, was born in All)any, March 7, 1S63 ; was educated in the public schools of that city ; graduated at Williams College in 1S,S4 ; attended the Albany Law School for three months ; began newspaper work on the' Albany Morning Express in December, 1884, serving as assistant editor of that newsjiaper and also as an ofhcial reporter for the Associated Press during the legis- lative sessions of 18S(5, 1SS7. and 1888 ; was editor of the Morning Express in December, 1888 ; was made editor of the Albany Erniing Journal in April. 1881) ; stumped Albany and neighboring counties for Harrison in 1888 and 1S9'2 ; served as permanent chairman of New York State Republican con- vention at Grand Central Palace, New York, March 24, 1896 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,342 votes, against 17,637 votes for Thomas F. Wilkinson, Democrat and Populist, 401 votes for Simeon Holroyd, Gold Democrat, 231 votes for John C. Sanford, Prohibitionist, 201 votes for Edwin 0. Smith. Socialist, and 121 votes blank and scat- tering. He represents the twentieth district of New York, which has a population of 1 64. 555. and embraces the county of Albany. GEORGE SPALDING GEORGE SPALDING George Spalding, of Monroe, was born in Scotland in 1837 ; emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1S43; settled in Bnffalo. N. Y., where he attended the pulilic schools ; accompanied his parents to Monroe, Mich., in 1S53, where his father pnrchased a farm on the north bank of Raisin River, two miles west of Monroe ; taught school in the winter of ISCO (>! ; was mustered into the United States service June 20. 1.S61. as a pi'ivate in Company A, Fourth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry ; pro- moted to first sergeant ; first lieutenant. August 5, LS61 ; captain. January 13, 1S()'2: wounded in action at the siege of Yorktown. Va.. April. 1S6'2: wounded at Malvern Hill July 3, 1862: transferred and promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry July 18, I8(i2 ; assigned to command of said regiment and by orders of the War Department reported to Major-Ueneral Wright at Cincinnati ; was engaged in driving Gen. Kirby Smith and General Morgan out of Kentucky ; was ordered to join General Rosecrans. in command of the Army of the Cum- berland, in the spring of ISB;!; appointed provost-marshal of Nashville, Tenn.. and given plenary power as provost- marshal by order of the War Department ; resigned to accept promotion as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment Ten- nessee \'olunteer Cavalry, and was a.ssigned to command of brigade known as "Johnson's Guard"; was engaged in protecting railroad from Nashville to Johnsonville : assigned to command of fourth division of cavalry. Army of the Cumberland, headquarters Pulaski, Tenn.; engaged with GEORGE SPALDING General Hood in Ms advance toward Nashville ; was pro- moted at the battle of Nashville, Tenu., "for valuable services at the battle of Nashville," to brevet brigadier- general, and assigned with full rank and pay by special order of the President of the United States ; severely wounded in said battle ; mustered out of service October 24, 1S65; was postmaster of Monroe, Mich., from 1866 to 1870; special agent of the Treasury Department from 1871 to 1875 ; elected mayor of Monroe, Mich., 1876 ; president of the board of education ; admitted to the bar by examina- tion, 1878; elected director of the First National Bank of Monroe, Mich., 1876 ; appointed its cashier 1877 ; continued as director and cashier until 1892, when he was elected president ; appointed member of the board of control. State Industrial Home for Girls. 1885, for six years, and reap- pointed in 181)2 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, re- ceiving 26,557 votes, against 25.061 votes for T. E. Bank- worth, Fusionist, 155 votes for J. 0. Zabell, Populist. 517 votes for 0. H. Perry, Prohibitionist, and 230 votes for W. Rawson. Independent. He represents the second congres- sional district of Michigan, which has a population of 191,841, and embraces the counties of Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, and part of Wayne. STEPHEN M. SPARKMAN STEPHEN M. SPARKMAN Stephen M. Sparkman. of Tampa, was born July 20, 1849, in Hernaudo County. Fla.; was educated in the common schools of Florida, and taught school for about three years, from the age of eighteen to twenty-one, for the purpose of assisting in his education ; read law under H. L. Mit- chell, now governor of Florida, and was admitted to prac- tice in October, 1S72 ; has since practiced in the coui'ts of the State and the United States ; was State attorney for the sixth judicial circuit for nine years, from 1878 to 1887; was a member of the State and congressional committees from 1S!)0 to 1SIJ2, when he was elected chairman ; was tendered the circuit judgeship for the sixth judicial circuit of Florida by Governor Perry in 1888, and the position of associate judge on the supreme court bench in 1891 by Governor Fleming, both of which were declined ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,823 votes, against 2,797 votes for E. K. Nichols, Republican. He rep- resents the first congressional district of Florida, which has a population of 188,630, and embraces the twenty-five counties of Calhoun, Citrus, De Soto, Escambia. Franklin, Gadsden. Hernando, Hillsboro. Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Leon. Levy. Liberty, Manatee, Monroe, Pasco, Polk. Santa Rosa. Taylor, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington. NEHEMIAH D. SPERRY NEHEMIAH DAY SPERRY Nehemiah Day Sperry, of New Haven, was born in Woodhridge, New Haven County. Conn., July 10. 1827 ; received his education in the common schools and at the private school of Prof. Amos Smith, at New Haven ; worked on the farm and in the mill : taught school for several years; learned the trade of house builder; commenced business on his own account in 1S47 ; was elected a mem- ber of the common council in 1S58 ; in 1854 was elected an alderman of the city ; was elected selectman of the town of New Haven in 1853 ; was elected secretary of state in 1855 ; was reelected in 1S56 ; was a member of the convention that renominated Abraham Lincoln in 1864 ; was made a member of the Republican national committee, was elected a member of the executive com- mittee, and was chosen secretary both of the national and executive committees ; was chairman of the Republi- can State committee for a series of years : was president of the State convention that nominated (xrant electors ; was chairman of the recruiting committee of New Haven during the war; was nominated postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 18(il, and continued in office until the first election of Grover Cleveland ; was renominated by Presi- dent Harrison for postmaster and served until the reelec- tion of President Cleveland, making in all twenty-eight years and two months ; was appointed a member of the commission to visit England, rxermany. and France to look into their system of post offices, but declined service ; was nominated for Congress in 1886, but declined the same ; N EH EMI AH DAY SPERR\ was i^resident of the Chamljer of Commerce of New Haven; was bondsman for building the Monitor; was nominated for Congress again in 1894 ; was elected to the Fifty- Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- publican, receiving 35,944 votes, against 22,317 votes for Fuller, Silver Democrat. 1,213 votes for Wood, Gold Demo- crat, 482 votes for Augur, Prohibitionist, and 660 votes for Sullivan, Socialist Labor. He represents the second con- gressional district of Connecticut, which has a population of 248.582, and embraces the counties of Middlesex and New Haven, including the cities of New Haven, Merideu, Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby, and Middletowu. THOMAS SPIGHT THOMAS SPIGHT Thomas Spight. of Ripley, was born and raised on a farm in Tippah County, Miss., and has lived in that county all his life; attended the common and hi^di schools of the county, and in LS50 entered college at Furdy. Tenu., and at the end of one year entered the La Grange (Tenn.) Syn- odical College, but the death of his father, in March, 1861, and the breaking out of the war, compelled him to return home ; entered the Confederate army as a private, and be- came captain of his company before he was twenty-one years old. being the youngest officer of that rank in the famous "'Walthall Brigade," commanded l)y the late dis- tinguished Senator from Mississippi ; participated in nearly all the battles fought by the Army of Tennessee, and was severely wounded on the 2'2d of July. ISIU. at Atlanta, (Ja. : was in command of what was left of his regiment (the Thirty-Fourth Mississippi Infantry) in April. 1SG5, when he surrendered with the army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. ; returned home to find all the property of his father's estate swept away as a result of the war, and commenced teaching school and farming, and at the same time studying law ; was admitted to the bar and has practiced his profession since at Ripley ; is a member of the Baptist Church : represented his county in the Mississippi legislature from 1874 to 188(1. and in the latter year was district pi-esidential electf)r on the Han- cock ticket; established the SoutJicni Sciilinrl in 1879, which he continued to own and edit until 1884. when he was elected district attorney of the third judicial district, THOMAS SPIGHT composed of seven counties, which position he held until 1892, when he voluntarily retired ; he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1894. but was defeated by Hon. J. C. Kyle, who was then serving his sec- ond term ; was again a candidate in 1S1)6. but was de- feated in convention by a comliination of the opposition on Hon. W. V. Sullivan, who was elected and afterwards appointed United States Senator to succeed Senator Walt- hall, deceased ; was elected as a Democrat for the unex- pired term in the Fifty-Fifth Congress, July 5, defeating Hon. Z. M. Stephens, also a Democrat, and judge of the circuit court of the district. ])y a plurality of 254 votes. He represents the second district of Mississippi, which has a population of 170.512. and embraces the nine counties of Benton. De Soto, Lafayette. i\Iarshall. Panola. Tallahatchie. Tate. Tippah, and Union. He was nominated in primary election as the candidate of his party for a seat in the Fifty-Sixth Congress, and at the November election re- ceived all the votes cast in his district, except about 200. CHARLES F. SPRAGUE CHARLES F. SPRAGUE Charles Franklin Sprague, of Brookline, Mass., was born in Boston, Mass.. June 10, 1.S57 ; was fitted for col- lege in the Boston schools and gradnated from Harvard University in 1871) ; subsequently studied law at the Har- vard Law School and Boston Laiiversity, and is a niemlier of the Suffolk bar: in ISS'J and ISDO was a niem)>er of the common council of the city of Boston; in isyi ;uul 1892 was in the Massachusetts house of representatives ; in 1893 and 1894 was a member of, and latterly chairman of, the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston ; in 1895 and 189() was a member of the Massachusetts senate, serving as chairman of the committee on metropolitan affairs ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- 23nbli"an, receiving 22.933 votes, against 10.114 votes for William H. Baker, Free-Silver Democrat. He represents the eleventh congressional district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 173,185, and embraces in Suffolk County the twenty-first, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Boston ; in Middlesex County the city of Newton and towns of Belmont, Holliston, Sherborn. and Watertown ; in Norfolk County the towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dedham, Dover, Foxboro, Franklin. Hyde Park, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Sharon, Walpole, and Wrentham ; in Bristol County, the town of North Attleboro ; in Worcester County, the towns of Hopedale and Milford. JESSE F. STALLINGS JESSE F. STALLINGS Jesse F. Stallings. of Greenville, was born near the village of Manningham. Butler County. Ala.. April 4, 1856 ; graduated from the University of Alabama in 1.S77 ; studied law at the law school of the University of Alaliama and in the office of the Hon. J. C. Kichardson, of Greenville, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court in April, 1871) : commenced the practice of law in Greenville, where he has since resided ; was elected liy the legislature of Alabama solicitor for the second judicial circuit in Novem- ber, 1886, for a term of six years ; resigned the office of solicitor in September. 1892, to accept the Democratic nom- ination for Congress ; was a delegate to the national Demo- cratic convention which was held in St. Louis in 1888 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-J'ifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 11.703 votes, against 5.6H1 votes for T. H. Clark. National Democrat, and 3.856 votes for J. C. Fouville, Populist. He represents the second congi-essional district of Alabama, which has a population of 1SS.'214. and embraces the nine counties of Baldwin. Butler. Conecuh. Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox. WILLIAM L. STARK WILLIAM LEDYARD STARK William Ledyard Stark, of Aurora, was born in Mystic, New Loudon County, Conn.. July 29, LS53, of Pilgrim stock ; had the usual experiences of a town boy of that locality, going to school and following the sea ; graduated from the Mystic Valley Institute at Mystic, Conn., in 1872 ; af- terwards went to Wyoming. Stark County, 111.; taught school and clerked in a store ; attended the Union College of Law. Chicago, 111., for eighteen months, during which time he was connected with the office of the late G. Gil- bert Gilibons ; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Illinois in January, 1S7.S; removed to Aurora, Neb., in February. 1S7S; was superintendent of the city schools for nearly two years ; deputy district attorney for two years; appointed once and elected five times judge of the county court of Hamilton County. Neb.; declined a sixth nomination for that office in l.Sl)5; served as major in the Nebraska national guard. At the time of the sink- ing of the Maine tendered his military services to the governor of the State of Nebraska. The offer was ac- cepted, and Mr. Stark was commissioned colonel and special aid on the governor's staff, and liy order was made the military representative of the governor, and stationed at Washington, D. C, where he continued in service until the close of the Spanish-American War. He was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress and reelected to the Fifty- Sixtli Congress by an increased majority in both Con- gresses. He received the loyal and united support of the People's Independent Democratic, and the Silver Republi- can parties. He represents the fourth congressional dis- trict of Nebraska, which has a population of 195.414. and embraces the eleven counties of Butler. Fillmore. Gage, Hamilton, Jefferson, Polk, Saline, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, and York. GEORGE W. STEELE GEORGE W. STEELE George W. Steele, of Marion, was born in Fayette County, Ind., December 18, 1889 ; was educated in the com- mon schools and at the Ohio Western University, at Dela- ware, Ohio; read law, was admitted to the bar. and practiced "n Hartford City. Ind.. from April 11 to 21. ISGl, when he enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Keginient, but could not be mustered into this regiment on account of excess in num- bers ; was mustered in the Twelfth Indiana on May 2, 1S(U, and served in this regiment and the One Hundred and First Indiana until the close of the war — the first year in the Army of the Potomac, the latter three in the Army of the Cumberland and with Sherman to the Sea; was mustered out as lieutenant-colonel in July, 1.S65 ; commissioned and served in the Fourteenth United States Infantry from Fel)- ruary 28, 1866, to February 1, 1876, mainly in California, Arizona. Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah ; resigned and engaged in farming and pork-packing until 1882 : estalj- lished the First National Bank of Marion. Ind.. and became its president ; declined the appointment as director of the Union Pacific Railroad ; was the first governor of Oklahoma, and resigned after serving twenty months ; is president of the Marion Commercial Club, of the Philadeli^hia Land Com- pany, and a memlier of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; was a member of the Forty-Seventh, Forty-Eighth, Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 27,781 votes, against 23.102 votes for Joseph Larimer. Democrat. 636 votes for Ratliff. Prohibitionist, and 83'J votes for Lari- mer, Populist. He represents the eleventh congressional district of Indiana, which has a population of 169,424, and embraces the six counties of Cass. Grant. Howard. Hunting- ton. Miami, and Wabash. JOHN H. STEPHENS JOHN H. STEPHENS John H. Stephens, of Vernon, was born in Shelby County, Tex. : was educated at MansHeld. Tarrant County, Tex. ; graduated from the law department of Cumberland University. Lebanon. Tenn., in June, 1S72. and has practiced law since at Montague. Montague County, and Vernon, Wil- barger County, Tex. ; served as State senator in the twenty- first and twenty-second legislatures of Texas, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 22,989 votes, against 14.219 votes for H. L. Bentley, and 354 votes scattering. He represents the thirteenth con- gressional district of Texas, which has a population of 190.USU, and embraces the eighty counties of Andrews, Archer, Armstrong. Bailey. Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Calla- han. Carson. Castro. Childress. Clay, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle. Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith. Dickens, Don- ley, Eastland, El Paso. Fishei-, Floyd, Foard, (iaines, Garza, Gray, Greer, Hale. Hall, Hansford. Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell. Hemphill, Hockley, Howard, Hutchinson, Jack, Jones, Kent, King. Knox, Lamb. Lipscoml). Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mitchell, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Old- ham, Palo Pinto, Parmer. Potter, Randall, Reeves, Roberts, Scurry, Shackelford. Sherman, Stephens. Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry. Throckmorton. Waid. Wheeler. Wichita, Wil- barger, Winkler, Wise, Yoakum, and Young. FREDERICK C. STEVENS FREDERICK CLEMENT STEVENS Frederick Clement Stevens, of St. Paul, was born in Boston, Mass., January 1, 1861 ; educated in common schools of Rockland, Me.; graduated from Bowdoin College. Bruns- wick, Me., in 1881 ; from law school of the State University of Iowa in 1884 ; was admitted to the bar in 1884, and com- menced practice in St. Paul ; was elected to the State legis- lature of Minnesota in session of 1888-89 and 1890-91 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24.686 votes, against 14,444 votes for Francis H. Clarke, fusion candidate of Democratic, Populist, and Silver parties. He represents the fourth congressional district of Minnesota, which has a population of 185.383, and embraces the hve counties of Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Ramsey, and Wash- ington. ALEXANDER STEWART ALEXANDER STEWART Alexander Stewart, of Wan.sau. was born September 12, 1.S29, in York County, province of New Brunswick, and received a common-school education at that place ; in 1849 he removed to what is now Marathon County and settled where the city of Wausau is now located, engaging in the lumber business, which occupation he has ever since fol- lowed; aside from his selection as a delegate from his dis- trict to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1SS4, he has neither aspired to nor held public office of any description ; he was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and re- elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv- ing 30,438 votes, against 17,71(5 votes for W. W. O'Keefe, Democrat. He i-epresents the ninth congressional district of Wisconsin, which has a population of 164,777, and em- braces the thirteen counties of Ashland, Clark, Florence, Forest, Iron. Langlade. Lincoln, Marathon, Marinette, Oconto, Oneida, Price, Shawano, Taylor, and Vilas. JAMES F. STEWART JAMES FLEMING STEWART James Fleming Stewart, of Patersou, was born at Pat- erson. N. J.. .Time 15. 1851; attended public and private schools in Patersou and the University of the City of New York, and graduated at the law school of the latter in- stitution in 1870, taking the first prize for best examina- tion ; practiced law in New York City until 1875. since which time he has followed his profession in his native city ; was three times appointed recorder of Patersou I the criminal magistrate of the city), which office he occupied at the time of his election to Congress ; never held or ran for any other office ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Kepul)lican, re- ceiving 23,845 votes against 13.6(57 votes for Ely, Demo- crat, 37(1 votes for Reed, Prohiljitionist. 920 votes for Banks. National Democrat, and 1.041 votes for Wilson. So- cialist Labor. He represents the fifth congressional dis- trict of New Jersey, which has a population of 198,642, and embraces the two counties of Bergen and Passaic. J. WILLIAM STOKES J. WILLIAM STOKES J. William Stokes, of Orangeburg, was born in Orange- burg County. S. C. in LS58 ; was brought up to farm life, attending the ordinary schools of his county and town until he was nineteen years of age ; graduated from Wash- ington and Lee ITuiversity, Virginia, in lS7(i. and taught school for twelve years, graduating meantime in medicine from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee ; in 1889 he re- turned to the farm, assisted in organizing the farmers, and was president of the State Farmers' Alliance two terms; was elected to the State senate in iSiHl; was a delegate at large to the national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1892 and was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket the same year : was defeated for the Democratic nom- ination in the old Hrst congressional district in 1S92 l)y a small majority ; in 1894 was nominated without opposi- tion in the Democratic primaries in the new seventh con- gressional district, which is nearly the same as the old first district. He received the certificate of election to the Fifty-Fourth Congress, but the seat was declared vacant. At the election on November 3. 1896, he was elected to the short term of the Fifty-Fourth Congress ; was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,065 votes, against 1,342 votes for T. B. Johnson. Regular Re- publican. He represents the seventh congressional dis- trict of South Carolina, which has a population of 178.930, and embraces the counties of Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter, the townships of Bells, Givehams, Burns, George, Cain, Dorchester, Heyward. Roger, Sheredon. Verdier, Brox- tons, and Warren, of the county of Colleton, and the town- ships of St. James, Goose Creek, St. Johns, Berkeley, and St. Stevens, of the county of Berkeley, and Lower Town- ship, of the county of Richland. CHARLES W. STONE CHARLES WARREN STONE Charles Warren Stone, of Warren, wa.s born in Gro- ton, Mass., June 29, 1843. Among his ancestors there were Eevolutionary "blue coats" intermarried with the fami- lies of Warren. Prescott, and Ureen. In his youth he worked at the carpenter's trade with his father. When the latter died the young man returned to the homestead of his grandfather, and, with the aid of his two younger brothers, carried on the farm. He attended school in the winter, completed a course at Lawrence Academy, and en- tered Williams College, from which, eaining his way by teaching and other work, he graduated with honor in 1868. After leaving college he became principal of the Union School at Warren, was elected county superintend- ent of schools in 1865, and later in the same year resigned that position, having been chosen principal of the acad- emy at Erie. While teaching he took up the study of law, was admitted to practice in the courts of Warren County in 186(5. and entered into partnership with Judge Easselas Brown in 1867. which firm continued for more than twenty years and was engaged in much of the im- portant litigation in the northwestern part of the state. In 1869 Mr. Stone was elected to the lower house of the State legislature from the district comi)osed of the coun- ties of Warren and \'enango, and was reelected without opposition, the Democratic party making no nomination. In 1876 he was sent to the State senate, and served as chaii-man of the general judiciary committee. In the Re- publican State convention of 1878 he was urged by the CHARLES WARREN STONE Republicans of the northwestern part of the State for the office of lieutenant-governor and received the nomination by a vote of 182 to 59. He was subsequently elected by a majority of 23,250, which exceeded the majorities re- ceived by the other candidates on the ticket. In the pro- tracted joint convention of the House and Senate for the nomination of a United States Senator over which he presided, resulting in the election of John I. Mitchell as United States Senator. Mr. Stone was himself urged to be- come a candidate and there was a strong under-current in his favor, but he refused to enter the contest. He was one of the three commissioners in 18S8 who located the United States public building at Erie, and later was a repre.sentative from Pennsylvania at the Inter-State Ex- tradition Conference called by the governors of several States. Subsequently he was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Prison Congress over which ex-President Hayes presided. In Januai-y. 1887, he was ajipointed by Governor Beaver to be secretary of the Commonwealth, and served until his election to Congress from the twenty-seventh district in November, 181)0, as the successor of the late L. F. Watson. He has been three times reelected by large majorities and is consequently now serving his fourth full term. During the present and last Congress he has been the chairman of the committee on coinage, weights, and measures. In the Republican State convention of 1890 he had strong support for the gubernatorial nomina- tion, and in the convention of 1898 received 174 votes, lieing within 15 of the number necessary to nominate. He was married January 30, 1868, to Elizabeth Moorhead, of Erie, Pa., and they have six children. He represents the four counties of Cameron, McKean, Venango, and War- ren, which have a population of about 138,326. THOMAS J. STRAIT THOMAS JEFFERSON STRAIT Thomas Jefferson Strait, of Lancaster, was born in Chester district. S. C. December 25. 1846 ; was educated at Maysville. S. C. and Cooper (Miss.) Institute ; entered the Confederate service in 1862. in the fifteenth year of his age, and served in Company A, Sixth Regiment of In- fantry, until November, 1863 : was then transferred to Company H, Twenty-Fourth Regiment, Gist's brigade, and served as a sergeant therein until the close of the war ; graduated at the South Carolina Medical College with distinction, in 1885 ; was elected State senator in 181)0 by a majority of 396 votes over Charles T. Connors, a former member of the State house of representatives; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,000 votes, against 833 votes for John F. Jones, Republican. He represents the fifth congressional district of South Carolina, which has a population of 141,750. and embraces the five counties of Chester. Chesterfield. Ker- shaw. Lancaster, and York, and two townships each in Spartanburg and Union Counties. JESSE B. STRODE JESSE B. STRODE Jesse B. Strode, of Lincoln, was born in Fulton County, 111., February 18. 1845 ; attended public school during the winter terms and worked on his father's farm in the summer seasons until he was about nineteen years of age; in Jan- uary, 1864. he enlisted as a private soldier in the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, and was with his regiment during the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, through the Caro- linas and Virginia, and the grand review at Washington ; was mustered out of the army in July, 1865, and immedi- ately thereafter entered Abingdon ( 111.) College, where he remained for about three years, when he was made principal of the graded schools of Abingdon, which position he con- tinued to occupy for about eight years ; was twice elected mayor and six times councilman of the city of Abingdon ; studied law during vacations while teaching ; removed to Plattsmouth, Neb.. May 1, 1879, and was there admitted to the bar in November, 1879 ; was elected district attorney in 1882 and served two terms ; removed to Lincoln in 1SS7 and practiced law there until November, 1892, when he was elected judge of the district court, which position he resigned January 1, 1895, having been elected a representative in Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,856 votes, against 17,137 votes for Jefferson H. Broady, nom- inated by Democrats, Populists, and Free-Silver Republicans, 429 votes for Charles E. Smith Prohibitionist, and 218 votes for H, E. George, National Prohibitionist. He represents the first district of Nebraska, which has a population of 177,055, and embraces the seven counties of Cass, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, and Richardson. WILLIAM F. STROWD WILLIAM F. STROWD William F. Strowd, of Pittsboro, was born in Orange County, N. C, December 7, LSo2; was educated at the Bing- ham School, High Hill Academy, and at the Graham Insti- tute," was brought up on a farm; removed to Chatham County in 1861, and has continued the occupation of farm- ing to the present time ; was elected to the State con- stitutional convention in 1875 ; was nominated by the Populists for Congress in 1892 in the fourth congressional district; was again nominated by the Populists in 1894, and was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 20,947 votes, against 16,405 votes for E. W. Pou, Democrat, 257 votes for Dr. Banks. Independent Republican, and 26 votes for G. B. Alford, Gold Democrat. He represents the fourth congressional district of North Carolina, which has a pop- ulation of 186.432, and embraces the seven counties of Chatham, Franklin, .Johnston, Nash, Randolph, Vance, and Wake. JOHN C. STURTEVANT JOHN C. STURTEVANT John C. Sturteyant. of Conueautville. was boru in Spring Township. Crawford County, Pa., February 20, 1835 ; received a common-school education ; was engaged in teach- ing and farming for a numlier of years : was frequently elected to various local offices ; in 18(51, 1802. and 1864 was an officer in the house of representatives at Harris- burg; was elected a member of the house of representa- tives for the session of 1865 and reelected for the session of 1866 ; in 1865 was elected delegate to the Eepublican State convention and reelected for six times, the last in 1890 ; was presidential elector for this district in 1888 ; removed to Conueautville in 1S67. his present residence, where he engaged in the hardware lousiness, which he fol- lowed until 1873 ; was engaged in manufacturing and milling until 1888 ; in 1874 was appointed cashier of the First National Bank of Conueautville. and in 1875 was elected president of the same l)auk. and has held the posi- tion continuously since ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18.840 votes, against 18.114 votes for Joseph C. Sibley. Democrat and Populist, and 361 votes for Benjamin Mason. Prohibitionist. He represents the twenty-sixth congressional district of Penn- sylvania, which has a population of 151,398, and embraces the two counties of Crawford and Erie. CYRUS ADAMS SULLOWAY Cyrus Adams Sulloway. of Manchester, was born at Grafton. N. H., June 8. 1839; received a common-school and academic education; studied law with Austin F. Pike at Franklin. N. H.; was admitted to the bar in 18G3 and has practiced law at Manchester since January, 1864; was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1872-73 and from 1887 to 1893 inclusive ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Republican, receiving 25.6(51 votes, against 13.928 votes for John B. Nash. Democrat. 614 votes for Henry E. Brawn. Prohiliitiouist. 326 votes for Benj. T. Whitehouse. Socialist Labor. 121 votes for Charles W. Coolidge. National Democrat, and 111 votes for Josiah A. Whittier. People's party. He represents the first congressional district of New Hampshire, which has a population of 19(1.532. and embraces the counties of Belknap. Carroll. Rockingham, and Strafford ; Hills))oro County, towns of Bedford. Goffstown. Merrimack. Hudson, Litchfield. Manchester, and Pelham : Merrimack County, towns of Allenstown. Canterliury. Chi- chester. Epson, Hooksett. London. Northfield. Pembroke, and Pittsfield. WILLIAM SULZER WILLIAM SULZER William Sulzer. of New York City, was horn in Eliza- beth, N. J.. March LS, lS(i:3; received his education in the public schools ; was admitted to the bar in 1S.S4. and quickly achieved distinction in his profession and as an orator : was elected to the State legislature in ISSI). where his force and merit sjjeedily found recognition. Not even the most implacable foe of Tammany Hall ever aspersed his integrity, his generosity, or his ability, and when the Democrats cap- tured a majority of the asseml)ly in 1S93 nobody was sur- prised to see him installed by the unanimous vote of his party colleagues in the Speaker's chair, the youngest man to whom such an honor had been accorded. To his clear vision and energy the State of New York is indebted for the passage of the laws providing for the State care of the insane, the anti-Pinkerton police bill, prohibiting net fishing in Jamaica Bay. abolishing the sweating system in the manufacture of clothing, establishing the woman's re- formatory, ventilating and lighting the New York Central Eailroad tunnel in the city of New York, codifying the quarantine statutes and the military statutes, organizing free evening lectures for workingmen and workingwomen, wiping out the last vestige of imprisonment for debt, guaranteeing freedom of worship, providing for the Colum- bian celebration in the city of New York, and providing for the constitutional convention, and many others equally vital to the liberty and comfort of the people, especially in the larger cities of the State of New York. As a straightforward, conscientious champion of Jeffersouian WILLIAM SULZER Democracy. Mr. Sulzer was elected to the Fifty-Fourth Con- gress, in November, 1894. As a member of Congress he has met the expectations of his friends, and made a splendid record of usefulness and activity in the greater arena of the national legislature. He was the warm friend of the Cuban insurgents and their champion in the House of Repre- sentatives. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago, and was a firm supporter of William J. Bryan for the nomination of and his eloquent advocate for President in the presidential canvass. He came very near receiving the nomination for governor at the Buffalo State convention in 1H1)6 and at Syracuse in iSilS. and was the real choice of the masses of the people for that office. He was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress by three times the majority he received in his previous race, and was re- elected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress by the largest majority ever given a candidate in his congressional district. Dur- ing his term in Congress he has worked hard for all measures in the interest of organized labor, and the wage-earners all over the country know him to be their friend and are deeply grateful for what he has accomplished for them. He represents the eleventh congressional district of New York, which has a population of 148.640. and embraces the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth assembly districts of the county of New York. RODERICK D SUTHERLAND RODERICK DHU SUTHERLAND Roderick Dhu Sutherland, of Nelson, was born April 27, 1862, at Scotch Grove, Jones County, Iowa; received his education principally at the common schools, attending a few terms at College Springs, Iowa ; was admitted to the bar in Nuckolls County, Neb., in 1888 ; was elected county attorney in 1890. and reelected in 1892 and 1894 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, re- ceiving the nomination from the Populist and Democratic parties, receiving 18.332 votes, against 15,621 votes for William E. Andrews, Eepublican. He represents the fifth congressional district of Nebraska, which has a population of 169,459, and embraces the eighteen counties of Adams, Chase, Clay, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hall. Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Kearney, Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Red Willow, and Webster. CLAUDE A. SWANSON CLAUDE A. SWANSON Claude A. Swanson, of Chatham, was born at Swanson- ville, Pittsylvania County. Ya., March 31, 1S62: attended the public schools until he attained the age of sixteen, at which time he taught pul)lie school for one year, then attended for one session the Virginia Agricultural and Me- chanical College ; not having means to complete his college course, he clerked for two years in a grocery stoi'e in Danville. Va.; made arrangements to enter college after that time, matriculated at Eandolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., and remained there three sessions, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1SS5 ; studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating with the degree of B. L. in 1SS6; has practiced law since at Chatham, Va. ; had never been a candidate nor held any public office before his nomination and election to Congress ; was a delegate at large to the Democratic na- tional convention in Chicago in 1896; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14.333 votes, against 13,782 votes for John E. Brown, Republican. He represents the fifth congressional district of Virginia, which has a population of 161.577, and embraces the counties of Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Grayson. Henry. Pat- rick, and Pittsylvania, and the cities of Danville and North Danville. W. JASPER TALBERT W. JASPER TALBERT W. Jasper Talbert. of Parksville, was horn in Edge- field County. S. C. in LS4() ; was educated in the schools of his native county and Due West Academy. Abbeville : served in the Confederate army throughout the war; after the war engaged in farming, to which he gave personal attention and labor : in 1880 was elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1882; was elected to the State senate in 1884 ; was president of the Democratic convention which nominated the farmer governor; was chosen superintendent of the State penitentiary, which position he held when elected to Congress ; has held various positions in the Farmers' Alliance and helped formulate the "Ocala de- mands"; is a staunch Democrat; was elected to the P^ifty- Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 7.999 votes, against (i85 votes for G. T. Chatfield. Republican. He represents the second congressional district of South Carolina, which has a population of 146,238, and embraces Aiken, Barnwell. Edgefield, and Hampton. PARISH C. TATE PARISH C. TATE Parish Carter Tate was born at Jasper. Pickens County, Ga., where he now resides, November 20, 1S56 ; he received his education in the common schools and in the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega, Ga.; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1880. and has practiced law since ; was a member of the general assembly of Georgia for six years, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, and 1887 ; was chairman of the railroad committee of 1884-85 and of the judiciary committee of 1886-87, and was a member of the special committee to redistrict the State in 1882 ; served as a member of the Democratic executive committee of Georgia from the ninth congressional district in 1884. 1885, 1886, and 1887, and was elected a member of that committee from the State at large by the Democratic convention of 1890, but resigned this position in March. 1892. to run for Congress; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,037 votes, against 5,421 votes for H. P. Farrow, Republican, and 3,926 votes for T. C. Winn, Populist. He represents the ninth congressional district of Georgia, which has a population of 172.061, and em- braces the seventeen counties of Banks, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall. Jack- son, Lumpkin. Milton, Pickens. Rabun, Towns. Union, and White. JAMES A. TAWNEY JAMES A. TAWNEY Jamks a. Tawney. of Winona, was born in Mount Pleas- ant Township, near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.. Janu- ary 3, 1855 ; his father was a farmer and a blacksmith ; at the age of fifteen he commenced work in his father's blacksmith shop as an apprentice ; after completing that trade he learned the trade of machinist ; left Pennsylvania in July, 1877. and arrived at Winona August 1 following, where he obtained employment as machinist, and worked at that trade till January 1, 1881, when he commenced the study of law in the office of Bentley & Vance, of Winona; had studied law during the mornings and evenings for about two years before entering a law office ; was admitted to the bar July 10, 1882 ; after being admitted to the bar he attended the law school of the AVisconsin University, at Madison, it being the only school of any kind he had attended since he was fourteen years of age : was elected to the State senate of Minnesota in 1890. and was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and re- elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv- ing 27,920 votes, against 17.218 votes for P. Fitzpatrick, Fusionist. He represents the first congressional district of Minnesota, which has a population of 185.584. and em- braces the ten counties of Dodge. Fillmore. Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, and Winona. ROBERT W. TAYLER ROBERT W. TAYLER Robert W. Taylek. of Lisl)on. was born at Yoinigstown, Ohio. November 26. 1852 ; graduated at the Western Re- serve College. June. 1872 ; in September of that year com- menced teaching in the high school at New Lisbon (now Lisbon), and was elected suijerintendent of schools in 1873 and reelected in 1874 ; from January, 1875, to November, 1876, he was editor of the Buckeye State newspaper at New Lisbon ; in April, 1877. he was admitted to the bar, and was elected prosecuting attorney of CV)lum):)iana ('ounty in 1880. reelected in 1882. and served until January. 1886 ; since his admission to the bar has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession ; was elected to the Fifty- Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- publican, receiving 29.814 votes, against 24.770 votes for Isaac R. Sherwood. Democrat, and 476 votes for James L. Swan. Prohibitionist. He represents the eighteenth con- gressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 11)1), 178, and embraces the three counties of Columbiana, Mahoning, and Stark. GEORGE W. TAYLOR GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR George Washington Taylor, of Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala., was born January 16. 1849, in Montgomery County, Ala.; was educated at the South Carolina Univer- sity, Columbia, S. C. ; is a lawyer, and was admitted to practice -at Mobile, Ala., November, 1871 ; entered the army as a Confederate soldier at the age of fifteen years, in November, 1864, being then a student at the academy in Columbia. S. C. ; served a few weeks with the South Carolina State troops on the coast near Savannah, and then enlisted as a private in Company D. First Eegiment South Carolina Cavalry, and served as a courier till the end of the war ; left the South Carolina University at eighteen, having graduated in Latin, Greek, history, and chemistry ; taught school for several years, and studied law at the same time ; was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Ala- bama in 1878, and served one term as a member from Choc- taw County ; in 1880 was elected State solicitor for the first judicial circuit of Alabama, and was reelected in 1886; declined a third term ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Democrat, receiving 11,890 votes, against 4,281 votes for Frank H. Threet, Republican, 648 votes for Em- ory C. Sterns, Populist, and 47 votes for Andrew J. Hearn, Populist. He represents the first congressional district of Alabama, which has a population of 151,757, and embraces the six counties of Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington. WILLIAM L. TERRY WILLIAM LEAKE TERRY William Leake Terry, of Little Rock, was born in Anson County, N. C, September 27, 1850; when seven years of age removed with his parents to Tippah County, Miss., and thence to Arkansas in 18(51 ; received his preparatory ed- ucation at Bingham's Military Academy, North Carolina, and was admitted to Trinity College. North Carolina, in 1869, and graduated in June, 1872 ; studied law under Dodge & Johnson, attorneys, of Little Rock, and w^as ad- mitted to the bar in November. 1873; served in the State troops under Governor Baxter in the Brooks-Baxter troubles, and was second officer in command of Hallie Rifles in the tight at Palarm, in May, 1874 ; was elected to city council in April. 1877; was elected to the State senate in Sep- tember. 1878, and was elected president of senate at close of session in March, 1879; served eight terms as city at- torney of Little Rock ; was elected to the Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l(i.l33 votes, against 6,714 votes for Charles C. Waters, Republi- can. He represents the fourth congressional district of Arkansas, which has a population of 147,806, and embraces the eight counties of Conway, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell. ROBERT T. THORP ROBERT TAYLOR THORP Robert Taylor Thorp, son of Ann Eliza and Benjamin Person Thorp, was born in Granville County. N. C, March 12, 1850. His mother was the only child of Betsy and Henry Norman. His paternal ancestors were among the earliest colonial settlers of Virginia, having emigrated from England. His grandfather. Benjamin Person Thorp, was born in Southampton County. Va., and removed to North Carolina when quite a youth, making his home at Goshen, the family seat, with Gen. Thomas Person, a maternal uncle of regulator and Revolutionary fame, who was early distinguished for his uncompromising opposition to British oppression, having been one of the jjrime movers in the regulator movement, prior to the Revolutionary War, which culminated in the disastrous battle of Alamance. Mi\ Thorp was prepared for college at the celebrated Horner Academy, Oxford, N. C. AVhile a student at this school, at the age of fifteen years, he, with other boys, offered his services as volunteer to defend the State against invasion in the last days of the (_'ivil War. but was not called into active service. He took both a collegiate and law course of studies at the University of Virginia, graduating with the degree of B. L. in 1S70, lieing awarded at the same time the debater's medal of the Jefferson Literary Society. He removed to Virginia in 1871. and Ijegan the practice of law at Boydton, Va.. where he has continued to reside and practice his profession ; was appointed l)y the court Com- monwealth's attorney in 1877, and held this office by successive elections until July, 1895; was nominated as a ROBERT TAYLOR THORP Republican by acclamation to represent the fourth con- gressional district in the Fifty-Fourth Congress, in 1894. The certificate of election was awarded to his Democratic competitor, Hon. W. R. McKenney. but Mr. Thorp contested his election and was seated as a member of the Fifty-Fourth Congress by a unanimous vote of the House, upon the unani- mous recommendation of elections committee No. 3. In 1896 he was again nominated for Congress l>y the Repub- lican convention of his district. The certificate of election was awarded to his competitor, but he again successfully contested his election, and after a hard fight upon the floor, in which Mr. Thorp, by leave of the House, closed the debate in an hour's speech in his own behalf, was seated as a mem- ber of the Fifty-Fifth Congress. On the 16th of December, 1880, he was married to Lucy, a daughter of the late Col. George William Brent, of Alexandria, Va., who was a member of the Virginia secession convention, and though a strong Union man, when his State seceded, cast his for- tunes with her. joined the Confederate army, was assigned to the Department of the West, distinguished himself at Shiloh and other battles, and surrendered with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in 1865. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law and soon became one of the most prominent lawyers of the State. Of this marriage one son. Roland FitzRobert, was born the 11th of August, 1887. The fourth district, which he represents, has a population of 159,508, and em- braces the counties of Amelia. Brunswick, Dinwiddle, Greenesville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg. Nottoway, Pow- hatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, and Sussex, and the city of Petersburg. ALBERT M. TODD ALBERT M. TODD Albert M. Todd, of Kalamazoo, was born at the family farm home near Nottawa. 8t. Joseph County, Mich., June 3, 1850 ; his early life was spent on the farm, where he attended the district school until about fifteen years of age, after which he attended the Sturgis High School, from which he graduated ; studied some time at the Northwest- ern University, and afterwards visited the countries of Europe to study their institutions and people ; meantime, he had estal)lished the business of growing and distilling essential-oil plants, which he still continues in connection with other business as a manufacturing chemist ; having made several discovei-ies in chemistry and the natural sciences, he has been elected a memlter of a number of scientific associations, among them the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, the American Chem- ical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry (Interna- tional), the American Pharmaceutical Association, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress by a union of the Democratic, Union Silver, People's, and National parties, receiving 24,466 votes against 24,040 votes for Alfred Milnes, Republican, 579 votes for John M. Corbin. Gold Democrat, and 441 votes for Ashman A. Knappen, Prohibi- tionist. He represents the third district of Michigan, which has a population of 172,319, and embraces the five counties of Branch. Calhoun. Eaton, Hillsdale, and Kala- mazoo. ^^^ 1 '^'"^^^^^1 THOMAS H. TONGUE THOMAS H. TONGUE Thomas H. Tongue, of Hillsboro, Oregon, was born in Lincolnshire, England, June 23, 1844. In November, 1859, he removed with his parents to Oregon, and settled upon a farm in Washington County, the county in which he has since resided. He was educated at Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, and graduated from that institution in June, 1868. The limited means of his parents not per- mitting them to assist him, he paid for the expense of his education by teaching school and working in the harvest field, and by working in summer for a neighboring farmer to pay for board and room while attending school. He removed to Hillsboro, his present residence, in September, 1868, and began the study of the law ; was admitted to the bar in September. 187(l, and at once engaged in the active practice of his profession. In a short time he l)egan to acquire farming property and became interested in agri- cultural pursuits and the raising of various classes of live stock; while always a Republican, he did not take a par- ticularly active part in political affairs until 1888. In that year he was elected a member of the State senate, and served a term of four years, and during the latter half of the term was chairman of the judiciary committee of that body. In 1890 he was made the permanent chairman of the Republican State convention. In February, 1892, he was elected president of the State organization of Repub- lican clubs, and served for a term of two years. He was a del3gate from Oregon to the national Rei^ublican con- vention at Minneapolis in 1892, and was one of the vice- THOMAS H. TONGUE presidents of that convention. After reaching Minneapolis he was convinced that the nomination of either Pi'esident Harrison or Mr. Blaine would divide the Republican party into warring factions, endanger the election, and for this reason worked actively, earnestly, and continuously to secure the nomination of William ]\lcKinley. In 1894 he was again the permanent chairman of the State Eepubli- can convention. He became a member of the State central committee in 1S86, and became the chairman of the congressional committee of the hrst congressional dis- trict of Oregon at the time of its organization. He served in both of these capacities until his nomination as a can- didate for Congress. He was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican on the first Monday in June, 1896. His competitors were W. S. Vanderburg. Populist, Jefferson Myers, Democrat, and M. C. Christianson. Pro- hibitionist. In 1898 he was renominated by acclamation, and was reelected by a majority over all competitors, not- withstanding the district in November. 1896, had been carried for Bryan by a large plurality. His district has a population of 155,562, and embraces the sixteen counties of Benton. Clackamas. Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Jose- phine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD Oscar W. Undekwouu, of Biriniiif^hani, was horn in Louis- ville, Jefferson County, Ky., May (i, 1862 ; was educated at Rigby School, Louisville. Ky.,and the University of Vir^ania; commenced the practice of law at Binnington, Ala., Sep- tember, 18S-1 ; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the ninth district in the campaign of 181)2 ; was elected to the Plfty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l.'{,4*.)'.) votes, against 5,G18 votes for Dr. G. B. Crowe, Populist, and 2,310 votes for Dr. A. Lawson, National Democrat. He represents the ninth district of Alabama, which has a population of 181,085, and embraces the five counties of Bibb, Blount, Hale, Jefferson, and Perry. THOMAS UPDEGRAFF THOMAS UPDEGRAFF Thomas Updegraff, of McGregor, was born in Tioga County, Pa., April 3, 1834 ; received an academic educa- tion ; was appointed clerk of the district court of Clayton County, Iowa, in April, 1856 ; was elected to that office in August of the same year and reelected in 1858 ; was ad- mitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of the law in 1S61, and has since followed that profession ; was a mem- ber of the State house of representatives of Iowa and chair- man of the judiciary committee of that body in 1878; was elected to the Forty-Sixth Congress and reelected to the Forty-Seventh Congress as a Kepublican ; was member of the board of education and city solicitor of McGregor, Iowa, for many years ; was delegate to the Republican national convention of 1888 and member of notification committee ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26.659 votes, against 17.791 votes for Frank I). Bayless, Bryan Democrat, and 269 votes for Charles G. Pat- ten, Prohibitionist. He represents the fourth congressional district of Iowa, which has a population of 169,344. and em- braces the ten counties of Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chicka- saw, Clayton. Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Worth. WILLARD D. VANDIVER WILLARD DUNCAN VANDIVER WiLLARD Duncan Vandiver, of Cape Grirardeau, was born in Hardy County, Va. (now W. Va.). March 30, 1854; his father. Rev. L. H. Vandiver, had married Miss Mary Vance, of Virginia, in 1858, and they moved to Missouri in 1858 ; this son was educated in the common schools and at Central College, Fayette, Mo., where he graduated in June, 1877 ; in June. 1880. was married to Alice L. Headlee. daughter of Rev. J. H. Headlee. and has three children, Vance, Helen, and Lilian. His early days were spent on the farm, but after graduation he was elected professor of natural science in Bellevue Institute, and three years later became its president ; in 1889 he accepted the chair of science in the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, and in 1893 became its president ; he has been a lifelong Democrat, and in 1896 was nominated for Congress on a free-coinage platform by the fourteenth district conven- tion, after which he made an extensive canvass of the district, which is a very large one. embracing seventeen counties and containing a population of about 250.000, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 25,089 votes against 20,659 votes for John A. Snider, Republican, and 4.860 votes for Ambrose H. Livingston, Populist. He represents the fourteenth district of Missouri, which has a population of 230.478, and embraces the seventeen coun- ties of Bollinger. Butler, Cape, Girardeau. Christian, Doug- las, Dunklin. Howell. Mississippi. New Madrid. Oregon, Ozark, Pemiscot, Ripley, Scott, Stoddard, Stone, and Taney. HENRY CLAY VAN VOORHIS HENRY CLAY VAN VOORHIS Henry C Van V'^ooriits. of Zanesville. was born in Lick- ing Townsiiip. Muskingum County, Ohio. May H, 1S5'2; was educated in the public schools and at Denison Ilniversity ; was admitted to the bar in 1H74 ; was chairman of the Republican county committee from iSTil to 1SS4 ; was a delegate to the Repul)lican national convention at Chicago in bSS4 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving '22.560 votes, against 11),S87 votes for J. B. Tannehill, Democrat. 2(.)5 votes for T. E. Moore, Pop- ulist, and 354 votes for T. H. Paden. Prohibitionist. He represents the fifteenth congressional district of Ohio, which has a population of 162.131, and embraces the five counties of Guernsey, Morgan. Muskingum, Noble, and Washington. 63 JOHN H. G. VEHSLAGE JOHN H. G. VEHSLAGE John H. G. Vehslage, of Xew York, was bom in New York City on December 20, 1S42 ; received a public-school education, but left school in 1S56, of his own accord, to become a clerk in the retail grocery business ; in ISHo en- tered the coal and wood ))usines!< at the old established yard, Gi(, 71. 78, and 75 Ninth Avenue, corner of Fifteenth Street, at which place he is at present carrying on such business; in I860 he joined the Third Cavalry, National Guard. State of New York, and was commissioned captain by Governor Seymour, Fel.)ruary 15. 1864 ; December 12, 1876, was ap- pointed inspector of rifle practice with the rank of ca^itain, and continued in service until 1880. when the regiment was mustered out of service by Governor Cornell : remained as supernumerary until November 12, 1883, when he received an honorable dischai'ge from Gov. (xrover Cleveland ; was elected and served as memlier of assembly from the first assembly district, New York City, in the year 18i)4 ; at the Democratic State convention held at Buffalo was appointed a presidential elector, but resigned on account of receiving the nomination for Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,032 votes, against 9,848 votes for Franklin Bartlett. National Democrat. He represents the seventh district of New York, which has a population of 114.766. and embraces the county of Richmond, together with the hrst and fifth assembly disti'icts of the county of New York. WILLIAM D. VINCENT WILLIAM D. VINCENT William D. Vincent, of Clay Center, was ))orn on a farm near Dresden. Tenn., October U. lsr)2; moved with his ijarents to Kiley County, Kan., in lS(v2 : was educated in the public schools and in tlie State Agricultural Col- lege at Manhattan ; for the past nineteen years lias been and is now engaged in the mercantile business at ('lay Center; was elected member of the city council in ISSO; was one of the nominees of the (xreenback jiaity for presidential elector in 1884 : was a member of the State board of railroad commissioners in iSiC! '.»4 : luis been a uiember of the na- tional committee of the People's ])iii-ty since I8'.t2; was nominated l)y the People's party and by the Democrats, and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Populist, re- ceiving 111. 78") votes, against lU.lOl votes for William A. Calderhead. Rei)ul>lican. He represents the fifth congres- sional district of Kansas, which has a population of 177,loi, and embraces the counties of Clay. Cloud. Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa, lu'iiublic. Hiley, Saline, and Washington. JAMES W. WADSWORTH JAMES W. WADSWORTH James W. Wadsworth, of Genesee, was born in Phila- delphia. Pa.. October 12, 1H-H'> ; was preparin^j at New Haven, Conn., to enter Yale College, but left in the fall (»f 1864 and entered the army, serving on the staff of Gen. G. K. Warren to the close of the war; was supervisor of the town of Genesee during LS?-). I87(i, and 1877; was member of the assembly in 1878 and 1879, and comptroller of the State of New York in 1880 and 1881 ; was elected to the Forty-Seventh. Forty-Eighth. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repu])lican. receiving 28,478 votes, against 19,066 votes for Frank V. Hulette. Free-Silver Democrat, 469 votes for (ieorge A. Sweet, Sound-Money Democrat, 1.269 votes for Chas. Ergmont Williams, Prohil)itionist, ^97 votes for John Ideson. Po})ulist, and 5 votes scattering. He represents the thirteenth congressional district of New York, which has a poi)ulati()n of 19o,553, and embraces the five counties of Genesee, Livingston, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming. JOSEPH H. WALKER JOSEPH HENRY WALKER Joseph Henry Walker, of Worcester, was born in Bos- ton, Mass.. December '21. lS'2i>; removed first to Hopkintoii, thence to Worcester, wliere lie attended tlie public schools. and worked on boots and shoes in his father's factory; was admitted to partnership in the firm of Joseph Walker & Co., in Worcester, in 1S.")0; was engaged in boot and shoe manufacturing until 1SS7, when he retired from JKisi- ness in Worcester ; estal)lished the business of manufactur- ing leather in Chicago, 111., in 1S()K. and was until recently a member of the hrm carrying on that business under the firm name of W^alker Oakley Company ; was elected a trustee of the People's Savings Bank. Worcester. Mass.. in l.S()6. and a director of tlie Citizens' National Bank of the same place, in 1S67. resigning from Iwth after several years' service because of his large business enterprises ; was several years a member and was elected president of the common council of Worcester: was president of the Worcester Board of Trade for several years ; was three times elected to the Massachusetts legislature; is a mem- ber of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a trustee of the American Institute of Civics; has been for many years a trustee of Brown T iiivei"sity and of the Newton (.Mass. I Theological Seminary; has been for a quarter of a century president of the board of trus- tees of Worcester Academy, an important college prepara- tory and scientific school for I)()ys: was elected to the Fifty-First, Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congre.ss as a JOSEPH HEXRY WALKKR Republican, receiving lS,99o votes, again.st 7.185 votes for John O'dara. Democrat, and nine votes scattering. He represents the thii-d district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 171.4S4, and embraces in Middlesex County, town of Hopkinton ; Worcester County, city of Worcester, and towns of Auliurn. Blackstone, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, Grafton. Holden. Leicester, Mendon, Milbury. Northbridge, Oxford. Paxton. Rutland. Shrewsbury. Southbridge. Spencer, Sturbi-idge, Sutton. I'pton. Uxbridge, Webster, Westboro, and West Boylstou. JAMES A. WALKER JAMES ALEXANDER WALKER James Alkxandkk Walker, of Wytheville, was horn in Augusta County. Va.. August 27. LS32 ; was educated at the Virginia Military Institute; studied law at the I'niversity of \'irgiuia during the sessions of lsr)4 and lSo5; began the practice of law in Pulaski County. Va.. in 185(5. and has followed the practice of his profession ever since; en- tered the Confederate army in April, isiil, as captain of the Pulaski (iuards. afterwards Couiiiauy C. Fourth \'irginia Infantry, Stonewall brigade ; was promoted to lieutenant- colonel and assigned to the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry (A. P. Hill. (Mlonel) in July, 1S()1 : promoted to colonel of the Thirteenth N'irginia Infantry in March. 1S()2, and in May, 18(58. was promoted to brigadier-general and assigned to command of the "Stonewall Brigade"; commanded Karly's old division at the surrender at Appomattox ; was severely wounded at Spottsylvauia Court House. May 12, 1(S()4; elected Comnu)nwealth's attoi'iiey for Pulaski County in 1860; represented Pulaski County in the house of dele- gates of Virginia in 1S71 72; was elected lieutenant-gov- ernor of Virginia in 1877; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 1(5,077 votes against 14,909 votes for S. W. Wil- liams, Democrat. He represents the ninth district of \'ir- ginia, which has a pojiulation of 187.4(57. and includes the counties of Rland, Buchanan, Craig. Dickenson, (iiles, Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell. Washington, Wise, and Wythe, and the city of Bristol. IRVING P. WANGER IRVING PRICE WANGER Irving Price Wanger. of Norristown. was born in North Coventry, Chester County. Pa.. March 5, 1852 ; commenced the .study of law at Norristown in 1H72. and was admitted to the bar December IS. 1875 ; was elected burgess of Nor- ristown in 1878; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1880 ; was elected district attorney of Mont- gomery County in 1880 and again in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-F'ifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,725 votes, against 16.740 votes for C. S. \'andegrift. Democrat, and 531 votes for B. C Parker. Prohibitionist. He repre- sents the seventh congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of P.)3.iK)5. and embraces the two counties of Bucks and Montgomery. WILLIAM L. WARD WILLIAM LUCKEiNS WARD William Luckens Ward, of Port Chester. N. Y.. was born in (Jreenwich. Conn., tSepteniljer 2. LS.')(>, was edu- cated at Friends' Seminary, New- York City, and afterwards at the School of Mines. Columbia College, class of 1S7S : lias devoted all his business life to manufacturing: never iield any public office, but has always l)een identified with the Republican party in Westchester County, and was named as elector from the sixteentb congressional district by the State convention in iSiKi. and was elected to Congress and also as elector at the sauie election : was elected to tlie Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 8(),7(>i> votes, against 23.45(5 votes for Eugene B. Travis. Silver Democrat, 1.299 votes for Lucien Sanial. Socialist. 1.(597 votes for James V. Lawrence. Cold Democrat. 77(1 votes for Ben L. Fairchild, Independent candidate. 4(51 votes for James H. Hardy, I'lo- hibitionist. and 454 votes blank and scattering. He rep- resents the sixteenth congressional district of New York, which has a population of 22().S57. an6, when he was mustered out. then being a captain and brevet major : served in the Army of the Tennessee, receiving a gunshot wound at Shiloh. until the evacuation of Atlanta, when, being dis- aliled. he was ordered north, and from there, early in ISd.'j. he was ordered on the Plains, where a campaign was being conducted against hostile Indians, where he served until mustered out : immediately on leaving the service he entered the law department of Harvard University, from which he graduated in 18(i.S ; he then returned to Clinton and commenced the practice of law. forming a partnership with Hon. C. H. Moore, which still continues : was colonel and judge-advocate-general of Illinois through the adniin- i.strations of Governors Hamilton. Oglesby. and Fifer ; was elected a Republican presidential elector in 1SS8: was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- Fifth Congre.ss as a Reput)lican. receiving 27.334 votes, against 18.811 votes for Frank M. Palmfv. Democrat, and 833 votes for Thomas J. Scott. Prohibitionist. He i-ep- resents the thirteenth district of Illinois, which has a population of 183.105. and emliiaces the six counties of Champaign. Dewitt. Douglas. Ford. McLean, and Piatt. WALTER L. WEAVER WALTER L. WEAVER Walter L. Weaver, of Springfield, was l)oni in Mont- gomery County. Oliio, April 1, 1S51 ; son of Kev. .lolin S. and Amanda Hurin Weaver: was educated at the public schools. Monroe Academy, and Wittenberg College, gradu- ating from the latter institution in 1S70; immediately pursued the study of law, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of his luitive State in 1H72. since which time he has continuously pnicticed his profession ; was elected prosecuting attorney for Clark County in 1S74, and again elected to the same office in ISSO, 18S-2, and ISSf); was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving '2').745 votes, against 21.171 votes for Francis M. Hunt, Democrat and Populist, and 884 votes for If. S. Thompson. Prohibitionist. He represents the seventh dis- trict of Ohio, which has a population of 1(51,537. and em- braces the five counties of Clark. Fayette, Madison, Miami. and Pickaway. GEORGE W. WEYMOUTH GEORGE WARREN WEYMOUTH George Warren Weymot'th. of Fitchburg, Mass.. was born August 25. 1S50, at West Amesl)ary, now Merrimac. Mass.; was educated in the public schools of that place; is interested in several different kinds of business, giving most of his time to the Sinionds Rolling-Machine Com- pany as vice-president and general manager ; is director of the Fitchburg National Bank and trustee of the Fitch- burg Savings Bank ; is dii"ector of the Fitchburg and Leo- minster Street Railway, and also of the Orswell Mills and Nockege Mills ; is ex-president of the Fitchburg Boai-d of Trade; was one year in the city council of Fitchl>urg. in the State legislature of 1S96. and a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis last June, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Rejiulilican, receiving 'in.dlj-i votes, against S.S47 votes foi- 1. Porter Morse. Democrat. He represents the fourth district of Massachusetts, which has a population of 170.221. and embraces in AVorcester County, city of Fitchburg. and towns of Ashbuiiiham. Berlin, Bolton, Boylston. Clinton, (iardner. Harvard. Hul)bardston, Lancaster. Leominster. Lunenburg. Northboi'O, Princeton, Southboro. Sterling, and Westminster : Middlesex County, city of Waltham. and towns of Acton, Ashliy. Ashland. Aver, Bedford, Billerica. Boxl)oro, Burlington. Carlisle. Chelmsford, Concord, Dunstable. Framingham. Groton, Hudson. Lexing- ton, Lincoln. Littleton. Marllioro. Maynard. Natick. Pepper- ell, Shirley. Stow. Sudbury. Townsend. Tyngslioro. W'ayland. Westford, and Weston ; Norfolk County, ^\'ellesley. ■ 1 1 jj^:.::?^'^;*^^'-! 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^Bs^ n ^ ) •„,^ CHARLES K. WHEELER CHARLES KENNEDY WHEELER Charles Kennedy Wheeler, of Padncah. was lioni in Christian County. Ky., a))out tive miles fioni Hopkinsville. on a farm. April IS. ISO;]; worked on the farm during the summer and attended neighl)orhood schools until the age of thirteen : matriculated at the Southwestern University. of Clarksville, Tenn.. and graduated from that institution in the winter of 1S79. and graduated from the Lebanon Law School, of Lebanon. Tenn.. in the summer of 1S80; located at Padncah. Ky.. his present residence, in August, 1880, and has since that date been engaged in the active practice of his profession; has never held any office ex- cept the position of corporation counsel for the city of Paducah, Ky.. for the years lSi)4 and isyjj ; was Democratic elector for the first congressional district of Kentucky in 1892, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,000 votes against 13.000 votes for George Thomas, Kepublican. and 12.000 votes for Ben C. Keys, Populist. He represents the first district of Ken- tucky, which has a population of 170.500, and embraces the thirteen counties of Ballard. Caldwell. Calloway, Car- lisle, Crittenden. Fulton, (iraves. Hickman, Livingston. Lyon. Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg. JOSEPH WHEELER JOSEPH WHEELER Joseph Wheeler, of Wheeler, was born in Augusta, (ia., September 10. 1S36 ; graduated at West Point. 1859: was lieutenant of cavalry and served in New Mexico; resigned ill 1861 ; was lieutenant of artillery in the Confederate army ; was successively promoted to the command of a regiment, brigade, division, and army corps, and in ].S()2 was assigned to the command of the army corps of cavalry of the western army, continuing in that position till the war closed; by joint resolution of the Confederate congress received the thanks of that I^ody for successful military operations, and for the defense of the city of Aiken received the thanks of the State of South Carolina; May 11, lS(j4, became the senior cavalry general of the Confederate armies; was appointed professor of philosophy, Louisiana State Seminary, in LSliC), which he declined; was lawyer and planter: was elected to the Forty-Seventh. Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth. Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty- Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,640 votes, against 11,680 votes for 0. R. Hundley. Republican, and 338 votes for W. W. Callahan, National Democrat. He represents the eighth congressional district of (leorgia, which has a population of 176,088, and embraces the seven counties of Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan. GEORGE E. WHITE GEORGE E. WHITE George E. White, of Chicago, was liorn in Mas.saclm- setts in 1S4.S; after graduating from college at the age of sixteen, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Fifty-Sev- enth Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers, in which he served under General Grant, in the Arm.y of the Potomac, from the battle of the Wilderness until the surrender of (ien- eral Lee ; after the close of the war he entered a commer- cial college at Worcester, Mass.; in 18()7 he removed to Chicago a poor young man seeking employment, which he found in a lumber yard at $50 a month ; a year later he engaged in the lumber business on his own account, which he has since pursued with much success ; he is head of the extensive hard-wood lumber drm of George E. White & Co., and is a director in State and national banks ; has served as alderman of Chicago and as State senator, and has exercised a large influence in Repul)lican politics in his State; in 18S4 was nominated for Congress by the Repub- lican convention of his district, but, although the district was safely Republican, declined the nomination : was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifiy-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving '2'-}.Ob'4 votes, against 19.975 votes for E. T. Noonan. Democrat, 257 votes for Haines, Prohibi- tionist, 233 votes for Courtney. National Democrat, and 1.S13 votes for McDonnell. lude])endent. He represents the fifth district of Illinois, which has a population of 154.(579. and embraces the eleventh, thirteenth, sixteenth, seven- teenth, and eighteenth wards of the city of Chicago. GEORGE H. WHITE GEORGE HENRY WHITE George Henry White, of Tarljoro. was born at Rosin- dale. Bladen County. N. C December 18. 1S52: attended the i>nl)lic schools of his State, and later was trained under Prof. D. P. Allen, president of the VVhitten Normal School, at Lumberton. N. C. ; afterwards entered Howard University. Washington. 1). (.'. : he graduated from the eclectic department of that institution in the class of 1877; read law while taking academic course, and completed his reading under Judge William J. Clarke, of North Carolina, and was licensed to practice in all the courts of that State by the Supreme Court. January. 1871) ; was principal of one of the State normal and other schools in the State : was elected to the house of representatives in 1880 and to the State senate in 1884: was elected solicitor and prosecut- ing attorney for the second judicial district of North Caro- lina for four years in 188(). and for a like term in 1890: was a candidate for Congress in the second district in 1894. and was nominated, but withdrew in the interest of harmony in his party : and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Kepublican. receiving 19.388 votes, against 15,8(18 votes for F. A. Woodard. Democrat, and '2.788 votes for Dr. S. Moss. Populist. He represents the second dis- trict of North Carolina, which has a population of 182.4()]. and embraces the nine counties of Bertie. Edgecombe. Greene. Halifax. Lenoir. Noi'thampton. Warren. Wayne, and Wilson. DAVID F. WILBER DAVID F. WILBER David F. Wilber, of Onennta. was born in Milford, Otsego County, N. Y., December 7, 1851) ; is a sou of David Wilber, who w^as a member of the Forty-Third, Forty-Sixth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-First Congresses ; graduated from Cazenovia(N. Y.) Seminary in 1879 ; in ]88() engaged in the hop business with his father, and since 181)0 has been largely interested in farming and stock breeding, devoting especial attention to the Holstein-Friesian strain of cattle ; has twice represented Oneonta in the board of supervisors ; was a member of the New York State cattle tuberculosis commission in 1894; is a director of the Wilber National Bank of Oneonta; is president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America and of the American Cheviot Sheep Association of the United States and Canada ; is trustee of the Cazenovia Seminary ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,567 votes, against 2'2.2()7 votes for John H. Bagley, Democrat, and 4()4 votes for Leslie P. Clarke, Prohibition- ist. He represents the twenty-first congressional district of New York, which has a population of 187,119. and embraces the five counties of Greene, Montgomery, Otsego, Schenectady, and Schoharie. 65 JOHN S. WILLIAMS JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS John Sharp Williams, of Yazoo, \va,s born July 30. 1854, at Memphis. Tenii. ; his mother having died, his father being killed at Shiloh, and Memphis being threatened with capture by the Federal army, his family removed to his mother's family homestead in Yazoo County, Miss. ; re- ceived a fair education at private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort. KJ^, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University of Virginia, and the University of Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany ; subse- quently studied law under Professors Minor and Southall at the University of Virginia and in the office of Harris, McKisick & Turley in Memphis ; in 1877 got license to practice in the courts of law and chancery of Shelby County, Tenn. ; in December, 1S7S. removed to Yazoo City, Miss., where he engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter ; was a dele- gate to the Chicago convention which nominated Cleveland and Stevenson ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty- Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Democrat, receiving 10.475 votes, against 142 votes for Denson, Republican. 212 votes for Everett, Re- publican, and 2,218 votes for Stinson, Populist. He repre- sents the fifth district of Mississijipi, which has a population of 224,618. and embraces the twelve counties of Attala. Clarke, Holmes, Jasper, Lauderdale, Leake. Neshoba, New- ton. Scott. Smith, Wayne, and Yazoo. Iir ,.#"■ MORGAN B. WILLIAMS MORGAN B. WILLIAMS Morgan B. Williams, of Wilkesbarre, was born at Rhan- dir-Mwyn, parish of Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn. Caruiarthenshire. Wales, September 17, 1S81 ; attended the public schools of his native town, and in March, 1S56. emigrated to Australia, arriving at Melbourne in the latter part of June after a voy- age of one hundred and three days ; returned to Wales in Au- gust, 18G1, and in March. 1862, emigrated to Scranton. Pa. ; worked in the mines at Scranton until September, 1865, when he removed to Wilkesbarre. and was appointed to the position of mine superintendent for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, which position he held for fourteen years ; during this time he met with an accident by the explosion of gas that nearly cost him his life : subsequently he leased a tract of coal land in the vicinity of AVilkesltarre and organized a company known as the Ked Ash Coal Company ; is at present the vice-president and general manager of the company, and has been since its organization ; is president of the Williams Coal Company of Pottsville. a director of the Wilkesbarre Deposit and Savings Bank, Kingston Sav- ings Bank of Kingston, Spring Brook Water Supply Com- pany, and the Powell Eiver Coal and Iron Company, of Virginia, and is also identified with many other industries in the Wyoming Valley ; has been a nienil)er of the school board and has served as a member of the city council for twelve years, and is at present a member and chairman of the public property committee : was an alternate delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1884 ; was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1884 by a MORGAN B. WILLIAMS majority of over l.i2()0 in a district which usually gave an adverse Democratic majority of 1,500; was a meml)er of the World's Fair Commission ; was elected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Kepuldican. receiving 20.920 votes, against 17.976 votes for John M. Garman. Democrat, and 234 votes for D. 0. Coughlin, People's party. He repre- sents the twelfth district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 201,203, and embraces the county of Luzerne. STANYARNE WILSON STANYARNE WILSON Stanyarne Wilson, of Spartanburg, was born at York- ville, S. C; was educated at Kings Mountain Military School and Washington and Lee University, Vii-ginia; was admitted to the bar by special act of the legislature in 1S8U, he being a minor; was elected to the legislature in 1884, and to the senate in 1892 ; was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1895. serving as chair- man of the steering and judiciary committees ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- gress as a Democrat, receiving 11,230 votes, against 507 votes for P. S. Suber, Republican, and 443 votes for D. F. Bounds, Republican. He represents the fourth district of South Carolina, which has a population of 200,000, and embraces the counties of Fairfield, Greenville, and Laurens, all of the county of Spartanburg, except the townshii^s of White Plains and Limestone, all of the county of Union, except the townships of Gowdeysville and Draytonville, and the townships of Center, Columbia, and Upper, of the county of Richland. RICHARD A. WISE RICHARD ALSOP WISE RicHAED Alsop Wise, of Williamsburg, son of Gen. Henry A. and Sarah Sergeant Wise, was born at the resi- dence of his grandfather. John Sergeant, in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 2d day of Seiiteniber, 1S43 ; was educated at private schools in Richmond and at Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School ; also studied at William and Mary Col- lege for two years, which place he left before graduation to join the Confederate army at the commencement of the war, and served to the end. part of the time as a private in Stuart's cavalry ; at the close of the war he was assist- ant inspector-general of Wise's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia; graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1867, and has practiced his profession ever since ; in 1869 was appointed professor of chemistry and physiology in the College of William and I\Iary, which con- ferred the honorary degree of Master of Arts upon him : was appointed assistant physician of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in 1878 ; two years after that he re- signed from the college; in 1881, as captain of the Wise Light Infantry of Williamsburg, and as senior officer, com- manded the Fourth Virginia Infantry Regiment at the centennial at Yorktown : was elected superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in 1882. and served until the spring of 1884 ; was elected as a Republican to the Vir- ginia legislature in 18S5, and served during the sessions of 1885, 1886, and 1887; was elected in 1887 clerk of the cir- cuit and county courts of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City, wliich ])lace he held for six years ; RICHARD ALSOP WISE has been for twenty years chairman of the connty Repub- lican committee ; was the Republican nominee for the Fifty-Fifth Congress in the second district in 1S96 ; the certificate was given to his Democratic opponent, William A. Young, but after a contest was declared elected, and took the oath of office on the 26th day of April, 1898. He represents the second congressional district of Virginia, which has a population of 145,586, and embraces the coun- ties of Charles City. Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight. James City, Nansemond, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Southampton, Surry, Warwick, and York, and the cities of Norfolk, Ports- mouth, Williamsburg, and Newport News. JACOB YOST Jacob Yost, of Staunton, was born in Staunton, Va., April 1, 1853 ; attended primary schools ; at the age of sixteen entered a printing office and learned the trade of printer; was subsequently employed for three years as a civil en- gineer by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company ; in 1875 purchased an interest in the Valley Virginian, a newspaper published at Staunton, and was actively engaged in journalism till 18S1), since which time he has devoted himself to general business, principally in connection with iron ore and coal ; was a candidate for elector on the Re- publican ticket in 1880 ; was the Republican nominee for Congress in 1884 ; was elected mayor of the city of Staunton in 1886 ; was a member of the Fiftieth Congress ; was the Republican nominee for Congress in 1888 and again in 1894 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,194 votes, against 16,047 votes for H. D. Flood, Democrat, and 102 votes scattering. He represents the tenth congressional district of Virginia, which has a population of 155,138, and embraces the counties of Alleghany, Am- herst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Buckingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Highland, Nelson, and Rockbridge, and the city of Staunton. JAMES R. YOUNG JAMES RANKIN YOUNG James Rankin Young, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia March 10, 1847 ; was educated in the public schools of his native city, entering the Central High School in 1862 ; enlisted with a number of the professors and students of the high school as a private soldier, in June, 1863, in the Thirty-Second Pennsylvania Infantry, and served during the Gettysburg campaign as a part of Gen. William F. Smith's division of Gen. Darius N. Couch's command ; made a .;ix-months' tour of the Southern States soon after the war as a correspondent of the New York Tribune ; served as chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Tribimc from June, 1866, to December, 1870; was chief executive clerk of the United States Senate from December. 1873. to March, 1879 ; chief clerk of the depart- ment of justice from September, 1882, to December, 1883; again chief executive clerk of the United States Senate from December, 1883, to April. 1892 ; was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Evening Star in 1866, and has been a constant contributor to its columns from that date to the present time, writing over the signatui-e of S. M.; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repul)- lican, to succeed John E. Reyburn, by a plurality of 42,611 votes over Mark Cunningham, Democrat, the vote standing 59,147 for Young and 16,536 for Cunningham, with 538 votes scattering. He represents the fourth congressional district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 309,986, and embraces in the city of Philadelphia the fifteenth, twenty-first, twenty-fourth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, thirty-fourth, thirty-seventh, and thirty-eighth wards. 66 WILLIAM T ZENOR WILLIAM T. ZENOR William T. Zenok, of Corydon, was born in Harrison Township, wntliin three miles of his present place of resi- dence, April oO, 184G ; was educated in the common schools and at the seminary of Prof. James G. May : at the age of twenty-two commenced the study of law under the direction of the late Judge D. W. La Follette, of New Albany; was admitted to the Ijar and formed a law part- nership with Judge Fred. Mathes in ISTO at Corydon ; in 1871 removed to Leavenworth. Crawford County, Ind., where he established a successful practice : w^as appointed by Governor Williams prosecuting attorney for the district, which office he held by this appointment and two succeed- ing elections till 1882; in 1884 was elected judge of the judicial circuit without opi)osition ; was reelected in 1890, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Demo- crat, receiving 22,475 votes, against 19,927 votes for Robert J. Tracewell, Republican. He represents the third district of Indiana, which has a population of 174,067, and em- braces the counties of Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Scott, and Washington. TERRITORIAL DELEGATES JAMES Y. CALLAHAN JAMES YANCY CALLAHAN James Yancy Callahan was born iu Dent County, Mo., December 19. 1S52, and was brought up on the farm where he was born ; received a common-school education, and after he was married completed, by the assistance of his wife, nearly all the branches of the academic course at home ; was licensed as a local minister in the Methodist PJpiscopal Church in 18S0, which relation he holds at the present time ; has been engaged principally in farming, sawmilling, and mining ; removed from Missouri to Stanton County, Kan., in 1885, and was twice elected register of deeds in that county ; removed to Oklahoma in 1892 and settled on a farm, where he still resides with his family ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress by the Populists and Democrats on a free-silver ticket, receiving 27,435 votes, against 26,267 votes for Dennis T. Flynn, Republican, thus becoming a Delegate from Oklahoma. 7 ■ ^^^H ^^H i ?^^^^| I v^^^^^^H H ^v^ ^n 2 % ' S ^kB ^H ^iqK ^^^H ■A A B';.;^'k ^km H mM f s^^^^^^^^^Ki^^^^ ' I iW^Bi L^^Bt .:^ ^1 H. B. FERGUSSON H. B. FERGUSSON H. B. Fergusson, of Albuquerque, is a native of Alabama, and was born September 9, 184S ; belongs to a family that settled in the South in colonial days, several members of which distinguished themselves in the civil and military oflSces of the Colonies and later in the service of the young Republic ; his father was an officer in the Confed- erate army, and did excellent service under General Lee until the close of the struggle ; graduated from the Wash- ington and Lee University, Lexington. Va., with the degree of M. A., in 1873 ; graduated from the law department of that university in 1S74. and commenced the practice of his profession at Wheeling, W. Va.. where he remained until the year 1882; located in Albuquerque in 1884, and has resided there since ; has successfully practiced his profes- sion, and is one of the members of the firm of Warren, Fergu.sson & Gillett ; in politics is a Democrat and always has been, and his recent nomination and election was in recognition of distinguished service to his party ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 18,947 votes, against 17.017 votes for Thomas B. Ca- tron, Republican, 66 votes for Mr. Dame, Gold Democrat, and 1 vote scattering, thus becoming a Delegate from New Mexico. MARCUS A. SMITH MARCUS A. SMITH Marcus A. Smith, of Tucson, was boru near Cj^nthiana, Ky., January 24, 1S5'2 ■ was educated at the Transylvania University. Lexington, Ky.; is a lawyer by profession; re- moved to Arizona in 1881, and the following year was elected prosecuting attorney of his district ; was elected to the Fiftieth. Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, and Fifty-Third Con- gresses as a Democrat ; refused to run for the Fifty-Fourth Congress, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,065 votes, against 4.090 votes for Doran, Republican, and 3,895 votes for O'Neill, Populist, thus becoming a Delegate fi'om Arizona.