ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Appling, Bacon, Berrien, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lowndes, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne (16 counties). Population (1910), 208,462.

J. RANDALL WALKER, Democrat, of Valdosta, Ga., was born 12 miles northeast of Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., on February 23, 1874; attended public schools in country; was graduated from Jasper Normal College, Jasper, Fla., class 1895; received B. L. degree, University of Georgia, 1898; moved to Valdosta, Ga., in 1900, where he has since practiced law; is married; served in General Assembly of Georgia 1907-8; was elected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Houston, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair, Toombs, Twiggs, Wheeler, and Wilcox (13 counties). Population (1910), 208,463.

DUDLEY MAYS HUGHES, Democrat, of Danville, was born October 10, 1848, in Twiggs County, Ga. His youth was passed on his father's plantation, his education being received in the country schools and later at the University of Georgia, at Athens. He began business life in 1870 and has since conducted large agricultural interests; November 25, 1873, married Mary Frances, daughter of Capt. Hugh L. Dennard, and has three children--two sons and one daughter; was elected State senator, serving one term; was elected president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, serving four years, and president Georgia Fruit Growers' Association eight years; was commissioner general of Georgia to the World's Fair at St. Louis; for 20 years has been connected with the educational interests of his State, having been trustee of his home school and the Georgia Normal and Industrial College; now a trustee of the University of Georgia and a trustee of the Georgia State Agricultural College; as a farmer, and not a practical railroad man, he led in the construction of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad, a line running from Macon to Vidalia, which was built after years of effort; was elected to the Sixty-first and reelected to the Sixty-second Congress, without opposition, from the third district; was elected without opposition to the Sixty-third Congress as the first Representative of the twelfth district upon its creation when the State of Georgia was redistricted, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

IDAHO.

(Population (1910), 325,594.)
SENATORS.

WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH, Republican, of Boise, was born June 29, 1865, in Wayne County, Ill.; was educated in the common schools of Wayne County, at the Southern Illinois Academy, Enfield, Ill., and at the Kansas State University, Lawrence; was admitted to practice law September, 1890, at Lyons, Kans., and devoted his entire time since exclusively to practice of the law until elected to the United States Senate January 15, 1907; reelected January 14, 1913. His term of service will expire March 3, 1919.

JAMES H. BRADY, Republican, Pocatello, Idaho; born in Pennsylvania; educated in public schools and Leavenworth Normal College, Kansas; taught school three years; edited paper two years; engaged in business; moved to Idaho 1895; honorary member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Idaho; honorary member of Kansas Historical Society; trustee Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.; chairman Republican State central committee of Idaho 1904 to 1908; chairman delegation to Republican national convention in 1900 and 1908; member national convention committee to notify President of romination; elected governor of Idaho November 3, 1908; elected United States Senator by legislature January 24, 1913; reelected by direct vote of people November 3, 1914. Term expires March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 325,594.

ROBERT M. MCCRACKEN, Republican, of Boise, Idaho, was born at Vincennes, Ind., in 1874; received his education in the public schools of Carmi, Ill., and in 1891 went west to "grow up with the country," locating at Blackfoot, Idaho, where he engaged in teaching in the public schools until the fall of 1897, when, upon certification of the Civil Service Commission, he was appointed to a clerkship in the United States surveyor general's office at Boise, which position he held until January, 1902,

when he was admitted to the bar upon examination before the Supreme Court of Idaho, and immediately took up the practice of his profession at Blackfoot. In 1903 he was elected chief clerk of the house of representatives. In 1904, he was elected prosecuting attorney for Bingham County; two years later was chosen from the same county to the legislature; in 1908 was chosen a member of the legislature from Ada County; introduced and secured the passage of the child-labor law, the act relating to appointment of probation officers, and the act relating to the disposition of community estates of married women; promoted the passage of the antipass and direct-primary laws, and is the author of the local-option law; also introduced bills relating to employers' liability and compensation of injured workmen; in 1898 he was married to Miss Mida Ezell, daughter of James W. and Mary F. Ezell, of Princeton, Ky.; four children, three girls and a boy, all of whom are living, have been born to them. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and is national head escort of the Modern Woodmen of America. In November, 1914, he was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 43,918 votes, to 39,746 for his nearest opponent, on the Democratic ticket.

ADDISON T. SMITH, Republican, of Twin Falls, son of Isaac and Jane Forsythe Smith, who were of Scotch descent, was born and reared on a farm near Cambridge, Ohio. His father and eldest brother served in Company H, One hundred and twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. Mr. Smith attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Cambridge (Ohio) High School, the Iron City Commercial College of Pittsburgh, Pa, the law department of the George Washington University, and the National Law School, Washington, D. C.; is a member of the bar. When Idaho was admitted into the Union he was appointed secretary to the late Senator Shoup, and later occupied a similar position with the late Senator Heyburn; served as register of the United States land office at Boise, Idaho, by appointment of President Roosevelt; was secretary of the Republican State central committee of Idaho 1904–1911; was married to Miss Mary A. Fairchild December 24, 1889, and they have two sons living, Hugh Fairchild and Walter Shoup; was nominated for Congress over three competitors at the primary election held June 30, 1912, and was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a plurality of 13,393. Reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

ILLINOIS.
(Population (1910), 5,638,591.)
SENATORS.

JAS. HAMILTON LEWIS, Democrat, of Chicago, was born in Virginia; is 46 years of age; reared and schooled in Georgia; attended the University of Virginia; went to the State of Washington and began the practice of law; was member of the upper house of the Legislature of Washington; Democratic Congressman at large for the State of Washington; was appointed by Secretary of State Day under the administration of President William McKinley as special representative of the United States Government to Ottawa, Canada, as special commissioner to regulate the matter of the customs charges on the border of British Columbia and the Pacific Coast Northwest States; was presented by the Northwestern Pacific Coast States as candidate for the Vice Presidency in the Democratic convention of 1900; officer Spanish-American War, serving, respectively, upon the staffs of Gen. Brooke in Cuba and Gen. Frederick D. Grant in Porto Rico; subsequently accredited to the commission settling the disputes between England and America on the Alaska boundary and general disputive questions during the years 1889 and 1890, the commission assembling at Washington, D. C., and London, England; moved in 1903 to the city of Chicago, resuming the practice of law; was chosen corporation counsel of Chicago in 1905; candidate for governor 1908; defeated; joint author with Prof. A. H. Putney of Laws and Decisions upon Elections; also Lewis and Putney on Constitutions, Statutes, and Their Construction; author of The Two Great Republics, Rome and United States; late lecturer law department Northwestern University, Illinois; president and lecturer Webster College of Law, Chicago; member Geographical and Historical Society, Paris, France; held incidental offices in general forms of trust ordinarily reposed from time to time in the ordinary citizen; unanimous nominee by the primary vote of the Democrats at large for United States Senator in 1912, and elected to the United States Senate by the legislature in March, 1913; named by President Wilson as United States Senate member of International Conference for Laws for Safety at Sea, assembled at London, England, January, 1914; author of Lewis on International Law. His term of service will expire March 3, 1919.

LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN, Republican, of Springfield, Ill., born in Miami County, Ohio, November 8, 1858; raised on farm; educated in common district schools of Jasper County, Lee's Academy, Coles County, and McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill.; married Ella M. Crews 1891, who died in 1893; no children; married Estelle Spitler 1908, who died in 1910, leaving Virginia Sherman, an only child; occupation, lawyer; member Illinois Legislature 1897-1905-speaker of house 1899-1903, lieutenant governor and president of State senate 1905-1909; president State board of administration in control of all public charities of Illinois at time of election to the United States Senate, March 26, 1913, for the term expiring March 3, 1915, and reelected November 3, 1914, for the term expiring March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 5,638,591.

BURNETT M. CHIPERFIELD, Republican, of Canton, Ill., was born June 14, 1870, in Bureau County, Ill., the son of Rev. Thomas Chiperfield, one of the pioneer Methodist clergymen of Illinois; married Clara L. Ross, of Canton, Ill., and they have three children. He has been a practicing lawyer of the State of Illinois since the year 1891, actively engaged in the trial of causes, and is now associated in the law business at Canton, Ill., with his brother, Judge C. E. Chiperfield, under the partnership name of Chiperfield & Chiperfield; was State attorney of Fulton County, Ill., and after the expiration of his term was elected representative in the General Assembly of the State of Illinois for four terms; was secretary and a member of the board of trustees of the Western Illinois State Normal School; has been actively connected with the National Guard of Illinois for nearly 20 years, and at present is lieutenant colonel and judge advocate of the Illinois National Guard; in the SpanishAmerican War organized a regiment for service and tendered the same to the State, but was not called to active duty. He is quite extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; he has always been a consistent Republican; received the Republican nomination for Congressman at large in 1912, but was defeated; was again nominated in 1914, carrying every county in the State in the primary except one, and was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 388,986 votes, against 356,678 for Thomas P. Sullivan, Democrat.

WILLIAM ELZA WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Pittsfield, was born near Detroit, Pike County, Ill., May 5, 1857; was educated in the public schools and at Illinois College, Jacksonville; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1880; located at Pittsfield, and has followed the practice of law exclusively; was twice elected State's attorney, and served in that capacity from 1886 to 1892; was elected to Congress from the sixteenth Illinois district in 1898; became trial lawyer for the City Railway Co. of Chicago in 1903; quit the service of that company and resumed the general practice in 1905; has held such minor offices as alderman, member of school board, etc.; is a member of the Congregational Church; is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the M. W. A.; married Margaret Gallaher, of Pittsfield, and has one child, a married daughter; was a Member of the Fifty-sixth Congress, and was elected to the Sixty-third Congress from the State at large, and reelected at large to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: First and second wards, third ward north of Forty-third Street, and that part of the fourth ward east of Halsted Street. Population (1910), 169,828.

MARTIN B. MADDEN, Republican, of Chicago, was born March 20, 1855; educated in the public schools and business colleges; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth wards; part of the third ward south of Forty-third Street. Population (1910), 279,646.

JAMES R. MANN, Republican, of Chicago, was born in 1856; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and each succeeding Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton, and Worth. CITY OF CHICAGO: Thirty-first and thirty-second wards; parts of the twentyninth and thirtieth wards south of Fifty-first Street. Population (1910), 250,328.

WILLIAM WARFIELD WILSON, Republican, of Chicago, was born March 2, 1868, at Ohio, Bureau County, Ill.; had a literary, commercial, and legal education, receiving the degrees of LL. D. and LL. B.; is a lawyer by profession; admitted to

the bar in 1893; was married to Sarah M. Moore in 1892 and has one son, Stephen Askew Wilson; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-fourth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Fifth ward; part of the third ward west of Stewart Avenue; part of the fourth ward west of Halsted Street; part of the eleventh and twelfth wards south of Twentysecond Street; part of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth wards north of Fifty-first Street. Population (1910), 229,963.

JAMES THOMAS MCDERMOTT, Democrat, of Chicago; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Tenth and twentieth wards; part of the eleventh and twelfth wards north of Twenty-second Street; and the thirty-fourth ward east of South Homan Avenue. Population (1910), 192,411.

ADOLPH J. SABATH, Democrat, of Chicago, was born April 4, 1866, in Bohemia; emigrated to the United States in 1881, locating at Chicago, Ill.; studied law at the Chicago College of Law, graduated in 1891, and admitted to practice in the same year; received the degree of LL. B. from Lake Forest University in 1892; was engaged in the practice of law until 1895; judge and magistrate of municipal court from 1895 to 1907; the last four years chairman of the central and executive committees of the Democratic Party; member of Iroquois, Standard, and Press Clubs, Masons, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Royal League, and other fraternal societies; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving more votes than the combined total of those cast for all the other candidates.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Cicero, Lyons, Proviso, Riverside, and Stickney. CITY OF CHICAGO: Thirteenth, twentieth, and thirty-fourth wards; part of the thirty-fifth ward south of the Chicago & North Western Railway right of way. Population (1910), 283,148. JAMES MCANDREWS, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; served in Fifty-seventh, Fiftyeighth, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.--COOK COUNTY: Towns of Barrington, Elkgrove, Hanover, Leyden, Maine, Norwood Park, Palatine, Schaumberg, and Wheeling. CITY OF CHICAGO: Fourteenth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth wards, and that part of the fifteenth ward west of Robey Street; part of the thirtyfifth ward north of the Chicago & North Western Railway right of way. Population (1910), 349,883. FRANK BUCHANAN, Democrat, of Chicago, was born on a farm in Jefferson County, Ind.. on the 14th day of June, 1862; attended country school, worked on the farm, and later became a bridge builder and structural iron worker; was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth wards; part of the fifteenth ward east of Robey Street. Population (1910), 236,481.

THOMAS GALLAGHER, Democrat, of Chicago, was born in Concord, N. H., in 1850; moved to Chicago in 1866; was educated in the public schools; learned the trade of iron molder; in 1878 he entered the hat business; is a director of the Wendell State Bank; married since 1886; was elected twice a member of the city council of Chicago, and was for six years a member of the board of education; has served as president of the county Democracy, chairman of the county central committee of the Democratic Party of Cook County, and a member of the executive committee of that body; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT. CITY OF CHICAGO: Twenty-first ward; parts of twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth wards south of Irving Park Boulevard. Population (1910), 187,013.

FRED A. BRITTEN, Republican, of Chicago, was born in that city November 18, 1871; was educated in the public schools and business college of San Francisco; has been in the general building construction business, doing work in different parts of the United States, since 1894; represented the twenty-third ward in the Chicago City Council from 1908 to 1912; is credited with being the only Republican in the United States to succeed in defeating a sitting Congressman for election to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 11,650 votes, to 10,202 votes for Lynden Evans, Democrat; 7,566 for C. O. Ludlow, Progressive; and 3,964 for Frank S. Schifflersmith, Socialist. Was reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 10,773 votes, to 7,700 votes for Oscar F. Nelson, Democrat; 5,200 for Richard C. Crane, 3d, Progressive; and 1,800 for Frank S. Schifflersmith, Socialist.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Evanston, Niles, New Trier, and Northfield. CITY OF CHICAGO: Twenty-second ward west of Halsted Street between North Avenue and Center Street; twenty-third ward west of Halsted Street and south of Fullerton Avenue, and that part west of Racine Avenue; twenty-fourth ward; twenty-fifth ward north of Irving Park Boulevard, and that part south of Irving Park Boulevard between Racine and Southport Avenues; and the twenty-sixth ward east of Western Avenue, and also that part west of Western Avenue and north of Devon Avenue. LAKE COUNTY. Population (1910), 281,590.

GEORGE EDMUND FOSS, Republican, of Chicago, was born at Berkshire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2, 1863; graduated from Harvard College in 1885; attended the Columbia Law School and School of Political Science in New York City, and graduated from the Union College of Law of Chicago in 1889, receiving the degree of LL. B.; admitted to the bar the same year and began the practice of law in Chicago; never held any political office until elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixtyfirst, Sixty-second, and Sixty-fourth Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Dupage, Kane, McHenry, and Will (4 counties). Population (1910), 242,174.

IRA CLIFTON COPLEY, of Aurora, was nominated and elected as a Progressive Republican in 1910; was renominated as a Progressive Republican in 1912, and elected by Progressive votes that same year; he was born in Knox County, Ill., October 25, 1864; his family removed to Aurora in 1867; graduated from West Aurora High School in 1881; prepared for college at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, and graduated from Yale College in 1887, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts; graduated from Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1889, and has been connected with the gas and electric business in Aurora since that year; is married; was elected to the Sixtysecond and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Dekalb, Grundy, Kendall, Lasalle, and Winnebago (6 counties). Population (1910), 237,162.

CHARLES E. FULLER, Republican, of Belvidere, was born on a farm near Belvidere, Ill., March 31, 1849, and was married to Miss Sarah A. Mackey in 1873; was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1870; was city attorney of Belvidere two terms; State's attorney for Boone County one term; representative in the General Assembly of Illinois three terms; State senator two terms; circuit judge for six years; raised a regiment for the Spanish-American War in 1898, and was commissioned colonel by Gov. Tanner, but the regiment was never called into service; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses, and elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 20,811 votes, to 9,700 for William H. Hinebaugh, Progressive; 8,726 for George V. B. Weeks, Democrat; and 1,720 for George North Taylor, Socialist.

THIRTEENTH_DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, and Whiteside (6 counties). Population (1910), 167,634.

JOHN CHARLES MCKENZIE, Republican, of Elizabeth, Ill., was born on a farm in Woodbine Township, Jo Daviess County, Ill., February 18, 1860; educated in the common schools; taught school, farmed for a number of years, then read law; was admitted to the bar and is now engaged in the practice of the profession; served four years as a member of the Illinois State Claims Commission under Gov. John R. Tanner; served two terms in the house and three terms in the senate of the Illinois General Assembly; served one term as president pro tempore of the senate; is a widower; has one child, a daughter; was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1910), 180,689.

CLYDE H. TAVENNER, Democrat, of Cordova, Ill., was born at Cordova February 4, 1882; when 13 years old started to work in a country newspaper office, setting type "at the case" steadily for four years; then took up editorial end of newspaper work on large city dailies; more than 2,000 country weeklies are regularly publishing his weekly letter of Vital Washington News; in 1909 he went abroad and wrote a series of 100 letters on the tariff systems of England, France, Germany, and Italy; director of publicity for the Democratic national congressional committee in the campaigns of 1910 and 1912; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, running 2,000 ahead of the national ticket, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 5,000 more votes than the head of the ticket.