tion; studied law and began to practice in 1893; same year was elected as representative of Nelson County to the general assembly; served as such in the sessions of 1894, 1896, 1897, 1898, and in the latter session was speaker of the house; in 1899 was Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor on the ticket with William Goebel, candidate for governor, and in the contest before the general assembly of 1900 was declared elected lieutenant governor at the same time that Goebel was declared elected governor. Upon the death of Gov. Goebel, February 3, 1900, he became governor, and at the special election on November 6, 1900, was elected as the Democratic nominee to fill out the unexpired term of Gov. Goebel, ending December 8, 1903; in the State primary of 1903 was renominated and in the general election of November, 1903, was reelected for a full term, ending December 10, 1907; in the State primary of November, 1906, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed Hon. J. B. McCreary, but in the general assembly of 1908 was defeated by Hon. W. O. Bradley, the Republican nominee; resumed, in 1908, the practice of law in Frankfort, Ky.; in the State primary of August 1, 1914, was nominated by the Democratic Party for the United States Senate over Gov. James B. McCreary and Congressman A. O. Stanley, and in the general election of November 3, 1914, was elected for the term beginning March 4, 1915, receiving 176,605 votes, to 144,758 for Hon. A. E. Willson, Republican, and 14,108 for Hon. Burton Vance, Progressive. At the Democratic national conventions at St. Louis in 1904, Denver in 1908, and Baltimore in 1912 he was a delegate from the State at large, and member of the committee on resolutions. November 21, 1900, was married to Miss Jean Fuqua, of Owensboro, Kv.; they have two children, a daughter and a son. His term of service will expire March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg (13 counties). Population (1910), 213,791.

ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY, Democrat, of Paducah, Ky.,was born in Graves County, Ky., November 24, 1877; educated in the county schools and in Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., graduating there in 1897, receiving A. B. degree, afterwards attending Emory College at Oxford, Ga., and the University of Virginia law school at Charlottesville, Va.; is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the bar at Paducah, Ky., in 1901; was married June 23, 1903, to Miss Dorothy Brower, of Paducah, Ky., and has three children; was elected prosecuting attorney for McCracken County, Ky., in 1905 for a term of four years; at expiration of term was elected judge of the McCracken County court and served until elected to Congress; was nominated for the Sixty-third Congress over three opponents, and was elected by a majority of more than 12,000 over his Republican opponent; was reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by an equally large majority.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Christian, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Union, and Webster (8 counties). Population (1910), 206,121.

DAVID H. KINCHELOE, Democrat, of Madisonville, was born on a farm near Sacramento, McLean County, Ky., on the 9th day of April, 1877; attended the public schools and afterwards one year at Valparaiso, Ind., and two years at Bowling Green College, at Bowling Green, Ky., and was graduated from said institution in July, 1898, with the B. S. degree; read law at Calhoun, Ky., and was admitted to the bar in May, 1899; was elected county attorney of McLean County in November, 1901, and served for four years, and was the youngest county attorney in Kentucky at that time; was married on January 14, 1904, to Miss Laura Stateler, then of Evansville, Ind., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Stateler; has one girl, now 7 months old; moved to Madisonville, Ky., January 1, 1906, and has been practicing law there ever since in the firm of Gibson & Kincheloe; received the Democratic nomination for Congress on the 1st day of August, 1914, defeating his Democratic opponent, Judge J. W. Henson, of Henderson, by over 6,000 majority, carrying every county in the district except one; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress on the 3d day of November, 1914, with the following vote: David H. Kincheloe, Democrat, 14,694; Alvin Clark, Republican, 10,469; N. B. Chambers, Progressive, 325-carrying every county in the district except one.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Metcalfe, Muhlenberg, Simpson, Todd, and Warren (10 counties). Population (1910), 189,004.

ROBERT YOUNG THOMAS, JR., Democrat, of Central City, was born in Logan County, Ky.; was educated at Bethel College, Russellville, Ky.; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the State legislature

in 1885 and 1886; was elected Commonwealth's attorney for the seventh judicial district in 1903 for six years, which office he held when nominated for Congress; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Ohio, Taylor, and Washington (13 counties). Population (1910), 210,406.

BEN JOHNSON, Democrat, born May 20, 1858, near Bardstown, Ky. Graduate of St. Mary's College and Louisville Law University. Served two terms in Kentucky House of Representatives. Was speaker of Kentucky House one term. Served one term in Kentucky State Senate. Was chairman of Kentucky Democratic campaign committee in 1908. Was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jefferson. Population (1910), 262,920.

SWAGAR SHERLEY, Democrat, of Louisville, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., November 28, 1871; educated in the public schools, graduating from the Louisville Male High School June, 1889; studied law at the University of Virginia, and graduated June, 1891; was admitted to the practice of law September, 1891, at the Louisville bar; has practiced continuously in State and Federal courts; was married to Miss Mignon Critten, of Staten Island, N. Y., April 21, 1906; never held public office prior to his election to Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton, and Trimble (8 counties). (Population (1910), 181,029.

ARTHUR B. ROUSE, Democrat, of Burlington, Boone County, was born June 20, 1874; attended school at Burlington and graduated from Hanover College, Indiana, with the degree of B. S. in 1896; graduated from the Louisville Law School in 1900; served as a member of the State executive committee for seven years and resigned to become a candidate for Congress in 1910; married Minnie Elizabeth Kelly December 14, 1910; was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 18,018 votes, to 1,689 for Emmett Orr, Progressive, and 786 for Frank Streine, Socialist.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bourbon, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Lee, Oldham, Owen, Powell, Scott, and Woodford (12 counties). Population (1910), 197,110.

JAMES CAMPBELL CANTRILL, Democrat, of Georgetown, was born at Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., July 9, 1870; was educated at Georgetown (Ky.) College; in 1893 he married Miss Carrie Payne, of Georgetown; in 1895 was elected chairman of the Scott County Democratic committee; in 1897 elected a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, and reelected in 1899; in 1901 was elected a member of the Kentucky Senate from the twenty-second senatorial district; in 1904 was elected chairman of the joint caucus of the Kentucky Legislature; in 1904 was nominated at Lexington for Congress, but declined the nomination, although the nomination was equivalent to election; the same year he was elected a delegate to the Democratic national convention; in 1906 Mr. Cantrill became active in the work of organizing the tobacco growers of Kentucky, and for several years past has given almost his entire time to this work; January, 1908, he was elected president of the American Society of Equity for Kentucky, an organization for the cooperation of farmers in securing more profitable prices for their products; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a large majority.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Shelby, and Spencer (11 counties). Population (1910), 165,822.

HARVEY HELM, Democrat, of Stanford, was born at Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; attended school at the Stanford Male Academy, and graduated from the Central University of Kentucky with the degree of A. B.; began the practice of law in 1890; elected a member of the house of representatives in 1893; served as such in the General Assembly of Kentucky, session of 1894; elected county attorney of Lincoln County in 1897 for the term of four years, and reelected in 1900; was delegate from

the eighth district to the Democratic national convention at Kansas City in 1900; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving a majority of 3,100 over the regular Republican nominee.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bath, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Fleming, Greenup, Harrison, Lawrence, Lewis, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Robertson, Rowan, and Wolfe (19 counties). Population (1910), 273,343.

WILLIAM JASON FIELDS, Democrat, of Olive Hill, Carter County, Ky., was born at Willard, Carter County, Ky., December 29, 1874; was educated in the common schools of Carter County and at Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky.; was married October 28, 1893, to Miss Dora McDavid, of Rosedale, Ky.; to them has been born five sons and one daughter, Forrest Gerard, R. Ford, Everett, Frank, William Earl, and Elizabeth Alice; is a farmer and real estate dealer; was a traveling salesman for 12 years preceding his nomination for Congress; was elected to the Sixtysecond and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, and Pike (10 counties). Population (1910), 141,111.

JOHN WESLEY LANGLEY, Republican, of Pikeville, was born in Floyd County, Ky.; received his early education in the common schools, in which he was a teacher for three years; attended the law departments of the National, Georgetown, and Columbian (now George Washington) Universities for an aggregate period of eight years and was awarded the first prize in two of them; had conferred on him the degrees of bachelor of laws, master of laws (in each of the three universities named), doctor of the civil law, and master of diplomacy; was an examiner in the Pension Office, a member of the board of pension appeals, and disbursing and appointment clerk of the Census Office; served two terms in the Kentucky Legislature, receiving in his second term the caucus nomination of his party for speaker of the house; was twice a delegate from Kentucky to Republican national conventions; married in 1904 Katherine Gudger, daughter of J. M. Gudger, jr., Member of Congress from North Carolina; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Monroe, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Wayne, and Whitley (15 counties). Population (1910), 250,248.

CALEB POWERS, Republican, of Barbourville, was born in Whitley County, Ky., February 1, 1869; attended Union College, Barbourville, Ky., State University, Lexington, Ky., Centre College, Danville, Ky., and the Valparaiso Indiana University, Valparaiso, Ind., where he graduated in law and was admitted to the bar in 1894; was elected superintendent of public schools for Knox County, Ky., in 1894, and reelected in 1897; in 1899 was elected secretary of state for the State of Kentucky. Contests were instituted by the Democratic opponents for all the State offices, including the one for which he was elected. During the contests Senator William Goebel, the Democratic contestant for governor, was shot and killed by an unknown assassin; and upon the heels of that followed Mr. Powers's long persecution, with which the public is familiar. After having served eight years three months and three days in the jails of Kentucky was given his freedom and was nominated for Congress in a Republican primary over his opponent, Congressman D. C. Edwards, by 9,861 majority, carrying 16 of the 19 counties in the district. In the final election, November, 1910, he defeated the Democratic opponent, Senator Elza Bertram, by 9,256 majority, again carrying 16 of the 19 counties. Had no opposition for renomination at the August primaries of 1912, but in the final election was opposed by Judge Ben V. Smith, Democrat, of Somerset, and H. H. Seavy, Bull Moose, of Corbin. Mr. Powers carried 13 of the 15 counties in the district, and ran 4,000 votes ahead of the Republican national ticket, defeating Smith by 6,771 plurality and Seavy by 9,487. Following his reelection to Congress he was married to Miss Anna Dorothy Kaufman, of Newport, Ky. At the August primary of 1914 Mr. Powers was again nominated for Congress. He won over his Republican opponent, Senator J. F. Bosworth, by 9,642, and carried 14 out of the 15 counties in the district. In the final election in November Mr. Powers won over former Congressman John Henry Wilson, the Independent candidate, upon whom the Democrats, Progressives, and others tried to unite, by 9,793 majority, carrying all of the 15 counties in the district.

LOUISIANA.

(Population (1910), 1,656,388.)

SENATORS.

JOSEPH EUGENE RANSDELL, Democrat, of Lake Providence, was born in Alexandria, La., October 7, 1858, the eighth child of John H. and Amanda (Terrell) Ransdell; obtained his early education in the private schools of Alexandria, and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in June, 1882, which institution elected him honorary chancellor and conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, June, 1907; was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in June, 1883; was elected district attorney of the eighth judicial district of Louisiana in April, 1884, which office he held for 12 years; was married to Olive Irene Powell, of Lake Providence, November 15, 1885; was a member of the fifth Louisiana levee board from May, 1896, until August, 1899; represented East Carroll Parish in the State constitutional convention of 1898; was elected to the Fiftysixth Congress in September, 1899, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. S. T. Baird, who died April 22, 1899; on his election to Congress gave up the practice of law and has devoted himself exclusively to his congressional duties and cotton-planting interests; has been especially active in behalf of legislation for waterways and has been president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress since 1905; served continuously in the lower House until the close of the Sixty-second Congress; received the nomination for United States Senator in a Democratic primary election held January 23, 1912; was elected by the legislature to succeed Hon. M. J. Foster May 21, 1912, and took his seat on March 4, 1913. His term of service will expire on March 3, 1919.

ROBERT F. BROUSSARD, Democrat, of New Iberia, was born August 17, 1864, near New Iberia, La.; attended school at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., and graduated from the law school of the Tulane University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, in 1889; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fiftyeighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress without opposition; was elected to the United States Senate in May, 1912, for the term beginning March 4, 1915.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and fifteenth wards. PARISHES: Plaquemines and St. Bernard. Population (1910), 203,120. ALBERT ESTOPINAL, Democrat, of Estopinal, was born in the parish of St. Bernard, La., January 30, 1845; educated in the public schools of his native parish and of New Orleans and by private teachers; left school in January, 1862, to enlist in the Confederate Army, in which he served first in the Twenty-eighth Louisiana Volunteer Regiment (Col. Allen Thomas), and after the siege of Vicksburg in the Twenty-second Louisiana Regiment (Col. I. W. Patton), surrendering to Gen. Canby at Meridian, Miss., in May, 1865; married Miss Eliska Legier, of New Orleans, in February, 1868; elected sheriff of St. Bernard Parish in 1872 and again in 1874; elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1876 and again in 1878; member of the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1879; elected to the State senate in 1880 and served continuously in that body urtil 1900, when he was elected lieutenant governor of the State, serving four years; member of the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1898; elected to the Sixtieth Congress to fill a vacancy; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtyfourth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: First, second, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth wards. PARISHES: Jefferson, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John. Population (1910), 220,557.

HENRY GARLAND DUPRÉ, Democrat, of New Orleans, was born at Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, La., on July 28, 1873; was educated in the public schools of Opelousas, and was graduated in 1892 from the Tulane University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, with the degree of bachelor of arts. He subsequently received the degree of bachelor of laws from the same institution; began the practice of his profession in the city of New Orleans in 1895 and has been continuously engaged therein since that time, serving as assistant city attorney of New Orleans from 1900 to 1910; was elected to the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana from the fourteenth ward of the parish of Orleans in 1900; was reelected in 1904 and in 1908; was elected speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana for the session of 1908,

and served in that capacity through the regular and extra sessions of 1910; was chairman Democratic State convention in 1908 to select delegates to the Denver convention; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress on November 8, 1910, to fill the unexpired term occasioned by the death of the Hon. Samuel L. Gilmore, and at the same election was elected to the Sixty-second Congress. He was reelected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses without opposition.

THIRD DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Assumption, Iberia, Lafayette, Lafourche, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, and Vermilion (8 parishes). Population (1910), 234,382.

WHITMELL PUGH MARTIN, Progressive-Protectionist, of Thibodaux, was born in Assumption Parish August 12, 1867. He studied in public schools and under private tutors until he entered the Louisiana State University, and was graduated from there in 1888 with the degree of B. S.; studied law at the University of Virginia, and after passing examinations before the courts of Virginia and Louisiana entered upon the practice of law in 1891. After practicing his profession for a short time in Assumption, he moved to Thibodaux, which place has since been his home; was superintendent of public education from 1894 to 1900; district attorney from 1900 to 1907; elected judge of the twentieth judicial district in 1907; was married to Miss Amy Williamson, of De Soto Parish, in 1896, and four children were born to them-Amy, Whitmell Pugh, jr. (who died at the age of 12 years, in May, 1914), Marshall Leigh, and Robert Campbell. In 1912 Judge Martin was alternate delegate to the Baltimore convention that nominated President Woodrow Wilson and was an ardent supporter of Wilson, but when the Underwood tariff bill placing sugar on the free list was passed, materially reducing the duty upon other products of Louisiana, believing that the Democratic Party had violated its traditions and platform pledges, and being of the opinion that a free-trade policy would prove ruinous to the interests of Louisiana, he left the Democratic Party and joined the Progressive Party. He was nominated by convention as the Progressive candidate for Congress and defeated his Democratic opponent by 1,426 votes, being the first non-Democratic Congressman to be sent from Louisiana in over 25 years.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River, and Webster (7 parishes). Population (1910), 185,041.

JOHN THOMAS WATKINS, Democrat, of Minden, was born at Minden, La., January 15, 1854; was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.: studied law and was admitted to the bar July, 1878; January 15, 1879, married Miss Lizzie R. Murrell; was elected district judge in 1892 and reelected in 1896 and 1900, his last term expiring December 8, 1904; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and West Carroll (14 parishes). Population (1910), 204,036.

RILEY JOSEPH WILSON, Democrat, of Harrisonburg, was born in Winn Parish, La., November 12, 1871; educated in the public schools of Louisiana, and at Arcadia Male and Female College, Arcadia, La., and Iuka Normal College, Iuka, Miss., graduating at the latter institution in 1894; was principal of Harrisonburg High School for 1895 and 1896; while teaching took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar of Louisiana November, 1898, by the supreme court; represented Catahoula Parish in the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1898, and also in the legislature from 1900 to 1904; was married to Miss Pearl Barnett, of Iuka, Miss., June 14, 1899; has three children, two boys and one girl; was editor of Catahoula News from 1898 to 1904; was elected district attorney of the eighth judicial district of Louisiana November, 1904, and reelected to the same office November, 1908; resigned the office of district attorney May, 1910, on being elected judge of the same district to fill out an unexpired term, and was reelected as judge November, 1912; was nominated as candidate of Democratic Party for Representative in Sixty-fourth Congress at primary election held September 1, 1914, by a majority of about 500 over Hon. Walter Elder, Representative in Sixty-third Congress, carrying 9 of the 14 parishes composing the fifth district; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress November 3, 1914, without opposition, except 145 votes cast for N. E. Chatham, Socialist; resigned the office of judge on being elected to Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana (12 parishes). Population (1910), 247,612.

LEWIS LOVERING MORGAN, Democrat, of Covington, was born in Mandeville, La., March 2, 1876; attended public schools and St. Eugene's College of St.