FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Williams (7 counties). Population (1910), 180,550.

NELSON E. MATTHEWS, Republican, of Ottawa, was born in Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio, April 14, 1852; received his education in public schools of that place; December 20, 1877, married Miss Grace C. Pugh, of Ottawa, Ohio; with the exception of two years in Wisconsin and one in Iowa has spent his entire life in Ohio, engaged in banking, mercantile, and manufacturing pursuits; was a delegate from the fifth congressional district of Ohio to the Republican national convention in Chicago, 1908; was a member from Putnam County of the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 508 votes over Hon. T. T. Ansberry, Democrat, and 1,670 for Curtis C. Baxter, Progressive.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Pike, and Scioto (6 counties).
Population (1910), 172,035.

CHARLES C. KEARNS, Republican, of Amelia (office address, Batavia, Ohio), was born at Tonica, Ill., the son of Barton Kearns and Amanda (Saulsbury) Kearns; is a lawyer; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 19,456 votes, to 17,766 for the Democratic candidate, 1,164 for the Socialist candidate, and 86 for the Progressive candidate.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Logan, Madison, Union, and Warren (9 counties). Population (1910), 264,297.

SIMEON D. FESS, Republican, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, was born in Allen County, Ohio, near Lima, December 11, 1861; after his father's death he went to live with his sister; attended country school, and at the age of 20 entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1889; was chosen to the chair of American history in his alma mater and later studied law, taking the degree of LL. B.; after admission to the bar became manager of the college of law in the university, after which he was made vice president of the university; in 1902 was called by President Harper to the University of Chicago, where he remained until 1906, when he accepted the presidency of Antioch College, which he now holds; in 1903 became editor of the World's Events, which he held until 1907; is the author of the following publications: An Outline Study of Physiology, Outlines of United States History, History of American Political Theory, and Civics of Ohio; in 1890 was married to Miss Eva Thomas, a teacher of Latin in the Ohio Northern University and an alumnus of that university; his family consists of Lehr, Lowell, Sumner, and Lois, a niece; in 1910 was chosen as Greene County's delegate in the Ohio constitutional convention, of which body he was vice president; was chairman of the education committee and the author of the amendment creating the department of State superintendent of public instruction; headed the voluntary committee of 10 that framed the present initiative and referendum amendment; the present taxation amendment is due to his forcing its reconsideration after it had been defeated in the convention; stood for the progressive changes made in the constitution both in the convention and before the people in the subsequent election; in 1912 was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a majority of 790 in a district that had given the Democratic candidate in 1910 a majority of 2,952 votes; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 15,303.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, Marion, Morrow, and Wyandot (6 counties). Population (1910), 173,849.

JOHN A. KEY, Democrat, of Marion, was born at Marion, Ohio, December 30, 1871; educated in the public schools of Marion; learned the printer's trade and became a practical journeyman; was a city letter carrier from 1897 to 1903; elected county recorder of Marion County in 1903, and reelected in 1906; private secretary of the late Hon. Carl C. Anderson for four years; in 1906 married Cora M. Edwards, and has one son and one daughter; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 22,490 votes, to 20,453 for John H. Clark, Republican; 1,168 for Frank B. McMillin, Progressive; 16 for William Long, Socialist; and 3 for A. D. Hollenbaugh, Prohibitionist.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lucas and Ottawa (2 counties). Population (1910), 215,088.

ISAAC R. SHERWOOD, Democrat, of Toledo, was born in Stanford, Dutchess County, N. Y., August 13, 1835; was educated at Hudson River Institute, Claverack, N. Y., at Antioch College, Ohio, and at Poughkeepsie Law College; enlisted April 16, 1861, as a private in the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, and was mustered out as a brigadier general October 8, 1865, by order of the Secretary of War; was in 43 battles, and

123 days under fire, and was six times complimented in special orders by commanding generals for gallant conduct in battle; commanded his regiment in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, and after the Battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., upon recommendation of the officers of his brigade and division, he was made brevet brigadier general by President Lincoln February 16, for long and faithful service and conspicuous gallantry at the Battles of Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville; member of Loyal Legion and G. A. R.; was elected probate judge in 1860; mayor in 1861; secretary of state in 1868; reelected in 1870; elected judge of probate court, Toledo, in 1878; reelected in 1881; elected to the Forty-third, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress over William E. Cordill, Republican, by over 12,000 majority.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, and Vinton (6 counties). Population (1910), 182,512.

ROBERT MAUCK SWITZER, Republican, of Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, was born March 6, 1863, near Gallipolis, Ohio, and his education consisted of instruction in the country district schools, a few terms at the Gallia Academy, and about five terms at Rio Grande College, all in his native county. He has always lived in Gallia County, Ohio, at or near Gallipolis, Ohio, excepting from August, 1883, until March, 1885, when he was a resident of Butler County, Kans.; he served as deputy sheriff of Gallia County, Ohio, from January, 1888, to January, 1892; during the year 1892 he attended the summer course of law lectures under the supervision of the late Prof. John C. Minor, of the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va., and the law course of the Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio, during the fall of the same year, and was admitted to the practice of law in the courts of Ohio in December, 1892, and since that time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of law at Gallipolis, Ohio; he was married in December, 1896, to Miss Alice M. Simmons, of Pittsburgh, Pa., formerly of Lawrence County, Ohio; was elected prosecuting attorney of Gallia County on the Republican ticket in the fall of 1893, and reelected without opposition in 1896, serving as such until January, 1900; was one of the delegates from the tenth congressional district of Ohio to the Republican national convention held at Philadelphia in 1900; was elected a member of the electoral college of Ohio in 1908; and was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fairfield, Hocking, Perry, Pickaway, and Ross (5 counties). Population (1910), 164,474.

EDWIN D. RICKETTS, Republican, of Logan, Hocking County, Ohio, was born on a farm near Maxville, Perry County, Ohio, August 3, 1867, and the early years of his life were spent on the farm and in aiding his father in mining coal at New Straitsville, Ohio. Was educated in the public schools, and for 12 years was a teacher and superintendent of schools; October 14, 1899, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and December 12, 1902, was admitted to practice in the Federal court; for 12 years has followed his chosen profession of the law in his home town; has held several positions of trust by appointment; is married and has three sons. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 17.708 votes, to 17,598 for Horatio C. Claypool, Democrat; 1,067 for R. D. Book, Progressive; and 1,274 for J. M. Colburn, Socialist. Every county in the district had been Democratic, the majority being 8,000. His home county gave him the largest majority ever given to a Republican candidate for either State or national office.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.—COUNTY: Franklin. Population (1910), 221,567.

CLEMENT BRUMBAUGH, Democrat, of Columbus, Ohio, son of Samuel D. and Elizabeth (Darner) Brumbaugh, was born on a farm near Greenville, Ohio, February 28, 1863; left an orphan at an early age by the death of his father, his youth was spent as a farm hand and attending the district school; later taught school in the winter and worked on the farm in the summer; after becoming of legal age, by teaching, working, and tutoring began to work out his educational career; graduated in scientific course with B. S. degree at National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, 1887; from 1887 to 1891 founded and conducted the Van Buren Academy; took special course in ancient languages at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, from 1891 to 1893; fall of 1893 entered the senior year, classical course, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and graduated with Å. B. degree from Harvard, June, 1894; taught the following year in Washington, D. C.; was superintendent of schools of his native city, Greenville, Ohio, from 1896 to 1900; member and minority leader of Ohio Legislature from 1900 to 1904; was an alternate at large for the State of Ohio to the Democratic national convention at Kansas City, 1900; June, 1900, admitted to the practice of the law by the Supreme Court of Ohio, having taken

the law course in connection with the college courses; engaged in the practice of law at Columbus, Ohio; while holding the position of deputy superintendent of insurance for the State of Ohio was nominated for Congress by the Democratic Party at a Democratic primary of the twelfth Ohio congressional district held May 21, 1912, the district having a normal Republican majority of about 5,000; on account of previous progressive record in the Ohio Legislature was indorsed by the Progressive Party of the congressional district; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 24,340 votes, to 14,682 for Hon. Edward L. Taylor, jr., Republican; 7,095 for Jacob L. Bachman, Socialist; and 450 for John R. Schmidt, Labor-Socialist, being the only Democratic nominee for Congress in Ohio receiving the indorsement of the Progressive Party for Congress. Was reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood (5 counties). Population (1910), 196,455.

ARTHUR WARREN OVERMYER, Democrat, of Fremont, was born on a farm in Sandusky County, Ohio, May 31, 1879; attended the public schools and Lima Lutheran College, Lima, Ohio; began teaching at 16; later entered the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, graduating in 1902 with the degree of LL. B.; at once located at Fremont, county seat of Sandusky County, and has since continued the general practice of law. He was secretary of the Sandusky County Agricultural Society from 1903 to 1909; secretary of the Ohio Fair Managers' Association 1908; manager speed department Ohio State Fair 1909 to 1914; vice president (1913) and president (1914) of the Ohio Fair Boys' Association; clerk Fremont board of health 1907 to 1910; elected city solicitor of Fremont two terms, 1910 to 1914; married June 17, 1903, at Ada, Ohio, to Miss Nina Zeldon Preston, and they have one child, Richard Preston; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 74 votes, the Republican candidate for governor carrying the district by 2,229 votes. Mr. Overmyer received 22,085 votes, to 22,011 for Mr. Hatfield, Republican; 1,640 for Mr. Ward, Progressive; and 1,443 for Mr. Maxwell, Socialist.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit (4 counties). Popula tion (1910), 238,195.

SEWARD H. WILLIAMS, Republican, of Lorain, Ohio, was born November 7, 1870, at Amsterdam, N. Y. He attended the common schools and academy of that city until his entrance into Williams College; began a law preparatory course at Princeton, which was cut short through the death of his father; graduated in law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1895, and the same year was admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio; in 1897 was married to S. Jeannette Reynolds, of Lorain, Ohio, and has two children, Seward R. and Margaret L. Williams; was elected city solicitor of Lorain for two terms; was a member of the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth General Assembly of Ohio, which position he held when elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 21,717 votes, to 20,303 for Hon. E. R. Bathrick, Democrat; 5,892 for H. M. Haglebarger, Progressive; and 3,504 for C. E. Sheplin, Socialist.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, and Washing. ton (6 counties). Population (1910), 204,568.

WILLIAM C. MOONEY, Republican, of Woodsfield, Ohio, was born at Beallsville, Monroe County, Ohio, June 15, 1855, son of Col. and Mrs. S. L. Mooney; attended Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware; married Elizabeth Davenport, and they have six children. He is actively engaged in banking and business. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.--COUNTIES: Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne (4 counties). Population (1910), 235,984.

ROSCOE C. McCULLOCH, Republican, of Canton, was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, November 27, 1880; educated in Millersburg, Ohio, public schools, Canton High School, University of Wooster, Ohio State University Law College, and Western Reserve University Law College; admitted to the bar of Ohio on the 5th day of December, 1903; began the practice of law at Canton, Ohio, January, 1904. After serving nearly three years as assistant prosecuting attorney of Stark County he resigned and entered upon the general practice of law. He is married and has two children. Received the Republican nomination for Congress in May, 1912, in the eighteenth congressional district of Ohio, composed of Columbiana, Mahoning, and Stark Counties; was defeated at the following national election in November, 1912, by a majority of 556 votes in the district; was nominated for Congress in the sixteenth congressional district of Ohio, composed of Stark, Tuscarawas, Wayne, and Holmes Counties, without opposition, in May, 1914; elected at the succeeding November election by a majority of 7,951.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Knox, Licking, and Richland (6 counties). Population (1910), 213,716.

WILLIAM A. ASHBROOK, Democrat, of Johnstown, was born on a farm near Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio, July 1, 1867, and has always resided in that village; he attended the public schools in his native town, and afterwards a business college. He began the publication of the Johnstown Independent when he was 17 years old and has since continued to publish it; he was for three years secretary of the National Editorial Association of the United States; for the past 20 years has been interested in banking. He was married to Jennie B. Willison December 24, 1889; has no children. He was postmaster of his town during the second Cleveland administration, but never entered politics until 1905, when he was elected to the State legislature; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, defeating Judge Smyser, Republican, for reelection by 485 plurality; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress by 7,173 plurality, to the Sixty-second Congress by 10,934 plurality, and to the Sixtythird Congress by 19,752 plurality; reelected in the new seventeenth district, composed of the counties of Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Knox, Licking, and Richland, to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 8,108.

EIGHTEENTH_DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, and Jefferson (5 counties). Population (1910), 253,735.

DAVID A. HOLLINGSWORTH, Republican, of Cadiz, was born November 21, 1844, at Belmont, Belmont County, Ohio; in early infancy moved with his parents to Flushing, Ohio; is a son of the late Elihu Hollingsworth, of Flushing, and a lineal descendant of Valentine Hollingsworth, of the Society of Friends, who in 1682 came to America in the ship Welcome with William Penn; his mother, Lydia Ann (Fisher) Hollingsworth, was a native of Virginia, daughter of Barrack Fisher, a German farmer of near Pughtown, in that State; was educated in the public schools and at Mount Union College; enlisted while a schoolboy and served as a private soldier in Company B, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Union Army; studied law, and was admitted to the bar September 17, 1867, at St. Clairsville, Ohio; was mayor of Flushing in the same year; located at Cadiz, Ohio, and began the practice of law in September, 1869; was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County in 1873, and reelected in 1875; in 1879 was elected State senator, and reelected in 1881; was admitted, March 1, 1880, to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States; was chairman of the Ohio Republican State convention in 1882; in 1883, at the request of Gov. Charles Foster, who desired him to take charge of important tax litigation for the State in the supreme court, he resigned as State senator, and was appointed attorney general of Ohio to succeed George K. Nash upon his promotion to the supreme court commission; declined to be a candidate for election to the position, and at the close of his term, January 14, 1884, resumed the practice of law at Cadiz; was one of the organizers of the Ohio State Bar Association, and in 1908 acted as its chairman and delivered the annual address at Put in Bay; April 8, 1875, was married to Linda McBean, daughter of Dr. John McBean, a native of Scotland; two sons died in childhood. He has always taken an active and intelligent interest in the business enterprises of his county and State. He is a Methodist, a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias, and member of the G. A. R. He was elected in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the sixteenth Ohio district, and in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress from the eighteenth Ohio district.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashtabula, Mahoning, and Trumbull (3 counties). Population (1910), 228,464.

JOHN G. COOPER, Republican, of Youngstown, was born at Wigan, England, April 27, 1872, and came to America with his parents in 1880, locating at Youngstown, Ohio. Was educated in the public schools of said city, and at the early age of 13 secured employment in the steel mills, where he continued until 1896; in that year he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. as a locomotive fireman, and in 1901 was promoted to the position of engineer, which place he held until he took his seat in Congress March 4, 1915. In 1896 united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth M. Harries and has four sons. He entered political life in 1906, being elected one of the Republican county committee; in 1910 was elected by 1,000 majority to represent Mahoning County in the State legislature, and in 1912 was reelected to the same office by a majority of 3,300; in 1914 he won the Republican nomination for Representative in Congress by a plurality of 1,732 votes in the primaries, and at the election received 24,497 votes, to 16,782 for Mr. King, Democrat, and 2,721 for Mr. Harris, Progressive. TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: First, second, third, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth wards. Population (1910), WILLIAM GORDON, Democrat, of Cleveland, was born on a farm near Oak Harbor, Ohio, December 15, 1862; educated in public schools, Toledo Business College, and

University of Michigan; taught district school three winters; admitted to the bar in 1893; in 1894 was elected prosecuting attorney of Ottawa County, and reelected in 1897, serving six years in that position; from 1890 to 1896 served as a member of the board of county school examiners of Ottawa County; in 1896 served as a delegate from the ninth district of Ohio to the Democratic national convention; in 1903 and 1904 served as a member of the Democratic State central committee from the ninth congressional district; is married and has two children; was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the old twentieth district of Ohio in 1910 and was defeated, receiving 20,500 votes, to 20,680 for Paul Howland, Republican; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress from the same district, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress from the new twentieth district, consisting of wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 on the west side and wards 9, 10, 21, 23, 24, and 25 on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, receiving 23,541 votes, to 14,215 for James E. Mathews, Republican; 2,127 for Frank G. Carpenter, Progressive; and 2,418 for C. E. Ruthenberg, Socialist.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: Fifth, sixth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth wards, and parts of the eleventh and eighteenth wards. Popu lation (1910),

ROBERT CROSSER, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born June 7, 1874, at Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and moved to Cleveland with his parents in September, 1881; attended the public schools at Salineville, Ohio, graduating from the high school in 1893; entered Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in September, 1893, and graduated in June, 1897, with the degree of A. B.; entered the law school of Columbia University in October, 1897, remaining part of a year, and the Cincinnati Law School in October, 1898, graduating from the latter in June, 1901, with the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the bar of Ohio in June, 1901, and entered upon the practice of law in Cleveland in September, 1901; was a member of the State house of representatives 1911-12, and was the author of the municipal initiative and referendum bill passed by the legislature in 1911; was elected a member of the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio, which convened at Columbus on January 9, 1912, and adjourned August 26, 1912, serving as chairman of the initiative and referendum committee, and was the author of the initiative and referendum amendment; was elected to the Sixtythird Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress from the twenty-first Ohio district by a plurality of 9,923, the vote being Crosser, 18,962; Vail, 9,039; Miller, 1,054; Socialist, 1,989.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-Lake and Geauga Counties, and that part of Cuyahoga County outside of the city of Cleveland, and the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-second, and twenty-sixth wards, and parts of the eleventh and eighteenth wards in the city of Cleveland. Population (1910), HENRY I. EMERSON, Republican, of Cleveland, was born on a farm in Litchfield, Kennebec County, Me., March 15, 1871, son of Ivory W. Emerson, a veteran of the Civil War, whose ancestors served in the Revolutionary Army. When 2 weeks of age his parents moved to Lewiston, Me., where he lived until 21 years old, when he removed to Ohio; graduated from the Lewiston High School in the class of 1890; studied law in the office of Judge W. H. Newell, at Lewiston, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in the class of 1893 with the degree of LL. B.; served in the city council of Cleveland in 1902 and 1903, during Tom L. Johnson's first term as mayor, and voted for all the 3-cent-fare ordinances during his term; practiced law in Cleveland for the past 21 years, and has offices in the Society for Savings Building; is married and has two children, Ross Emerson and Charlotte Marie Emerson. He is an active and progressive Republican and earned his nomination and election by his hard campaigning, and was the only Republican elected in Cuyahoga County at the election of November 3, 1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 17,166 votes, to 16,093 for Roy A. Tuttle, Democrat, and 9,023 for Col. J. R. McQuigg, Progressive.

OKLAHOMA.

(Population (1910), 1,657,155.)

SENATORS.

THOMAS PRYOR GORE, Democrat, of Lawton, was born in Webster County, Miss., December 10, 1870; his parents were Tom M. Gore and Carrie E. Gore, née Wingo; attended a local school at Walthall, Miss., and graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., 1892; moved to Texas in 1896 and to Oklahoma in 1901; married Nina Kay December 27, 1900; is a member of the Order of Elks, Moose, Knights of Pythias, and Woodmen of the World;