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SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Darlington, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg (7 counties).

Population (1900), 201,577.

JAMES EDWIN ELLERBE, of Marion, was born near where he now lives January 12, 1867; has been a farmer all his life; his early education was received at Old Pine Hill Academy; in October, 1882, entered the South Carolina College, where he spent one year; entered Wofford College, at Spartanburg, S. C., in October, 1884, spending three years; there he graduated in June, 1887, taking the degree of A. B.; married Miss Nellie Converse Elford, of Spartanburg, S. C., November 23, 1887; to them five children have been born, and three of them are now living; in 1894 he was elected to the State legislature, and in 1895 represented, in part, Marion County in the State constitutional convention; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress without opposition, receiving 3,483 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, and Sumter (5 counties).

Population (1900), 183,753.

ASBURY FRANCIS LEVER, Democrat, of Lexington, was born January 5, 1875, near Springhill, Lexington County, S. C.; was brought up on his father's farm, attending the common schools of his community until his entrance into Newberry College, from which institution he graduated with the honors of his class in 1895; after graduation he taught school until he was selected as the private secretary to the late Hon. J. William Stokes, whom he succeeds; he graduated in law at the Georgetown University in 1899, and the same year was admitted to practice in his State by the supreme court; was a member of the State conventions in 1896 and 1900, and in 1900 was elected to the State legislature from Lexington County, holding that position until his resignation to enter the race to fill the unexpired term of the Hon. J. William Stokes in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and to this position he was selected without opposition; was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,391 votes, to 133 for A. D. Dantzler, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

SENATORS.

ROBERT JACKSON GAMBLE, Republican, of Yankton, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., February 7, 1851; removed to Fox Lake, Wis., in 1862; graduated from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1874; located at Yankton in 1875, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law; is a member of the law firm of Gamble, Tripp & Holman; was district attorney for the Second judicial district of the Territory in 1880; city attorney of Yankton for two terms; State senator in 1885, under the constitution adopted that year; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and elected to the United States Senate January 23, 1901, and reelected in 1907. His term of service will expire March 3, 1913.

ALFRED BEARD KITTREDGE, Republican, of Sioux Falls, was born in Cheshire County, N. H., March 28, 1861; was graduated from Yale College in 1882, and from the law school of that institution in 1885; immediately began the practice of law at Sioux Falls; was appointed to the United States Senate, July 11, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. James H. Kyle, and took his seat December 2, 1901; was elected by the legislature in 1903 to succeed himself. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.

Population (1905), 455,185.

PHILO HALL, Republican, of Brookings, was born at Wilton, Waseca County, Minn., December 31, 1865; is a lawyer and married; was State's attorney for Brookings County, 1892-1898; a member of the State senate, South Dakota, 1901; attorneygeneral for South Dakota two terms-1902-1906. Was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 48,096 votes, to 19,976 for W. S. Elder, Democrat; 19,791 for

S. A. Ramsey, Democrat; 2,439 for James Kirwan, Socialist; 2,349 for H. A. Berge, Socialist; 3,392 for C. V. Templeton, Prohibitionist, and 3,313 for R. J. Day, Prohibitionist.

EBEN WEVER MARTIN, Republican, of Deadwood, was born at Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, April 12, 1855, and came of English, Irish, and Scotch ancestry; was graduated from Cornell College in 1879, with the degree of B. A., and three years later received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater; attended the law school of the University of Michigan, and was there president of his class; was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1880, after which, in the summer of the same year, he moved to Deadwood, and has since practiced law continuously in the various State and Federal courts of that region; married Jessie A. Miner, daughter of George N. Miner, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 13, 1883; they have five children, three boys and two girls, all living; was a member of the Territorial legislature of Dakota in 1884 and 1885; was for several years president of the board of education of the city of Deadwood; is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, South Dakota Chapter, and of the Iowa Commandery of the Loyal Legion, the latter by inheritance from his father, Capt. James W. Martin, of Company I, Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteers, now deceased; was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fiftyninth and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. William H. Parker, and to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 63,187 votes to 35,681 for Robert E. Dowdell, Democrat; 3,347 for E. S. Chappell, Prohibitionist; 2,519 for Thomas J. Deffenbach, Socialist.

TENNESSEE.

SENATORS.

JAMES B. FRAZIER, Democrat, of Chattanooga, was born at Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tenn., October 18, 1858; graduated at the University of Tennessee in June, 1878; read law with his father, Judge Thomas N. Frazier, at Nashville, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar and removed to Chattanooga in 1881, and practiced law there continuously until 1902; was married in 1883 to Miss Louis Douglas Keith at Athens, Tenn.; was elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1900; was elected governor of Tennessee in 1902, and again in 1904; was elected to the United States Senate March 21, 1905, to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. William B. Bate, who died during the session of the general assembly, and resigned the office of governor of Tennessee on March 27, 1905. His term of service will expire March 3, 1911.

ROBERT LOVE TAYLOR, Democrat, of Nashville, was born July 31, 1850, at Happy Valley, Carter County, East Tennessee, at the place on the Watauga River where the first fort was established by John Sevier, son of Nathaniel G. Taylor, Member of Congress and Commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Johnson, and Emily Haynes Taylor, sister of Landon C. Haynes, Confederate Senator from Tennessee; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress from the First district in 1878; Cleveland elector State at large 1884; pension agent at Knoxville 1885; elected governor of Tennessee 1886 and reelected 1888; Cleveland elector at large again 1892; elected governor for a third term 1896; is a lawyer; represented the district in Congress represented before him by his father, Nathaniel G. Taylor, and after him by his brother, Alfred A. Taylor, the latter of whom he defeated for governor in 1886; was nominated for the United States Senate in the Democratic primary election May, 1906, and elected in January, 1907, by the almost unanimous vote of the legislature. His term of service will expire March 3, 1913.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington (12 counties).

Population (1900), 224,059.

WALTER PRESTON BROWNLOW, Republican, of Jonesboro, was born in Abingdon, Va., where he attended common school for three years; because of the death of his father he earned his support from the age of 10, serving an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade and as a locomotive engineer, at which trades he worked for several years; he entered the newspaper business as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle (edited by his uncle, the late Hon. William G. Brownlow, United States Senator) in 1876; in the same year he purchased the Herald and Tri

bune, a Republican newspaper, published at Jonesboro, of which he has since been the editor and proprietor; was a delegate from his district to the Republican national conventions of 1880, 1896, and 1900, and a delegate at large to the national conventions of 1884 and 1904; in 1880 was chairman of the campaign committee of his district; in 1882 was elected a member of the Republican State committee and served as such for eight years, two of which he was its chairman; was appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in March, 1881, and resigned in December to accept the Doorkeepership of the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress; in 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1904 he was elected by the delegations from his State to the national conventions as Tennessee's member of the Republican national committee, and was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican State executive committee by the members of that body for 1898-99; was elected by Congress as a member of the Board of Managers for the National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; was twice the Republican nominee for United States Senator; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, as a Protectionist Republican, in a district represented from 1843 to 1853 by the late President Andrew Johnson as a Free-Trade Democrat, receiving 17,249 votes, to 9,145 for J. H. Caldwell, Democrat, and 6,700 for A. A. Taylor, bolting Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Scott, and
Union (10 counties).
Population (1900), 217,324.

NATHAN WESLEY HALE, Republican, of Knoxville, was born in Scott County, Va., February 11, 1860. His father, Drayton S. Hale, is an old soldier and staunch Republican. Mr. Hale's education was secured at Nicholasville, Va., and Kingsley Academy, Tenn. He has been in the nursery business since 1878; is president of the Knoxville Nursery Company; also president of the Southern Nursery Company, Winchester, Tenn.; was president two years of the Southern Nurserymen's Association, and one year of the American Association of Nurserymen; helped organize and is a partner in the wholesale dry goods and notion firm of Brown, Payne, Deaver & Co., of Knoxville; a director in the East Tennessee National Bank, of Knoxville; president of Frank's Medicine Company, Knoxville. He also owns a large farm and supposes he is called a farmer. His political career began in 1890, when he was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Tennessee; in the succeeding election in 1892 he was elected to the upper house of the general assembly; in 1894 many counties instructed their delegates to vote for Mr. Hale for governor, but he did not attend the convention; was an unsuccessful competitor of Hon. H. R. Gibson for the Congressional nomination in 1902; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 13,822 votes, to 5,125 for E. L. Foster, Democrat, and 386 for S. F. Broughton, Socialist.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, James, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White (15 counties).

Population (1900), 228,577.

JOHN AUSTIN MOON, Democrat, of Chattanooga, is a member of the bar; was three times appointed and twice elected judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Tennessee; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 15,388 votes, to 11,389 for T. W. Peace, Republican, and 273 for A. Ellyson, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clay, Cumberland, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Morgan, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rhea, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, and Wilson (14 counties).

Population (1900), 188,452.

CORDELL HULL, Democrat, of Carthage, was born October 2, 1871, in Overton (now Pickett) County, Tenn.; was graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the lower house of the Tennessee legislature two terms; served in the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American war, with the rank of captain; later was first appointed by the governor, and afterwards elected, judge of the Fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee, which position was resigned during his race for Congress; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 11,961 votes, to 10,312 for J. E. Oliver, Republican, and 28 for J. T. McColgan, Socialist. Is and has been for a number of years a citizen of Jackson County, but present resident address is Carthage, Tenn. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Dekalb, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, and Rutherford (8 counties). Population (1900), 152,316.

WILLIAM CANNON HOUSTON, Democrat, of Woodbury, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., March 17, 1852; was educated at Woodbury, Tenn., chiefly; was reared a farmer, and had a year or two's experience running a country newspaper; was elected to the legislature in 1876; admitted to the bar in 1878; again elected to the legislature in 1880, and reelected in 1882; was a member of the State Democratic executive committee for four years; Democratic elector in 1888; elected circuit judge in 1894 and reelected in 1898; has a wife and five sons; is a member of the Christian Church, and lives on a farm; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 11,448 votes, to 4,451 for Tim Wade, Republican, and 110 for J. H. Baxter, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Cheatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Robertson, and Stewart (5 counties.)

Population (1900), 209, 197.

JOHN WESLEY GAINES, Democrat, of Nashville, lawyer by profession, native of his district, was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 12,546 votes, to 3,011 for J. W. Johnson, Republican, and 191 for H. G. Sneed, Socialist.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne, and Williamson (10 counties).

Population (1900), 189,836.

LEMUEL PHILLIPS PADGETT, Democrat, of Columbia, was born November 28, 1855, in Columbia, Tenn.; attended the ordinary private schools of the country till October, 1873, when he entered the sophomore class of Erskine College, Due West, S. C., graduating in 1876 with the degree of A. B.; began the study of law in September, 1876, in a law office, and was licensed to practice in March, 1877, but did not begin active practice until January, 1879, and since continued therein at Columbia; on November 11, 1880, was married to Miss Ida B. Latta, of Columbia; was one of the Democratic Presidential electors in 1884; in 1898 was elected to the State senate and served during the term; was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 12,750 votes, to 5,818 for J. P. Kidd, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, McNairy, Madison, and Perry (10 counties).

Population (1900), 180,937.

THETUS WILLRETTE SIMS, Democrat, was born April 25, 1852, in Wayne County, Tenn.; was reared on a farm; was educated at Savannah College, Savannah, Tenn.; graduated in the law department of the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., June, 1876; 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 1882, and held that office for two years; was chosen an elector on the Cleveland and Stevenson ticket in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 11,209 votes, to 10,874 for J. C. R. McCall, Republican, and 36 for Clarence Roark, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, and Weakley (8 counties). Population (1900), 194,411.

FINIS JAMES GARRETT, Democrat, of Dresden, was born August 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, in Weakley County, Tenn., of Noah J. and Virginia Garrett; educated at the common schools, and at Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn., graduating from that institution in June, 1897, taking the degree of A. B.; was for a time engaged in teaching in the city schools of Milan, Tenn.; studied law under the instruction and in the office of the late Charles M. Ewing, at Dresden, and was admitted to the

bar in 1899; married in 1901 to Miss Elizabeth Harris Burns, of McKenzie, Tenn.; was appointed master in chancery September 14, 1900, and served until January 24, 1905; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 11,538 votes, to 3,437 for Yandrell Haun, Republican, and 20 for W. P. Outlaw, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fayette, Hardeman, Shelby, and Tipton (4 counties).

Population (1900), 235,507.

GEORGE WASHINGTON GORDON, Democrat, of Memphis, was born in Giles County, Tenn., and reared chiefly in Mississippi and Texas; received a collegiate education and was graduated at the Western Military Institute, Nashville, Tenn., in the class of 1859, receiving there about the same military education and training as were then given at the National Military Academy at West Point; practiced civil engineering till the outbreak of the civil war; enlisted in the military service of the State of Tennessee in June, 1861, in the capacity of drillmaster of the Eleventh Tennessee Infantry Regiment and was soon thereafter transferred, with the other Tennessee troops, to the military service of the Confederate States of America; was successively a captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of this regiment, and in 1864 was made a brigadiergeneral and served with that rank till the close of the war. Though captured three times and once dangerously wounded he participated in every engagement fought by his command except those at Nashville, Tenn., and Bentonville, N. C., at which times he was a prisoner at Fort Warren, Mass., where he was held till August, 1865, several months after the close of the war. Upon his release from prison he studied law and practiced that profession until 1883, when he was appointed one of the railroad commissioners of the State; in 1885 received an appointment in the Interior Department of the United States Government, and served during Cleveland's first term, four years in the Indian country; then resumed the practice of law till 1892, when he was elected superintendent of the Memphis city schools, which position he held until March, 1907, when he resigned to take his seat in Congress. He is now major-general commanding the Tennessee Division of the Federation of United Confederate Veterans, having been annually elected to this position for the last eight years. He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 10,378 votes, to 601 for T. Haines, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress.

TEXAS.

SENATORS.

CHARLES A. CULBERSON, Democrat, of Dallas, was born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., June 10, 1855; is the eldest son of the late David B. Culberson, for twenty-two years consecutively a member of the House of Representatives from Texas, and Eugenia Kimbal Culberson, daughter of the late Dr. Allen Kimbal, of Alabama; removed with his parents from Alabama to Texas in 1856; resided at Gilmer and Jefferson until 1887, when he moved to Dallas; graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, in the class of 1874; studied law under his father and at the University of Virginia in 1876-77 under Professors Minor and Southall; was the final orator of the Jefferson Literary Society and judge of the student law court, University of Virginia, in 1877; was elected attorney-general of Texas in 1890 and 1892; was elected governor of Texas in 1894 and 1896; was a delegate at large to the Democratic national conventions at Chicago in 1896 and at St. Louis in 1904, and was chairman of the Texas delegation at both; was chosen United States Senator January 25, 1899, with only three opposing votes, to succeed Senator Roger Q. Mills, and was unanimously reelected in 1905. His term of office will expire March 3, 1911.

JOSEPH WELDON BAILEY, Democrat, of Gainesville, was born in Copiah County, Miss., October 6, 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1883; served as a district elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884; removed to Texas in 1885 and located at his present home; served as elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fiftyfifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses; on the organization of the Fifty-fifth Congress, March 15, 1897, he was the Democratic nominee for Speaker of the House of Representatives; was chosen United States Senator January 23, 1901, to succeed Senator Horace Chilton; reelected in 1907. His term of service will expire March 3, 1913.

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