JOSEPH FORNEY JOHNSTON, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in North Carolina in 1843; quit school to join the Confederate army as a private in March, 1861; served during the war, was wounded four times, and rose to the rank of captain; practiced law seventeen years; was a banker ten years; was elected governor of Alabama in 1896 and reelected in 1898, serving four years; never sought or held any office other than governor and Senator. He was unanimously elected to the United States Senate by the legislature August 6, receiving the Republican as well as Democratic vote, to fill out the unexpired portion of the term of Hon. E. W. Pettus, deceased, ending March 3, 1909, also for the term ending March 3, 1915. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties). Population (1900), 181,781. GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR, Democrat, of Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala., was born January 16, 1849, in Montgomery County, Ala.; was educated at the South Carolina University, Columbia, S. C.; is a lawyer, and was admitted to practice at Mobile, Ala., November, 1871; entered the army as a Confederate soldier at the age of 15 years, in November, 1864, being then a student at the academy in Columbia, S. C.; served a few weeks with the South Carolina State troops on the coast near Savannah, and then enlisted as a private in Company D, First Regiment South Carolina Cavalry, and served as a courier till the end of the war; left the South Carolina University at 18, having graduated in Latin, Greek, history, and chemistry; taught school for several years, and studied law at the same time; was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Alabama in 1878, and served one term as a member from Choctaw County; in 1880 was elected State solicitor for the first judicial circuit of Alabama, and was reelected in 1886; declined a third term; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses; was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 3,592 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES. Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties). Population (1900), 239,653. OLIVER CICERO WILEY, Democrat, of Troy, was born in Troy, Ala., January 30, 1851, and educated in the common schools of his home town; was a member of the town council for five years; was two years chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Pike County; four years a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee; alternate delegate to the Democratic National conventions at St. Louis in 1888 and at Chicago in 1892; was president of the Alabama Midland Railway during its construction from 1887 to 1892; is president of the board of directors of the State Normal College at Troy, Ala.; director of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank, Troy, Ala.; vice-president and general manager of the Standard Chemical and Oil Company, Troy, Ala.; was married June 25, 1874, to Augusta Murphree, daughter of J. K. Murphree and Adelaide (Henderson) Murphree; was elected without opposition to the Sixtieth Congress for the unexpired term of his brother, the late Hon. Ariosto Appling Wiley. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, and Russell (9 counties). Population (1900), 223,409. HENRY D. CLAYTON, Democrat, of Eufaula, is a native of Barbour County, Ala.; is a lawyer; served one term in the Alabama legislature; was chairman of the judiciary committee; was United States district attorney from 1893 to 1896; was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1888 and 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress without opposition, having received every vote cast-6,922. In the Sixtieth Congress Mr. Clayton was chosen chairman of the Democratic caucus. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties). Population (1900), 178,716. WILLIAM BENJAMIN CRAIG, Democrat, of Selma, son of George Henry and Alvena White Craig, was born at Selma, Ala., November 2, 1877; was educated in the public and high schools of Selma and in June, 1898, was graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., with the degree of bachelor of laws; from 1893 to 1897 he served an apprenticeship as a machinist in the shops of the Southern Railway, at Selma; since June, 1898, has been engaged in the practice of the law as a member of the firm of Craig & Craig. From January 1, 1903, to January 1, 1907, he served a term as State senator in the legislature of Alabama, representing the thirtieth district. He has served in the Alabama National Guard as private and noncommissioned officer in Troop C, First Cavalry, and as captain of Company C, Second Infantry. December 2, 1903, he married Irene Kunst, daughter of Albert Henry Kunst and Matilda Camden Kunst, of Weston, W. Va. Was elected to the Sixtieth Congress without opposition, receiving 5,783 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties). Population (1900), 219,910. JAMES THOMAS HEFLIN, Democrat, of Lafayette, was born at Louina, Randolph County, Ala., April 9, 1869; was educated in the common schools of Randolph County, at the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and at the A. and M. College, Auburn, Ala.; studied law at Lafayette, Ala., under Judge N. D. Denson, and was admitted to the bar January 12, 1893; was married to Minnie Kate Schuessler, of Lafayette, Ala., December 18, 1895; and has one child living-J. Thomas Heflin, jr.; was elected mayor of Lafayette March 16, 1893, and reelected, holding this office two terms; was register in chancery two years, resigning in 1896 to accept the Democratic nomination from Chambers County to the legislature; was elected in 1896 and reelected to the legislature in 1898; was a member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1896 to 1902; was a delegate in the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1901; was elected secretary of state in November, 1902, for a term of four years; resigned that office May 1, 1904; was elected, without opposition, May 10, 1904, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Charles W. Thompson, deceased, in the Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, to the latter also without opposition, receiving 6,940 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker (9 counties). Population (1900), 218,324. RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON, Democrat, of Greensboro, was born at Greensboro, Ala., August 17, 1870; was educated at the Southern University, the United States Naval Academy, the French National School of Naval Design; is a naval architect and lecturer; served in the United States Navy from 1885 to 1903; received the degree of LL. D. from Southern University, June, 1906; was Democratic elector at large, Alabama, in 1904; married Grizelda Houston Hull May 25, 1905; is tenth in descent from Elder Brewster, of the Mayflower; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 8,308 votes, to 1 for Ignatius Green, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Franklin, Marshall, St. Clair, and Winston (8 counties). Population (1900), 158,643. JOHN LAWSON BURNETT, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., was born at Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January 20, 1854; was educated in the common schools of the county, at the Wesleyan Institute, Cave Springs, Ga., and Gaylesville High School, Gaylesville, Ala.; studied law at Vanderbilt University, and was admitted to the bar in Cherokee County, Ala., in 1876; was maried to Miss Bessie Reeder, of Cleveland, Tenn., December 13, 1896; was elected to the lower house of the Alabama legislature in 1884, and to the State senate in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 8,265 votes, to 4,913 for C. B. Kennamer, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). Population (1900), 194,441. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Democrat, of Huntsville, Ala., was in the Confederate army; was severely wounded at battle of Chickamauga and paroled in April, 1865, in Marietta, Ga.; was a representative from the county of Limestone in the general assembly of Alabama, 1865-6-7; was judge of the court of probate and county court of Madison County, Ala., from 1875 to 1886; Democratic elector for the State at large in 1888; was elected by the Alabama State Democratic convention as a delegate from the State at large to the national Democratic convention that met at St. Louis July 6, 1904; was elected to fill an unexpired term in the Fifty-sixth Congress; elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, practically without opposition, receiving 5,873 votes, to 317 for J. T. Masterson, Republican. At the primary election, held May 18, to nominate a Democratic candidate Mr. Richardson received 9,653 votes, and was reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 9,710 votes to 1,927 for Jeremiah Murphy, Republican. NINTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.—Bibb, Blount, Jefferson, and Perry (4 counties). Population (1900), 213,820. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rugby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress without opposition, receiving 7,864 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. ARKANSAS. SENATORS. JAMES P. CLARKE, Democrat, of Little Rock, was born in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., August 18, 1854, second child and eldest son of Walter and Ellen (White) Clarke; was educated in the common schools of his native town, in several academies in Mississippi, and studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1878; began the practice of his profession at Helena, Ark., in 1879. He entered the political field in 1886, being then elected to the house of representatives of the Arkansas legislature; in 1888 was elected to the State senate, serving until 1892 and being president of that body in 1891 and ex officio lieutenant-governor; was elected attorney-general of Arkansas in 1892, but declined a renomination, and was elected governor in 1894. At the close of his service as governor he removed to Little Rock and resumed the practice of the law. He was elected to the United States Senate to succeed James K. Jones, having been previously chosen as the Democratic nominee by a primary election held on the 29th of March, 1902, receiving 61,228 votes to 53,828 cast for James K. Jones. He took his seat March 9, 1903. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909. JEFF DAVIS, Democrat, of Little Rock, was born in Little River County, Ark., May 6, 1862; was admitted to the bar in Pope County, Ark., at the age of 19 years; was elected prosecuting attorney of the fifth judicial district in 1892, and reelected in 1894; was elected attorney-general of the State in 1898; governor of Arkansas in 1901, reelected in 1903, and again in 1905, each for a period of two years; was delegate at large to the national Democratic convention in 1904; was elected to the United States Senate February 29, 1907, for the term beginning March 4, 1907. His term of service will expire March 3, 1913. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis, and Woodruff (11 counties). Population (1900), 180,790. ROBERT BRUCE MACON, Democrat, of Helena, is a lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,715 votes, to 1,214 for D. F. Taylor, Republican. Reelected to the Sixtyfirst Congress. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Prairie, Randolph, Sharp, Stone, and White (12 counties). Population (1900), 184,492. STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, JR., Democrat, of Searcy, was born in White County, Ark., January 1, 1857; was educated in the private schools of the county; studied law at Searcy with the firm of Coody & McRae, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar, and has since resided in Searcy, where he has been engaged in the practice of law; in September, 1886, was elected prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district of Arkansas, and reelected in 1888 without opposition; since 1890 has served a term as member of the Democratic State central committee of Arkansas; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,137 votes, to 1,216 for E. J. Mason, Republican. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Van Buren, and JOHN CHARLES FLOYD, Democrat, of Yellville, was born in Sparta, White County, Tenn., April 14, 1858; moved with his parents to Benton County, Ark., in 1869, where he worked on a farm and attended the common and high schools until he was 18 years old; in 1876 entered the State University, at Fayetteville, Ark., taking the classical course, from which institution he graduated in 1879; in 1880 and 1881 taught school; in 1882 read law and was admitted to the bar; the same year he located at Yellville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law; is married; in 1888 was elected representative of Marion County in the State legislature; in 1890 and again in 1892 was elected prosecuting attorney of the fourteenth circuit, each time without opposition; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,715 votes, to 3,246 for W. N. Ivey, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Crawford, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, and Sevier (11 counties). Population (1900), 191,752. WILLIAM BEN CRAVENS, Democrat, of Fort Smith, was born at Fort Smith, Ark., January 17, 1872; graduated from the law school of Missouri University in 1893; is a practicing lawyer and married; was elected city attorney of Fort Smith for two terms of two years each, and prosecuting attorney of the twelfth judicial district of Arkansas for three terms of two years each; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 7,290 votes, to 3,845 for George Tilles, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty first Congress. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell (8 counties). Population (1900), 190,333. CHARLES CHESTER REID, Democrat, of Morrillton, Conway County, was born at Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark., June 15, 1868; his father, Charles C. Reid, of Morrillton, was born at Trenton, N. J., and came to Arkansas during the war and married here; entered the State University at Fayetteville in 1883, at the age of 15 years, where he remained three years; in 1885 entered the law department of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn., and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from that institution in 1887; he also won the University's medal for oratory; at the age of 19 began the practice of law at Morrillton, and has remained there ever since; in 1890 was married to Miss Dine Crozier, daughter of a prominent merchant of Morrillton; was elected prosecuting attorney of his judicial district in 1894, and reelected without opposition in 1896; in 1898 voluntarily retired from office; elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,967 votes, to 1,976 for Alonzo Hedges, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, and Saline (12 counties). Population (1900), 196,292. JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON, Democrat, of Lonoke, was born August 26, 1872; educated in the common schools and the University of Arkansas; began the practice of law in 1895; was elected to the general assembly of the State of Arkansas in 1894 and served in the session of 1895; was Presidential elector for the Sixth Congressional district of Arkansas in 1900, and selected as electoral messenger; was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,473 votes, to 1,010 for R. C. Thompson. At the primary election for the nomination Mr. Robinson received 25,000 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada, Ouachita, and Union (11 counties). Population (1900), 190,509. ROBERT MINOR WALLACE, Democrat, of Magnolia, was born at New London, Union County, Ark., August 6, 1857; entered Arizona College, Louisiana, 1872, and graduated in 1876; was admitted to the bar in Little Rock, from the office of Judge U. M. Rose in 1877; was a member of the legislature in 1881; post-office inspector 1887-1889; prosecuting attorney thirteenth circuit 1890-1892; assistant United States attorney 1895, at Texarkana; was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress without opposition, receiving 3,255 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. CALIFORNIA. SENATORS. GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS, Republican, of Oakland, was born at Kennebunkport, Me., in 1839; was reared on a farm, and attended public school until his thirteenth year, when he shipped on board a sailing ship for New Orleans, and followed the calling of a sailor on ships engaged in the European trade. In 1855 he shipped "before the mast" on the sailing ship Galatea bound for San Francisco, where he arrived in the autumn of that year. Since that time he has been engaged in the business of merchandising, banking, farming, mining, whale fishery, and steamship transportation. In 1868 he was elected to the State senate, serving eight years; has been president of the Merchants' Exchange in San Francisco; also of the San Francisco Art Association; is a director of the California Academy of Sciences and other public institutions; in 1879 he was elected governor of California, serving until January, 1883; was appointed, July 24, 1893, United States Senator to fill, until the election of his successor, the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his seat August 8, 1893. In January, 1895, having made a thorough canvass before the people of his State, he was elected by the legislature on the first ballot to fill the unexpired term. In the fall election of 1896 he was a candidate before the people of California for reelection, and received the indorsement of the Republican county conventions that comprised a majority of the senatorial and assembly districts in the State. When the legislature convened in joint convention (January, 1897) for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, he was reelected on the first ballot. In January, 1903, he was again reelected on the first ballot for the term of six years, receiving every vote of the Republican members of the legislature. His election was made unanimous on motion of a Democratic member of the legislature. At the time of his election in 1897 and in 1903 he was absent from the State attending to his Congressional duties in Washington. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909. FRANK PUTNAM FLINT, Republican, of Los Angeles, was born in North Reading, Mass., July 15, 1862; in 1869 his parents moved to San Francisco, where he was educated in the public schools; in 1888 he moved to Los Angeles; was admitted to practice law and appointed assistant United States attorney in 1892; in 1897 was appointed United States district attorney for the southern district of California; was married in Los Angeles, February 25, 1890, to Miss Katherine J. Bloss, and has two children. He was elected to the United States Senate January 11, 1905, to succeed Hon. Thomas R. Bard, for the term beginning March 4, 1905. His term of service will expire March 3, 1911. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Del Norte, Eldorado, Humboldt, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Nevada, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, and Tuolumne (19 counties). Population (1900), 180,871. WILLIAM F. ENGLEBRIGHT, Republican, of Nevada City, was born in New Bedford, Mass., November 23, 1855. At an early age his parents moved to Vallejo, Cal., where in the public schools he received his education; entered the service of |