TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.-ALBANY COUNTY. RENSSELAER COUNTY: First, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth wards of the city of Troy. Population (1910), 221,711.

ROLLIN B. SANFORD, Republican, of Albany, N. Y., was born 1874; a lawyer; married; was elected to the Sixty-fourth and succeeding Congresses.

TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Rensselaer, except the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth wards of the city of Troy; Saratoga, Warren, and Washington (4 counties). Population (1910), 216,149.

JAMES S. PARKER, Republican, of Salem, was born at Great Barrington, Mass., June 3, 1867; prepared for college in the public schools of his native town and completed his education at Cornell University; in 1888 removed to Salem, Washington County, N. Y., where he has since made his home; after finishing his course at Cornell taught for several years at the St. Paul School, Concord, N. H.; for the last 15 years has been engaged in farming at Salem, N. Y.; represented Washington County in the assembly in 1904, 1905, 1908-1912; was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRTIETH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Schenectady (4 counties). Population (1910), 194,709.

FRANK CROWTHER, Republican; born July 10, 1870, at Liverpool, England; graduated Harvard Dental College 1898 with degree of D. M. D.; elected to New Jersey Legislature in 1904, and reelected in 1905; appointed on Middlesex County board of taxation by Gov. E. C. Stokes for three-year term; went to Schenectady, N. Y., in 1912; elected president of common council in 1917, and elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a plurality of 623 votes over George R. Lunn, DemocratProhibition, and Herbert Merrill, Socialist.

THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and St. Lawrence (4 counties). Population (1910), 216,410.

BERTRAND H. SNELL, Republican, of Potsdam, born in Colton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., December 9, 1870. Attended public schools there until 1884, when he entered the State Normal School at Potsdam, N. Y. Graduated from the State Normal School in 1889. After taking postgraduate course at the normal, he entered Amherst College in the fall of 1890; graduated in 1894. Married Miss Sara L. Merrick, of Gouverneur, N. Y., June 3, 1903; two daughters-Helen L. and Sara Louise. Began his business career as bookkeeper, and afterwards became secretary and manager of the Racquette River Paper Co. at Potsdam, N. Y. Is sole owner of the Snell Power Plant at Higley Falls, N. Y. Is president and manager of the Phenix Cheese Co., with offices at 345 Greenwich Street, New York City. Director of the Northern New York Trust Co., Watertown; director of the St. Lawrence County National Bank, Canton; trustee of the Potsdam Savings, Loan & Building Association; trustee and treasurer of the Clarkson Memorial College, Potsdam; trustee Potsdam Public Library; trustee A. B. Hepburn Memorial Hospital, of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; member local board of Potsdam Normal School; a member of the Republican State committee from the second assembly district of St. Lawrence; chairman executive committee of Republican State committee; delegate from thirty-first congressional district to Republican national convention at Chicago June, 1916; was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a plurality of 20,098.

THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, and Oswego (4 counties). Population (1910), 216,184.

LUTHER WRIGHT MOTT, Republican, of Oswego, was born in Oswego November 30, 1874; was educated at the Oswego High School and Harvard College, and has received degree of LL. D. from St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y.; since that time he has been in the banking business at Oswego, and was president of the New York State Bankers' Association in 1910 and 1911; was elected to the Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by increased plurality."

THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Herkimer and Oneida (2 counties). Population (1910), 210,513.

HOMER P. SNYDER, Republican, of Little Falls, N. Y.; born Amsterdam, N. Y.; interested in industries and banking; married; served in various capacities in municipal government; defeated Sixty-third Congress; elected Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs first session Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Broome, Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego (4 counties). Population (1910), 207,175.

WILLIAM H. HILL, Republican, of Johnson City, N. Y., was born at Plains, Pa., March 23, 1877; educated in the public schools of Binghamton, N. Y.; was elected president of his home village of Lestershire (now Johnson City), N. Y., at the age of 21; was postmaster at Lestershire for eight years; member of the New York State Senate two terms; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by 16,849 majority, which is the largest majority ever given a candidate in that district. Mr. Hill has two children, Dorothy and Richard. Mrs. Hill died August 17, 1915.

THIRTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cortland and Onondaga (2 counties). Population (1910), 229,547. WALTER WARREN MAGEE, Republican, of Syracuse, was born at Groveland, N. Y.; attended the common schools and Geneseo State Normal; graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, in the class of 1885, and from Harvard College in the class of 1889; married Sarah Genevieve Wood, a daughter of the late Brig. Gen. Palmer G. Wood; is a lawyer; served as a member of the board of supervisors of Onondaga County in session of 1892-93; was corporation counsel of Syracuse for 10 years from January 1, 1904; elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by approximately 8,000 plurality; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by more than 15,000 plurality and to the Sixty-sixth Congress by more than 19,000 plurality. THIRTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cayuga, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates (5 counties). Population (1910), 215,185.

NORMAN JUDD GOULD, Republican, of Seneca Falls, Seneca County, N. Y.; born at Seneca Falls, N. Y., March 15, 1877; elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins (5 counties). Population (1910), 211,299.

ALANSON B. HOUGHTON, Republican, of Corning, N. Y.; born October 10, 1863, at Cambridge, Mass.; glass manufacturer; married and has four children; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a plurality of 16,219.

THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.-MONROE COUNTY: The first, second, third, and fourth assembly districts. Population (1910), 220,355.

THOMAS B. DUNN, Republican, of Rochester, N. Y., was born in Providence, R. 1.; removed to Rochester and for many years was actively connected with different business enterprises in that city; was chief commissioner of the New York State commission to the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Jamestown, Va., in 1907; was elected to New York State Senate in 1907-8, and as New York State treasurer in 1909-10; also elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming. MONROE COUNTY: The towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden, and Wheatland, and the eleventh ward, third and fourth election districts of the fifteenth ward, nineteenth ward, and the irst, second, third, fourth, and sixth election districts of the twentieth ward of the city of Rochester. Population (1910),

ARCHIE D. SANDERS, Republican, of Stafford, was born in Stafford, Genesee County, June 17, 1857, the son of John and Elizabeth Dovell Sanders, who for several years was supervisor of Stafford and internal-revenue officer and member of assembly in 1879 and 1880. Father and son were extensively engaged in the produce business for many years, and later H. Ralph Sanders became a member of the firm. Archie D. Sanders was educated in the common schools, the Le Roy Academy, and Buffalo Central High School, and at the age of 16 years entered active business; was elected highway commissioner of Stafford in 1894 and supervisor in 1895; was elected member of assembly in 1895 and 1896, and served on railroad and other important committees; has been delegate to many State conventions and was delegate to national Republican convention at St. Louis in 1896, and was State committeeman for thirtieth congressional district in 1900 and 1901. In 1898 President McKinley appointed him collector of internal revenue for the twenty-eighth district of New York, comprising the counties of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Livingston, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Wyoming, Yates, Steuben, Chemung, Allegany, and Genesee, which position he filled for the following 14 years, being relieved by the Democratic appointee June 1, 1914. In 1914, in a three-cornered fight, for the nomination on the Republican ticket, he was elected State senator for the forty-fourth senatorial district of New York State, composed of the counties of Genesee, Wyoming, and Allegany, by a plurality of approximately 7,000 votes, and served on the following committees: Cities, internal affairs, taxation and retrenchment, commerce and navigation, and affairs of villages; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by more than 14,000 majority, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by more than 22,000 majority.

FORTIETH DISTRICT.-NIAGARA COUNTY. ERIE COUNTY: The city of Tonawanda; the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Buffalo, and the towns of Grand Island and Tonawanda. Population (1910), 209,587.

STEPHEN WALLACE DEMPSEY, Republican, of Lockport; assistant United States attorney 1899 to 1907; special assistant to Attorney General of the United States, 1907 to 1912, in prosecutions of the Standard Oil Co. and the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads on charges of giving and accepting concessions on freight rates. He is a member of the law firm of Dempsey & Fogle, Lockport; served in the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and reelected to the Sixtysixth Congress.

FORTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-ERIE COUNTY: The sixth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh wards of the city of Buffalo, and the towns of Alden, Amherst, Cheektowaga, Clarence, Elma, Lancaster, Marilla, and Newstead. Population (1910), 207,335.

CLARENCE MACGREGOR, Republican, of Buffalo, N. Y., was born at Newark, N. Y., September 16, 1872; educated at public grammar schools; graduate Hartwick Seminary; special student University of Rochester; admitted to bar New York State 1897; elected to New York Assembly 1907; served five terms; unmarried; elected to Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 16,492 votes, as against 16,458 for Charles B. Smith, Democrat, and 7,038 for Franklin Brill, Socialist.

FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-ERIE COUNTY: The city of Lackawanna; the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh wards of the city of Buffalo; and the towns of Aurora Boston, Brant, Colden, Collins, Concord, East Hamburg, Eden, Evans, Hamburg, Holland, North Collins, Sardinia, Wales, and West Seneca. Population (1910), 204,099.

JAMES M. MEAD, Democrat, of Buffalo, N. Y., was born December 27, 1885, at Mount Morris, Livingston County, N. Y.; served on the board of supervisors in Erie County in 1914, and in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918 served as a member of the New York State Assembly.

FORTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua (3 counties). Population (1910), 212,457.

DANIEL ALDIN REED, Republican, of Dunkirk, N. Y., was born September 15, 1875, at Sheridan, Chautauqua County, N. Y.; educated at district school, Sheridan, N. Y., Silver Creek High School, Silver Creek, N. Y., and Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; attorney at law; married and has two children; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress November 5, 1918.

NORTH CAROLINA.

(Population (1910), 2,206,287.)
SENATORS.

FURNIFOLD MCLENDEL SIMMONS, Democrat, of Newbern, was born January 20, 1854, in the county of Jones, N. C.; educated at Wake Forest College and Trinity College; graduated at Trinity College, that State, with the degree of A. B., in June, 1873; was admitted to the bar in 1875, and practiced the profession of law until 1901; in 1886 was elected a Member of the Fiftieth Congress from the second congressional district of North Carolina; in 1893 was appointed collector of internal revenue for the fourth collection district of North Carolina, and served in that office during the term of Mr. Cleveland; in the campaigns of 1892, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1906 was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the State; received the degree of LL. D. from Trinity College, North Carolina, June, 1901; June, 1915, received the degree of LL. D. from the University of North Carolina; was elected to, the United States Senate to succeed Hon. Marion Butler, Populist, for the term beginning March 4, 1901, and reelected in 1907, 1913, and 1918. Chairman of Senate Committee on Finance 1913-1919. A member of the Senate Committee on Finance, the Committee on Commerce, and of other committees. His term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

LEE SLATER OVERMAN, Democrat, of Salisbury, was born January 3, 1854, in Salisbury, Rowan County; graduated at Trinity College, North Carolina, with the degree of A. B., June, 1874; the degree of M. A. was conferred upon him two years later; since that time the degree of LL. D.; also degree of LL. D. conferred by the University of North Carolina in 1917; taught school two years; was private secretary to Gov. Ž. B. Vance in 1877-78, private secretary to Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis in

1879; began the practice of law in his native town in 1880; was five times a member of the legislature, sessions of 1883, 1885, 1887, 1893, and 1899; was the unanimous choice of his party and elected speaker of the house of representatives session of 1893; was president of the North Carolina Railroad Co. in 1894; was the choice of the Democratic caucus for United States Senator in 1895, and defeated in open session by Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, through a combination of Republicans and Populists; was president of the Democratic State convention in 1900 and 1911; for 10 years a member of the board of trustees of the State University; is also trustee of Trinity College; was chosen presidential elector for the State at large in 1900; married Mary P., the eldest daughter of United States Senator (afterwards Chief Justice) A. S. Merrimon, October 31, 1878; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, Republican, for the term beginning March 4, 1903, and reelected in 1909; was elected on November 3, 1914, for a third term, being the first Senator elected to the United States Senate by direct vote of the people of his State. Ilis term of service will expire March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington (14 counties). Population (1910), 193,250.

JOHN HUMPHREY SMALL, Democrat, of Washington, was born in Washington, N. C.; was educated in the schools of Washington and at Trinity College, North Carolina; is a lawyer; left college in 1876 and taught school from 1876 to 1880; was licensed to practice law in January, 1881; was elected reading clerk of the State senate in 1881; was elected superintendent of public instruction of Beaufort County in the latter part of 1881; was elected and continued to serve as solicitor of the inferior court of Beaufort County from 1882 to 1885; was proprietor and editor of the Washington Gazette from 1883 to 1886; was attorney of the board of commissioners of Beaufort County from 1888 to 1896; was a member of the city council from May, 1887, to May, 1890, and for one year during that period was mayor of Washington; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the first congressional district in 1888; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Beaufort County from 1889 to 1898; was the Democratic presidential elector in the first congressional district in 1896; has been for several years and is now chairman of the public-school committee of Washington; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Lenoir, Northampton, Warren, and Wilson (8 counties). Population (1910), 199,405.

CLAUDE KITCHIN, Democrat, of Scotland Neck, was born in Halifax County, N. C., near Scotland Neck, March 24, 1869; graduated from Wake Forest College June, 1888, and was married to Miss Kate Mills November 13 of the same year; was admitted to the bar September, 1890, and has since been engaged in the practice of the law at Scotland Neck; never held public office until elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress; elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson, and Wayne (9 counties). Population (1910), 178,775.

SAMUEL MITCHELL BRINSON, Democrat, of Newbern, was born at Newbern, N. C., March 20, 1870; received elementary and high school training in Newbern schools; was graduated from Wake Forest (N. C.) College in 1891; taught one year in the Newbern school; read law at the State University in 1895 and received license to practice law from the Supreme Court of North Carolina in February, 1896; practiced until March, 1902, when he was elected superintendent of public instruction of Craven County; held this office until March 4, 1919, when he began term in Sixty-sixth Congress, to which elected in November, 1918; was the Democratic nominee for Congress and received 10,205 votes, as against 7,000 cast for Hon. Claud R. Wheatley, the Republican nominee; was married January 16, 1901, to Miss Ruth M. Scales, of Salisbury, N. C., who died January 19, 1919; has one daughter, Mary Steele Brinson, by this marriage.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chatham, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Vance, and Wake (6 counties). Population (1910), 205,109.

EDWARD WILLIAM POU, Democrat, of Smithfield, was born at Tuskegee, Ala., September 9, 1863; was educated at the University of North Carolina; was chairman of the executive committee of his county in 1886; married Carrie H. Ihrie in 1887; was presidential elector in 1888; was elected solicitor of the fourth judicial district of North Carolina in 1890, 1894, and 1898; while serving his third term as solicitor was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fiftyninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 6,825 over R. H. Dixon, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Rockingham, Stokes, and Surry (11 counties). Population (1910), 330,474.

CHARLES MANLY STEDMAN, Democrat, of Greensboro, N. C., was born January 29, 1841, in Pittsboro, N. C. He entered the University of North Carolina at the age of 16, and graduated from that institution in 1861. He received his diploma, but before the commencement exercises responded to a call for volunteers and enlisted as a private in the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Company, which was in the First North Carolina (or Bethel) Regiment. Upon the disbanding of this regiment, he joined a company from Chatham County; was lieutenant, then captain, and afterwards major. He served with Lee's Army during the entire war, and was wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Immediately after the war he read law and procured his license to practice. On January 8, 1866, he married Miss Catherine de Rossett Wright, daughter of Joshua G. Wright, of Wilmington, N. C. In 1867 he moved to Wilmington and practiced law under the firm name of Wright & Stedman. In 1880 was chosen a delegate to the Democratic national convention. Was elected lieutenant governor in 1884, holding the position until the expiration of the term. In 1888, after a prolonged contest, he was defeated for governor by a very small majority. In 1898 moved to Greensboro and practiced law under the firm name of Stedman & Cooke. Served as president of the North Carolina Bar Association. In 1909 was appointed by Gov. Kitchin as director of the North Carolina Railroad Co., and afterwards elected its president. Was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by a majority of 3,602 over John T. Benbow, Republican; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, New Hanover, and Robeson (7 counties). Population (1910), 201,898.

HANNIBAL LAFAYETTE GODWIN, Democrat, of Dunn, was born November 3, 1873, on a farm near Dunn, in Harnett County, N. C.; was educated in the schools of Dunn and at Trinity College, Durham, N. C.; read law at the University of North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1896; married Miss Mattie Barnes December 23, 1896; was mayor of Dunn in 1897; was a member of the State senate of the North Carolina Legislature in 1903; was elected in 1904 Democratic presidential elector for the sixth congressional district of North Carolina; was a member of the State Democratic executive committee from 1904 to 1906; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, over A. L. McCoskill, Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anson, Davidson, Davie, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Scotland, Union, Wilkes, and Yadkin (13 counties). Population (1910), 255,130. LEONIDAS DUNLAP ROBINSON, Democrat, was born on a farm in Anson County, near Wadesboro, N. C., April 22, 1867, and has resided in Anson County all of his life; educated in the common schools of his county; located in Wadesboro in February, 1888; read law under Judge Risden Tyler Bennett and was licensed to practice law in February, 1889, and since that date has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession and farming; was elected mayor of Wadesboro in May, 1890; reelected mayor in 1891, 1892, and 1893; in 1894 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina; reelected in 1900; in 1901 was appointed solicitor of the thirteenth judicial district by Gov. Charles B. Aycock; in 1902 was elected solicitor, and reelected in 1906; in 1910 resigned the office of solicitor; in 1910 was elected president of the Bank of Wadesboro and has occupied that position since that date; married Nettie George Dunlap, of Anson County, N. C., April 7, 1897; has two sons, E. C. Robinson, jr., aged 22 years, and L. D. Robinson, jr., aged 18 years; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress November, 1916, by a vote of 20,518, over P. E. Brown, Republican, of Wilkes County, with a vote of 17,021, making a majority of 3,497.