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from which institution he graduated in 1876 with the degree of B. S.; for a time he was professor of mathematics in his alma mater, from which institution, in 1879, he received the degree of M. S.; in 1880 he graduated from the Central Law School of Indianapolis, Ind., and was a member of the lower house of the Indiana Legislature in the session of 1880-81; was appointed register of the United States land office at Woodward, Okla., by President Roosevelt in 1904, and served until May 1, 1908; married in 1876 to Miss Ora Heath, daughter of Rev. A. R. and Mary Heath, of Covington, Ind.; from this union one son was born, Porter Heath Morgan, now an attorney of Oklahoma City, and who married Miss Clemmer Deupree, of Blocmfield, Iowa; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, part of Hughes, part of McIntosh, Mayes, part of Muskogee, Nowata, part of Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Ottawa, Rogers, Seminole, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner, and Washington (19 counties). Population (1910), 343,194. JAMES SANFORD DAVENPORT, Democrat, of Vinita, was born on a farm near Gaylesville, Cherokee County, Ala., September 21, 1864, and at the age of 15 years moved with his father's family to Conway, Faulkner County, Ark., where he worked on a farm for several years; was educated in the public schools and the academy at Greenbrier, Ark., working his way through high school and teaching in the summer months while attending the academy; read law with Col. G. W. Bruce, Conway, Ark., and was admitted to the bar of Faulkner County February 14, 1890; in October of that year he moved to Indian Territory, locating at Muskogee, and in 1893 moved to Vinita, where he has since resided, and continued the practice of his profession; has been twice married, in 1892 to Gulielma Ross, who died in 1898, and on June 15, 1907, to Miss Byrd Ironside, both citizens by blood of the Cherokee Nation; he served two terms in the lower house of the Cherokee Legislature from 1897 to 1901, being elected speaker the latter term, the only intermarried white man who ever held that position; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress September 17, 1907, and reelected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atoka, Bryan, part of Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, part of Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, part of Love, McCurtain, part of McIntosh, Marshall, part of Murray, part of Muskogee, part of Okfuskee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, and Pushmataha (20 counties). Population (1910), 354,837.

CHARLES D. CARTER, Democrat, of Ardmore, born on Boggy River, Choctaw Nation, Ind. T., August 16, 1869; early life spent on ranch at Mill Creek stage stand, on western frontier of Indian Territory, and in attendance at Indian school at Tishomingo; worked as cowboy, clerk in store, auditor, superintendent of Chickasaw schools, mining trustee, fire-insurance agent, and in live stock business until elected to Congress on admission of new State, in November, 1907; married, and has five children; elected to Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to Sixty-third Congress, receiving 23,987 votes, to 11,421 for E. N. Wright, Republican, and 11,321 for F. W. Holt, Socialist.

FIFTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Beckham, part of Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Garvin, part of Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, part of Love, McLain, part of Murray, Pottawatomie, part of Roger Mills, Stephens, Tillman, and Washita (18 counties). Population (1910), 386,000. SCOTT FERRIS, Democrat, of Lawton, was born November 3, 1877, at Neosho, Newton County, Mo.; graduated from the Newton County High School, 1897, and from the Kansas City School of Law, 1901; has practiced law continuously since 1901 in Lawton; was married in June, 1906, to Miss Grace Hubbert, of Neosho, Mo.; was elected to the Legislature of Oklahoma in 1904, representing the twenty-second district; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress by 18,000 plurality.

OREGON.

(Population (1910), 672,765.)
SENATORS.

GEORGE EARLE CHAMBERLAIN, Democrat, of Portland, was born on a plantation near Natchez, Miss., January 1, 1854. His early education was obtained in private and later in the public schools of Natchez, which he attended until 1870. In the

latter year he began work as a clerk in a general merchandise store in Natchez, holding this position until June, 1872, when he went to Lexington, Va., to attend Washington and Lee University, from which institution he graduated in the academic and law departments in June, 1876, receiving in the former the degree of A. B. and in the latter the degree of B. L. After graduation he returned home, where he remained for a short time, leaving there to take up his residence in Oregon, arriving there December 6, 1876. Since that time he has made Oregon his home. During a part of 1877 Mr. Chamberlain taught a country school in Linn County, Oreg., and in the latter part of that year was appointed deputy clerk of that county; this position he held until the summer of 1879, resigning to practice law at Albany. He was united in marriage to Miss Sallie N. Welch, of Natchez, Miss., May 21, 1879; seven children have been born of this marriage, six of whom are living, three of them being married. In 1880 Mr. Chamberlain was elected to the legislature, and in 1884 district attorney for the third judicial district, embracing the counties of Marion, Linn, Polk, Yamhill, and Tillamook, and served for a term of two years; in 1891 was appointed attorney general of the State of Oregon by the then governor, Hon. Sylvester Pennoyer, his term expiring in 1892, when he was nominated for the position by his party and elected; moving to Portland shortly thereafter he was nominated as district attorney for the fourth judicial district, embracing Multnomah County, and was elected for a term of four years; in 1902 was nominated as a candidate for governor; was elected for four years, and reelected to the same position in 1906; in 1908 he was nominated in the primaries for United States Senator on the Democratic ticket and elected by the legislature of the State January 19, 1909, to the United States Senate, his term expiring March 3, 1915. At the Democratic primary held on May 15, 1914, he was renominated by his party, and at the election November 3, 1914, reelected, his term expiring March 3, 1921.

HARRY LANE, Democrat. Term expires March 3, 1919.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill (17 counties), Population (1910), 303,634.

WILLIS CHATMAN HAWLEY, Republican, of Salem, was born near Monroe, in Benton County, Oreg., May 5, 1864; his parents crossed the plains to Oregon in 1847 and 1848. He was educated in the country schools of the State, and at the Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., from which he has received the degrees of B. S.. A. B., and LL. B., and A. M. in cursu and LL. D. in honore; was regularly admitted to the bar in Oregon and to the district and circuit courts of the United States; engaged in educational work in several institutions, including the Willamette University, which he served for over 8 years as its president and for 16 years as professor of history, economics, and public law, and until elected to Congress; has been head manager of the Pacific jurisdiction of the Woodmen of the World since 1896, this institution having about $200,000,000 of insurance in force; is a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission, created by the act of March 1, 1911; is married; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty third Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 51,295 votes, or a plurality of 18,656 over his nearest opponent.

SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Baker, Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler (16 counties). Popula tion (1910), 142,870.

NICHOLAS J. SINNOTT, Republican, of The Dalles; born in that city December 6, 1870; educated in the public schools and at the Wasco Independent Academy, The Dalles; received degree of A. B., Notre Dame University, Indiana, in 1892; is a lawyer; is married; member of Oregon State Senate 1909 and 1911; elected to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 15,121 votes, to 8,322 for James H. Graham, Democrat, 3,037 for C. H. Abercrombie, Socialist, and 1,800 for George L. Cleaver, Prohibitionist.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Multnomah. Population (1910), 226,261.

A. W. LAFFERTY, Progressive Republican, of Portland.

PENNSYLVANIA.

(Population (1910), 7,665,111.)

SENATORS.

BOIES PEN ROSE, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia November 1, 1860; was prepared for college by private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia; was graduated from Harvard College in 1881; read law with Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, and was admitted to the bar in 1883; practiced his profession in Philadelphia for several years; was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the eighth Philadelphia district in 1884; was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate from the sixth Philadelphia district in 1886, reclected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected president pro tempore of the senate in 1889, and reelected in 1891; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1900, 1904, and 1998; was chairman of the Republican State committee in 1903-1905; was elected a member of the Republican national committee from Pennsylvania in 1904, and reelected in 1908; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed J. Donald Cameron, for the term beginning March 4, 1897; reelected in 1903, 1909, and 1914. His term of service will expire March 3, 1921.

GEORGE T. OLIVER, Republican, of Pittsburgh, was born in Ireland during a visit of his parents, January 26, 1848; was graduated from Bethany College, West Virginia, in 1868; admitted to the Allegheny County (Pa.) bar in 1871, and in active prac-. tice 10 years. In 1881 engaged in manufacturing, becoming vice president and subsequently president of the Oliver Wire Co., with which he remained until 1899, when that company sold its plant; also from 1889 president of the Hainsworth Steel Co. until its merger in 1897 with Oliver & Snyder Steel Co., of which he was president until he disposed of his manufacturing interests in 1901. Since 1900 engaged in the newspaper business as principal owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Pittsburgh ChronicleTelegraph. President of the Pittsburgh Central Board of Education from 1881 to 1884, and a presidential elector in 1884. Received the degree of doctor of laws from Lafayette College in 1912. In 1904 was tendered the appointment to the United States Senate to succeed Matthew Stanley Quay, deceased, but declined for personal reasons. He was elected Senator March 17, 1909, to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. P. C. Knox, resigned. On January 18, 1911, was reelected for the full term of six years. His term of service will expire March 3, 1917.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 7,655,111.

FRED E. LEWIS, Progressive, of Allentown, was born in that city February 8, 1865, the son of Samuel B. Lewis, and is a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Lehigh County; he was educated in the public schools, a New England military institute, and Muhlenberg College, after which he took up the study of law in the offices of Hon. Robert E. Wright and was admitted to the bar in 1888; in 1896 was elected mayor, and his record was such that he was again elected in 1902; he organized the Lehigh Telephone Co., since absorbed by the Consolidated Telephone Cos. of Pennsylvania; organized the Merchants' National Bank of that city and was its president for over seven years; was president of the Allentown Board of Trade; is a member of many social organizations, as well as of a number of protective and beneficial societies; is especially popular with the working classes, and on several occasions was instrumental in bringing about a settlement of serious labor dissensions, notably the Lehigh Valley Traction Co. and Pioneer Silk Mill strikes; April 16, 1892, married Miss Juliet M. Hammersly, daughter of Capt. James B. Hammersly, and they have two children, a boy and a girl; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress.

JOHN M. MORIN, Republican, of Pittsburgh, was born in Philadelphia, April 18, 1868, and removed to Pittsburgh with his parents when 4 years old; he is a son of the late Martin Joseph Morin and Mrs. Rose Joyce Morin, of county Mayo, Ireland; attended the common schools, and at an early age went to work in a glass factory and later secured employment in the iron and steel mills; during this employment attended night school and afterwards took a course in a business college. In 1890 removed to

Missoula, Mont., to accept a position with the D. J. Hennessy Mercantile Co., returning to Pittsburgh in 1893, where he has since resided; has always taken an active interest in the affairs of union labor and the members of the trades, and for a number of years previous to his appointment as director of public safety was a member of the Central Trades Council of Pittsburgh; in 1897 married Miss Eleanor C. Hickey, of Pittsburgh, and is the father of eight children, John M., Harry S., Rose, Elizabeth, Martin J., William Magee, Mary, and Margaret Morin; has been all-around athlete and takes a lively interest in all athletic affairs, in Pennsylvania being best known as a sculler; while in Montana helped organize and served as a director of the Montana State Baseball League; was manager-captain and played with the Missoula team in 1891-1893; has been a member of the Central Turnverein since his youth, and 12 years ago became a life member of the Pittsburgh Press Club; is a member of a number of prominent clubs and fraternal organizations, the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh, and is serving his second term as president of the State Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Pennsylvania. He is a director in the Washington Trust Co., Pittsburgh Hospital, and Rosalia Foundling Asylum and Maternity Hospital, all of Pittsburgh; since attaining his majority has been active in Republican politics in his home and State, and has been a delegate to every Republican State convention in Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1912, inclusive, was elected and represented the old fourteenth (now fourth) ward in Pittsburgh common council from 1904 to 1906; April 5, 1909, was appointed director of the department of public safety in Pittsburgh, which office he held until February 1, 1913, when he resigned to take up his duties in Congress; was nominated for Representative at large in the Republican State convention, and was indorsed by the Bull Moose, Roosevelt-Progressive, and Washington Parties; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a majority of 260,975, receiving 618,537 votes, to 357,562 for George B. Shaw, Democrat, 21,573 for Howard A. Sheppard, Keystone, and 20,465 for Henary S. Gill, Prohibitionist.

ARTHUR RINGWALT RUPLEY, Progressive, of Carlisle; native of Cumberland County; received his education in the common schools and the Cumberland Valley State Normal School; is an alumnus of Dickinson School of Law; a lawyer; admitted to the bar in 1891 and to practice in the superior and supreme courts of Pennsylvania at a later date; district attorney of Cumberland County from 1895 to 1899; has been county and city solicitor; is married and has a family of three children, one son and two daughters; was nominated by the Republican State convention as a Representative at large on an advanced progressive platform, and afterwards by the Washington, Bull Moose, and Roosevelt-Progressive Parties, and was elected to the Sixtythird Congress, receiving a total of 606,709 votes, to 343,163 for the Democratic candidate.

ANDERSON HOWEL WALTERS, Progressive, of Johnstown; editor and publisher of the Johnstown Tribune; married to Jessie Octavia Woodruff; nominated by Republican State convention, indorsed by Washington, Bull Moose, and Roosevelt-Progressive Parties, and was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a plurality of 251,147.

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: First, seventh, twenty-sixth, thirtieth, thirty-sixth, thirtyninth, and forty-eighth wards. Population (1910), 274,960.

WILLIAM SCOTT VARE, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born on a farm in the first district of Pennsylvania December 24, 1867; educated in the public schools; entered mercantile life at the age of 15; elected to select council from the first ward February 15, 1898; same year appointed mercantile appraiser and elected by his associates president of the body; reelected to select council February, 1901; elected recorder of deeds November 5, 1901, resigning from select council; reelected recorder of deeds in 1904, and chosen for a third term in 1907, being the only occupant of the office so honored; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1908 and 1912; unsuccessful candidate for the mayoralty of Philadelphia at the Republican primary of September, 1911, receiving, however, nearly 85,000 votes. As a citizen and public official, has been particularly solicitous in behalf of the public-school system of Philadelphia, securing for the first congressional district the first sectional high and manualtraining school established in the city; as recorder of deeds was instrumental in having the Legislature of Pennsylvania authorize and Gov. Tener appoint a commission to investigate and suggest a more modern system in order to expedite and cheapen the cost of recording deeds and to insure titles of property, his administration of the office being publicly commended by the secretary of the civil-service commission, as well as all the leading trust companies and real-estate brokers; was married to Ida Morris in

Philadelphia July 29, 1897, and has three daughters; elected to the Sixty-second Congress from the first district of Pennsylvania to fill the unexpired term of Gen. Henry H. Bingham; reelected to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 25,205 votes, to 10,492 for John H. Hall, Democrat, Keystone, and Progressive.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Eighth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twentieth, and thirty-seventh wards. Population (1910), 193,447.

GEORGE SCOTT GRAHAM, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in that city September 13, 1850; was educated in the public schools and by private tutors; graduate of University of Pennsylvania (LL.B.) and Lafayette College, Pa. (LL. D.); is married; member of select councils of Philadelphia 1877-1880; district attorney of Philadelphia 1871-1898; professor of criminal law and procedure in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania for 11 years; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 23,978 votes to 6,420 for P. P. Conway, Democrat and Washington Party.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth wards. Population (1910), 251,826.

J. HAMPTON MOORE, Republican, of Philadelphia, born at Woodbury, N. J., March 8, 1864; educated in common schools; law student in Philadelphia, 1877 to 1880; reporter in the courts and on the Public Ledger, 1881 to 1894; chief clerk to city treasurer, 1894 to 1897; editor and publisher, 1898-99; secretary to mayor, 1900; city treasurer, 1901-1903; Chief Bureau of Manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor, January, 1905; resigned June 1, 1905, to become president City Trust, Safe Deposit & Surety Co. of Philadelphia; appointed by the court June 24, 1905, receiver of the company; elected president National Republican League, at Chicago, in 1902, and reelected at Indianapolis in 1904; president Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, Philadelphia, 1907; reelected Baltimore, 1908; Norfolk, 1909; Providence, 1910; Richmond, 1911; New London, 1912; Jacksonville, 1913; New York, 1914; elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress for the unexpired term, and reelected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second. Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, thirtyeighth, and forty-seventh wards. Population (1910), 198,693.

GEORGE WASHINGTON EDMONDS, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born at Pottsville, Pa., February 22, 1864; educated in the public schools and the Central High School; graduate (Ph. G.) of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; is in the coal business; member of the common councils of Philadelphia 1896-1902; is married; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, being indorsed by the Republican, Keystone, Lincoln, and Washington Parties, and received 21,733 votes, to 8,482 for Thomas T. Nelson, Democrat, 1,410 for C. De Kyne, Socialist, and 97 for H. C. Russell, Socialist. Reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-third, twenty-fifth, thirty-first, thirty-third, thirtyfifth, forty-first, forty-third, and forty-fifth wards. Population (1910), 252,893.

MICHAEL DONOHOE, Democrat, of Philadelphia, was born in Killeshandra, Ireland, February 22, 1864; attended the national schools and also a private classical school in his native village; at the age of 20 obtained a teacher's certificate and taught as principal of a national school for two years, when he resigned and came to Philadelphia, November 8, 1886; is secretary and treasurer of Gill & Co. (Inc.), manufacturers of glassware; a director of Girard Avenue Title & Trust Co.; a member of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce; is married and has 10 children, 5 boys and 5 girls; was elected to the Sixty-second Congress and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 21,971 votes, to 15,181 for Henry S. Borneman, Republican, 2,559 for John Whitehead, Socialist, and 132 for E. A. Moore, Prohibitionist.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, twentyseventh, thirty-fourth, fortieth, forty-second, forty-fourth, and forty-sixth wards. Population (1910), 377,189.

J. WASHINGTON LOGUE, Democrat, of Philadelphia, was born in that city February 22, 1863; was educated at La Salle College; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and since that time has been engaged in active practice; has been prominent in civic and social reform work in Philadelphia; married the daughter of James W. Barry, and has four children, two sons and two daughters; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, receiving 22,091 votes, to 19,642 for Frederic S. Drake, Washington, and 19,291 for Harry A. Mackey, Republican, Lincoln, and Roosevelt-Progressive.

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