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REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, and Winona (10 counties). Population (1910), 201,054.

SYDNEY ANDERSON, Republican, of Lanesboro, was born in Goodhue County, Minn., September 17, 1882; was educated in the common schools of Zumbrota, Minn., and the University of Minnesota; is a lawyer; served as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, during the War with Spain; is married and has three children; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lincoln, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock, and Watonwan (13 counties). Population (1910), 200,501. FRANKLIN F. ELLSWORTH, Republican, of Mankato, Minn., was born at St. James, in the same State, July 10, 1879; attended grade and high schools at St. James; academic and law departments of University of Minnesota; admitted to practice law June 7, 1901, since which time has practiced at St. James and Mankato, Minn.; twice appointed city attorney, and served as county attorney of Watonwan County four years; elected grand chancellor for the Knights of Pythias of Minnesota in May, 1909, and served one year; enlisted as private in Company H, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War, 1898; father in Company K, Forty-sixth Wisconsin; lectured on lyceum circuit, seasons of 1908-9, 1909-10, and on Chautauqua platform, season of 1920; married; nominated by Republicans of the district in 1910 and 1912 after primary contests, opposing the sitting Member, the late Gov. Hammond, for reelection; again nominated in 1914, and elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress. Renominated and reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress without opposition. Renominated without opposition and elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress. Not a candidate for reelection to Congress. Was a candidate for Republican nomination for governor in 1920 and defeated in six-cornered contest, being opposed by the Nonpartisan League and the Steel Trust.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Lesueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Rice, Scott, Sibley, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1910), 208,040.

CHARLES RUSSELL_DAVIS, Republican, of St. Peter, Minn., was born at Pittsfield, Ill.; moved to Lesueur County, Minn., at an early age; was educated in the common schools; for several years thereafter received private instruction in the higher branches and graduated at a business college in St. Paul; lawyer, having extensively practiced for 30 years in all the State and United States courts; aside from his extensive general practice he achieved marked success as a criminal lawyer; was prosecuting attorney for 12 years, and city attorney and city clerk of St. Peter for 18 years; was captain in the Minnesota National Guard for 4 years; served 6 years in the Minnesota Legislature as representative and senator; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Ramsey. Population (1910), 223,675.

OSCAR EDWARD KELLER, Independent Republican, was born in Helensville, Jefferson County, Wis., July 30, 1878; educated in public schools and high school of Jefferson County; completed short courses in dairying and agriculture in the University of Wisconsin; moved to Minnesota in 1901; married Ålice Seebeck, of St. Paul, in 1911; has three children-one son, Oscar Edward, jr., 3 years old; two daughters, Margaret, aged 7 years, and Florence, aged 5 years; engaged in politics for past 12 years; elected to the assembly of the city of St. Paul in 1910; reelected in 1912; when commission form of government was adopted in 1914 he became a candidate for commissioner, and was elected; appointed to the office of commissioner of public utilities; reelected as commissioner 1916 and 1918, and assigned to the same office; when the late Congressman Carl C. Van Dyke died, an old-fashioned convention was held to nominate candidates for the special election; Mr. Keller lost the Republican nomination in the convention, but was persuaded by his friends to run as an Independent, and with the support of labor was elected in a very spirited campaign, defeating his Republican and Democratic opponents; reelected on Republican ticket to Sixty-seventh Congress by a large majority.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS: First, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth wards, and the town of St. Anthony.

WALTER HUGHES NEWTON, Republican, of Minneapolis, Minn.; born at Minneapolis, Minn., October 10, 1880; educated at public schools of Minneapolis; LL. B. University of Minnesota Law School; is a lawyer by profession; was first assistant county attorney of Minneapolis, Minn., 1914 to 1918; married Cora M. Noracon, of Minneapolis, Minn., June 14, 1905; three children, Grace Laura, aged 14 years, Walter Hughes, jr., aged 9 years, and John Marshall, aged 9 months; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by majority of 5,695 votes; reelected to Sixtyseventh Congress by plurality of 32,378 votes.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, and Wadena (11 counties). Population (1910), 191,616.

HAROLD KNUTSON, Republican, of St. Cloud, was raised on a farm; attended common and agricultural schools; learned printer's trade; is a newspaper man, having published Royalton Banner and Foley Independent; later was associate editor of St. Cloud Daily Journal-Press; was president Northern Minnesota Editorial Association 1910-11; has never before held office; served in Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. Mr. Knutson is the majority whip of the House.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bigstone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lyon, Meeker, Pope, Renville, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and Yellow Medicine (14 counties). Population (1910), 197,322.

ANDREW J. VOLSTEAD, Republican, of Granite Falls; native of Minnesota; occupation, lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis (6 counties). Population (1910), 213,819.

WILLIAM LEIGHTON CARSS, of Proctor, Minn., was born February 15, 1865, at Pella, Marion County, Iowa; moved with his parents, at the age of 2 years, to Des Moines, Iowa; educated in the public schools of that city; studied civil engineering and followed that profession for a number of years; moved to St. Louis County, Minn., in 1893; was engaged as a locomotive engineer on the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway when elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress; is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and has held important offices in that_organization; political affiliations, Democratic; elected on Union Labor platform, the vote being as follows: William L. Carss, Independent, 17,266; Clarence B. Miller, Republican, 12,964.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Ottertail, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau, and Wilkin (13 counties). Population (1910), 206,430.

HALVOR STEENERSON, Republican, of Crookston, was born in Dane County, Wis.; moved to Minnesota when a year old, his parents having settled in Houston County, where he was educated in the common schools and at the high school; studied law in an office at Austin, Minn., and at Union College of Law, Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Illinois in June, 1878, and in the courts of Minnesota the same year; began the practice of his profession at once, and removed to Crookston in April, 1880; was in the fall of that year elected county attorney and served two years, and in 1882 was elected State senator and served for four years; was delegate to the Republican national conventions at Chicago in 1884 and 1888. Was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Millelacs, Pine, and Wright, and all of the county of Hennepin except the town of St. Anthony outside of the city of Minneapolis, and the third, fourth, and tenth wards of the city of Minneapolis. Population (1910), 220,773.

THOMAS D. SCHALL, A. B., LL. B., Republican; practicing lawyer, Minneapolis, Minn., residence, Éxcelsior, Minn.; (blind); lost sight through electric shock.

MISSISSIPPI.

(Population (1910), 1,797,114.)

SENATORS.

JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Yazoo County, Miss., post-office address, Yazoo City "Star route," was born July 30, 1854, at Memphis, Tenn.; his mother having died, his father, who was colonel of the Twenty-seventh Tennessee Volunteers, Confederate States Army, being killed at Shiloh, and Memphis being threatened with capture by the Federal Army, his family removed to his mother's family homestead in Yazoo County, Miss.; received a fair education at private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky., the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University of Virginia, and the University of Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany; subsequently studied law under Profs. Minor and Southall at the University of Virginia and in the office of Harris, McKisick & Turley in Memphis; in 1877 got license to practice in the courts of law and chancery of Shelby County, Tenn.; in December, 1878, moved to Yazoo City, Miss., where he engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter; was a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Cleveland and Stevenson; served as temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention in 1904; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving all the votes cast; he had no opposition either for renomination or election, Was the candidate of his party for the office of Speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth. and Sixtieth Congresses. On August 1, 1907, Mr. Williams was chosen at a primary election to be the candidate of the Democratic Party for the United States Senate, and on January 23, 1908, elected by the legislature to succeed Hon. H. D. Money, and took his seat April 4, 1911. Was a delegate to the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson. Was renominated and reelected Senator for the term beginning March 4, 1917, without opposition.

PAT HARRISON, Democrat, of Gulfport, Miss., was born at Crystal Springs, Miss., August 29, 1881; was educated in the public schools of Crystal Springs and the Louisiana State University; he was married in January, 1905, to Mary Edwina McInnis, of Leakesville, Miss., and they have three children; while teaching school in Greene County, Miss., he studied law and was admitted to the bar; was elected district attorney of his district, comprising six counties, and served in that capacity for six years, resigning in September, 1910, to accept the nomination to the Sixty-second Congress; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; on August 20, 1918, was nominated for United States Senator, receiving 56,715 votes, to 44,151 for Senator James K. Vardaman, and 6,730 for former Gov. E. F. Noel; in the general election he received 95 per cent of the vote cast; his term will expire March 4, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, and Tishomingo (9 counties). Population (1910), 205,637.

EZEKIEL SAMUEL CANDLER, Democrat, of Corinth, was born in Bellville, Hamilton County, Fla., January 18, 1862, but moved with his parents to Tishomingo County, Miss., when 8 years old, and grew to manhood in that county; is the oldest son of Ezekiel Samuel Candler and Julia Beville Candler, who were natives of Georgia; is a direct descendant of Col. William Candler, who was a colonel in the Army of the American Revolution and the ancestor of the Candler family of Georgia, who have been prominently identified with the history of that State from the days of the Revolution up to and including the present; received a common-school education in the Iuka Male Academy, at Iuka, Miss.; attended the law department of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, term of 1880-81, and on June 30, 1881, graduated in law, when a little over 19 years of age, and having previously had his disabilities of minority removed by the chancery court, so as to enable him to practice his profession, he at once commenced the practice of law with his father at Tuka under the firm name of Candler & Candler, which partnership existed until the death of his father on July 30, 1915; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Tishomingo County in 1884, when but 22 years old; moved from Iuka to Corinth January 1, 1887, where he has since resided, the firm of Candler & Candler having had offices at Iuka and at Corinth; was nominated by the Democratic State convention in 1888 by acclamation, when 26 years old, for presidential elector for the first congressional district, and was elected by the largest majority received by any district presi

dential elector at that election in the State, and voted for Cleveland and Thurman; was for 10 years a member of the Democratic executive committee of Alcorn County; is a member of the Baptist Church, and was, from 1896 to 1905, the moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist Association, and several times represented that association in the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the largest religious organization in that denomination; a Mason, Odd Fellow, Woodman, Beta Theta Pi, Knight of Honor, Elk, and Knight of Pythias, of which last-named order he was grand chancellor in the domain of Mississippi from May, 1904, to May, 1905; was unanimously elected head adviser of the Woodmen of the World at Columbus, Miss., meeting of Head Camp M in 1909, and unanimously reelected at the four succeeding meetings of Head Camp M at Biloxi, Miss., March, 1911, at Meridian, Miss., March, 1913, at Natchez, Miss., in March, 1915, and at Laurel, Miss., in March, 1917, and by reason of Hon. A. B. Schauber, the head consul, volunteering and going into the service of his country in the war with Germany, thereby creating a temporary vacancy in that position, under the constitution of the order became acting head consul W. O. W. in Mississippi, and as such attended the sovereign camp in July, 1917, at Atlanta, Ga.; was elected Sovereign delegate at meeting of Head Camp M at Vicksburg, Miss., March, 1919, and as such attended the meeting of the sovereign camp at Chicago, Ill., in July, 1919; was married to Miss Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood, daughter of Thomas B. and Susan Hazlewood, of Town Creek, Lawrence County, Ala., April 26, 1883, and has three children, Julia Beville Candler (now Mrs. King Tyler), Susan Hazlewood Candler. and Lucy Alice Candler (now Mrs. Charles Roy Wiselogle, Memphis, Tenn.); was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, De Soto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, and Union (9 counties). Population (1910), 195,748.

HUBERT DURRETT STEPHENS, Democrat, of New Albany, was born in New Albany, Union County, Miss., on July 2, 1875, and is the oldest child of Judge Z. M. and Mrs. Lethe A. Stephens; has always lived in his native town; received a commonschool education, graduated in law at the University of Mississippi, and was admitted to the bar shortly before reaching his majority; in 1899 was married to Miss Delia Glenn, of Courtland, Miss., and has two boys, Hubert D. Stephens, jr., and Marion Glenn Stephens; in 1907 was elected district attorney in a district composed of eight counties; resigned that office in April, 1910, to make the race for Congress, and was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bolivar, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica, and Washington (11 counties). Population (1910), 292,713.

BENJAMIN GRUBB HUMPHREYS, Democrat, of Greenville, was born in Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865; his father was Brig. Gen. Benj. G. Humphreys, Confederate States Army, and governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, when he was forcibly ejected from the executive mansion by Federal soldiers under the command of Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames, United States Army, who succeeded him as military governor; his mother was Mildred Hickman Maury, of Tennessee; he was educated at Lexington, Miss., High School and at the University of Mississippi; he engaged in mercantile pursuits, first as a clerk, afterwards as a commercial traveler, or "drummer," and subsequently on his own account; he was married to Miss Louise Yerger, of Greenville, Miss., October 9, 1889; studied law, and was admitted to the bar November, 1891; was appointed superintendent of education for Leflore County in January, 1892, for term of four years; he was selected messenger by the presidential electors in 1892 to deliver the electoral vote of Mississippi; in 1895 he was elected district attorney for the fourth circuit court district of Mississippi for a term of four years, and was reelected without opposition in 1899; when war was declared against Spain, in April, 1898, he raised a company at Greenwood, and was elected first lieutenant; he offered to resign the office of district attorney in order to join the Army, but United States Senator A. J. McLaurin, who was then governor of Mississippi, refused to permit it, and gave him a leave of absence instead; he served in the Second Mississippi Volunteer Infantry under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee during the entire war, being mustered out with his regiment at Columbia, Tenn., December 22, 1898; upon reorganization of the National Guard in 1899 he was commissioned major in First Mississippi Infantry; retired from National Guard upon being elected to Congress in 1902; was 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 without opposition; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Montgomery, Pontotoc, Webster, and Yalobusha (11 counties). Population (1910), 216,615.

THOMAS UPTON SISSON, Democrat, of Winona, Montgomery County, was born September 22, 1869, in Attala County, Miss.; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Smith, and Winston (10 counties). Population (1910), 217,223.

WILLIAM WEBB VENABLE, Democrat, of Meridian, born at Clinton, Miss., September 25, 1880, son of Dr. R. A. and Fannie A. (Webb) Venable. Served as county attorney of Lauderdale County, district attorney of the tenth judicial district, circuit judge of the same district. Was elected as the successor of Hon. S. A. Witherspoon, deceased, to fill the unexpired term in the Sixty-fourth Congress; renominated without opposition by the Democratic Party for service in the Sixtyfifth Congress. Reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress. Married Miss Gowdyloch Johnston, also of Meridian, on March 25, 1914. They have one child, a daughter, Gowdyloch.

SIXTH DISTRICT.--COUNTIES: Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Simpson, Stone, and Wayne (17 counties). Population (1910), 244,949.

PAUL BURNEY JOHNSON, Democrat, of Hattiesburg, Miss., was born at Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss., March 23, 1880; attended the public schools, Harpersville College, and Millsaps College; admitted to the bar and practiced law from March 23, 1903, until elected city judge of Hattiesburg, Miss.; served one term and resumed law practice until appointed circuit judge of the twelfth judicial district by Gov. Noel; served four years on the circuit bench by appointment; the State constitution being changed, making the office elective, became a candidate and was elected by a very large majority over two strong opponents; has served eight years as circuit judge; married Corinne Venable, of Hattiesburg, and they have three children-Paul B. Johnson, jr., 4 years 3 months; Jane Venable, 2 years 7 months; and Patrick Hayes, 2 months old; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress November 5, 1918, defeating Gov. Theo. G. Bilbo; there are 17 counties in the sixth congressional district, Mr. Johnson carrying 16 of them and Gov. Bilbo carrying 1, Johnson's majority being 4,333; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pike, Walthall, and Wilkinson (10 counties). Population (1910), 218,894.

PERCY EDWARDS QUIN, Democrat, of McComb City, was born October 30, 1872, the son of Henry G. Quin, a Baptist minister and farmer, and Virginia Davis Quin, both native-born Mississippians, and was reared on a farm in Amite County, Miss.; was graduated at Gillsburg Collegiate Institute, in Amite County, Miss., in 1890, and from Mississippi College, at Clinton, Miss., in 1893; taught school in McComb City, Miss., for the sessions of 1893-94, and began the practice of law in McComb City, Pike County, Miss., in 1894, where he has since practiced his profession; is a member of the Baptist Church. On October 1, 1913, he married Miss Aylett Buckner Conner, of Natchez, Miss. Served as a representative of Pike County in the Mississippi State Legislature in 1900-1902; in 1912 was elected a Member of Congress; reelected in 1914, 1916, 1918, and 1920.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Warren, and Yazoo (5 counties). Population (1910), 205,335.

JAMES WILLIAM COLLIER, Democrat, of Vicksburg, was born at Glenwood plantation, near Vicksburg, in Warren County, Miss. Elected to the Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

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