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ARIZONA.

(Population (1910), 204,354.)

SENATORS.

HENRY FOUNTAIN ASHURST, Democrat, of Prescott, was born at Winnemucca, Nev., September 13, 1874; was educated in the public schools of Flagstaff, Ariz.; was graduated from the Stockton (Calif.) Business College; studied law and political economy in the University of Michigan; is a lawyer by profession; was married in 1904 to Elizabeth McEvoy Renoe; on March 27, 1912, was elected United States Senator by the unanimous vote of the First Legislative Assembly of the State of Arizona; on November 7, 1916, was reelected. His term of service will expire March 4, 1923.

MARCUS AURELIUS SMITH, Democrat, of Tucson, was born near Cynthiana, Ky., January 24, 1852; was educated at the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; is a lawyer by profession; moved to Arizona in 1881, and the following year was elected prosecuting attorney of his district; was elected a Delegate to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and on March 27, 1912, was elected United States Senator from the State of Arizona. Reelected to the United States Senate November 3, 1914. His term of service will expire March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 204,354.

CARL HAYDEN, Democrat, of Phoenix, was born at Tempe, Ariz., October 2, 1877; was educated in public schools of Tempe, Normal School of Arizona, and Stanford University; delegate to Democratic national convention 1904; elected treasurer of Maricopa County in 1904, sheriff in 1906, reelected in 1908; served for over 10 years in the National Guard of Arizona; appointed major of Infantry, United States Army, October 4, 1918, and honorably discharged December 10, 1918; is married; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 35,397 votes, to 25,841 for Dunseath, Republican.

ARKANSAS.

(Population (1910), 1, 574, 449.)
SENATORS.

JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON, Democrat, of Little Rock, 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 con-gressional district of Arkansas in 1900, and selected as electoral messenger; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses. He resigned from the Sixty-second Congress on January 14, 1913; was inaugurated governor of Arkansas on the 16th of January, 1913, having been elected to that position in September, 1912; and on the 28th of January, 1913, was elected Senator. He took his seat on March 10, 1913; was elected in November, 1918, for the term beginning March 4, 1919.

WILLIAM F. KIRBY, Little Rock, Democrat; was born in Miller County, Ark., near Texarkana, November 16, 1867, first of four sons of Joseph F. and Martha (Ferguson) Kirby; was educated in neighborhood schools; studied law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., graduating in January, 1885, and immediately opened an office for the practice of his profession at Texarkana, Ark.; was twice elected representative and served in the sessions of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas of 1893 and 1897; was married to Ella (Kelley) Kirby at Texarkana October 19, 1898; was elected State senator from the twenty-first district and served in the senate in the sessions of 1899 and 1901; was appointed by the legislature and revised the statutes for the State, Kirby's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, 1904; was elected attorney general for 1907 and 1908 and moved to Little Rock; defeated in 1907 for nomination, equivalent to election, for governor by

small plurality in a race against two other candidates; served as assistant special counsel for the State in its successful litigation to uphold the 2-cent passenger fare law and the rates established by the Arkansas Railroad Commission; was elected associate justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas for an eight-year term beginning November 1, 1910, after being nominated in the Democratic primary election, in which he carried 72 of the 75 counties. In 1914, in the Democratic primary election for the nomination for United States Senator, carried 40 of the 75 counties of the State, and upon the face of the returns was shown to have won the election. One of the counties later changed its returns, increasing his opponent's majority 400 votes, which threw the election against him and necessitated a contest before the State Democratic central committee. Upon appeal from an adverse decision by the committee to the State Democratic convention, notwithstanding he had 321 instructed delegates as against his opponent's 308, he was finally declared defeated by a majority of 213 out of 136,000 votes cast in the primary; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his predecessor at a special election held November 7, 1916, and resigned as associate justice of the supreme court on November 15 to begin the term which expires March 3, 1921.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis, and Woodruff (11 counties). Population (1910), 255, 301.

T. H. CARAWAY, Democrat, of Jonesboro.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Prairie, Randolph, Sharp, Stone, and White (12 counties). Population (1910), 208,890. WILLIAM A. OLDFIELD, Democrat, of Batesville, was born near Franklin, Izard County, Ark., February 4, 1874; was educated in the common schools of the county and at Arkansas College, Batesville, taking the degree of A. B. in the latter institution in 1896; is a lawyer by profession; was elected prosecuting attorney in September, 1902, and reelected to the same office in 1904. When war broke out between the United States and Spain, in 1898, he enlisted in Company M, Second Regiment Arkansas Infantry, as a private; was promoted to first sergeant of the same company, and later to first lieutenant, and was mustered out with that rank in March, 1899; is married; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Van Buren, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1910), 174,019.

JOHN N. TILLMAN, Democrat, of Fayetteville; eldest son of N. J. and Mary (Mullins) Tillman. He was reared on a farm in Washington County, Ark., and was educated at the State University, working his way through and graduating therefrom with the degree of bachelor of Latin letters; LL. D. degree from the University of Mississippi in 1906, and same degree from Vermont University in 1911. He worked as a hired farm hand, clerked in a village store, taught in the public schools, and was admitted to the bar; served as State senator; was elected prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas for three terms, and thereafter served two terms as circuit judge of the same circuit; from 1905 to 1912 was president of the University of Arkansas; is married and has three children. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, and Sevier (11 counties). Population (1910), 225,774.

OTIS WINGO, Democrat; born June 18, 1877; educated in the public schools, Bethel College, and McFerrin College; taught in the public schools; admitted to the bar in 1900, taking up the practice of law at his present home; State senator in 1907 and 1909; married Effie Gene Locke October 15, 1902; has two children-Blanche and Otis T., jr. Member of Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell (8 counties). Population (1910), 233,776.

H. M. JACOWAY, Democrat, of Dardanelle, was born in Dardanelle, Yell County, November 7, 1870, and is the third son of Judge W. D. Jacoway and Elizabeth Davis Jacoway; was graduated from the Dardanelle High School, and subsequently was graduated from the Winchester Literary College, Winchester, Tenn.,

in 1892. In 1898 was graduated from the law department of Vanderbilt University, receiving the degree of LL. B. Was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney in 1904, and was reelected in 1906 without opposition. On the 19th day of September, 1907, was married to Miss Margaret Helena Cooper, daughter of Judge and Mrs. S. B. Cooper, of Beaumont, Tex.; has one son, Bronson Cooper, 11 years old, and a daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, 3 years of age; was elected to the Sixty-second and to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, and Saline (12 counties). Population (1910), 243,649.

SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR, Democrat, of Pine Bluff, Ark., lawyer. Elected to fill unexpired term in Sixty-second Congress. Reelected to Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada, Ouachita, and Union (11 counties). Population (1910), 233,040.

WILLIAM SHIELDS GOODWIN, Democrat, of Warren; elected to the Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

CALIFORNIA.

(Population (1910), 2,377,549.)
SENATORS.

JAMES DUVAL PHELAN, Democrat, native of San Francisco; graduated St. Ignatius University, with degree of A. B.; honorary degree Ph. D. Santa Clara University; studied law University of California; was vice president of California World's Columbian Commission, 1893; elected three times mayor of San Francisco, 1897-1902; after San Francisco disaster was president of relief and Red Cross fund; served as regent of the University of California; member of library trustees and park commission; chairman charter association which gave new charter to San Francisco; president adornment association which procured the Burnham plans for that city; member of the Society of California Pioneers; president of the hall association of the Native Sons of the Golden West; president of the Mutual Savings Bank, and director in the First National Bank and First Federal Trust Co. of San Francisco. He received complimentary vote for United States Senator in the California Legislature in 1900; was commissioner by appointment of State Department to Europe, 1913, on behalf of the United States Government to support the invitation of the President to foreign countries to participate in the Panama-Pacific Exposition; in December, 1914, was appointed by State Department, under special authority from the President, to investigate the fitness of the American minister to the Dominican Republic; was nominated in Democratic primaries August, 1914, as party candidate for the United States Senate by popular election; elected November of the same year, receiving a plurality of 25,000 votes, carrying 39 counties to his opponents' 19. His term of service will expire March 3, 1921. Address, 2249 R Street, Washington, D. C.; Phelan Building, San Francisco.

HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON, Republican and Progressive, was born in Sacramento, Calif., September 2, 1866; was married in the city of Sacramento to Minnie McNeal, daughter of Archibald McNeal, and of this marriage there are two sons, both adults, Hiram Warren Johnson, jr., and Archibald McNeal Johnson; resided in Sacramento until 1902, and then removed to San Francisco; present residence, 857 Green Street, San Francisco; educated in the public schools of Sacramento and University of California; by profession, lawyer; elected governor of California in 1910; reelected governor in 1914, and elected United States Senator in 1916.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Sonoma, Sutter, and Yuba (11 counties). Population (1910), 197,812.

CLARENCE FREDERICK LEA, Democrat, of Santa Rosa, born July 11, 1874, near Highland Springs, Lake County, Calif., son of James M. and Elizabeth Lea; educated in the common schools, Lakeport Academy, Stanford University, and law department of the University of Denver; admitted to bar 1898; district attorney of Sonoma County 1907 to 1917; president of the District Attorneys' Association of

California 1916-17; married Daisy A. Wright July 18, 1907; suffered loss of only child, Frederick, aged 6 years, September 5, 1918; served in the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress as nominee of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Eldorado, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Šierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, and Tuolumne (16 counties). Population (1910), 145,958.

JOHN E. RAKER, Democrat, of Alturas, Modoc County, was born on a farm near Knoxville, Knox County, Ill., February 22, 1863. Soon after his parents moved to Sedalia, Mo., and, remaining there but a short time, removed to Knoxville. In 1873 moved with his parents to Lassen County, Calif.; worked on the ranch and farm and attended the public schools, working his own way; attended the grammar school at Susanville, and the State Normal School at San Jose, Calif., 1882-1884. In the spring of 1885 entered the law office of Judge E. V. Spencer, of Susanville, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1885; became a partner of Judge Spencer under the firm name of Spencer & Raker. This firm became one of the leading law firms of northern California, and was engaged in many important suits involving water rights and land matters, as well as many noted criminal cases. By special order of the superior court of Lassen County, in 1885, before being admitted to the bar, was permitted to defend an important murder trial; was his party's candidate for district attorney of Lassen County in 1886. December 6, 1886. moved to Alturas, where he has resided ever since, engaging in the practice of the law, the firm having an extended practice in California, Oregon, and Nevada. In 1894 was elected district attorney of Modoc County, which office he held four years, 1895-1898; at the general election in 1898 was the Democratic nominee for State senator. In 1901 was the attorney for the defendånts in the criminal case known as the Modoc lynching case. This case became famous in California and the West, 21 men indicted for five separate murder charges; the trial commenced in November, 1901, and ended in March, 1902, no conviction had, and all defendants discharged. Elected judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the county of Modoc in 1902 and reelected in 1908, which position he resigned December 19, 1910. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Oregon, the United States Circuit and District Courts of California, United States Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Alturas, and has been one of the directors ever since. In 1906 was elected grand sachem of the Democratic Iroquois Clubs of California, and reelected in 1907; delegate to many Democratic State conventions, chairman committee on platform and resolutions at one time, and in 1908-1910 chairman Democratic State central committee, resigning on becoming a candidate for Congress; was delegate to the Democratic national convention at Denver in 1908; grand master Independent Order of Odd Fellows of California 1908-9, and representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Seattle; delegate to Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of California at several sessions; was married November 21, 1889, to Iva G. Spencer, daughter of Judge E. V. Spencer, of Susanville, at Anaheim, in southern California; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, and Yolo (6 counties). Population (1910), 211,496.

CHARLES FORREST CURRY, Republican, of Sacramento, was born in Naperville, Ill., and is the son of the late Charles H. M. and Emma J. (Kimball) Curry; moved with his parents to Seattle; after spending some time in the then Territory of Washington, the family removed to California, of which State his maternal grandfather was a resident and pioneer; in 1886 was elected a member of the California Assembly from the thirty-sixth district in San Francisco; in 1890 was appointed superintendent of Station B post office in San Francisco, and in 1894 resigned that position to accept the Republican nomination for county clerk, to which office he was elected and served a term of four years; in 1898 received the Republican nomination for secretary of state, to which office he was elected and served three consecutive terms of four years each; appointed building and loan commissioner of California January, 1911; October 5, 1891, married Lillie A. Siperly, who died October 2, 1898; his family consists of two children, Florence A. and C. F. Curry, jr., captain in the Air Service Reserve, who served in France and Germany; one sister, Mrs. A. M. Peterson, and two nephews, Leonard C. Curry and Emmett J. Peterson, who was in the Naval Flying Corps and now in reserves. Mr. Curry was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 54,984 votes, to 14,964 for J. W. Struckenbruck, Democrat, and 3,631 for M. W. Beck, Socialist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: Twenty-first, twenty-eighth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third assembly districts. Population (1910), 208,314.

JULIUS KAHN, Republican, of San Francisco, indorsed by Democratic and Progressive Parties; was born on the 28th day of February, 1861, at Kuppenheim, Republic of Baden, Germany; came to California with his parents in 1866; was educated in the public schools of San Francisco. In 1892 was elected to the Legislature of the State of California; in January, 1894, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fiftyninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.--CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: Twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-ninth assembly districts. Population (1910), 208,598. JOHN I. NOLAN, Republican, of San Francisco, was born in San Francisco, Calif.; attended the public schools of San Francisco; was married to Miss Mae Ella Hunt, of San Francisco, March 23, 1913; have one child, Corlis Theresa Nolan; is an iron molder by trade; was a member of the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco 1911; secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council 1912, and has been identified with the International Molders' Union of North America as an officer for 13 years; was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Alameda. Population (1910), 246,131.

JOHN ARTHUR ELSTON, Republican, of Berkeley, was born February 10, 1874, at Woodland, Calif., son of Allen Mandeville and Florence (Elliott) Elston; graduated from Hesperian College, Woodland, of which his father was president, in 1892, and from the University of California in 1897; married Tallulah Le Conte, of Berkeley, in 1911, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Jane; is a lawyer by profession; was executive secretary to the governor of California 1903-1907; member of the board of trustees of the State Institution.for the Deaf and Blind 1911-1914; appointed Regent of Smithsonian Institution 1919; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and Tulare (7 counties). Population (1910), 211,080.

HENRY ELLSWORTH BARBOUR, Republican, of Fresno, Calif., was born at Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., March 8, 1877; was educated in the public schools of Ogdensburg, the Ogdensburg Free Academy, Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.), and the law department of George Washington University, Washington, D. C.; admitted to the practice of law in New York State in 1901, and the State of California in 1902; located in Fresno, Calif., in 1902, and has since been a resident and practicing attorney of that city; married Mary D. Meux, of Fresno, Calif., October 29, 1907; they have two sons, John Meux Barbour and Richard Houston Barbour; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 2,731; received both the Republican and Democratic nominations in the primary election of 1920 and was reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress by a majority of 49,164.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura (8 counties). Population (1910), 233,919.

HUGH STEEL HERSMAN, Democrat, of Gilroy, Calif., was born at Port Deposit, Cecil County, Md., July 8, 1872; received primary school education in California; after graduating from the high school of San Luis Obispo, received college course at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn., graduating in 1893 with degree of bachelor of arts, later returning to California and taking a two-year postgraduate course at the University of California; for 15 years has devoted himself to mining, agricultural pursuits, and to banking; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress November 5, 1918, over Everis A. Hayes, Republican, the vote being as follows: H. S. Hersman, Democrat, 31,167; Everis A. Hayes, Republican, 27,641. NINTH DISTRICT.-LOS ANGELES COUNTY: Sixty-first, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh, sixtyeighth, sixty-ninth, and seventieth assembly districts. Population (1910), 230,189. CHARLES HIRAM RANDALL, Prohibitionist, of Los Angeles, was born at Auburn, Nebr., July 23, 1865; newspaper editor and publisher; member of park commission, Los Angeles, 1909-10; member of California Legislature 1911-12; married Miss May E. Stanley, of Gardner, Ill., November 15, 1885. He was elected, after receiving nominations in Prohibition and Democratic primaries, to the Sixty-fourth Congress. Reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, after receiving nominations in the

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