REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Benton, Clackamas, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill (17 counties).

Population (1905), 249,756.

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. (1884), A. B. and LL. B. (1888), and A. M. (1891), in cursu, and that of LL. D. (1909) in honore; was regularly admitted to the bar in Oregon in 1893 and to the district and circuit courts of the United States in 1906; engaged in educational work in several institutions, including the Willamette University, which he served for over eight years as its president and for sixteen 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, and is chairman of its financial board-this institution having about $200,000,000 of insurance in force; is married; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 31,889 votes, to 14,841 for J. J. Whitney, Democrat, 4,349 for W. S. Richards, Socialist, and 3,189 for Daniel Staver, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Baker, Clatsop, Columbia, Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Malheur, Morrow, Multnomah, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler (17 counties).

Population (1995), 230,326.

WILLIAM RUSSELL ELLIS, Republican, of Pendleton, was born near Waveland, Montgomery County, Ind., April 23, 1850; moved to Guthrie County, Iowa, in 1855; worked on a farm and attended district school during the winter months until 18 years of age; after that divided his time between teaching country school and working on a farm until after reaching his majority; attended school until the middle of the sophomore year at the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames; graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the law department of the Iowa State University at Iowa City in June, 1874; the first year after graduation practiced law as a partner of Col. S. D. Nichols, at Panora, Iowa, during which time he was elected and served as mayor; then moved to Hamburg, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of law and newspaper work; served that city two years as city attorney and one term as mayor; moved west in 1883, settling in Heppner, Oreg., in 1884; served one term as county superintendent of schools of Morrow County; three terms as district attorney of the Seventh judicial district of Oregon; was elected to Congress from the Second district of Oregon and served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1899; in June, 1900, was elected circuit judge of the Sixth judicial district of Oregon for a term of six years which ended July 1, 1906; moved to Pendleton in July, 1901; is married; before the expiration of his term as judge, was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 35,579 votes, to 13,865 for John J. Jeffrey, Democrat, 3,855 for G. E. Sanders, Socialist, and 2,685 for H. C. Shaffer, Prohibitionist.

PENNSYLVANIA.

SENATORS.

BOIES PENROSE, 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, reelected 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 and 1904; was chairman of the Republican State committee in 1903-1905; was elected a member of the national Republican committee from Pennsylvania in 1904; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed J. Donald Cameron, for the term beginning March 4, 1897; reelected in 1903 and 1909. His term of service will expire March 3, 1915.

GEORGE T. OLIVER, Republican, of Pittsburg, was born in Ireland during a visit of his parents, January 26, 1848, and is the son of Henry W. and Margaret Brown Oliver, who were of English and Scotch ancestry; was graduated from Bethany College, West Virginia, in 1868; admitted to the Allegheny County (Pa.) bar in 1871, and in active practice ten years. In 1881 engaged in manufacturing, becoming vice-president and subsequently president of the Oliver Wire Company, with which he remained until 1899, when that company sold its plant; also from 1889 president Hainsworth Steel Company until its merger in 1897 with Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, of which he was president until he disposed of his manufacturing interests in 1901. Since 1900 engaged in newspaper business as principal owner of Pittsburg Gazette-Times and Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. President Pittsburg Central Board of Education from 1881 to 1884, and a Presidential elector in 1884. In 1904 was tendered 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, to accept the office of Secretary of State in President Taft's Cabinet. His term of service will expire March 3, 1911.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.-First, Seventh, Twenty-sixth, Thirtieth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-ninth wards. Population (1900), 227,733.

HENRY HARRISON BINGHAM, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born. in Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1841; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1862, receiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M., and also the degree of LL. D. from Washington and Jefferson College; studied law; entered the Union Army as a lieutenant in the One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1863, at Spottsylvania, Va., in 1864, and at Farmville, Va., in 1865; mustered out of service July, 1866, having been brevetted for distinguished gallantry as major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general; received the medal of honor for special gallantry on the field of battle; was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in March, 1867, and resigned December, 1872, to accept the clerkship of the courts of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace at Philadelphia, having been elected by the people; was reelected clerk of courts in 1875; was delegate at large to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also delegate from the First Congressional district to the Republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, at St. Louis in 1896, at Philadelphia, 1900, and at Chicago in 1904; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Fortyseventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 27,507 votes, to 7,773 for Michael J. Geraghty, Democrat, 212 for Isaac A. Ramsey, Prohibitionist, and 607 for Horace A. McCall, Socialist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.-Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and Thirty-seventh wards.

Population (1900), 195,609.

JOEL COOK, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 20, 1842; educated in the public schools, he was graduated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, B. A., 1859; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863; later adopted journalism as a profession, and served various newspapers during a period of forty-five years; was a correspondent with the Army of the Potomac and a Washington correspondent during the war of the rebellion; was upon the editorial staff of

the Philadelphia Public Ledger from 1865 and its financial editor from 1883 until retiring from active work in 1907; is vice-president and treasurer of the United Security Life Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia; president of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Mr. Cook has traveled extensively and is author of several volumes on American and foreign travel; is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and numerous other prominent Pennsylvania associations; married Mary J. Edmunds, of Philadelphia, in 1865, and has a son and a daughter; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 24,578 votes, to 6,381 for William Schlipf, jr., Democrat, 263 for Burton L. Rockwood, Prohibitionist, and 542 for Lorenzo Stitzenberger, Socialist.

THIRD DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.-Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth wards.

Population (1900), 251,649.

JOSEPH 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 and Surety Company of Philadelphia; appointed by the court June 24, 1905, receiver of the company; president of the Allied Republican Clubs of Philadelphia, 1900-1906; president of the Pennsylvania State League in 1900, and reelected in 1901; elected president of the National Republican League, at Chicago, in 1902, and reelected at Indianapolis in 1904; president Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, 1908-9; married Adelaide Stone in 1889; elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress for the unexpired term of the late Hon. George A. Castor, and to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 23,867 votes, to 6,608 for William Beerli, Democrat, 162 for Edward B. Cooper, Prohibitionist, and 540 for Joseph Heintz, Socialist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-second, and Thirty-eighth wards. Population (1900), 177,020.

REUBEN OSBORNE MOON, Republican, of Philadelphia, descended from John Moon, one of the earliest judges of the State of Pennsylvania, was born in the State of New Jersey, son of Aaron L. Moon, a well-known teacher of that State; was educated under his father's instruction, supplemented by a college course, graduating in 1874; taught school, and later was a professor in a prominent institution of learning in Philadelphia; engaged in the educational lecture field; studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1884, to the supreme court in 1886, and to the United States courts in 1890; was president of the Columbia Club, is also a member of the Union League, Penn Club, the Lawyers' Club, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and other prominent Pennsylvania associations; married Mary A. Predmore, of Barnegat, N. J., in 1876, and has two children; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Robert H. Foederer, and to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 17,518 votes, to 7,613 for Haines D. Albright, Democrat, 708 for Charles Doerr, sr., Socialist, 420 for Michael J. Fanning, Prohibitionist, and 194 for Henry J. Ruesskamf, Independence League.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fifth, and
Forty-first wards.
Population (1900), 196,315.

WILLIAM WALKER FOULKROD, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.; received his education in the public and private schools of that city; began his business career in the wholesale dry goods and notion house of Mustin & Bennett; a member of the firm of T. T. Mustin & Co., and later a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of Hood, Foulkrod & Co.; after the

retirement of that firm from business he became interested in the manufacturing business; outside of his business interests he has devoted a large part of his time to the work of the commercial organizations of Philadelphia; was one of the organizers and for twelve years president of the Trades League of Philadelphia, which is now the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia; is one of the trustees of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, also a trustee of the T. W. Evans Museum and Institute Society; is a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, the Manufacturers Club, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and a number of other organizations; was the acting president of the National Export Exposition; was one of the canal commissioners appointed by the mayor of Philadelphia; married Mary C. Buckius and has two children-one boy and one girl; was nominated by the Republican party, and elected to the Sixtieth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 21,756 votes, to 8,488 for Michael Donohue, Democrat, 299 for Harry Crowther, Prohibitionist, 1,263 for Ed Moore, Socialist, and 829 for R. Bruce Burns, Independence League.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.-Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh, Thirtyfourth, Fortieth, Forty-second, Forty-fourth, and Forty-sixth wards. Population (1900), 245,371.

GEORGE DEARDORFF MCCREARY; Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in York Springs village, Adams County, Pa., September 28, 1846; his infancy and early youth were spent in the anthracite coal regions at Tremont, Tamaqua, and Mauch Chunk, where his father, the late John B. McCreary, one of the pioneer coal operators, was engaged in coal mining. In 1864, with his parents, he removed to Philadelphia; was educated in public and private schools, and in the same year, 1864, entered the University of Pennsylvania, remaining until his junior year, 1867, when he left to take a position in the Honey Brook Coal Company, of which his father was president. He began his independent business career in 1870, when he became a member of the newly organized coal firm of Whitney, McCreary & Kemmerer, retiring from the firm in 1879 to take charge of his father's estate. In 1882 he became interested in municipal affairs of the city of Philadelphia, and was an original member of the committee of one hundred, serving on the important committees; was elected treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia in November, 1891, and during his term of office, from 1892 to 1895, reorganized the finances of the city, introducing and carrying out many needed measures, which have resulted in large financial gains to the city and safety in the transaction of its finances; is an officer in and director of a number of successful financial, mining, and business companies, and is also associated in church and philanthropic institutions; was married June 18, 1878, to Kate R. Howell; has traveled extensively in this and foreign countries; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 31,129 votes, to 10,205 for Frederick J. Baily, Democrat, 721 for John M. Doran, Prohibitionist, and 907 for Charles W. Evans, Socialist.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Chester and Delaware (2 counties).

Population (1900), 190,457.

THOMAS S. BUTLER, Republican, of West Chester, was born in Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa., November 4, 1855; received a common school and academic education; is an attorney at law; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 26,684 votes, to 10,364 for D. P. Hibberd, Democrat, 1,450 for Shessie W. Ridgway, Prohibitionist, and 26 for Walter N. Lodge, Socialist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bucks and Montgomery (2 counties).

Population (1900), 210,185.

IRVING PRICE WANGER, Republican, of Norristown, was born in North Coventry, Chester County, Pa., March 5, 1852; commenced the study of law at Norristown in 1872, and was admitted to the bar December 18, 1875; was elected burgess of Norris

town in 1878; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1880; was elected district attorney of Montgomery County in 1880, and again in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtyfirst Congress, receiving 26,384 votes, to 17,684 for Wynne James, Democrat; and 16 scattering.

COUNTY.-Lancaster.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Population (1900), 159,241.

WILLIAM WALTON GRIEST, Republican, of Lancaster, is a manufacturer of iron, president of railway and of lighting companies, and publisher of a newspaper; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 22,022 votes, to 7,428 for George B. Willson, Democrat.

COUNTY.-Lackawanna.

TENTH DISTRICT.

Population (1900), 193,831.

THOMAS DAVID NICHOLLS, Democrat, of Scranton, was born in WilkesBarre, Luzerne County, Pa., September 16, 1870; attended public day schools until 9 years of age and two winters of night school in the two years following; later on studied mining by correspondence in the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton; in 1897 passed a State examination and received a mine foreman's certificate of competency; began work as a breaker boy and worked from the age of 9 until 12 as a slate picker; at 12 years of age, secured employment inside the mines and continued to work at the various occupations therein until May, 1900, when he was placed on salary for the purpose of having him devote his whole time to the duties of district president of District No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, to which position he had been elected in May, 1899; is married and has a family of four children--three girls and one boy; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 16,855 votes, to 16,138 for John R. Farr, Republican.

COUNTY.-Luzerne.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

Population (1900), 257,121.

HENRY WILBER PALMER, Republican, of Wilkes-Barre, was educated at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., Fort Edward Institute, Fort Edward, N. Y., and the National Law School of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating from the latter institution in 1860; was admitted to the bar at Peekskill, N. Y., in 1860, and at Wilkes-Barre in 1861; married Ellen M. Webster at Plattsburg, N. Y., September 12, 1861; served in the pay department of the Union Army in the civil war, at New Orleans, in 1862-63; was a member of Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania in 1872-73, and attorney-general of the State from 1879 to 1883; was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and Sixty-first Congress, receiving 21,033 votes, to 18,569 for John H. Bigelow, Democrat, and 963 for Charles Lavin, Socialist.

COUNTY.-Schuylkill.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

Population (1900), 172,927.

ALFRED BUCKWALTER GARNER, Republican, of Ashland, was born March 4, 1873, at Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pa.; received his education in the public schools of Ashland; is an attorney at law; is married; was elected as a member of the State legislature of Pennsylvania in November, 1900, and served continuously until nominated for Congress; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 17,446 votes, to 15,339 for Robert E. Lee, Democrat, and 845 for Cornelius F. Foley, Socialist.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Berks and Lehigh (2 counties).

Population (1900), 253,508.

JOHN H. ROTHERMEL, Democrat, of Reading, was born March 7, 1856, in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa.; received a common school and academic education; was admitted to the bar August 20, 1881; has been engaged in active practice of his profession in the State and Federal courts ever since; was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving 27,655 votes, to 21,416 for Alex. N. Ulrich, Republican, 782 for Wesley W. Bowman, Prohibitionist, and 1,993 for Thomas J. Neatherry, Socialist.