FOURTH DISTRICT. (Population, 161, 184.) COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties). WILLIAM F. ALDRICH, of Aldrich, was born at Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y., March 11, 1853; was educated at the public school of his native village until 1865, when he removed with his father to New York City, in which city and vicinity he attended several schools, and was graduated from Warren's Military Academy, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., taking a course in civil engineering; removed to Alabama in 1874, and engaged in mining and manufacturing, and built up the town that now bears his name; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress by the combined vote of the Republicans and Populists of the Fourth district, against Gaston A. Robbins, Democrat. The latter received the certificate of election from the governor on the face of the returns. Mr. Aldrich instituted a contest, and was seated by the House March 13, 1896; was again elected by the Republicans and the People's Party in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, defeating Thomas S. Plowman, Democrat, who, however, received the certificate of election. Mr. Aldrich again contested and was seated by the House on Wednesday, February 9, 1898. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties). WILLIS BREWER, of Hayneville, is a native Alabamian; entered the military service of the Confederate States at the age of 18 years; has been a journalist, has practiced law, and has written books; is now a planter; in 1871 was county treasurer of Lowndes; was State auditor from 1876 to 1880; was State legislator from 1880 to 1882; State senator from 1882 to 1890; State legislator from 1890 to 1894; State senator from 1894 till he resigned in 1897; was elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1892, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,587 votes, against 8,742 votes for A. T. Goodwyn, Populist. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker (8 counties). JOHN H. BANKHEAD, of Fayette, was born in Moscow, Marion County (now Lamar), Ala., September 13, 1842; was self-educated; is a farmer; served four years in the Confederate army, being wounded three times; represented Marion County in the general assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; was a member of the State senate 1876-77, and of the house of representatives 1880-81; was warden of the Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1885; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,148 votes, against 4,985 votes for A. S. Vandegraff, National Democrat, and 3,295 votes for G. S. Youngblood, Populist. SEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Franklin, Marshall, St. Clair, and Winston (8 counties). MILFORD W. HOWARD, of Fort Payne, was born in Floyd County, Ga., December 18, 1862; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 6,168 votes, against 5,628 votes for W. I. Bullock, Free-Silver Democrat, 4,982 votes for J. J. Curtis, Republican, and 454 votes for George H. Parker, Gold-Standard Democrat. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). JOSEPH WHEELER, of Wheeler, was born in Augusta, Ga., September 10, 1836; graduated at West Point, 1859; was lieutenant of cavalry and served in New Mexico; resigned in 1861; was lieutenant of artillery in the Confederate army; was successively promoted to the command of a regiment, brigade, division, and army corps, and in 1862 was assigned to the command of the army corps of cavalry of the Western 55-3D-1ST ED- -2 Army, continuing in that position till the war closed; by joint resolution of the Confederate Congress received the thanks of that body for successful military operations, and for the defense of the city of Aiken received the thanks of the State of South Carolina; May 11, 1864, became the senior cavalry general of the Confederate armies; was appointed professor of philosophy, Louisiana State Seminary, in 1866, which he declined; was lawyer and planter; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,640 votes, against 11,630 votes for O. R. Hundley, Republican, and 333 votes for W. W. Callahan, National Democrat; was appointed major-general of volunteers by President McKinley May 4, 1898, and was assigned to command of Cavalry Division, United States Army; on June 24, with 900 men, fought and defeated Lieutenant-General Linares at Las Guasimas, the enemy having over 2,000 regular Spanish troops; at the battle of San Juan, July 1 and 2, was senior officer in immediate command on the field, and was senior member of commission which negotiated the surrender of Santiago and 23,000 Spanish soldiers; August 18 was assigned to command of United States forces at Montauk, Long Island, and on October 5 was assigned to the command of the Fourth Army Corps. NINTH DISTRICT. (Population, 181,085.) COUNTIES. Bibb, Blount, Hale, Jefferson, and Perry (5 counties). OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rigby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; commenced the practice of law at Birmingham, Ala., September, 1884; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the Ninth district in the campaign of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,499 votes, against 5,618 votes for Dr. G. B. Crowe, Populist, and 2,316 votes for Dr. A. Lawson, National Democrat. ARKANSAS. SENATORS. JAMES K. JONES, of Washington, Hempstead County, was born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839; received a classical education; was a private soldier during the "late unpleasantness on the losing side; lived on his plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law; was elected to the State senate of Arkansas in 1873; was a member of the State senate when the constitutional convention of 1874 was called; was reelected under the new government, and in 1877 was elected president of the senate; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was reelected in 1890 and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. JAMES H. BERRY, of Bentonville, was born in Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841; removed to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited education at a private school at Berryville, Ark.; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1866; entered the Confederate army in 1861 as second lieutenant, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry; lost a leg at the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862; was elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; was reelected in 1872; was elected speaker of the house at the extraordinary session of 1874; was president of the Democratic State convention in 1876; was elected judge of the circuit court in 1878; was elected governor in 1882; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was reelected in 1889 and 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, Randolph, Sharp, St. Francis, and Woodruff (15 counties). PHILIP D. MCCULLOCH, JR., of Marianna, Lee County, was born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., on the 23d of June, 1851; is a son of Dr. Philip D. and Lucy V. McCulloch (née Burrus); removed with his parents when 3 years of age to Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn., where he was reared; was educated at Andrew College, in that place; began the study of law in 1871 at the age of 20; was admitted to the bar of Tennessee in August, 1872, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that time; removed to Marianna, Lee County, Ark., in February, 1874, where he has since resided; was elected as the Democratic nominee to the office of prosecuting attorney of the First judicial district of the State in September, 1878; was renominated and elected for three successive terms; at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again. He was the Democratic Presidential elector for the First Congressional district in 1888; was nominated by the Democratic Congressional convention, at Paragould, on the 13th of July, 1892, for the Fifty-third Congress by acclamation and was elected, and was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,414 votes, against 6,178 votes for F. W. Tucker, Republican. SECOND DISTRICT. (Population, 206,187.) COUNTIES.-Bradley, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Polk, Saline, Scott, and Sebastian (14 counties). JOHN S. LITTLE, of Greenwood, was born at Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Ark., March 15, 1853; was educated in the common schools and at Cane Hill College, Arkansas; was admitted to the bar in 1874; in 1877 was elected district attorney for the Twelfth circuit of Arkansas, composed of Sebastian, Scott, Crawford, and Logan counties, and was reelected for four successive terms; was elected a representative to the legislature in 1884; in 1886 was elected circuit judge for a term of four years; in 1893 was chosen as chairman of the State judicial convention; in September, 1894, was elected, without opposition, as a Democrat, to fill the unexpired term of C. R. Breckinridge in the Fifty-third Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress without opposition; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,109 votes, against 6,483 votes for Charles D. Greaves, Republican. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Ashley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Desha, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, Sevier, and Union (16 counties). THOMAS CHIPMAN MCRAE, of Prescott, was born at Mount Holly, Union County, Ark., December 21, 1851; received a limited education at the private schools at Shady Grove, Columbia County, Mount Holly, Union County, and Falcon, Nevada County, Ark.; in boyhood he worked on a farm, and one year in a wholesale mercantile establishment at Shreveport, La., and one year in a retail store at Falcon, Ark.; received a full course of instruction at Soulé Business College, New Orleans, La., in 1870; graduated in law at the Washington and Lee University, Virginia, in class of 1871-72; was admitted to practice in State circuit courts in Rosston, Nevada County, Ark., January 8, 1873, in the Arkansas supreme court January 27, 1876, and in the United States Supreme Court January 4, 1886; was a member of the State legislature of Arkansas in 1877, in which year the county seat was changed, and he moved from Rosston to Prescott, where he has since practiced his profession; was a member of the town council of the incorporated town of Prescott in 1879; was a Presidential elector for Hancock and English in 1880; was chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1884; was delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1884, and is now the Democratic national committeeman for Arkansas; was elected to the Fortyninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,321 votes, against 8,244 votes for J. B. Friedheim, Kepublican. FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Conway, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell (8 counties). WILLIAM LEAKE TERRY, of Little Rock, was born in Anson County, N. C., September 27, 1850; when 7 years of age removed with his parents to Tippah County, Miss., and thence to Arkansas in 1861; received his preparatory education at Bingham's Military Academy, North Carolina, and was admitted to Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1869, and graduated in June, 1872; studied law under Dodge & Johnson, attorneys, of Little Rock, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1873; served in the State troops under Governor Baxter in the Brooks-Baxter troubles, and was second officer in command of Hallie Rifles in the fight at Palarm, in May, 1874; was elected to city council in April, 1877; was elected to the State senate in September, 1878, and was elected president of senate at close of session in March, 1879; served eight terms as city attorney of Little Rock; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fiftythird, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,133 votes, against 6,714 votes for Charles C. Waters, Republican. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Faulkner, Madison, Newton, Searcy, Van Buren, and Washington (10 counties). HUGH ANDERSON DINSMORE, of Fayetteville, was born in Benton County, Ark., December 24, 1850; was educated in private schools in Benton and Washington counties; studied law at Bentonville under Samuel N. Elliott; in April, 1873, was appointed by the governor clerk of the circuit court for Benton County, and served in that office until the autumn of 1874, when he was admitted to the bar; in April, 1875, he moved from his native county of Benton to Fayetteville, where he has since resided, and engaged in the practice of law; in September, 1878, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Fourth judicial district of Arkansas; was reelected in 1880, and again without opposition in 1882; was chosen a Presidential elector in 1884 on the Democratic ticket, and voted for Cleveland and Hendricks; in January, 1887, he was appointed by President Cleveland to be minister resident and consul-general of the United States in the Kingdom of Korea and served in that capacity until May 25, 1890, when he was relieved by Mr. Augustine Heard, appointed by President Harrison; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,566 votes, against 9,087 votes for W. H. Neal, Republican. SIXTH DISTRICT. (Population, 160, 181.) COUNTIES.-Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Lonoke, Marion, Monroe, Prairie, Stone, and White (12 counties). STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, JR., of Searcy, was born in White County, Ark., January 1, 1857; was educated in the private schools of the county; studied law at Searcy in the firm of Coody & McRae, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar, and has since resided in Searcy, where he has been engaged in the practice of law; in September, 1886, was elected prosecuting attorney for the First judicial district of Arkansas, and reelected in 1888 without opposition; since 1890 has served a term as member of the Democratic State central committee of Arkansas, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,106 votes, against 5,040 votes for B. F. Bodenhamer, Republican. CALIFORNIA. SENATORS. STEPHEN MALLORY WHITE, of Los Angeles, was born in San Francisco, Cal., January 19, 1853; was raised on a farm in Santa Cruz County, Cal.; was educated in private and common schools, and at St. Ignatius College, in San Francisco, and Santa Clara College, Santa Clara County, Cal., from which latter institution he graduated in 1871; studied law and was admitted to practice before the supreme court of California April 14, 1874; in November of that year he commenced practicing in Los Angeles County, where he has since resided; in 1882 he was elected district attorney of his county, receiving the largest majority of anyone upon the Democratic ticket; in 1884 was chairman of the Democratic State convention, and also held the same position during the succeeding State convention of 1886; during the latter year he was nominated in a strong Republican district for the State senate and was elected for the term of four years, and was chosen president pro tempore of the senate during both sessions of his incumbency; in 1888, upon the death of Governor Bartlett, the president of the senate, Lieutenant-Governor Waterman, became governor, and Mr. White thereafter discharged the functions of lieutenant-governor; in 1888 was temporary president of the national Democratic convention at St. Louis, in which body he represented California as one of the delegates at large; was also a delegate at large to the national convention in 1892, and as a member of the notification committee made the address to Vice-President Stevenson at Madison Square Garden; in 1890 Mr. White was the caucus nominee of the Democratic members of the Califor nia legislature for the United States Senate, receiving all the votes of his partisans in that body. The legislature which convened in 1893 consisted of 59 Democrats, 51 Republicans, 8 Populists, I nonpartisan, and I Independent. When the joint senatorial convention of the two houses was held, Mr. White was elected on the first ballot, receiving 61 votes, which represented the entire Democratic membership, I nonpartisan, and I Populist. He took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS, of Oakland, was born at Kennebunkport, Me., in 1839; was reared on a farm, with limited educational advantages; at the age of 12 went to sea as a cabin boy; followed this calling and that of a sailor for several years; in 1855 shipped "before the mast" on a sailing vessel bound for San Francisco, Cal., where he arrived in the autumn of that year; engaged in mercantile business at Oroville and was very successful; subsequently engaged in banking, milling, mining, and the steamship business, in which he has been engaged during the past twenty-five years, operating steamships on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, and Mexico; in 1868 was elected to the State senate, serving eight years; has been president of the Merchants' Exchange in San Francisco; also of the San Francisco Art Association; director California Academy of Sciences, and other public institutions; in 1879 he was elected governor of California, serving until January, 1883; was appointed, July 24, 1893, United States Senator, to fill, until the election of his successor, the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his seat August 8, 1893. In January, 1895, having made a thorough canvass before the people of his State, he was elected by the legislature on the first ballot to fill the unexpired term. In the fall election of 1896 he was a candidate before the people of California for reelection, and received the indorsement of the Republican county conventions that comprised a majority of the senatorial and assembly districts in the State. When the legislature convened in joint convention (January, 1897) for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, he was reelected on the first ballot, although at the time he was absent from the State attending to his Congressional duties. His present term of service will expire March 3, 1903. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tehama, and Trinity (14 counties). JOHN A. BARHAM, of Santa Rosa, was born in Missouri July 17, 1844; removed with his parents to California in 1849; was educated in the common schools and at the Hesperian College, in Woodland, Cal.; taught in the public schools of California for three years; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1868, and has practiced his profession since; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fiftyifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,828 votes, against 16,328 votes for Fletcher A. Cutler, Democrat, 1,497 votes for George W. Montieth, People's Party, and 249 votes for B. F. Taylor, Prohibitionist. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Eldorado, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Tuolumne, and Yuba (15 counties). MARION DE VRIES, of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Cal., was born near Woodbridge, in said county, August 15, 1865; was educated in the public schools of said county until 15 years of age, at which time he entered San Joaquin Valley College, at Woodbridge, which school he attended and graduated from in 1886, having conferred upon him there the degree of Ph. B.; he then entered the University of Michigan, law department, whence he graduated in 1888, with degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the supreme court of Michigan in 1887 and of California in the same year; commenced the practice of law in Stockton, January 1, 1889, with John B. Hall; August 1, 1889, formed a copartnership with W. B. Nutter, which association still exists; under Mr. Nutter acted as assistant district attorney for San Joaquin County from January, 1893, to February, 1897; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, indorsed by the People's Party, receiving 24,434 votes, against 18,613 for Johnson, Republican, and 974 votes for Frank E. Coulter, Prohibitionist. |