years; on March 9, 1865, became Solicitor and Judge-Advocate General of the Navy Department; was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury June 17, 1865, and resigned that office November 30, 1867; in 1876 was a member of the New Hampshire constitutional convention; in 1881 was again a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives; on March 23, 1881, was appointed by President Garfield Solicitor-General, but was rejected by the Senate; was appointed by President Arthur Secretary of the Navy April 12, 1882, and served till March 7, 1885; was elected to the United States Senate June 14, 1887, as a Republican, to fill the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike, which ended March 3, 1889; was reelected June 18, 1889, and again January 16, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. JACOB H. GALLINGER, of Concord, is of Dutch ancestry, his paternal grandfather having emigrated from Holland previous to the Revolutionary War, first settling in New York and afterwards going to Canada; was born on a farm in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837; received a common-school and academic education; was a printer in early life; studied medicine and was graduated in 1858, and followed the profession of medicine and surgery in the city of his present residence from April, 1862, until he entered public life, having a practice which extended beyond the limits of his State; was connected with various medical societies, and made frequent contributions to medical literature; was a member of the house of representatives of New Hampshire in 1872-73 and 1891; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1876; was a member of the State senate in 1878, 1879, and 1880, being president of that body the last two years; was surgeon-general of New Hampshire with the rank of brigadier-general in 1879-80; received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College; was chairman of the Republican State committee from 1882 to 1890, when he resigned the place, but was again elected to the position in 1898; was chairman of the delegation from his State to the Republican national convention of 1888, and made a speech seconding the nomination of Benjamin Harrison; was elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican, and declined renomination to the Fifty-first Congress; was elected United States Senator to succeed Henry W. Blair, and took his seat March 4, 1891, and was reelected in 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Belknap, Carroll, Rockingham, and Strafford. HILLSBORO COUNTY.-Towns of Bedford, Goffstown, Merrimack, Hudson, Litchfield, Manchester, and Pelham. MERRIMACK COUNTY.-Towns of Allenstown, Canterbury, Chichester, Epsom, Hooksett, London, Northfield, Pembroke, and Pittsfield. CYRUS ADAMS SULLOWAY, of Manchester, was born at Grafton, N. H., June 8, 1839; received a common-school and academic education; studied law with Austin F. Pike at Franklin, N. H.; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and has practiced law at Manchester since January, 1864; was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1872-73 and from 1887 to 1893, inclusive; was elected to the Fiftyfourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,661 votes, against 13,928 votes for John B. Nash, Democrat, 614 votes for Henry E. Brawn, Prohibitionist, 326 votes for Benj. T. Whitehouse, Socialist Labor, 121 votes for Charles W. Coolidge, National Democrat, and 111 votes for Josiah A. Whittier, People's Party. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan. HILLSBORO COUNTY.-Towns of Amherst, Antrim, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hillsboro, Hollis, Lyndeboro, Mason, Milford, Mount Vernon, Nashua, New Boston, New Ipswich, Peterboro, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton, and Windsor. MERRIMACK COUNTY.-Towns of Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Concord, Danbury, Dunbarton, Franklin, Henniker, Hill, Hopkinton, Newbury, New London, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, Webster, and Wilmot. FRANK GAY CLARKE, of Peterboro, was born in Wilton, N. H., September 10, 1850; was educated at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and has practiced law at Peterboro ever since; was a member of the State house of representatives of 1885; of the State senate in 1889; reelected to the former in 1891, and was chosen speaker of that body, which consisted of 357 members, one more than the present National House of Representatives; was appointed colonel on the military staff of Governor Hale, and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,699 votes, against 13,877 votes for Daniel M. White, Democrat, 544 votes for Allen W. Werk, Prohibition, 193 votes for Arthur H. Drury, National, and 178 votes for Elias M. Blodgett, People's. NEW JERSEY. SENATORS. JAMES SMITH, JR., of Newark, was born in that city June 12, 1851; his first office was, member of the common council of his city, when he was elected in a Republican district by more majority than his opponent had votes; was nominated for mayor of his city, but declined, and has been tendered nearly every office in the gift of his party in the State, but has always refused office; is a manufacturer of patent and enameled leather in Newark, and conducts the largest business of the kind in the country; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed Hon. Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. WILLIAM J. SEWELL, of Camden, was born in Ireland in 1835, and came to this country at an early age; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and at the outbreak of the civil war was commissioned as captain of the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers; served during the war and was brevetted brigadier-general for distinguished services at Chancellorsville and major-general for gallant services during the war; was wounded at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; after the war he became connected with the railroads in New Jersey, branches of the Pennsylvania Railroad system; was elected State senator from Camden County in 1872, reelected in 1875 and again in 1878, and was president of the senate in the years 1876, 1879, and 1880, when his party was in power; while yet a member of the legislature he was elected to the United States Senate in 1881, as the successor of Senator Theodore F. Randolph, and served until the close of his term, in 1887; was elected as a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892, and on each occasion was made chairman of his delegation; was one of the national commissioners for New Jersey of the World's Fair at Chicago; is vice-president of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; is in command of the Second Brigade of the National Guard of New Jersey, and also connected with the management of various banks, trust companies, and philanthropic societies; was again elected to the United States Senate in 1895, to succeed Hon. John R. McPherson. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem (5 counties). HENRY C. LOUDENSLAGER, of Paulsboro, was born in Mauricetown, Cumberland County, N. J., May 22, 1852; removed with his parents to Paulsboro in 1856, where he has resided since; was educated in the common schools of his county; after leaving the home farm he engaged in the produce commission business in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1872, and continued in it ten years; was elected county clerk in 1882 and reelected in 1887; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 33,659 votes, against 17,118 votes for John T. Wright, Populist-Democrat, 1,516 votes for Rudolphus Bingham, Prohibitionist, and 150 votes for Frank F. Mills, Socialist Labor. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Atlantic, Burlington, Mercer, and Ocean (4 counties). JOHN J. GARDNER, of Atlantic City, was born in Atlantic County in 1845; was raised a waterman until 16 years of age, when he enlisted for three years in the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers; in March, 1865, enlisted for one year in the United States Veteran Volunteers; is a farmer and conveyancer; is also connected with insurance business; was elected alderman of Atlantic City in 1867 and mayor in 1868; reelected mayor seven times; was coroner of the county one year; city councilman one year; member of the New Jersey State senate fifteen years, from 1878 to 1893; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 31,418 votes, against 13,969 votes for A. E. Conraco, Democrat and National Silver candidate, 1,036 votes for J. B. Adams, Prohibitionist, 1,076 votes for R. L. Temple, National Democrat, and 115 votes for G. Yardley, Socialist Labor. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Middlesex, Monmouth, and Somerset (3 counties). BENJAMIN F. HOWELL, of New Brunswick, was born in Cumberland County, N. J., January, 1844; in 1862 enlisted in the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers and served until the close of the war; engaged in business in South Amboy until 1882, when he was elected surrogate of Middlesex County, and was reelected in 1887 for a second term; was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Minneapolis in 1892; is president of the People's National Bank of New Brunswick, vice-president of the First National Bank of South Amboy, and director of the New Brunswick Savings Institution; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,308 votes, against 16,087 votes for John A. Wells, Democrat, 511 votes for Marshall, Prohibitionist, 986 votes for Jones, National Democrat, and 148 votes for Henry, Socialist Labor. FOURTH DISTRICT. (Population, 154,739.) COUNTIES.-Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, and Warren (4 counties). MAHLON PITNEY, of Morristown, was born in that city February 5, 1858; entered Princeton College in 1875 and graduated in 1879; studied law for three years, and was admitted to the bar in 1882; has practiced his profession continuously since that time; was never a candidate for public office until 1894, when he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican (indorsed by the National Democracy), receiving 20,494 votes, against 17,517 votes for Augustus W. Cutler, Democrat, and 1,054 votes for Theodore N. Logan, National Prohibitionist. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Bergen and Passaic (2 counties). JAMES FLEMING STEWART, of Paterson, was born at Paterson, N. J., June 15, 1851; attended public and private schools in Paterson and the University of the City of New York, and graduated at the Law School of the latter institution in 1870, taking the first prize for best examination; practiced law in New York City until 1875, since which time he has followed his profession in his native city; was three times appointed recorder of Paterson (the criminal magistrate of the city), which office he occupied at the time of his election to Congress; never held or ran for any other office; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,845 votes, against 13,667 votes for Ely, Democrat, 370 votes for Reed, Prohibitionist, 920 votes for Banks, National Democrat, and 1,041 votes for Wilson, Socialist Labor. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTY.-Part of Essex, comprising the city of Newark (15 wards) and the township of East Orange (5 wards). RICHARD WAYNE PARKER, of Newark, was born August 6, 1848; graduated from Princeton College in 1867 and from the Law School of Columbia College in 1869; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in June, 1870; was a member of the house of assembly of New Jersey in 1885 and 1886; was the Republican candidate for the Fifty-third Congress and was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 31,059 votes, against 15,393 votes for J. A. Beecher, Democrat, 328 votes for O. B. Harden, Prohibitionist, 791 votes for W. J. Peoples, National Democrat, and 781 votes for J. E. Billings, Socialist Labor. SEVENTH DISTRICT. (Population, 256,093.) COUNTY. All of Hudson, except the city of Bayonne. THOMAS MCEWAN, JR., of Jersey City, was born at Paterson, N. J., February 26, 1854; is a lawyer by profession and was formerly a civil engineer; was assessor of the Fourth district, Jersey City, for two years, 1886-87; was United States commissioner and chief supervisor of elections for the district of New Jersey from August, 1892, to October, 1893; was a delegate from Hudson County to the Republican national conventions of 1892 and 1896; has been secretary and one of the governors of the Union League Club of Hudson County until 1896; has also been secretary of the Hudson County Republican general committee for about fifteen years, up to January, 1893; has been a delegate to and secretary of every Republican convention of Jersey City and Hudson County for about fifteen years, to January, 1892, and also a delegate to all the State conventions of the Republican party in that period; in 1893 was elected a member of the assembly in a Democratic district in Hudson County by a plurality of 815 over Dr. Stout, who was the representative the year before; in the legislative session of 1894 was chosen the Republican leader of the house, he being the only member who, while serving his first term in the house, has been so honored on either side in many years; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 30,557 votes, against 26,080 votes for Young, Democrat, 175 votes for McCracken, Prohibitionist, 875 votes for Wortendyke, National Democrat, 1,073 votes for Campbell, Socialist Labor, and 235 votes for Ginner, Silver Democrat. EIGHTH DISTRICT. (Population, 125,793.) COUNTIES.-Part of Essex, part of Hudson, and Union. CHARLES NEWELL FOWLER, of Elizabeth, was born at Lena, Ill., November 2, 1852; graduated from Yale University in 1876 and from the Chicago Law School in 1878; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,131 votes, against 13,487 votes for Willey, Democrat, 443 votes for Wilson, Prohibitionist, 1,085 votes for Noyes, National Democrat, and 572 votes for Campbell, Socialist Labor. NEW YORK. SENATORS. EDWARD MURPHY, JR., of Troy, was born in Troy December 15, 1836; was educated at St. John's College, Fordham; was elected mayor of the city of Troy in 1875 and reelected in 1877, 1879, and 1881; was elected chairman of the Democratic State committee of New York in 1887, and held that position until 1895; was a delegate to the national Democratic conventions of 1880, 1884, and 1888, and was chairman of the delegation in 1892; was elected a delegate at large to the national convention of 1896, but illness prevented his being present; was elected United States Senator in January, 1893, to succeed Frank Hiscock; took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. THOMAS COLLIER PLATT, of Owego, was born in Owego, N. Y., July 15, 1833; was prepared for college at the Owego Academy; was a member of the class of 1853 of Yale College, but was compelled to give up the course in that institution on account of ill health; received the honorary degree of M. A. from that college in 1876; entered mercantile life soon after leaving school, and has been in active business since; was president of the Tioga National Bank at its organization; became largely interested in the lumbering business in Michigan; was county clerk of the county of Tioga in 1859, 1860, and 1861; was elected to th: Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses; was elected United States Senator January 18, 1881, and resigned that office May 16 of the same year; was chosen secretary and director of the United States Express Company in 1879, and in 1880 was elected president of the company; was member and president of the board of quarantine commissioners of New York from 1880 till 1888; was delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; was president of the Southern Central Railroad; has been a member of the national Republican Committee; was elected United States Senator in 1896, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Queens and Suffolk (2 counties). JOSEPH MCCRUM BELFORD, of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N. Y., was born at Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa., August 5, 1852; received a classical education, graduating from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871; engaged in academic work for some years; removed to Long Island in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1889, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 27,191 votes, against 15,923 votes for William D. Marvel, Bryan Democrat, 1,700 votes for William A. Hazard, National Democrat, and 929 votes for Joseph P. Jones, Socialist. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTY OF KINGS.-First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eleventh, and Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn. DENIS M. HURLEY, of Brooklyn, was born in the city of Limerick, Ireland, March 14, 1843; came to reside in Brooklyn in June, 1850; removed to New York City in 1854 and returned to Brooklyn in 1866, where he has since resided; was educated in the public schools and learned the carpenter's trade; is in the contracting business, and at present is connected with The W. H. Beard Dredging Company, of New York City; was an unsuccessful candidate of the Republican party for member of assembly in the First assembly district of Kings County in 1881-82; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,268 votes, against 14,901 votes for John M. Clancy, Democrat, and 1,561 votes for William C. Redfield, Gold Democrat. THIRD DISTRICT. (Population, 174,741.) COUNTY OF KINGS.-Third, Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the town of Flatbush. EDMUND HOPE DRIGGS, of Brooklyn, was born in Brooklyn May 2, 1865; was educated at Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and is by profession a fire insurance surveyor; is of Revolutionary stock, two of his ancestors having served in the Revolutionary war, one as a captain the other as a surgeon of the Connecticut militia; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat November 2, 1897, to take the place of Francis H. Wilson, resigned, receiving 16,820 votes, against 14,603 votes for William A. Prendergast, Republican, and 3,036 votes for Horatio C. King, Independent Democrat. FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTY OF KINGS.-Eighth, Twelfth, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, together with the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend, and Flatlands. ISRAEL F. FISCHER, of Brooklyn, was born in the city of New York August 17, 1858; removed to Brooklyn September, 1887, and has resided in the Twenty-sixth Ward of that city since; was admitted to the bar in December, 1879; was a member of the executive committee of the Republican State committee during 1888 and 1890; was chairman of the executive committee of the county for two years and chairman of the campaign committee in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,810 votes, against 18,381 votes for Thomas F. Larkin, Organization Democrat, and 1,036 votes for F. D. Nye, National Democrat. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTY OF KINGS.-The territory comprised in the present Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentyfirst, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn. CHARLES GOODWIN BENNETT, of Brooklyn, was born in the city of Brooklyn December 11, 1863, where he has always resided; is a member of the law firm of Daniels & Bennett, of New York City; was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for member of the Fifty-third Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected |