REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Arapahoe, Boulder, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Park, Phillips. Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, and Yuma (13 counties).

JOHN F. SHAFROTH, Silverite, of Denver, was born in Fayette, Mo., June 9, 1854; entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1872, and graduated in the literary department in the class of 1875; studied law in the office of Hon. Samuel C. Major, in his native town; was admitted to the bar in August, 1876, and soon thereafter formed a partnership with his preceptor; pract ced law at Fayette, Mo., until October, 1879, when he removed to Denver, Colo., where he has ever since pursued his profession; in April, 1887, he was elected city attorney of Denver, and was reelected to the same position in April, 1889; in 1887 he formed a partnership with Judge Platt Rogers, of Denver; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Silver Republican, receiving 54,591 votes, to 41,518 for R. W. Bonynge, Republican, 1,924 for Ŝ. B. Schellinger, Prohibitionist, 320 for C. M. Davis, Fusionist, and 326 for Joseph Smith, Socialist Labor.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Delta, Dolores, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Kiowa, Kit Carson, La Plata, Las Animas, Lincoln, Mesa, Mineral, Montezuma, Montrose, Otero, Ouray, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Summit, and Teller (44 counties).

JOHN C. BELL, Democrat, of Montrose, was educated in the private schools of Prof. Rufus Clark and of Professors Hampton and Miller, in Franklin County, Tenn.; read law in Winchester, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar of that State in 1874, and the same year moved to Colorado and commenced the practice of law at Saguache in June, 1874; was appointed county attorney of Saguache County and served until May, 1876, when he resigned and removed to Lake City, Colo., then the most thriving city in the great San Juan mining region; was elected county clerk of Hinsdale County in 1878, but did not perform the duties personally; was twice elected mayor of Lake City, and in August, 1885, resigned that position, and, forming a law partnership with Hon. Frank C. Goudy, removed to Montrose, where he has since resided; in November, 1888, was elected judge of the Seventh judicial district of Colorado for a period of six years; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 65,421 votes, to 51,293 for H. M. Hogg, Republican, 487 for W. H. Leonard, Socialist Democrat, and 388 for Nixon Elliott, Socialist Labor.

CONNECTICUT.

SENATORS.

ORVILLE HITCHCOCK PLATT, Republican, of Meriden, was born at Washington, Conn., July 19, 1827; received an academic education; studied law at Litchfield; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and has since practiced law at Meriden; was clerk of the State senate of Connecticut in 1855–56; was secretary of state of Connecticut in 1857; was a member of the State senate in 1861-62; was a member of the State house of representatives in 1864 and 1869, serving the last year as speaker; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed William H. Barnum, Democrat (who had been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Orris S. Ferry, Republican); took his seat March 18, 1879; was reelected in 1885, 1890, and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY, Republican, of Hartford, was born at Stewartsville, Richmond County, N. C., October 31, 1826; graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1847; was admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Conn., where he has since

resided; practiced law six and a half years; became editor of the Hartford Evening Press in February, 1857, which, in 1867, was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he became editor; enlisted in the Union Army as a captain April 18, 1861; became brigadier and brevet major-general; mustered out January 15, 1866; was elected governor of Connecticut in April, 1866; was a delegate to the Free Soil national convention of 1852, Presidential elector in 1868, president of the Republican national convention of 1868, and delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; was president of the United States Centennial Commission from its organization, in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the Centennial Exposition; is a trustee of Hamilton College; received the degree of doctor of laws from Hamilton College, Yale University, and Trinity College; was elected in November, 1872, a Representative in the Forty-second Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of J. L. Strong; was reelected to the Forty-third and Forty-sixth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed William W. Eaton, Democrat; took his seat March 4, 1881; was reelected in 1887, 1893, and 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hartford and Tolland, including the cities of Hartford, New Britain, and Rockville. EDWARD STEVENS HENRY, Republican, of Rockville, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born in Gill, Mass., in 1836, removing when 12 years old with his parents to Rockville, Conn.; was a representative in the lower house of the Connecticut general assembly of 1883; State senator from the Twenty-third senatorial district in 1887-88; delegate at large to the Chicago national Republican convention in 1888; treasurer of the State of Connecticut from 1889 to 1893; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 25,048 votes, to 16,836 for Joseph P. Tuttle, Democrat, 476 for James J. Bartholomew, Prohibitionist, 344 for John J. Doyle, Socialist Democrat, and 319 for George Tourtelotte, Socialist Labor.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Middlesex and New Haven, including the cities of New Haven, Meriden, Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby, and Middletown.

NEHEMIAH DAY SPERRY, Republican, of New Haven, was born in Woodbridge, New Haven County, Conn., July 10, 1827; received his education in the common schools and at the private school of Prof. Amos Smith, at New Haven; worked on the farm and in the mill; taught school for several years; learned the trade of a house builder; commenced business on his own account in 1847; was elected a member of the common council in 1853; in 1854 was elected an alderman of the city; was elected selectman of the town of New Haven in 1853; was elected secretary of state in 1855; was reelected in 1856; was a member of the convention that renominated Abraham Lincoln in 1864; was made a member of the Republican national committee, was elected a member of the executive committee, and was chosen secretary both of the national and executive committees; was chairman of the Republican State committee for a series of years; was president of the State convention that nominated Grant electors; was chairman of the recruiting committee of New Haven during the war; was nominated postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 and continued in office until the first election of Grover Cleveland; was renominated by President Harrison for postmaster and served until the reelection of President Cleveland, making in all twenty-eight years and two months; was appointed a member of the commission to visit England, Germany, and France to look into their system of post-offices, but declined service; was nominated for Congress in 1886, but declined the same; was president of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven; was bondsman for building the Monitor; was nominated for Congress again in 1894; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fiftyfifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 33,205 votes, to 28,349 for Oliver Gildersleeve, Democrat, 369 for Milton R. Kerr, Prohibitionist, 537 for Joseph Bearhalter, Socialist Democrat, and 289 for Robert T. Grant, Socialist Labor.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-New London and Windham, including the cities of New London and Norwich.

CHARLES ADDISON RUSSELL, Republican, of Killingly, was born in Worcester, Mass., March 2, 1852; received a public school and collegiate education, graduating from Yale College in the class of 1873; was aid-de-camp (colonel) on Governor Bigelow's staff, 1881-82; was a member of the house, general assembly of Connecticut, in 1883; was secretary of state of Connecticut, 1885-86; is engaged in the manufacturing business; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fiftythird, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fiftyseventh Congress, receiving 14,727 votes, to 9,284 for James A. Potter, Democrat, and 265 for George S. Smith, Prohibitionist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fairfield and Litchfield (2 counties).

EBENEZER J. HILL, Republican, of Norwalk, was born in Redding, Conn., August 4, 1845; prepared for college at the public school in Norwalk and entered Vale with the class of 1865, where he remained two years; in 1892 he received from Yale University the honorary degree of master of arts; is now vice-president of the National Bank of Norwalk; has served twice as burgess of Norwalk, twice as chairman of the board of school visitors of Norwalk; was the Fourth district delegate to the national Republican convention of 1884; was a member of the Connecticut senate for 1886–87; served one term upon the Republican State central committee; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fiftyseventh Congress, receiving 29,579 votes, to 20,520 for Charles P. Lyman, Democrat, 408 for Abel S. Beardsley, Prohibitionist, 124 for George W. Scott, Socialist Democrat, and 225 for Henry H. Harris, Socialist Labor.

DELAWARE.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.

LEWIS HEISLER BALL, Republican, of Faulkland, was born September 21, 1861, near Wilmington, Del.; graduated from Delaware College with the degree of Ph. B. in 1882, and from the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of M. D. in 1885; was married November 14, 1893, to Catharine Springer Justis; was State treasurer of Delaware from 1898 to 1900; is a trustee of Delaware College; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 17,654 votes to 14,645 for A. M. Daly, Democrat.

FLORIDA.

SENATORS.

STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY, Democrat, of Pensacola, was born November 2, 1848; entered Confederate army in Virginia in the fall of 1864; in the spring of 1865 was appointed midshipman in the Confederate navy; entered Georgetown College, District of Columbia, November, 1865, and graduated in June, 1869; taught a class at Georgetown College until July, 1871; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana at New Orleans in 1873; removed to Pensacola, Fla., in 1874, and began practicing law; was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1876; was elected to the senate of Florida in 1880, and was reelected in 1884; was elected to the Fiftysecond and Fifty-third Congresses from the First district of Florida, and was elected to the United States Senate by the legislature of Florida for the term beginning March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

JAMES PIPER TALIAFERRO, Democrat, of Jacksonville, was born at Orange Court-House, Va., September 30, 1847, and there spent his boyhood days; is a descendant of Robert Taliaferro, who came from England about 1650 and settled in Essex

County, Va., of the Blenheim branch of what has since become a numerous family; his father was Edmund Pendleton Taliaferro, a physician, of Orange County, Va., who resided there all of his life. He was educated in Virginia, leaving the school of William Dinwiddie, at Greenwood, in 1864, to volunteer in the Confederate army, in which he served from that time until the war ended; returned to his home after the war and resumed his studies, removing about a year later to Jacksonville, Fla., where he engaged in the lumber business, with which and other commercial enterprises he has since been connected; is now president of the First National Bank of Tampa and vice-president of the C. B. Rogers Company, of Jacksonville; was elected on the first joint ballot of the Florida legislature to the United States Senate April 19, 1899, to succeed Hon. Samuel Pasco; prior to that election he had never been a candidate for any political office, but has always been an active worker in the Democratic party; has been a member of the State Democratic executive committee for ten years, and for three years was its chairman; was a member of the Florida State board of health up to the time of his election. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Citrus, De Soto, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Hernando, Hillsboro, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Manatee, Monroe, Pasco, Polk, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington (25 counties).

STEPHEN M. SPARKMAN, Democrat, of Tampa, was born July 29, 1849, in Hernando County, Fla.; was educated in the common schools of Florida, and taught school for about three years, from the age of 18 to 21, for the purpose of assisting in his education; read law under H. L. Mitchell, ex-governor of Florida, and was admitted to practice in October, 1872; notwithstanding his duties in Congress is still engaged in the practice of law in the various courts of his State; was State attorney for the Sixth judicial circuit for nine years, from 1878 to 1887; was a member of the State and Congressional committees from 1890 to 1892, when he was elected chairman; was tendered the circuit judgeship for the Sixth judicial circuit of Florida by Governor Perry in 1888, and the position of associate judge on the supreme court bench in 1891 by Governor Fleming, both of which were declined; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 13,440 votes, to 2,005 for George Brown Patterson, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Clay, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Hamilton, Lake, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, St. John, Sumter, Suwanee, and Volusia (20 counties).

ROBERT W. DAVIS, Democrat, of Palatka, was born in Lee County, Ga., March 15, 1849; was educated in the common schools of his native State; entered the Confederate army at 14 years of age, and surrendered with the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, N. C., at the close of the war; worked on a farm in Georgia after the war for several years; read law, and was admitted to the bar at 20 years of age; removed to Florida in 1879; was elected to the legislature from Clay County of the latter State in 1884; was elected speaker of the house of representatives at the session of 1885; was balloted for for governor of Florida in the State convention held in St. Augustine in 1888, and, though he had a large following, failed to receive the nomination; was made general attorney for the Florida Southern Railroad Company in 1885, which position he resigned when elected to Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 13,011 votes, to 3,249 for John M. Cheney, Republican.

GEORGIA.

SENATORS.

AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS BACON, Democrat, of Macon, was born in Bryan County, Ga., October 20, 1839; received a high-school education in Liberty and Troup counties; graduated at the University of Georgia, in the literary and classical department in 1859, and in the law department in 1860; entered the Confederate army at the

beginning of the war and served during the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 as adjutant of the Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia; subsequently thereto was commissioned as captain in the Provisional army of the Confederate States and assigned to general staff duty; at the close of the war resumed the study of law, and began practice in 1866 at Macon, from which date he has actively continued the same both in the State and Federal courts; was frequently a member of State Democratic conventions; was president of the State Democratic convention in 1880, and was delegate from the State at large to the national Democratic convention in Chicago in 1884; in 1868 he was elected Presidential elector (Seymour and Blair) on the Democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of representatives, of which body he served as a member for fourteen years; in this time, during two years he was the speaker pro tempore, and during eight years he was the speaker of the Georgia house of representatives; was several times a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia, and in the Democratic State convention of 1883 he came within one vote of a nomination for governor, when the nomination was equivalent to an election; was elected to the United States Senate in November, 1894, and reelected in 1900. His term of service will expire March 3,

1907.

ALEXANDER STEPHENS CLAY, Democrat, of Marietta, Cobb County, Ga., was born September 25, 1853, on a farm in Cobb County; received his primary and preparatory education in the country schools and the high school at Palmetto, Ga.; graduated from Hiawassee College in 1875; taught school for two years; studied law under Judge David Irwin, of Marietta, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1877, and has been engaged actively in the practice of law since; was elected a member of the city council in 1880 and reelected in 1881; in 1884-85 and 1886–87 represented Cobb County in the general assembly of the State; in the latter term was elected speaker pro tempore; was reelected for 1889-90, and served as speaker for two years; in 1892 was elected to the State senate, and served as president of that body for two years; in 1894 was elected chairman of the State Democratic executive committee, and conducted the State campaign between the Democrats and Populists that year; was reelected to the same position in 1896, and still occupies the place; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed John B. Gordon, in October, 1896, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Burke, Bulloch, Bryan, Chatham, Emanuel, Effingham, Liberty, McIntosh, Screven, and Tattnall (10 counties).

RUFUS EZEKIEL LESTER, Democrat, of Savannah, was born in Burke County, Ga., December 12, 1837; graduated at Mercer University, Georgia, 1857; admitted to the bar in Savannah and commenced the practice of law in 1859; entered the military service of the Confederate States in 1861; remained in the service till the end of the war; resumed the practice of law at the close of the war; was State senator from the First senatorial district of Georgia, 1870-1879; was president of the senate during the last three years of service; was mayor of Savannah from January, 1883, to January, 1889; was elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 7,672 votes, to 4,095 for William R. Leaken, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Baker, Berrien, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth (15 counties).

JAMES MATHEWS GRIGGS, Democrat, of Dawson, was born at Lagrange, Ga., on March 29, 1861; was educated in the common schools of Georgia and at the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he was graduated in May, 1881; after graduation taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883, and commenced the practice of law in 1884 at Alapaha, Berrien County, Ga.; was for a short while engaged in the newspaper business; removed to Dawson in 1885; was elected solicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) of the Pataula judicial circuit in 1888, and was reelected in 1892; in 1893 resigned; was appointed judge of the same circuit, and was twice reelected without opposition; resigned this office in 1896 to make the race for Congress; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 7,299 votes, to 24 scattering.