Hawkins, Republican), to succeed Henry Cooper, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877, and was reelected in 1883, in 1889, and in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. WILLIAM B. BATE, of Nashville, was born near Castalian Spring, Tenn., and received an academic education; when quite a youth served as second clerk on a steamboat between Nashville and New Orleans; served as a private throughout the Mexican war in Louisiana and Tennessee regiments; a year after returning from the Mexican war was elected to the Tennessee legislature; graduated from the Lebanon Law School in 1852 and entered upon the practice of his profession at Gallatin, Tenn.; in 1854 was elected attorney-general for the Nashville district for six years; during his term of office was nominated for Congress, but declined; was a Presidential elector in 1860 on the Breckinridge-Lane ticket; was private, captain, colonel, brigadier-general, and major-general in the Confederate service, surrendering with the Army of Tennessee in 1865; was three times dangerously wounded; after the close of the war returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1868; served on the national Democratic executive committee for Tennessee twelve years; was an elector for the State at large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; in 1882 was elected governor of Tennessee and reelected in 1884 without opposition; in January, 1887, was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed Washington C. Whitthorne, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was reelected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington (12 counties). WILLIAM COLMAN ANDERSON, of Newport, was born near Greeneville, Tenn., in 1853; was raised on a farm; graduated from Tusculum College in 1876; read law at Newport, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar in 1878; was elected to the State legislature from Cocke and Sevier counties in 1880 as a Republican; was chairman of the Republican Congressional committee for the First district for six years; was appointed a principal examiner of contested land claims in the General Land Office in 1889, and afterwards promoted for merit, first to chief of the contest division, then to chief clerk of the General Land Office; was assistant secretary of the Republican national committee, with headquarters in New York, during the campaign of 1892, and took an active part in that campaign; returned to Newport in the spring of 1893 to resume his law practice; was nominated in 1894 and elected to the Fiftyfourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,017 votes, against 8,542 votes for T. Ă. Cox, Democrat, and 2,662 votes for Cheves, Populist and Prohibitionist. SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union (II counties). HENRY R. GIBSON, of Knoxville, was born on Kent Island, Queen Anne County, Md., in 1837; was educated at Bladensburg, Md., and at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., from which institution he graduated in 1862; served in the Commissary Department of the Federal Army from March, 1863, to July, 1865; in September, 1865, entered the Albany (N. Y.) Law School; in December, 1865, was licensed to practice law by the supreme court of New York, at Albany; in January, 1866, removed to Knoxville, Tenn., and there began the practice of law; in October, 1866, removed to Jacksboro, Campbell County, Tenn.; in 1868 was appointed commissioner of claims by Governor William G. Brownlow; in 1869 was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention which framed the present constitution of the State, but refused to sign or vote for the constitution because of some obnoxious provisions, especially one making the prepayment of a poll tax a qualification for voting; in 1870 was elected a member of the State senate in 1872 was a Republican candidate for Presidential elector; in 1874 was elected a member of the Tennessee house of representatives; in 1876 removed back to Knoxville and formed a law partnership with Judge L. C. Houk, afterwards Congressman; in 1879 founded the Knoxville Republican and became its editor; in 1880 was the Republican nominee for district Presidential elector; in 1881 was appointed post-office inspector and as such investigated the postal service on the Mississippi River and its tributaries and the star-route service west of the Rocky Mountains; in 1882 became editor of the Knoxville Daily Chro then the only morning Republican daily between the Ohio River and the Gul 1883 was appointed United States pension agent at Knoxville for the Southern trict, composed of twelve States; in 1886 was elected chancellor of the Second cery division of Tennessee for a term of eight years by a majority of 13,603 opponent receiving only 5,225 votes; in 1891 published Suits in Chancery, a that has become an authority in the courts of Tennessee and other States; in the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Hobart College, his alma mate March, 1894, was nominated by the Republicans of his district for the Fifty-fo Congress, beating Hon. John C. Houk 953 votes in the primary election; in Nove was elected as the Republican nominee, receiving 16,215 votes, against 13,191 for Houk, candidate of a fusion of Republicans and Democrats, 638 votes for M Populist, and 414 votes for Olinger, Prohibitionist. Reelected. THIRD DISTRICT. (Population, 199,972.) COUNTIES.-Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, James, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, roe, Polk, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White (15 counties). FOSTER VINCENT BROWN, of Chattanooga, was born in White County, T December 24, 1854; graduated at Burritt College, Van Buren County, Tenn., in attended the Law School of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and gradu in the summer of 1873; located at Jasper, Marion County, Tenn., and commence practice of law January 1, 1874; was elected attorney-general of the Fourth (Ch nooga) judicial district in August, 1886, and held the office for eight years, his ending in August, 1894; removed to Chattanooga in May, 1890, and continued practice of law with Judge Charles D. Clark, recently appointed United States trict judge in place of Judge D. M. Key, retired; was a delegate to the Repub national convention in 1884 and voted for James G. Blaine for President; was el to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,019 votes, against I votes for H. C. Snodgrass, Democrat, and 1,669 votes for Dickey, Prohibitionis FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Clay, Cumberland, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rhea, S Sumner, Trousdale, and Wilson (13 counties). BENTON MCMILLIN, of Carthage, was born in Monroe County, Ky., Sep ber 11, 1845; was educated at Philomath Academy, Tennessee, and Kentucky versity, at Lexington; studied law under Judge E. L. Gardenhire and was adm to the bar; commenced the practice of law at Celina, Tenn., in 1871; was elec member of the house of representatives of the Tennessee legislature in Nover 1874, and served out his term; was commissioned by the governor to treat wit State of Kentucky for the purchase of territory in 1875; was chosen an elect the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; was commissioned by the governor sp judge of the circuit court in 1877; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-sev Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third gresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving I votes, against 10,582 votes for Denton, Republican. Reelected. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Dekalb, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, and Rutherford (8 cou JAMES DANIEL RICHARDSON, of Murfreesboro, was born in Ruthe County, Tenn., March 10, 1843; was educated at good country schools; w Franklin College, near Nashville, when the war began, and entered the Confed army at 18 years of age, before graduating; served in the army nearly four y the first year as private and the remaining three as adjutant of the Forty-fifth nessee Infantry; read law after the war and began practice January 1, 1867, at freesboro; was elected to the lower house of the Tennessee legislature, took his in October, 1871, and on the first day was elected speaker of the house, he being only 28 years of age; was elected to the State senate the following session, 187 was grand master of Masons in Tennessee, 1873-74, grand high priest of the C Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of the State, 1882, and inspector-general, Ancien Accepted Scottish Rite, thirty-third degree, in Tennessee; was a delegate to th Louis Democratic convention in 1876; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fiftyfirst, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,440 votes, against 9,543 votes for Erwin, Populist, and 320 votes for Montgomery, Republican. Reelected. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cheatham, Davidson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, and Stewart (7 counties). JOSEPH EDWIN WASHINGTON, of Cedar Hill, was born at Wessyngton, the family homestead, Robertson County, Tenn., November 10, 1851; was educated at home and at Georgetown (D. C.) College, where he graduated June 26, 1873; studied law with the first law class organized at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1874; gave up his law studies to engage in farming; was elected a member of the house of representatives of the State legislature in November, 1876; was chosen elector on the Hancock and English ticket for the Fourth Congressional district in 1880; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,234 votes, against 4,798 votes for Gamble, Republican, and 4,783 votes for Lewis, Populist. SEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne, and Williamson (8 counties). NICHOLAS NICHOLS COX, of Franklin, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., January 6, 1837; removed with his parents to the frontier of Texas when a small boy, and was brought up in the town of Seguin, near San Antonio; was educated in the common schools; pursued the study of law at the law school of Lebanon, Tenn., from which institution he graduated in 1858, and was licensed to practice at the same time; was a Confederate colonel and served during most of the war with General Forrest; after the war he located in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., where he has followed his profession ever since, and at the same time has been engaged in farming; was an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; was elector on the Greeley ticket in 1872; Mr. Greeley having died before the college of electors met, he cast his vote for Hendricks, of Indiana, for President; was elected to the Fiftysecond and Fifty-third Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,098 votes, against 6,366 votes for Farris, Republican, and 1,844 votes for Blackburn, Populist. Reelected. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Madison, McNairy, and Perry (10 counties). JOHN ETHERIDGE MCCALL, of Lexington, was born at Clarksburg, Carroll County, Tenn., August 14, 1859; was reared on a farm, attending the village schools a few months in each year; entered the University of Tennessee in 1878 and graduated from that institution in 1881; began the study of law at Huntingdon, Tenn., soon after leaving the university and was admitted to the bar in 1883, having edited the Tennessee Republican during 1882; in December, 1883, he located in Lexington, where he has been continuously in the practice of law; canvassed his district as elector for Blaine and Logan in 1884, and was a candidate for district attorney in 1886, but was defeated; represented Henderson County in the Tennessee legislature in 1887 and was reelected in 1889; was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1888 that nominated General Harrison for President, and was made secretary to the committee on rules and order of business; was appointed assistant United States district attorney for West Tennessee in 1890, which office he resigned in 1891; was an unsuccessful candidate for governor before the Republican State convention in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,071 votes, against 12,161 votes for B. A. Enloe, Democrat. NINTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, and Weakley (8 counties). JAMES C. MCDEARMON, of Trenton, was born at New Canton, Buckingham County, Va., June 13, 1844; removed with his parents in 1846 to Gibson County, Tenn., where he has since resided; attended Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn., for several before the late war; entered the Confederate army April, 1862, and served thro out the war in Cheatham's Division, Army of Tennessee; was wounded slight Murfreesboro and severely at Franklin; surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., with J ston's army, April 26, 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and has practiced ever since; was elected to the Fifty-third and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Con as a Democrat, receiving 10,634 votes, against 7,983 votes for Atwood Pierson, Pop TENTH DISTRICT. (Population, 186,918.) COUNTIES.-Fayette, Hardeman, Shelby, and Tipton (4 counties). JOSIAH PATTERSON, of Memphis, was born April 14, 1837, in Morgan Co Ala.; was brought up on a farm; was educated in the old field schools and atte the Somerville Academy for two years; read law on his father's farm withou aid of an instructor, and was admitted to practice in April, 1859; entered the federate army in September, 1861, as first lieutenant in the First Alabama Ca Regiment; commanded his company at the battle of Shiloh, and in May, 1862 promoted to the rank of captain; in December, 1862, he was promoted to the of colonel and was assigned to the command of the Fifth Alabama Cavalry I ment; while retaining the rank of colonel he commanded a brigade of cavalry ing the last year of the war; surrendered the Fifth Alabama Cavalry Regimer the 19th day of May, 1865, it being probably the last organized body of Confed troops surrendered east of the Mississippi River; returned to the practice of after the war and has since devoted himself to his profession; in January, 186 located at Florence, Ala., where he resided for five years; located in Memphis, T in March, 1872, where he has since resided; in 1882 was elected to the lower br of the State legislature; in 1888 he was an elector for the State at large on the ocratic ticket; in 1890 was a candidate for governor, but was defeated for the r nation in the State Democratic convention by John P. Buchanan, the candida the Farmers' Alliance; was elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congr and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,654 against 1,955 votes for J. W. Brown, Republican, and 1,454 votes for R. J. Rawl Populist. TEXAS. SENATORS. ROGER Q. MILLS, of Corsicana, was born in Todd County, Ky., March 30, removed to Texas in 1849; is a lawyer; was a member of the Texas legislature in and 1860; was colonel of the Tenth Texas Regiment; was elected to Congress Democrat in 1873 and served continuously until he resigned to accept the positi United States Senator, to which he was elected March 23, 1892, to succeed Horace Chilton, who had been appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy ca by the resignation of Hon. John H. Reagan until the meeting of the legislature; his seat March 30, 1892; was reelected in 1893. His term of service will expire M 3, 1899. HORACE CHILTON, of Tyler, was born in the county in which he now (Smith County, Tex.) December 29, 1853; is an attorney at law; was a delega large from Texas to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1888; s one term as assistant attorney-general of Texas by appointment of Governor ( Roberts; was appointed United States Senator by Governor Hogg, to fill the vac created by the resignation of Hon. John H. Reagan, in April, 1891, but failed of ele when the legislature convened; became a candidate again in 1894, made a ca of the State, and was elected without practical opposition to the United States Se as the successor of Hon. Richard Coke (who did not desire reelection), on Janua 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Chambers, Freestone, Grimes, Harris, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Trinity, W and Waller (10 counties). JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, of Houston, was born in Mecklenburg County, May 18, 1842; graduated at Randolph-Macon College and at the University of བ་ག ginia; enlisted as a private soldier in the Twenty-first Virginia Regiment; served in the Valley under Stonewall Jackson and surrendered at Appomattox, at which time he was in command of Company E, Fourteenth Virginia Regiment; emigrated to Texas in October, 1866; engaged in the practice of law; was a member of the Texas legislature in 1880; was chairman of the State Democratic convention of Texas in 1888; is the senior member of one of the most prominent law firms in Texas; was elected to the Fifty-third and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,920 votes, against 10,097 votes for Burroughs, Populist, and 2,164 votes for Dunn, Republican. SECOND DISTRICT. (Population, 210, 238.) COUNTIES.-Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, and Tyler (19 counties). SAM BRONSON COOPER, of Woodville, was born in Caldwell County, Ky., May 30, 1850; removed with his parents to Texas the same year and located in Woodville, Tyler County, where he has resided since; his father died in 1853; his education was received at the common school of the town; at 16 years of age began clerking in a general store; in 1871 read law in the office of Nicks & Hobby; in January, 1872, obtained license to practice law and became a partner in the firm of Nicks, Hobby & Cooper; was married in 1873; in 1876 was elected county attorney of Tyler County; was reelected in 1878; in 1880 was elected to the State senate from the First senatorial district; was reelected in 1882 and at the close of the session of the Eighteenth legislature was elected president pro tempore of the senate; in 1885 was appointed collector of internal revenue of the First district of Texas by President Cleveland; was elected to the Fifty-third and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 23,292 votes, against 16,223 votes for B. A. Calhoun, Populist. Reelected. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Gregg, Henderson, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood (10 counties). CHARLES H. YOAKUM, of Greenville, was born in Lincoln County, Tex., in 1850; was educated at Larissa College, Cherokee County; began the practice of law in 1874, and in 1876 was elected county attorney for Rains County; removed to Hunt County in 1883; was elected district attorney for the Eighth judicial district in 1886 and reelected in 1888; was elected to the State senate in 1892 for four years; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,462 votes, against 12,411 votes for J. M. Perdue, Populist. FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Red River, and Titus (11 counties). DAVID B. CULBERSON, of Jefferson, was born in Troup County, Ga., September 29, 1830; was educated at Brownwood, Lagrange, Ga.; studied law under Chief Justice Chilton, of Alabama; removed to Texas in 1856, and was elected a member of the legislature of that State in 1859; entered the Confederate army as a private and was promoted to the rank of colonel of the Eighteenth Texas Infantry; was assigned to duty in 1864 as adjutant-general of the State of Texas, with the rank of colonel; was elected to the State legislature in 1864; was elected to the Fortyfourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,873 votes, against 1,726 votes for Sanderson, Republican, and 14,515 votes for Davis, Populist. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Collin, Cook, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, and Montague (6 counties). JOSEPH W. BAILEY, of Gainesville, was born in Copiah County, Miss., October 6, 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1883; served as a district elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884; removed to Texas in 1885 and located at his |