Light-House Board... 214 List of Representatives, showing the commencement of their terms of service and the Con- 181 Supreme Court of the United States, biographies of justices of the.. justices and officers of the... District of Columbia. Surgeon-General's Office.... Telegraph, Departmental. District of Columbia. Page. 222 252 251 212 226 214 219 195 215 211 257 259 260 216 206 304 Unofficial list Senators, Representatives, and Delegates.. Vegetable physiology and pathology, Agricultural Department.. office of. War Department, officers of. 179 214 265 228 315 227 15 192 215 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. (PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.) ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Vice-President, was born in Christian County, Ky., October 23, 1835; removed with his father's family to Bloomington, Ill., in 1852; was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University and at Centre College, Kentucky; commenced the practice of the law at Metamora, Ill., in December, 1858; was master in chancery of Woodford County from 1861 to 1865; was State's attorney from 1865 to 1869; was candidate for Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1864; removed in 1869 to Bloomington, Ill., where he has since resided; was a member of the Forty-fourth and Forty-sixth Congresses; was appointed by President Hayes, in 1877, a member of the Board of Visitors to West Point; was a member of the Democratic national conventions of 1884 and of 1892, and was chairman of the Illinois delegation in the latter convention; was First Assistant Postmaster-General from 1885 to 1889; was nominated for Vice-President by the Democratic national convention in 1892; was duly elected, and took the oath of office on March 4, 1893. ALABAMA, JOHN T. MORGAN, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when 9 years old, and where he has since resided; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential elector in 1860 for the State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. Rodes, he was elected major, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; was commissioned in 1862 as colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was appointed brigadier-general in 1863 and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to join his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was again appointed brigadier-general and assigned to an Alabama brigade which included his regiment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was chosen a Presidential elector for the State at large in 1876 and voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877; was reelected in 1882, in 1888, and again in 1894. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. JAMES L. PUGH, of Eufaula, was born in Burke County, Ga., December 12, 1820; received an academic education in Alabama and Georgia; went to Alabama when 4 years old, where he has since resided; was licensed to practice law in 1841, and was so employed when elected to the Senate; was Taylor elector in 1848, Buchanan elector in 1856, and State elector for Tilden in 1876; was elected to Congress without opposition in 1859; retired from the Thirty-sixth Congress when Alabama ordained to secede from the Union; joined the Eufaula Rifles, in the First Alabama Regiment, as a private; was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861 and reelected in 1863; after the war resumed the practice of the law; was President of the State convention of the Democratic party in 1874: was member of the convention that framed the State constitution of 1875; was elected to the Senate as a Democrat, to fill the balance of the term made vacant by the death of Hon. George S. Houston; took his seat December 6, 1880, and was reelected in 1884 and in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties). RICHARD H. CLARKE, of Mobile, was born in Marengo County, Ala., February 9, 1843; graduated from the University of Alabama in July, 1861; served in the Confederate army as lieutenant in the First Battalion of Alabama Artillery; was admitted to the practice of the law in 1867; was State solicitor (prosecuting attorney) for Marengo County from 1872 to 1876; was prosecuting attorney of the Seventh judicial circuit from 1876 to 1877; was elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,314 votes, against 898 votes for Sibley, Populist. SECOND DISTRICT. (Population, 188,214.) COUNTIES - Baldwin Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties). JESSE F. STALLINGS, of Greenville, was born near the village of Manningham, Butler County, Ala., April 4, 1856; graduated from the University of Alabama in 1877; studied law at the Law School of the University of Alabama, and in the office of the Hon. J. C. Richardson, of Greenville, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court in April, 1879; commenced the practice of law in Greenville, where he has since resided, was elected by the legislature of Alabama solicitor for the Second judicial circuit in November, 1886, for a term of six years; resigned the office of solicitor in September, 1892, to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention which was held in St. Louis in 1888; was elected to the Fifty third and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,728 votes, against 5,324 votes for Gardner, Populist. Reelected. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry. Lee, and Russell (8 counties). GEORGE P. HARRISON, of Opelika, was born near the city of Savannah, Ga., March 19, 1841: was educated at the Georgia Military Institute, from which he graduated with first honors and as captain of Company A; entered the Confederate army as second lieutenant of the First Georgia Regulars, and was successively promoted to first lieutenant, major, colonel, and brigadier-general; removed to Alabama in 1865; was elected commandant of cadets at University of Alabama, but declined; was subsequently elected to the same position at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, and served one year; studied law during and after the war and was licensed to practice soon after removal to Alabama; has been actively engaged in the practice of law ever since; was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1875; was elected State senator in 1876 and reelected in 1880; was president of the State senate from 1882 to 1884; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention held in Chicago in 1892; was elected as a Democrat, November 6, 1894, to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. W. C. Oates, resigned, in the Fifty-third Congress, receiving 10,719 votes, against 5,713 votes for W. C. Robinson, Independent Jeffersonian Populist, and was at the same time and by the same vote elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress. |