SOUTH CAROLINA.

SENATORS.

BENJAMIN RYAN TILLMAN, Democrat, of Trenton, was born in Edgefield County, S. C., August 11, 1847; received an academic education under the instruction of George Galphin at Bethany, in the same county; quit school in July, 1864, to join the Confederate army, but was stricken with a severe illness, which caused the loss of his left eye and kept him an invalid for two years; followed farming as a pursuit and took no active part in politics till he began the agitation in 1886 for industrial and technical education which culminated in the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Calhoun's old home, Fort Hill; the demand for educational reform broadened into a demand for other changes in State affairs, and he was put forward by the farmers as a candidate for governor in 1890; after an exciting and heated canvass he received the nomination in the Democratic convention by a vote of 270 to 50 for his opponent, and was elected in November following; this was his first political office, and he was reelected in 1892 by an overwhelming vote; his term as governor was signalized by the passage of the dispensary law for the control of the liquor traffic by the State and by the establishment of another college, the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College for Women, at Rock Hill, an institution which bids fair to lead all similar schools in the South; entered the race for the Senate against General Butler and the two canvassed the State, county by county, with the result that Tillman was elected by the general assembly by a vote of 131 to 21 for Butler. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

JOHN LOWNDES MCLAURIN, Democrat, of Marlboro County, was born at Red Bluff, that county, May 9, 1860; was educated at the village school of Bennettsville, at Bethel Military Academy, near Warrenton, Va., at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, at the Carolina Military Institute, and at the University of Virginia; studied law at the last-named school, and was admitted to the bar in 1882; in 1890 was elected to the general assembly of South Carolina; was elected attorney-general of that State the following year; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; was appointed United States Senator May 27, 1897, by Governor Ellerbe, of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph H. Earle, and took his seat June 1; after a campaign, in which the question was submitted to the people of the State, was elected to fill out the unexpired term ending March 3, 1903, and was sworn in January 31, 1898.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort, and the townships of Anderson, Hope, Indian, Kings, Laws, Mingo, Penn, Ridge, Sutton, and Turkey, of the county of Williamsburg, the townships of Collins, Adams Run, Glover, Frazier, Lowndes, and Blake, of the county of Colleton, and all of the county of Berkeley except such townships as are embraced in the Seventh Congressional district.

WILLIAM ELLIOTT, Democrat, of Beaufort, was born in Beaufort, S. C., September 3, 1838; was educated at Beaufort College, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar at Charleston in April, 1861; entered the Confederate service and served as an officer throughout the war; in 1866 was elected a member of the South Carolina legislature and intendant of Beaufort; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876 and 1888; was Democratic Presidential elector for the State at large in 1880; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fiftyfirst, Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,030 votes to 1,529 for G. W. Murray, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, and Hampton (4 counties).

W. JASPER TALBERT, Democrat, of Parksville, was born in Edgefield County, S. C., in 1846; was educated in the schools of his native county and Due West Academy,

Abbeville; served in the Confederate army throughout the war; after the war engaged in farming, to which he gave personal attention and labor; in 1880 was elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1882; was elected to the State senate in 1884; was president of the Democratic convention which nominated the farmer governor; was chosen superintendent of the State penitentiary, which position he held when elected to Congress; has held various positions in the Farmers' Alliance and helped formulate the "Ocala demands;" is a staunch Democrat; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,073 votes, to 122 for B. P. Chatfield, Republican.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Newberry, Oconee, and Pickens (6 counties). ASBURY C. LATIMER, Democrat, of Belton, was born July 31, 1851, near Lowndesville, Abbeville County, S. C.; was brought up on his father's farm; spent much of his life in active participation in agricultural pursuits; was educated in the common schools then existing; took an active part in the memorable campaign of 1876; removed to Belton, Anderson County, his present home, in 1880; devoted his energies to his farm; was elected county chairman of the Democratic party of his county in 1890 and reelected in 1892; was urged to make the race for lieutenantgovernor of his State in 1890, but declined; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,029 votes, to 332 for R. R. Tolbert, jr., Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fairfield, Greenville, and Laurens, all of the county of Spartanburg except the townships of White Plains and Limestone, all of the county of Union except the townships of Gow deysville and Draytonville, and the townships of Center, Columbia, and Upper, of the county of Richland.

STANYARNE WILSON, Democrat, of Spartanburg, was born 1859 in Yorkville, S. C.; educated at Kings Mountain Military School, South Carolina, and Washington and Lee University, Virginia; is a lawyer; was elected to the legislature in 1884, to the senate in 1892, and to the constitutional convention of 1895; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,467 votes, to 165 for Pratt S. Suber, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and York (6 counties). DAVID EDWARD FINLEY, Democrat, of Yorkville, was born at Trenton, Ark., February 28, 1861; since September, 1865, has resided in York County, S. C.; was educated in the schools at Rock Hill and Ebenezer, S. C., and the South Carolina College; is a lawyer; was a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina in 1890-91, and of the State senate 1892-1896; in the house of representatives was a member and chairman of the committee on ways and means; in the senate was a member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the finance committee; since 189o has been a trustee of the South Carolina University; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposition, receiving 4,230 votes.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clarendon, Darlington, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro, and four townships of Williamsburg.

JAMES NORTON, Democrat, of Mullins, was born October 8, 1843, in Marion County, S. C.; received an academic education; left school in 1861 to enter the army; served through the war in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was more than once wounded, a ball at one time passing through the body and right lung. From this wound he had sufficiently recovered to be able to return to the army just in time, with Petersburg, to be captured. After the war he reentered school, but did not finish regular course; in 1870 was elected county school commissioner and reelected in 1872, but did not serve; served as a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina 1886-87 and 1890-91; was elected comptroller-general of the State in 1894 and reelected in 1896, which office he resigned to accept a seat in the Fifty-fifth Con

gress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John L. McLaurin, having been elected after nomination, without opposition, October 12, 1897; was reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 1,765 votes, to 151 for J. H. Evans, Independent Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Dorchester, Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter, the townships of Bells, Heyward, Sheridan, Verdier, Broxtons, and Warren, of the county of Colleton, and the townships of St. James, Goose Creek, St. Johns, Berkeley, and St. Stevens, of the county of Berkeley, and Lower Township, of the county of Richland.

J. WILLIAM STOKES, Democrat, of Orangeburg, was brought up to farm life, attending the ordinary schools of his county and town until he was 19 years of age; graduated from Washington and Lee University, Virginia, in 1876, and taught school for twelve years, graduating meantime in medicine from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; in 1889 he returned to the farm, assisted in organizing the farmers, and was president of the State Farmers' Alliance two terms; was elected to the State senate in 1890; was a delegate at large to the national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1892 and was Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket the same year; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,433 votes, to 505 for James Weston.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

SENATORS.

RICHARD FRANKLIN PETTIGREW, of the Silver Party, of Sioux Falls, was born at Ludlow, Vt., July, 1848; removed with his parents to Evansville, Rock County, Wis., in 1854; was prepared for college at the Evansville Academy, and entered Beloit College in 1866, where he remained two years; was a member of the law class of 1870, University of Wisconsin; went to Dakota in July, 1869, in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor, as a laborer; located in Sioux Falls, where he engaged in the surveying and real estate business; opened a law office in 1872, and has been in the practice of his profession since; was elected to the Dakota legislature as a member of the council in 1877, and reelected in 1879; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as Delegate from Dakota Territory; was elected to the Territorial council of 1884-85; was a member of the South Dakota constitutional convention of 1883; was chairman of the committee on public indebtedness, and framed the present provisions of the constitution on that subject; was elected United States Senator October 16, 1889, under the provisions of the act of Congress admitting South Dakota into the Union; took his seat December 2, 1889; was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

JAMES HENDERSON KYLE, Independent, of Aberdeen, was born near Xenia, Ohio, February 24, 1854; entered the University of Illinois in 1871, taking a course in civil engineering; entered Oberlin College in 1873 and was graduated from classical course in 1878; prepared for admission to the bar, but afterwards entered Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., graduating in 1882. During these years was teacher of mathematics and engineering; and subsequently engaged for several years in educational and ministerial work in Utah and South Dakota. At the time he entered political life was financial secretary of Yankton College, Yankton, S. Dak. Was elected to the State senate as an Independent in 1890; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Gideon C. Moody; took his seat March 4, 1891; was reelected in 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.

ROBERT JACKSON GAMBLE, Republican, of Yankton, was born near Akron, N. Y., February 7, 1851; removed to Fox Lake, Wis., in 1862; was reared on a farm, and received a common-school and collegiate education, graduating from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1874; is a lawyer by profession; located at Yankton in November, 1875, where he has since been engaged in the practice; was district

attorney for the Second judicial district of the Territory in 1880; city attorney of Yankton for two terms; State senator in 1885, under the constitution adopted that year; was a member of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and a candidate for reelection in in 1896, but defeated by a plurality of 182 out of a total vote of 83,000; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 38,780 votes, to 32,240 for Freeman Knowles, Populist, and 882 for A. Jamison, Prohibitionist.

CHARLES H. BURKE, Republican, of Pierre, Hughes County, was born April I, 1861, in Genesee County, N. Y.; was educated in the public schools of Batavia, N. Y.; removed to Dakota Territory in 1882 and settled upon a homestead; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1886, but has never been engaged actively in the practice of law, having had charge of the affairs of a large loan company, and being generally engaged in the real estate business; was elected to the legislature in 1894, and reelected in 1896; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 36,295 votes, to 32,314 for J. E. Kelley, Populist, and 856 for M. D. Alexander, Prohibitionist.

TENNESSEE.

SENATORS.

THOMAS B. TURLEY, Democrat, of Memphis, was born in Memphis April 5,1845; served through the civil war as a private in the Confederate army; was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia in 1867 and immediately began the practice of law at Memphis; held no civil office until appointed to the United States Senate, July 20, 1897, to succeed Senator Isham G. Harris, deceased; was elected by the legislature to fill out the unexpired term, and sworn in February 14, 1898. His term of service will end March 3, 1901.

WILLIAM B. BATE, Democrat, of Nashville, was born near Castalian Springs, 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 his party; in January, 1887, was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Washington C. Whitthorne, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was reelected in 1893 and again in 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan Unicoi, and Washington (12 counties).

WALTER PRESTON BROWNLOW, Republican, of Jonesboro, was born in Abingdon, Va.; he attended common school for three years; because of the death of his father he earned his support from the age of 10; he served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade, and as a locomotive engineer, working at these trades for severaļ years; he entered the newspaper business as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle (edited by his uncle, the late Hon. William G. Brownlow, United States Senator) in 1876; in the same year he purchased the Herald and Tribune, a Republican newspaper, published at Jonesboro, of which he has since been the editor and proprietor; was a delegate from his district to the Republican national conventions of 1880 and 1896, and a delegate from the State at large to the national convention of 1884; in 1880 was chairman of the campaign committee of his district; in 1882

was elected a member of the Republican State committee and served as such for eight years, two of which he was its chairman; was appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in March, 1881, and resigned in December to accept the doorkeepership of the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress; in 1884 and 1896 he was elected by the delegations from his State to the national conventions as Tennessee's member of the Republican national committee, and was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican State executive committee by the members of that body for 1898-99; in 1898 was chosen at a primary election as the nominee for Congress, receiving 13,332 votes, to 4,010 for W. E. F. Milburn; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, as a Protectionist Republican, in a district which was represented from 1843 to 1853 by the late President Andrew Johnson as a Free-Trade Democrat, receiving 14,616 votes, to 11,732 for Hugh H. Guchenour, Democrat, and 245 for J. W. Crumley, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union (11 counties).

HENRY RICHARD GIBSON, Republican, 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 nominee for Presidential elector; in 1874 was elected a member of the Tennessee house of representatives; in 1876 moved 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 a Republican nominee for 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 Chronicle, then the only morning Republican daily south of the Ohio River; in 1883 was appointed United States pension agent at Knoxville for the Southern district, composed of twelve States; in 1886 was elected chancellor of the Second chancery division of Tennessee for a term of eight years, receiving 18,828 votes, to 5,225 votes for his opponent; in 1891 published Suits in Chancery, a book that has become an authority in the courts of Tennessee and other States; in 1892 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Hobart College, his alma mater; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 13,848 votes, to 6,908 for John M. Davis, Democrat.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, James, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White (15 counties).

JOHN AUSTIN MOON, Democrat, of Chattanooga, was born in Albemarle County, Va., April 22, 1855; removed with his parents to Bristol, Va., in 1857, and to Chattanooga in January, 1870, where he has since resided; was educated at King College, Tennessee; admitted to the bar in Alabama and Tennessee in March, 1874, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1878; was elected attorney for the city of Chattanooga for 1881-82; was a member of the Democratic executive committee of the State in 1888; at the unanimous request of the bar of the Fourth judicial circuit was commissioned by the governor in May, 1889, as special circuit judge and twice reappointed, and held the office until January 3, 1891, when he was appointed regular judge for the Fourth circuit, and served until August, 1892, when he was elected circuit judge; was reelected in 1894 for a term of eight years; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 13,347 votes, to 9,209 for Gus Cate, Republican, and 161 for W. A. Wetmore, Populist.