at Aurora, Illinois; was State's Attorney of Kane County from 1872 to 1876; was a member of the Republican State Central Committee from 1878 to 1880; was Presidential Elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket in 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Reuben Ellwood, receiving 6,000 majority over Richard Bishop, Democrat.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago.

Robert Roberts Hitt, of Mount Morris, was born at Urbana, Ohio, January 16, 1834; removed to Ogle County, Illinois, in 1837; was educated at Rock River Seminary (now Mount Morris College) and at Asbury University; was occupied with farming, short-hand, and literature; was clerk of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections in 1872; was first secretary of Paris Legation and chargé d'affaires ad interim from December, 1874, until March, 1881; was Assistant Secretary of State in 1881; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress November 7, 1882, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. R. M. A. Hawk; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,048 votes against 10,891 votes for Blaisdell, Democrat, 142 votes for Meacham, Greenbacker, and 15 votes scattering.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bureau, Henry, Lee, Putnam, and Whitesides.

Thomas J. Henderson, of Princeton, was born at Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, November 29, 1824; removed to Illinois at the age of eleven; received an academic, education; was reared upon a farm; was elected Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court of Stark County, Illinois, in 1847, and served until 1849; was elected Clerk of the County Court of Stark County, and served from 1849 until 1853; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and has since practised his profession; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1855 and 56, and of the State Senate in 1857, '58, '59, and '60; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Colonel of the One hundred and twelfth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, served until the close of the war, and was brevetted Brigadier-General in January, 1865; was elected a Presidential Elector for the State at large on the Republican ticket in 1868; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,498 votes against 10,680 votes for Eckles, Democrat, 712 votes for Haaff, Prohibitionist, and 13 votes scattering.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Du Page, Grundy, Kendall, La Salle, and Will.

Ralph Plumb, of Streator, was born in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York, March 29, 1816; was educated at common schools; was brought up a'merchant's clerk, and was a merchant for eighteen years; was elected in 1855 a member of the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature; studied law and was admitted to the practice; served in the Union Army as Captain and Quartermaster of Volunteers during the late war, served four years and was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel; has since been engaged in coal mining and railroad building; was mayor of Streator 1882-1885; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,711 votes against 15,953 votes for Patrick C. Haley, Democrat, 764 votes for Wood, Greenbacker, and 719 votes for Kilburn, Prohibitionist.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Marshall, and Woodford.

Lewis E. Payson, of Pontiac, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, September 17, 1840; removed to Illinois in 1852; received a common-school education, with two years at Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois, in 1862; removed to Pontiac in January, 1865, where he has since resided, practising law; was Judge of County Court 1869-'73; was elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,481 votes against 13,716 votes for Kim, Democrat, 626 votes for McGrew, Prohibitionist, and 20 votes scattering.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fulton, Knox, Peoria, and Stark.

Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington, of Peoria, was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, March 30, 1836; graduated at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania; is a lawyer by pro

ession; was County Superintendent of Schools of Peoria County, 1865-'72; was a member of the State Board of Education of Illinois, 1869-'72; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress; and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,758 votes against 16,582 votes for Starr, Republican, and 84 votes for Hammond, Greenbacker.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Schuyler, and Warren. William H. Neece, of Macomb, was born in what was then Sangamon County, now part of Logan County, Illinois, February 26, 1831; his parents moved to McDonough County in the same year, where he was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1858, which profession he has since followed; was elected a member of the City Council of Macomb in 1861; was elected to the Legislature of that State in 1864, and a member of its Constitutional Convention in 1869; was again elected to the Legislature in 1871, and in 1878 to the State Senate; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat and Anti-Monopolist, receiving 18,291 votes against 17,864 votes for Petrie, Republican, and 370 votes for Broadus, Prohibitionist.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Pike, and Scott. James M. Riggs, of Winchester, was born in Scott County, Illinois, April 17, 1839; received a common-school and a partial collegiate education; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has since practised; was elected Sheriff of Scott County in November, 1864, and served two years; represented Scott County in the House of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly of Illinois, 1871-'72; was elected State's Attorney for Scott County in November, 1872, and served four years; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22,046 votes against 15,177 votes for Black, Republican, 820 votes for Parker, Greenbacker, 161 votes for Wallace, Prohibitionist, and 40 votes scattering.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Christian, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, and Tazewell.

William M. Springer, of Springfield, was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, 1836; removed to Illinois with his parents in 1848; graduated at the Indiana State University, Bloomington, in 1858; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859; was Secretary of the State Constitutional Convention of Illinois in 1862; was a member of the State Legislature of Illinois in 1871-'72; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,808 votes against 16,971 votes for Taylor, Republican, 628 votes for Knowles, Greenbacker, and 747 votes for Harrington, Prohibitionist.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-De Witt, Logan, Piatt, Macon, and McLean.

Jonathan H. Rowell, of Bloomington, was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, February 10, 1833; graduated at Eureka College, Illinois, and at the Law Department of the University of Chicago; is by profession a lawyer; was State's Attorney of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1868-'72; was Presidential Elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880; served three years as a company officer in the Seventeenth Illinois Infantry; and was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,052 votes against 15,673 votes for C. C. Clark, Democrat, 1,168 votes for W. P. Randolph, Prohibitionist, and 241 votes for D. L. Braucher, Greenbacker.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, and Vermillion.

Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville, was born at Guilford, North Carolina, May 7, 1836; is a lawyer; was State's Attorney in Illinois from March, 1861, to December, 1868; was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,884 votes against 17,337 votes for Black, Democrat, 340 votes for Thornton, Prohibitionist, and 5 votes scattering.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, and Wayne.

Silas Z. Landes, of Mount Carmel, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, May 15, 1842; was educated at common schools and at the Paris (Illinois) Academy, but did not graduate; studied law at Paris, Illinois, with the Hon. A. Green, and was licensed by the supreme court of Illinois in August, 1863, to practise law; has practised law at Mount Carmel since 1864; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1866; was elected State's Attorney for Wabash County in 1872, 1876, and 1880; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,109 votes against 16,791 votes for James W. McCartney, Republican, Independent Greenback, and Soldiers' candidate, 175 votes for Honey, Prohibitionist, and I vote scattering.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Effingham, Fayette, Macoupin, Montgomery, Moultrie, and Shelby.

John R. Eden, of Sullivan, was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,402 votes against 13,366 votes for Hamlin, Republican and Greenbacker, 470 votes for Gomer, Prohibitionist, and 12 votes scattering.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bond, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair, and Washington.

William R. Morrison, of Waterloo, was born in Monroe County, Illinois, September 14, 1825; was educated in the common schools and at McKendree College, Illinois; is a lawyer by profession; was Clerk of the Circuit Court; was four terms a member and one term Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives; was elected to the Thirty-eighth, Forty-third, Fortyfourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,728 votes against 15,136 votes for Needles, Republican, and 298 votes for Moore, Prohibitionist.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clinton, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Marion, Saline, and White.

Richard W. Townshend, of Shawneetown, was born in Prince George's County, Maryland, April 30, 1840; came to Washington City when ten years of age, and was there educated at public and private schools; removed to Illinois in 1858; taught school in Fayette County; studied law with S. S. Marshall at McLeansboro', was admitted to the bar in 1862, and has since practised; was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County 1863-'68; was Prosecuting Attorney for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit 1868-'72; removed in 1873 from McLeansboro' to Shawneetown, where he was an officer of the Gallatin National Bank; was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois 1864, '65, '74, and '75; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1872; was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,296 votes against 13,613 votes for Ridgway, Republican, and 267 votes scattering.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alexander, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Union, and Williamson.

John R. Thomas, of Metropolis, was born at Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, October 11, 1846; received a common-school education; served in the Union Army during the war of the rebellion; rose from the rank of private to that of Captain of Infantry; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1869; was elected and served as State's Attorney from 1872 to 1876; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,891 votes against 15,798 votes for Albright, Democrat, and 540 votes for Davis, Prohibitionist.

INDIANA.

SENATORS.

Daniel W. Voorhees, of Terre Haute, was born in Butler County, Ohio, September 26, 1827; graduated at the Indiana Asbury University in 1849; studied law and commenced its practice in 1851; was appointed United States District Attorney for Indiana in 1858, and held the office for three years; was elected to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, (in which his seat was successfully contested,) Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses; was defeated as a Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Congress; was appointed to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver P. Morton, Republican; took his seat November 12, 1877, and was subsequently elected by the Legislature for the unexpired term and for the full term ensuing. Was re-elected in January, 1885, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1891.

Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis, was born at North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833; received a classical education, graduating at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1852; studied law at Cincinnati, Ohio; removed in March, 1854, to Indianapolis, where he has since resided and has been engaged in the practice of the law; was elected in October, 1860, by the people, Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State; was commissioned in July, 1862, as Second Lieutenant of Indiana Volunteers; raised Company A of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned Captain, and on the organization of the regiment was commissioned Colonel; in August went with the regiment to Kentucky, and served until mustered out in June, 1865; was brevetted Brigadier-General in February, 1865; in October, 1864, while in the field, was re-elected Reporter of the Supreme Court, which office he had lost by accepting his commission in the Army; after having been mustered out, he entered upon the duties of Reporter and served for four years; in 1876 he was the candidate of the Republican party for Governor of Indiana, but was defeated; was appointed a member of the Mississippi River Commission in 1879; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Joseph E. McDonald, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1881. His term of service will expire March 3, 1887.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburg, and Warrick.

John J. Kleiner, of Evansville, was born in West Hanover, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1845; served as a private in the Union Army in 1863-'64; was a member of the City Council of Evansville in 1873; was Mayor of Evansville, 1874-'80; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,930 votes against 18,493 votes for Gudgel, Republican, 287 votes for Francis M. English, and 14 votes scattering.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, and Sullivan. Thomas R. Cobb, of Vincennes, was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, July 2, 1828; was raised on a farm; attended the Bloomington University; studied and practised law at Bedford from 1853 until 1867, when he removed to Vincennes, where he has since continued to practise; was commissioned Major of Militia by the Governor of Indiana in 1852; was elected to the State Senate from 1858 to 1866; was Democratic candidate for Elector in 1868; was President of the Indiana State Democratic Convention in 1876; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Saint Louis which nominated Tilden and Hendricks in 1876; was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,832 votes against 15,128 votes for Riley, Republican.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington. Jonas G. Howard, of Jeffersonville, was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,550 votes against 14,923 votes for Keigwin, Republican, and 255 votes for Hudson, Greenbacker.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, and Union. William S. Holman, of Aurora, was born at a pioncer homestead called Veraestau, in Dearborn County, Indiana, September 6, 1822; received a common-school education, and studied at Franklin College, Indiana, for two years; studied and practised law; was Judge of the Court of Probate from 1843 to 1846; was Prosecuting Attorney from 1847 to 1849; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Indiana in 1850; was a member of the Legislature of Indiana in 1851; was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1852 to 1856; was elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth,. Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,233 votes against 15,494 votes for Cravens, Republican, and 68 votes for Augustus Welch.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bartholomew, Brown, Hendricks, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, and Put

nam.

Courtland C. Matson, of Greencastle, was born at Brookville, Indiana, April 25, 1841; is a graduate of Indiana Asbury University; at the beginning of the war enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers, and after one year's service in that regiment entered the Sixth Indiana Cavalry, (Seventy-first Volunteers,) and served in that regiment until October, 1865, filling different intermediate grades up to that of Colonel of the latter regiment; after the war he studied law with his father, Hon. John A. Matson; entered the practice at his present home, and has so continued; was three times elected as Prosecuting Attorney of different courts in Indiana; was elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,951 votes against 16,582 votes for Grubbs, Republican, 471 votes for Burton, Greenbacker, and I vote scattering.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Delaware, Fayette, Henry, Randolph, Rush, and Wayne.

Thomas M. Browne, of Winchester, was born at New Paris, Ohio, April 19, 1829; removed to Indiana in January, 1844; received a common-school education; studied law at Winchester, and was admitted to the bar in 1849; was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in 1855, and re-elected in 1857 and 1859; was Secretary of the State Senate of Indiana in 1861, and represented Randolph County in that body in 1863; assisted in organizing the Seventh Volunteer Cavalry, and went to the field with that regiment as its Lieutenant-Colonel, was promoted to its Colonelcy, and subsequently commissioned by President Lincoln Brigadier-General by brevet; was appointed in April, 1869, United States Attorney for the District of Indiana, and resigned that office August 1, 1872; was the Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1872, and was defeated by Thomas A. Hendricks; elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,115 votes against 13,625 votes for Smith, Democrat, 447 votes for Jeffries, Greenbacker, and I vote scattering.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hancock, Marion, and Shelby.

William D. Bynum, of Indianapolis, was born near Newberry, Greene County, Indiana, June 26, 1846; received a primary education in the commuo schools, and collegiate at State University at Bloomington, Indiana, graduating in 1869; studied law with Hon. William Mack, of Terre Haute, and was admitted to practice in 1869; was City Attorney of Washington, Indiana, 1871-1875; was Mayor of Washington, Indiana, 1875–1879; was appointed by Governor Hendricks a Trustee of the State Normal School of Terre Haute, Indiana, in February, 1875, and served until he resigned in June, 1875; was a Democratic Elector in 1876; removed from Daviess County to Marion County in May, 1881; was a member of the State Legislature of Indiana in 1882, and elected Speaker of the House at the beginning of the session of 1883; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,240 votes against 18,995 votes for Stanton J. Peelle, Republican, 175 votes for Young, Greenbacker, and 285 votes for Tomlinson, Prohibitionist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo, and Warren.

James T. Johnston, of Rockville, was born in Putnam County, Indiana, January 19, 1839; received a common-school education; commenced the study of law in 1861; in July, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company C, Sixth Indiana Cavalry; in September, 1863, was trans