campaigns of Tallahoma, Chattanooga, Alabama, and Georgia; succeeded Jay Cook as a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses, and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,136 votes against 15,113 votes for James H. Hopkins, Democrat, 281 votes for Riley, and 12 votes scattering.

COUNTY. Allegheny.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

Thomas M. Bayne, of Allegheny, was born in that city June 14, 1836; was educated at the public schools and at Westminster College; entered the Union Army in July, 1862, as Colonel of the One hundred and thirty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which he commanded during its nine months' term of service, taking part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; resumed the reading of law in 1865, and was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in April, 1866: was elected District Attorney for Allegheny County in October, 1870, and held the office until January 1, 1874; was nominated by the Republican party for the Forty-fourth Congress, and was defeated by Alexander G. Cochrane, Democrat, and Samuel A. Purviance, Independent Republican; 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 Republican, receiving 15,854 votes against 8,073 votes for Foster, Democrat, 508 votes for Dunn, and 9 votes scattering.

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Beaver, Lawrence, and Washington.

Oscar L. Jackson, of New Castle, was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1840, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, who settled in that State at an early date; was educated in common schools, at Tansy Hill Select School, and at Darlington Academy; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, entering as Captain and receiving the promotions of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel by brevet; took part with the Army of the Tennessee in the campaigns in Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi, also from Chattanooga to Atlanta, the march to the sea, and through the Carolinas, commanding his regiment during the latter part of the war; was very severely wounded in battle at Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862; studied law, was admitted to the bar at New Castle in 1867, and has practised there since; was District Attorney, 1868-'71; was a member of the Commission to codify laws and devise a plan for the government of cities of Pennsylvania, 1877, 1878; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,436 votes against 11,538 votes for Stockdale, Democrat, 561 votes for Gourley, Prohibitionist, 353 votes for Covert, Greenbacker, and 41 votes scattering.

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Armstrong, Clarion, Forest, Indiana, and Jefferson.

Alexander Colwell White, of Brookville, was born near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1833; was raised on a farm, attending the public school in winter until the age of twenty years, when he commenced teaching school in winter and attended in summer the Jacksonville Institute and the Dayton Union Academy; removed in 1860 to Jefferson County, where he studied law; was admitted to practice in December, 1862, and has since that time been actively engaged in the practice of his profession; served in the Union Army as a private in Company I of the Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; was elected District Attorney in 1867 and re-elected in 1870; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,741 votes against 14,929 votes for Daniel Reitz, Fusion Democratic Greenbacker, and 8 votes scattering.

TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Butler, Crawford, and Mercer.

George W. Fleeger, of Butler, was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1839; was educated in the common schools and at West Sunbury Academy; enlisted in the Union Army June 10, 1861, as private in Company C, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and was discharged as First Lieutenant March 13, 1865; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 at Butler, Pennsylvania, where he has since practised; was a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1871 and 1872; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,290 votes against 15,674 votes for John L. McKinney, Democrat, 2,702 votes for W. B. Koberts, Independent Republican and Greenbacker candidate, and 1,116 votes for J. M. Wilson, Prohibitionist.

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Erie, Venango, and Warren.

William L. Scott, of Erie, was born in the city of Washington, D. C., July 2, 1828, his parents being residents of Virginia; he received a common-school education; served as page in the House of Representatives from 1840 to 1846; settled in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was employed as a clerk in the shipping business; engaged, in 1850, in the coal and shipping business, owning and running several vessels on the lakes; subsequently became largely interested in the manufacture of iron and the mining of coal, as well as in the construction and operation of railroads, either as president or director of various lines, aggregating over 22,000 miles of completed road, the greatest number of miles of railroad, probably, which any one individual was ever an officer or director of; was a District Delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in the city of New York in 1868, and a Delegate at Large from the State of Pennsylvania to the Democratic National Convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880, and also represented the State of Pennsylvania on the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1884; was elected Mayor of the city of Erie in 1866, and again in 1871, and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, supported by Independent Republicans, receiving 16,002 votes against 15,340 votes for C. W. Mackey, Republican, 1,204 votes for Borland, and 3 votes scattering. The Republican Presidential Electors received 17,139 votes, and the Democratic Electors 12,846 votes.

RHODE ISLAND.

SENATORS.

Nelson W. Aldrich, of Providence, was born at Foster, Rhode Island, November 6, 1841; received an academic education; is engaged in mercantile pursuits; was President of the Providence Common Council in 1872-'73; was a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1875-'76, serving the latter year as Speaker of the House of Representatives; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Ambrose E. Burnside, Republican, and took his seat December 5, 1881. His term of service will expire March 3, 1887.

Jonathan Chace, of Providence, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, July 22, 1829; received an academic education; is a cotton manufacturer; was a member of the State Senate two terms, 1876 and 1877; was a Representative in the Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth Congresses, and was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Henry B. Anthony, deceased, taking his seat January 26, 1885. His term of service will expire March 3, 1889.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

CITIES AND TOWNS.-Providence, Newport, Barrington, Bristol, East Providence, Jamestown, Little Compton, Middletown, New Shoreham, Portsmouth, Tiverton, and Warren.

Henry J. Spooner, of Providence, was born at Providence, Rhode Island, August 6, 1839; received his earlier education and was prepared for college mostly in the public schools of his native city; graduated at Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1860; studied law; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Armies of the Potomac and the James, and mostly in the Ninth Army Corps; and soon after the battle of Antietam was promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the same regiment; was mustered out of service in 1865; and later, in the same year, was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of law in Providence, Rhode Island; was Commander of the Department of Rhode Island, Grand Army of the Republic, 1877; was Representative from the city of Providence to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, by seven successive elections, from 1875 to 1881, inclusive, serving upon Committees on Judiciary, Militia, &c., and Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives two years, by successive elections, 1879-'81; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by resignation of Nelson W. Aldrich, elected United States Senator; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,140 votes against 5,976 votes for Slocum, Democrat, 539 votes for Buffum, Prohibitionist, and 239 votes for Bruce, Greenbacker.

SECOND DISTRICT. ୮

TOWNS.-Burrillville, Charlestown, Coventry, Cranston, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Exeter, Foster, Gloucester, Hopkinton, Johnston, Lincoln, North Kingston, North Providence, North Smithfield, Pawtucket, Richmond, Scituate, Smithfield, South Kingston, Warwick, Westerly, West Greenwich, and Woonsocket.

William A. Pirce, of Olneyville, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, February 29, 1824; attended district schools and worked in the mills and on the farm alternately until eighteen years old, then attended the Smithfield Seminary for nine months; after that taught school for about a year; was then employed to take charge of the Simmonsville factory store, buying and selling goods and keeping the books; in 1854 commenced the manufacture of cotton goods on his own account, and continued the business until 1863; in 1862 was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor of Internal Revenue for the second district of Rhode Island, which position he held until the office was abolished in May, 1873, since when his attention has been chiefly devoted to farming, interspered with political and official duties; in 1855 was chosen State Senator from the town of Johnston; in 1858, '62, '79, '80, and '81 was elected a member of the State House of Representatives, and in 1882 was again elected State Senator; was Chairman of the Rhode Island delegation in the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880, and a member of the Republican National Committee, 1880, 1884; has been a member of the Republican State Committee for twenty-two years, and its Chairman for fourteen years, which position he holds at the present time;, in the District Convention of 1880 to nominate a candidate for the Forty-seventh Congress he had a plurality of the votes until the sixty-eighth ballot, when he withdrew his name and nominated the successful candidate; and he was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 7,746 votes against 5,995 votes for Charles H. Page, Democrat, 1,500 votes for Alfred B. Chadsey, Prohibitionist, 106 votes for Nathan F. Dixon, Republican, 76 votes for William Longstreet, Greenbacker, 13 votes for Jonathan Chace, 8 votes for William Goddard, and 32 votes scattering.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

SENATORS.

Matthew C. Butler, of Edgefield, was born near Greenville, South Carolina, March 8, 1836; received a classical education at the academy at Edgefield, and entered the South Carolina College in October, 1854; left this institution before graduating, and studied law at Stonelands, the residence of his uncle, Hon. A. P. Butler, near Edgefield Court-House; was admitted to the bar in December, 1857; practised at Edgefield Court-House; was elected to the Legislature of South Carolina in 1860; entered the Confederate service as Captain of Cavalry in the Hampton Legion in June, 1861, and became a Major-General through the regular grades; lost his right leg at the battle of Brandy Station on the 9th of June, 1863; was elected to the Legislature of South Carolina in 1866; was a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina in 1870; received the Democratic vote of the South Carolina Legislature for United States Senator in 1870, receiving 30 votes; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed Thomas J. Robertson, Republican; was admitted to his seat December 2, 1877, and was re-elected in 1882. His term of service will expire March 3, 1889.

Wade Hampton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 28th of March, 1818; graduated at the South Carolina College; served in both branches of State Legislature; was a member of Senate when State seceded; resigned and served in Confederate Army during the war; was elected Governor of the State in 1876, and again in 1878, and elected United States Senator in December, 1878; he took his seat April 16, 1879, and was re-elected in 1884. His term of service will expire March 3, 1891.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-County of Charleston, except James Island, Holly Island, Morris Island, and the island lying between them; the lower harbor of Charleston Harbor, and the ocean coast line from and below high-water mark; the towns of Mount Pleasant and Summerville, and so much of 2D ED. 6

the Parish of Saint James, Goose Creek, as lies between the western track of the South Carolina Railway and the Ashley River, in the County of Berkeley, and below the County of Colleton; parts of the counties of Colleton and Orangeburg and the county of Lexington.

Samuel Dibble, of Orangeburg, was born at Charleston, South Carolina, September 16, 1837; received his early education in his native city, and at Bethel, Connecticut, and his academic education at the High School of Charleston; entered the College of Charleston in 1853, and afterwards Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he graduated in 1856; engaged in teaching, and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859, and commenced practice at Orangeburg, South Carolina; volunteered at the beginning of the late civil war as a private in the Confederate Army, and served till its close in the First and Twenty-fifth Regiments of South Carolina Volunteers, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant; resumed the practice of the law at Orangeburg, South Carolina; was elected a member of the State House of Representatives in 1877; was elected a trustee of the University of South Carolina in 1878, and was Chairman of Executive Committee of South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics' Institute for colored students (a branch of the State University;) was elected to and took his seat in the forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, (filling the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. M. P. O'Connor,) but Mr. O'Connor's claim to an election having been successfully contested, Mr. Dibble as a consequence lost his seat in said Congress; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,612 votes against 3,108 votes for Taft, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Hampton, and part of Colleton.

George D. Tillman, of Clark's Hill, was born near Curryton, Edgefield County, South Carolina, August 21, 1826; after receiving an academical education at Penfield, Georgia, and at Greenwood, South Carolina, entered Harvard University, but did not graduate; studied law with Chancellor Wardlaw, and was admitted to the bar in 1848; practised at Edgefield CourtHouse until the civil war broke out, but has been a cotton-planter since the war; volunteered in the Third Regiment of South Carolina State troops in 1862, and shortly after its disbandment entered the Second Regiment of South Carolina Artillery, in which he served as a private until the close of the war; was elected to the State House of Representatives of South Carolina in 1854-55, and again in 1864; was chosen a member of the State Constitutional Comvention in 1865, held under the reconstruction proclamation of President Johnson; was also elected State Senator from Edgefield County in 1865, under that constitution; was likewise a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee of South Carolina in 1876; was the Democratic candidate in the Fifth District of South Carolina for the Forty-fifth Congress, and unsuccessfully contested the seat of his competitor, Robert Smalls; although the Committee of Elections reported in favor of vacating the election, the House failed to act on the report; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, but was contested out of his seat by Robert Smalls; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,419 votes against 1,920 votes for Dickerson, Republican, and 186 votes scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.--Abbeville, Anderson, Newberry, Oconee, and Pickens.

D. Wyatt Aiken, of Cokesbury, was born at Winnsboro', Fairfield County, South Carolina, March 17, 1828; received an academic education at Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro'; graduated at the South Carolina College, Columbia, in 1849; taught school two years; settled upon a farm in 1852, and has continued until the present time to profess and practise farming; in 1861 entered the volunteer service of the Southern Confederacy as a private; was appointed Adjutant of the Seventh Regiment of Volunteers, Kershaw's Brigade, McLaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps; was elected Colonel of the same when reorganized at the expiration of one year; was relieved from service temporarily by reason of being shot through the lungs on the 17th of September, 1862, at Antietam, but rejoined his command and served until the close of the Gettysburg campaign, when he was sent to Macon, Georgia, to establish a military post, which he commanded till October, 1864, when from ill-health he was compelled to resign; was elected to the State Legislature in 1864 and again in 1866; was Master of the State Grange for two years and member of the Executive Committee of the National Grange for fourteen years; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Saint Louis that nominated Tilden and Hendricks; 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 10,855 votes against 752 votes for Talbert, Republican, and 6 votes scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fairfield, Greenville, Laurens, the County of Spartanburg, except the townships of White Plains and Limestone Springs; the County of Union, except the townships of Gowdeysville and Draytonville; and the townships of Centre, Columbia, and Upper, in the county of Richland.

William Hayne Perry, of Greenville, was born at Greenville, South Carolina, June 9, 1839; received his early education at Greenville Academy; graduated at the Furman University, Greenville; then entered the South Carolina College at Columbia, but left there before graduation and entered Harvard College, where he graduated in 1859; read law under Hon. B. F. Perry, his father, at Greenville; was admitted to the bar and has since practised; served during the whole war of the Rebellion in the Confederate cavalry service; was a member of the State Convention of South Carolina in 1865; was a member of the State Legislature of South Carolina in 1865-'66; was Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina in 1868–272; was a member of the State Senate of South Carolina from Greenville County, 1880-'84; and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,008 votes against 81 votes scattering.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Chester, Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, York, the townships of White Plains and Limestone Springs in the County of Spartanburg, and the townships of Gowdeysville and Draytonville in the County of Union.

John J. Hemphill, of Chester, was born at Chester, South Carolina, August 25, 1849, and has always resided in his native town; he attended the schools in the town until 1866, when he entered the South Carolina University, from which he was graduated in 1869; after leaving college he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1870, and began practice on the first of January following; he was nominated by the Democrats as a candidate for the Legislature in 1874, but was not elected; he was again nominated for the same office by the same party in 1876 and elected, and was likewise renominated and re-elected in 1878 and 1880; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,861 votes against 2,881 votes for C. C. Macoy, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clarendon, Darlington, Horry, Marion, Marlborough, and the townships of Lake, Lees, Johnson, and Sumter, and the town of Kingston in the County of Williamsburg. George W. Dargan, of Darlington, was born in Darlington County, South Carolina, in 1841; educated at the academies of his native county, and at the State Military Academy; was admitted to the bar in 1872; was elected as a Democrat to the State Legislature without opposition in 1877; was elected Solicitor of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina without opposition in 1880; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,465 votes against 3,289 votes for Deas, Republican, and 386 votes scattering.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Beaufort, Georgetown, Sumter, and Berkeley (excepting the towns of Mount Pleasant and Summerville, and so much of the parish of Saint James, Goose Creek, as lies between the western track of the South Carolina Railway and the Ashley River below the County of Colleton;) the lower township of Richland County; the townships of Collins, Adams' Run, Glover, Fraser, Lowndes, and Blake, in the County of Colleton; the townships of Amelia, Goodby's, Lyons, Pine Grove, Poplar, Providence, and Vance's, in the County of Orangeburg; the townships of Anderson, Hope, Indian, King's (excepting the town of Kingstree,) Laws, Mingo, Penn, Ridge, Sutton's, and Turkey, in the County of Williamsburg, and that portion of Charleston County composed of James Island, Folly Island, Morris Island, and the island lying between them, the lower harbor of Charleston Harbor, and the ocean coast line from and below high-water mark.

Robert Smalls, of Beaufort, was born at Beaufort, South Carolina, April 5, 1839; being a slave, was debarred by statute from attending school, but educated himself with such limited advantages as he could secure; removed to Charleston in 1851, worked as a rigger, and led a seafaring life; became connected in 1861 with the "Planter," a steamer plying in Charleston Harbor as a transport, which he took over Charleston Bar in May, 1862, and delivered her and his services to the Commander of the United States Blockading Squadron; was appointed Pilot in the United States Navy, and served in that capacity on the monitor "Keokuk”