irregularities, Mr. Martin's friends advised him to contest the election; the result of the contest was that Mr. Lockhart was unseated and Mr. Martin seated. Mr. Lockhart was again. nominated for the Fifty-fifth Congress, as also was Mr. Martin, and the latter was reelected by over 5,000 majority. SEVENTH DISTRICT. (Population, 169,490.) COUNTIES.-Cabarrus, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Montgomery, Rowan, Stanly, and Yadkin (10 counties). ALONZO CRAIG SHUFORD, of Newton, was born in Catawba County, N. C., March 1, 1858; was educated in the common schools of the county and at Newton College; is a farmer by occupation; joined the Alliance in 1889; was made county lecturer and later district lecturer; was elected delegate to the labor conference in St. Louis in February, 1892; also delegate for the State at large to the Populist convention in Omaha July 4, same year; was elected vice-president of the State Alliance in 1894; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Populist, receiving 17,166 votes, against 14,291 votes for Samuel Pemberton, Democrat. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.--Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, Forsyth, Gaston, Surry, Watauga, and Wilkes (11 counties). ROMULUS Z. LINNEY, of Taylorsville, Alexander County, was born in Rutherford County, N. C., December 26, 1841; was educated in the common schools of the country, at York's Collegiate Institute, and at Dr. Millen's school at Taylorsville; served in the Confederate army as a private soldier until the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was severely wounded; having been discharged from the army because of his wound, he returned to Taylorsville and joined the class in Dr. Millen's school of which Hon. William H. Bower was a member; studied law with Judge Armfield; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1868; was elected to the State senate in 1870, 1873, and again in 1882; is by profession a lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,419 votes, against 18,006 votes for Rufus A. Doughton, Democrat, and 64 votes for William M. White, Prohibitionist. NINTH DISTRICT. (Population, 186,472.) COUNTIES.-Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey (15 counties). RICHMOND PEARSON, of Asheville, was born at Richmond Hill, N. C., January 26, 1852; graduated at Princeton College in the class of 1872, delivering the valedictory oration; was admitted to the bar of North Carolina in 1874; in the same year was appointed United States consul at Verviers and Liege, Belgium; resigned said office in 1877; was a member of the North Carolina legislature in 1885 and again in 1887; was one of the originators of the coalition which overwhelmed the Democratic party in North Carolina in 1894; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as an Independent Protectionist and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,495 votes, against 19,189 votes for Joseph S. Adams, Bryan Democrat, and 28 votes for J. P. Herran, Populist. NORTH DAKOTA. SENATORS. HENRY C. HANSBROUGH, of Devils Lake, was born at Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Ill., January 30, 1848; received a common-school education; removed with his parents to California in 1867; learned the trade of printer in that State; published a daily paper at San Jose, Cal., 1869-70; was connected with the San Francisco Chronicle until 1879; published a paper at Baraboo, Wis., for two years, and removed to the then Territory of Dakota in 1882, engaging in journalism; became prominent as an advocate of the Republican policy of division and admission; was twice elected mayor of his city; was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 55-2D SPECIAL ED -7 1888 and was there chosen national committeeman for North Dakota; received the Republican nomination for Congress at the first State convention and was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, receiving 26,077 votes, against 12,006 for Daniel W. Marrata, Democrat; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican January 23, 1891, to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce, Republican. He took his seat March 4, 1891; was reelected in 1897, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1903. WILLIAM NATHANIEL ROACH, of Larimore, was born in Washington, D. C., September 25, 1840; was educated in the city schools and Georgetown College; was a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department during the war; removed to Dakota Territory in 1879; was interested in mail contracts for several years; took up land in Dakota and developed a farm, and has been engaged in agriculture since; was mayor of Larimore from 1883 to 1887; was a member of the Territorial legislature of the session of 1885; was Democratic candidate for governor at the first State election and was defeated by John Miller; was renominated at the next election and was again defeated; was elected United States Senator February 20, 1893, after thirty-three days' balloting, upon the sixty-first ballot, receiving 23 Democratic, 17 Populist, and 10 Republican votes, against 42 Republican votes cast for H. F. Miller, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. REPRESENTATIVE. AT LARGE. MARTIN N. JOHNSON, of Petersburg, was born in Wisconsin in the year 1850, and removed to Iowa the same year; graduated at the Iowa State University in 1873; taught two years in the California Military Academy at Oakland; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1876; served a term in each branch of the Iowa legislature and was a Hayes elector for the Dubuque district in the electoral college of 1876; removed to Dakota in 1882, and took up Government land, on which he still resides; was elected district attorney in 1886 and reelected in 1888; was a member of the constitutional convention of North Dakota in 1889 and chairman of the first Republican State convention the same year; received 42 out of a total of 80 votes in the Republican legislative caucus in November, 1889, for United States Senator, but was beaten in the joint convention by a coalition of Democrats with the minority of the Republican caucus; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,233 votes, against 21,172 votes for John Burke, Fusion, and 349 votes for J. A. Garver, Prohibitionist. OHIO. SENATORS. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, of Cincinnati, was born July 5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14, 1862, as a private in Company A, Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., July 1, 1869; was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of the law at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869; was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on account of ill health May 1, 1882; was the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; was elected to that office in 1885, and reelected in 1887; was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889; was elected United States Senator January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term will expire March 3, 1903. MARCUS ALONZO HANNA, of Cleveland, was born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana County, Ohio, September 24, 1837; removed with his father's family to Cleveland in 1852; was educated in the common schools of that city and the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio; was engaged as an employee in the wholesale grocery house of Hanna, Garretson & Co., his father being senior member of the firm; his father died in 1862 and he represented his interest in the firm until 1867, when the business was closed up; then became a member of the firm of Rhodes & Co., engaged in the iron and coal business; at the expiration of ten years the title of this firm was changed to M. A. Hanna & Co., which still exists; has been identified with the lake carrying business, being interested in vessels on the lakes, and in the construction of such vessels; is a director in the Globe Ship Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland; is president of the Union National Bank of Cleveland; president of the Cleveland City Railway Company; president of the Chapin Mining Company, Lake Superior; was Government director of the Union Pacific Railway Company in 1885, by appointment of President Cleveland; was a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1884, 1888, and 1896; was elected chairman of the national Republican committee in 1896, and still holds that position; was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican, by Governor Bushnell, March 5, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John Sherman, who resigned to accept the position of Secretary of State in President McKinley's Cabinet; took his seat March 5, 1897. His term of service will expire in January, 1898, or when the legislature of his State elects his successor. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. HAMILTON COUNTY.-First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh wards of the city of Cincinnati, Anderson, Columbia, Spencer, Symmes, and Sycamore townships, and Northeast, Southeast, Bond Hill, Clifton, Avondale, and St. Bernard precincts of Mill Creek Township. WILLIAM B. SHATTUC, of Madisonville, was born at North Hector, N. Y., June II, 1841; removed to Ohio when II years old, and received his education in the public schools of the State; was a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the rebellion, in the army of the frontier; for thirty years previous to 1895 was an officer in the railway traffic service and is now retired from business; lives at Madisonville, Hamilton County, Ohio; in 1895 was elected one of the State senators from Hamilton County to the Seventy-second general assembly; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, as a Republican, receiving 27,093 votes, against 17,466 votes for T. J. Donnelly, Democrat. SECOND DISTRICT. HAMILTON COUNTY.-Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth wards of the city of Cincinnati, the townships of Springfield, Colerain, Greene, Delhi, Storrs, Miami, Whitewater, Harrison, and Crosby, and Elmwood, College Hill, Western, and Winton Place precincts of Mill Creek Township. JACOB H. BROMWELL, of Wyoming (post-office address, Cincinnati), was born May 11, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio; received his education in the public schools of that city; taught in the Cincinnati high schools for seventeen years; graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1870; was assistant county solicitor of Hamilton County for four years; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican to fill the unexpired term made vacant by the resignation of Hon. John A. Caldwell; was also at the same time elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 30,075 votes, against 20,878 votes for David S. Oliver, Democrat. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Butler, Montgomery, and Preble (3 counties). JOHN L. BRENNER, of Dayton, was born in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1832; received a common-school education; worked on the farm summers and attended school winters until 20 years old, when he attended the Springfield, Ohio, Academy; was engaged in farming until 1862, when he engaged in the nursery business, which pursuit he followed quite successfully until 1874; he then engaged in the leaf-tobacco business, his present occupation; was married in the fall of 1866, and then made Dayton his home; never held any public office except police commissioner; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 27,434 votes, against 27,333 votes for Robert M. Nevin, Republican, and 254 votes for Joel S. Stewart, Populist. FOURTH DISTRICT. (Population, 163,632.) COUNTIES.-Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, and Shelby (5 counties). GEORGE A. MARSHALL, of Sidney, was born in Shelby County, Ohio, September 14, 1851; educated in public schools of Shelby County, and later at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; is an attorney at law; served eight years as prosecuting attorney of Shelby County, being elected in 1878, 1880, and again in 1883; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 25,688 votes, against 16,671 for Jno. P. MacLean, Republican, 484 for L. M. Kramer, Peoples, and 306 for Geo. N. Mace, National-plurality being 9,017. FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Williams (6 counties). DAVID MEEKISON, of Napoleon, Ohio, was born November 14, 1849, at Dundee, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents from that country in 1855 to Napoleon, Ohio, where he has since resided, except three years' service in the Fourth United States Artillery; he attended the common schools until his fourteenth year, and then entered a printing office; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1873; although always a Democrat he has been twice appointed to office by Republican authorities, first as town clerk and afterwards as county prosecuting attorney for the county to fill a vacancy; was afterwards elected and reelected to the same office; in 1881 he was elected probate judge, and served two terms; in 1886 he established a banking business in Napoleon, Ohio, under the name of Meekison Bank, to which he has given his principal attention, except that required by the duties of mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, in which office he is now serving his fourth consecutive term, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 24,383 votes, against 18,478 votes for Frank B. De Witt, Republican, and 642 votes for George N. Rice, Populist. SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Greene, Highland, and Warren (6 counties). SETH W. BROWN, of Lebanon, was born January 4, 1843, near Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio; was brought up on a farm and educated in the public schools; was a member of Company H, Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; read law with Judge George R. Sage, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1873; elected prosecuting attorney for Warren County in 1880 and reelected in 1882; elected Representative in the general assembly in 1883 and reelected in 1885, being a member of the finance committee of the house for four years and chairman of that committee during his second term; was chosen Presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in 1888 and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,360 votes, against 21,358 votes for Harry W. Paxton, Democrat, and 336 votes for Frank S. Delo, Prohibitionist. SEVENTH DISTRICT. (Population, 161,537.) COUNTIES.-Clark, Fayette, Madison, Miami, and Pickaway (5 counties). WALTER L. WEAVER, of Springfield, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, April 1, 1851; son of Rev. John S. and Amanda Hurin Weaver; was educated at the public schools, Monroe Academy, and Wittenberg College, graduating from the latter institution in 1870; immediately pursued the study of law, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of his native State in 1872, since which time he has continuously practiced his profession; was elected prosecuting attorney for Clark County in 1874, and again elected to the same office in 1880, 1882, and 1885; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,745 votes, against 21,171 votes for Francis M. Hunt, Democrat and Populist, and 334 votes for R. S. Thompson, Prohibitionist. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Champaign, Delaware, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, and Union (6 counties). ARCHIBALD LYBRAND, of Delaware, Ohio, was born in Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, May 23, 1840; removed to Delaware in 1857; was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; at the breaking out of the civil war enlisted, April 26, 1861, as a private in Company I, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; from this regiment was transferred to Company E, Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and promoted to first lieutenant; remained in service with the Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years; the last two years was captain of his company, and participated in the battles of Rich. Mountain, Cross Keys, Second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; served a portion of his time as aide-de-camp on the staffs of Generals Steinwehr and Sigel; went west with Gen. Joseph Hooker, and took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, known as Hooker's fight above the clouds; also participated in the battles of Chattanooga and the battles of the Atlanta campaign, receiving two slight wounds, one at the battle of Peach Tree Creek and the other at Dallas, Ga.; at the close of the war returned to Delaware; in 1869 was elected mayor; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1871; in 1873 became an active partner in the Delaware Chair Company, and from that time until the present has been engaged in the affairs of that company; is also a land owner and interested in farming; was appointed postmaster at Delaware, December 20, 1881, by President Chester A. Arthur, and served one term of four years; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,211 votes, against 22,519 votes for McEldin Ďun, candidate on the Democratic-Populist-Prohibition fusion ticket. NINTH DISTRICT. (Population, 190,685.) COUNTIES.-Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, and Wood (4 counties). JAMES HARDING SOUTHARD, of Toledo, was born on a farm in Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, January 20, 1851; is the son of Samuel and Charlotte Southard. Samuel Southard came to this country from Devonshire, England, about 1833 and located in Lucas County, where he has since resided; Charlotte Southard came to Lucas County from central New York with her parents at a later date. He attended Hopewell district school, Toledo public schools, and studied at Adrian, Mich., and Oberlin, Ohio, preparatory to entering Cornell University, where he graduated in 1874; began to study law in 1875 and was admitted to practice in 1877; in 1882 was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Lucas County; afterwards was twice elected prosecuting attorney of said county and served in that office six years; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress a a Republican, receiving 29,603 votes, against 25,698 votes for S. Brophy, Democrat. TENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Adams, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike, and Scioto (6 counties). LUCIEN J. FENTON, of Winchester, was born near Winchester, Ohio, May 7, 1844; was educated in the public schools, at the Lebanon normal school and at the Ohio University, Athens; assisted in the work on his father's farm until the beginning of the late war; enlisted in the Ninety-first Ohio Regiment August 11, 1862, and served continuously in the field until permanently disabled by a gunshot wound at the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864; was a teacher and superintendent of public schools in Ohio for a number of years, serving a portion of the time as one of the school examiners for Adams County; was awarded a high-school life certificate by the Ohio State board of school examiners in 1878; was the Republican candidate for clerk of the courts of Adams County in 1880, reducing considerably the then large Democratic majority in the county; was appointed to a position in the custom-house, New Orleans, La., in December, 1880, by Hon. John Sherman, then Secretary of the Treasury; organized the Winchester Bank in 1884, and still retains connection therewith; was appointed a trustee of the Ohio University by Governor McKinley in 1892; was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Minneapolis in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,809 votes, against 18,029 votes for T. S. Hogan, Democrat. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Perry, Ross, and Vinton (6 counties). CHARLES HENRY GROSVENOR, of Athens, was born at Pomfret, Windham County, Conn., September 20, 1833; his grandfather was Col. Thomas Grosvenor, of the Second Connecticut Regiment in the Revolution, and his father was Maj. Peter Grosvenor, who served in the Tenth Connecticut Regiment in the war of 1812; his father carried him from Connecticut to Ohio in May, 1838, but there was no schoolhouse near where he settled until he was 14 years old, when he attended a few terms in a country log schoolhouse in Athens County, Ohio; taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857; was chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio State Bar Association from its organization for many years; served in the Union Army, in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers, from July, 1861, to November, 1865; |