was elected to the State senate in 1880 from the counties of Grant and Madison and served in the sessions of 1881 and 1883; is married; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Seventh district, and the State being reapportioned he was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress from the new Eighth district as a Republican, receiving 30,045 votes, against 27,413 votes for John R. Brunt, his Democratic-Populist opponent.

NINTH DISTRICT.

(Population, 165,825.)

COUNTIES.-Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Tipton (7 counties.) CHARLES B. LANDIS, of Delphi, was born July 9, 1858, in Millville, Butler County, Ohio; was educated in the public schools of Logansport, and graduated from Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1883; served for four years, from 1883 to 1887, as editor of the Logansport (Ind.) Journal, and at the time of his nomination for Congress was the editor of the Delphi (Ind.) Journal; in 1894 was elected president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association and reelected in 1895; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,616 votes, against 23,367 votes cast for Joseph B. Cheadle, Fusion candidate.

TENTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 169,978.)

COUNTIES.-Benton, Jasper, Lake, Laporte, Newton, Porter, Tippecanoe, Warren, and White (9 counties).

EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER, of Valparaiso, Ind., was born May 27, 1851, in Laporte County, Ind.; was educated in the common schools and at the Valparaiso Academy; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and has been in the practice of law at Valparaiso, Ind., since; was prosecuting attorney for the Thirty-first judicial district of Indiana from 1884 to 1888; served as appellate judge in the State of Indiana, by appointment under Governor Hovey, from March, 1891, to January 1, 1893; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,259 votes, against 23, 120 votes cast for Hon. Martin E. Krueger, his Democratic-Populistic-Prohibitionist opponent.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 169,424.)

COUNTIES.-Cass, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Miami, and Wabash (6 counties).

GEORGE W. STEELE, of Marion, was born in Fayette County, Ind., December 13, 1839; was educated in the common schools and at the Ohio Western University, at Delaware, Ohio; read law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Hartford City, Ind., from April 11 to 21, 1861, when he enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Regiment, but could not be mustered into this regiment on account of excess in numbers; was mustered into the Twelfth Indiana on May 2, 1861, and served in this regiment and the One hundred and first Indiana until the close of the war-the first year in the Army of the Potomac, the latter three in the Army of the Cumberland and with Sherman to the sea; was mustered out as lieutenant-colonel in July, 1865; commissioned and served in the Fourteenth United States Infantry from February 23, 1866, to February 1, 1876, mainly in California, Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah; resigned and engaged in farming and pork packing until 1882; established the First National Bank of Marion, Ind., and became its president; declined the appointment as director of the Union Pacific Railroad; was the first governor of Oklahoma, and resigned after serving twenty months; is president of the Marion Commercial Club, of the Philadelphia Land Company, and a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; was a member of the Forty-seventh, Forth-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 27,781 votes, against 23,102 votes for Joseph Larimer, Democrat, 636 votes for Ratliff, Prohibitionist, and 339 votes for Larimer, Populist.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 162,216.)

COUNTIES.-Allen, Dekalb, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and Whitley (6 counties).

JAMES M. ROBINSON, of Fort Wayne, was born on a farm in Allen County, 12 miles south of the city of his residence; his early education was obtained in the district school in the country, but at the age of 10 years he moved to the city, where he

attended the public schools till he was 14 years of age, when he became collector of a newspaper of which he had been a carrier boy for several years; at the age of 15 he took employment in a shop at Fort Wayne as a machine hand, and from that time till the present has supported and kept house with his mother; while working at his trade he studied law; quitting the shop in 1881 he entered the office of Judge Walpole G. Colerick, who was then in Congress, and in 1882 was admitted to practice in the State and United States courts; in 1886 and 1888 he was unanimously nominated for prosecuting attorney and elected, filling that position for four years; was defeated in 1892 for the Congressional nomination by the Hon. W. F. McNagny, who served in Congress, but was unanimously nominated by the Democrats in 1896 and elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22,752 votes, as against 22,196 for his Republican opponent, Jacob D. Leighty.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 169,439.)

COUNTIES.-Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, St. Joseph, and Starke (7 counties). LEMUEL W. ROYSE, of Warsaw, was born January 19, 1848, in Kosciusko County, Ind.; at the age of 12 years his father died and he was left penniless, and therefore was compelled to depend upon his own efforts for a living; attended the common schools until he was 16 years of age; he then took upon himself the support of his mother and two sisters younger than himself; by studying at home he acquired sufficient knowledge to teach school in the winter season, when he was 19 years old; while teaching school he began reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874, at Warsaw, Ind.; in 1876 was elected prosecuting attorney for the Thirtythird judicial circuit of Indiana, which office he held two years; was elected mayor of the city of Warsaw in 1885 and held this office until 1891; was on the Republican electoral ticket in 1884; was a member of the Republican State central committee from 1886 till 1890; in 1892 was a delegate to the Minneapolis convention which nominated Harrison for his second term; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,514 votes, against 23,928 votes for C. K. Ellison, Fusionist.

IOWA.
SENATORS.

WILLIAM B. ALLISON, of Dubuque, was born at Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; was educated at the Western Reserve College, Ohio; studied law and practiced in Ohio until he removed to Iowa in 1857; served on the staff of the governor of Iowa and aided in organizing volunteers in the beginning of the war for the suppression of the rebellion; was elected a Representative in the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed James Harlan, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1873, and was reelected in 1878, 1884, 1890, and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

JOHN HENRY GEAR, of Burlington, was born in Ithaca, N. Y., April 7, 1825; received a common-school education; removed to Galena, Ill., in 1836, to Fort Snelling, Iowa Territory, in 1838, and to Burlington in 1843, where he engaged in merchandising; was elected mayor of the city of Burlington in 1863; was a member of the Iowa house of representatives of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth general assemblies of the State, serving as speaker for the last two terms; was elected governor of Iowa in 1878-79 and again in 1880-81; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; was beaten for the Fifty-second; was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Harrison, and was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican; was elected January 23, 1894, a Senator in Congress from the State of Iowa for six years, beginning March 4, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.
(Population, 153,712.)

COUNTIES.-Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren, and Washington (7 counties). SAMUEL M. CLARK, of Keokuk, was born on a farm in Van Buren County, Iowa, October 11, 1842; attended a few terms of public school and one year at Des Moines Valley College; studied law with George G. Wright, of Keosauqua, and

John W. Rankin and George W. McCrary, of Keokuk; enlisted as private in Company H, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, but was not mustered in because of ill health; was admitted to the bar June, 1864; has been editor of the Keokuk Gate City for thirtyone years; was a delegate to national Republican conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 21,944 votes, against 18,649 votes for Casey, Fusionist, and 285 votes for Hewitt, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.
(Population, 172,990.)

COUNTIES.-Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, and Scott (6 counties).

GEORGE M. CURTIS, of Clinton, was born near Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y., April 1, 1844; removed with his parents to Ogle County, Ill., in 1856; was reared upon the farm and received his education in the common schools and at the Rock River Seminary, Mount Morris, Ill.; from 1863 to 1865 was engaged as clerk in a store at Rochelle, Ill., and subsequently, for two years in merchandising, at Cortland, Ill.; removed to Clinton in 1867, since which time has been engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, lumber, etc.; was a member of the Twenty-second general assembly of Iowa; delegate to the Republican national convention in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,202 votes, against 19,882 votes for Alfred Hurst, Democrat, 639 votes for Charles A. Lloyd, Populist, and 230 votes for N. J. Kremer, Socialistic Labor.

THIRD DISTRICT.
(Population, 184,437.)

COUNTIES.-Blackhawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Delaware, Dubuque, Franklin, Hardin, and Wright (9 counties).

DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON, of Dubuque, was born at Old Deer, Scotland, March 14, 1840; was brought to Illinois in 1846 and to Iowa in 1849; was educated in common schools and at the Upper Iowa University; studied law with Bissel & Shiras, of Dubuque, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1865; was reared on a farm until 21 years of age; enlisted in the Union Army in September, 1861, as private in Company C, Twelfth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and was elected and commissioned first lieutenant of that company, serving with it until discharged, owing to the loss of his leg, February 16, 1863; in May, 1863, was appointed commissioner of the board of enrollment of the Third district of Iowa, serving as such until June, 1864, when he reentered the Army as colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers and served therein until the close of his term of service; was collector of internal revenue for the Third district of Iowa from November, 1865, until June, 1869, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson; was assistant United States district attorney for the northern division of the district of Iowa about two years, resigning in 1871; is now a member of the law firm of Henderson, Hurd, Lenehan & Kiesel; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Fortyninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 29,654 votes, against 19,231 votes for George Staehle, Democrat.

FOURTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 169,344.)

COUNTIES.-Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Worth (10 counties).

THOMAS UPDEGRAFF, of McGregor, was born in Tioga County, Pa., April 3, 1834; received an academic education; was appointed clerk of the district court of Clayton County, Iowa, in April, 1856; was elected to that office in August of the same year and reelected in 1858; was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of the law in 1861, and has since followed that profession; was a member of the State house of representatives of Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee of that body in 1878; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; was member of the board of education and city solicitor of McGregor, Iowa, for many years; was delegate to the Republican national convention of 1888 and member of notification committee; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,659 votes, against 17,791 votes for Frank D. Bayless, Bryan Democrat, and 269 votes for Charles G. Patten, Prohibitionist.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

(Population, 168, 175.)

COUNTIES.-Benton, Cedar, Grundy, Jones, Linn, Marshall, and Tama (7 counties).

ROBERT G. COUSINS, of Tipton, was born in Cedar County, Iowa, in 1859; graduated at Cornell, Iowa, in 1881; was admitted to the bar in 1882, and has been engaged in the practice of law since that time; in 1886 was elected to the Iowa legislature, and was elected by the house of representatives as one of the prosecutors for the Brown impeachment, tried before the Senate during 1887; in 1888 was elected prosecuting attorney and also Presidential elector for the Fifth Congressional district; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,133 votes, against 18,765 votes for John R. Caldwell, Fusionist, and 364 votes for Laurie Tatum, Prohibitionist.

SIXTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 155,354.)

COUNTIES.-Davis, Jasper, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, and Wapello (7 counties). JOHN FLETCHER LACEY, of Oskaloosa, was born at New Martinsville, Va. (now West Virginia), May 30, 1841; removed to Iowa in 1855; received a commonschool and academic education; enlisted in Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, in May, 1861, and afterwards served as a private in Company D, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, as sergeant-major, and as lieutenant in Company C of that regiment; was promoted to assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Brig. Gen. Samuel A. Rice, and after that officer was killed in battle was assigned to duty on the staff of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele; served in the Iowa legislature one term, in 1870; is a lawyer and author of Lacey's Railway Digest and Lacey's Iowa Digest; was a member of the Fifty-first, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fiftyfifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 21,970 votes, against 20,769 votes for Frederick E. White, Democratic and Populist fusion nominee, and 268 votes for Abner Branson, Prohibitionist.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 161,320.)

COUNTIES.-Dallas, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, and Warren (6 counties).

JOHN A. T. HULL, of Des Moines, was born at Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio, May 1, 1841; removed with his parents to Iowa in 1849; was educated in public schools, Asbury (Ind.) University, and Iowa Wesleyan College, at Mount Pleasant; was graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School in the spring of 1862; enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry July, 1862; was first lieutenant and captain; was wounded in the charge on intrenchments at Black River May 17, 1863; resigned October, 1863; was elected secretary of the Iowa State senate in 1872 and reelected in 1874, 1876, and 1878; was elected secretary of state in 1878 and reelected in 1880 and 1882; was elected lieutenant-governor in 1885 and reelected in 1887; is engaged in farming and manufacturing; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fiftyfourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,578 votes, against 19,352 votes for F. W. Evans, Fusionist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 173,484.)

COUNTIES.-Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Union, and Wayne (11 counties).

WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN, of Clarinda, was born November 4, 1833, at Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio; was taken to Iowa (then a Territory) in April, 1841; was educated in the schools of the Territory and in a printing office; was admitted to practice law in 1854; served in the Second Iowa Cavalry as captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel during the war of the rebellion; was a delegate from Iowa to the Republican national conventions of 1860 and 1888; was a Presidential elector at large for the State of Iowa in 1876 and in 1888; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,786 votes, against 23,960 votes for W. H. Robb, nominated by both the Democratic and Populist conventions.

NINTH DISTRICT.

(Population, 180, 764.)

COUNTIES.-Adair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, and Shelby (9 counties).

A. L. HAGER, of Greenfield, Adair County, was born near Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N. Y., October 29, 1850; in the spring of 1859 his family removed to Iowa and settled near Cottonville, Jackson County; in 1863 removed to Jones County and engaged in farming near Langworthy; received his education in the common schools and high schools of Monticello and Anamosa; in the fall of 1874 entered the law school at Iowa City, and graduated therefrom in June of 1875; began the practice of the law at his present home in Greenfield in the fall of 1875, and has pursued that profession up to the present date; in the fall of 1891 was elected to the State senate; was chairman of the Iowa Republican State convention of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,904 votes, against 22,522 votes for L. T. Genung, Fusionist, and 137 votes for T. D. Thomas, Prohibitionist.

TENTH DISTRICT.

(Population, 188,346.)

COUNTIES.-Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster, and Winnebago (14 counties).

JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER, of Fort Dodge, was born near Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 6, 1858; graduated in 1875 from the West Virginia University; was admitted to the bar in 1878; never held any political office until elected to the Fifty-first Congress; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fiftythird, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 33,523 votes, against 22,555 votes for J. B. Romans, Fusionist, and 348 votes for M. W. Atwood, Prohibitionist.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
(Population, 203,470.)

COUNTIES.-Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux, and Woodbury (13 counties).

GEORGE D. PERKINS, of Sioux City, was born at Holly, Orleans County, N. Y., February 29, 1840; removed at an early age to the West; learned the printer's trade at Baraboo, Wis.; in connection with his brother started the Gazette at Cedar Falls in 1860; enlisted as a private soldier in Company B, Thirty-first Iowa, August 12, 1862, and was discharged from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., January 12, 1863; removed to Sioux City in 1869 and has been editor of the Journal since; was a member of the Iowa senate 1874-76; was appointed United States marshal for the northern district of Iowa by President Arthur and removed by President Cleveland; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 29,601 votes, against 22,773 votes for A. Van Wagenen, Democrat-Populist fusion, and 400 votes for C. F. Farrand, Prohibitionist.

KANSAS.

SENATORS.

LUCIEN BAKER, of Leavenworth, was born in Ohio in 1846, and shortly thereafter removed with his parents to Michigan; in 1869 he removed to Kansas and settled in Leavenworth, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of law; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

WILLIAM A. HARRIS, of Linwood, Leavenworth County, was born in Loudon County, Va., October 29, 1841, his home being in Luray, Va., where he attended school; graduated at Columbian College, Washington, D. C., in 1859, and at the Virginia Military Institute in 1861; served three years in the Confederate army as assistant adjutant-general of Wilcox's Brigade and ordnance officer of D. H. Hill's and Rodes's Division, Army of Northern Virginia; removed to Kansas in 1865 and was employed as civil engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas Division, for three years; in 1868 accepted the agency for the sale of the Delaware Reservation and other lands, in connection with farming and stock raising; since 1876 has been a farmer and breeder of pure-bred shorthorn cattle; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress, at large, as a Populist, and indorsed by the Democrats; was renominated for the Fifty-fourth Congress but was defeated at the election; was elected to the United States Senate as a Populist and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.