capacity for nearly eighteen months; was appointed assistant attorney-general October 3, 1893; held the latter position for nearly three years; filled out an unexpired term and one full term, and then located in Waco for the practice of law; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 22,203 votes, to 7,929 for A. W. Cunningham, Populist, and 2,197 for R. H. Kingsbury, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Lampasas, Mills, Parker, Runnels, Somervell, and Tarrant (13 counties).

SAMUEL W. T. LANHAM, Democrat, of Weatherford, was born July 4, 1846, in Spartanburg district, South Carolina; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress from the Eleventh district, and was reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses; declined to stand for renomination in 1892; in 1896 was nominated and elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifth-sixth Congress, receiving 18,580 votes, to 11,138 for N. J. Shands, Populist, and 2,239 for Arthur Springer, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bastrop, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis, Washington, and Williamson (9 counties).

ALBERT SIDNEY BURLESON, Democrat, of Austin, was born June 7, 1863, at San Marcos, Tex.; was educated at Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Baylor University, of Waco, and University of Texas; was admitted to the bar in 1884; was assistant city attorney of Austin 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890; was appointed by the governor of Texas attorney of the Twenty-sixth judicial district in 1891; was elected to said office 1892, 1894, and 1896; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,378 votes, to 12,632 for George Washington Jones, ex-member of Congress, Independent Greenbacker, indorsed by the Populist and Republican parties. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fayette, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gonzales, Lavaca, and Mata. gorda (9 counties).

R. B. HAWLEY, Republican, of Galveston, was born in Memphis, Tenn., in 1850; was brought up and educated in that city, and is of Southern ancestry; voted for Grant in 1872, and always thereafter acted with the Republican party in national contests; became a citizen of Texas in 1875; has been a merchant, importer, and manufacturer in the city of Galveston continuously for twenty years; always maintained an active interest in politics; was three times elected president of the Galveston board of education; presided several times over State conventions, and attended as a delegate national conventions, but never offered for any political office until the campaign of 1896, when he was unanimously nominated by his party and elected to the Fiftyfifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 17,824 votes, to 16,368 for W. S. Robeson, Democrat, and 2,139 for J. W. Baird, Populist.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Cameron, Calhoun, Dewitt, Dimmit, Duval, Encinal, Frio, Goliad, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Jackson, Karnes, Lasalle, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Uvalde, Victoria, Webb, Wharton, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavalla (29 counties). RUDOLPH KLEBERG, Democrat, of Cuero, was born June 26, 1847, in Austin County, Tex.; received a liberal education at private schools; joined Tom Green's brigade of cavalry in the Confederate army in the spring of 1864, and served until the close of the war; completed his education after the war; studied law in San Antonio, Tex., and was admitted to the bar in 1872; established the Cuero Star in 1873; elected county attorney in 1876; reelected in 1878, and entered the general practice of the law; formed a law partnership with Hon. William H. Crain, his predecessor, in 1882; was elected to the State senate as a Democrat in the fall of 1882; was appointed United

tes attorney for the western district of Texas under President Cleveland in the of 1885, and served four years; reentered the practice of the law with his former tner, the late Hon. William H. Crain; was elected on April 7, 1896, to fill the ancy caused by the death of his partner; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, 1 reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 18,319 votes, to 14,687 for B. L. uch, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

NTIES.—Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brewster, Buchel, Comal, Concho, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Foley, Gillespie, Glasscock, Irion, Jeff Davis, Kerr, Kendall, Kimble, Kinney, Llano, Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, Medina, Menard, Midland, Pecos, Presidio, San Saba, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Tom Green, Upton, and Valverde (37 counties).

AMES L. SLAYDEN, Democrat, of San Antonio, was born June 1, 1853, in Graves unty, Ky.; was educated at the country schools of his native State and at Washingand Lee University, Virginia; was a cotton merchant; was a member of the enty-third legislature of Texas in 1892; declined reelection, and was elected to the ty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 16,363 votes, 10,472 for George H. Noonan, Republican, 2,110 for A. B. Surber, Populist, and e for Frank Leitner, Socialist Labor. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

UNTIES.—Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Carson, Castro, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Eastland, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Garza, Gray, Gregg, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Howard, Hutchinson, Jack, Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mitchell, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Palo Pinto, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Reeves, Roberts, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman, Stephens, Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Throckmorton, Ward, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Winkler, Wise, Yoakum, and Young (80 counties). JOHN H. STEPHENS, Democrat, of Vernon, was born in Shelby County, Tex.; was ucated at Mansfield, Tarrant County, Tex.; graduated from the law department of umberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in June, 1872, and has practiced law since Montague, Montague County, and Vernon, Wilbarger County, Tex.; served as ate senator in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second legislatures of Texas; was ected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receivg 24,876 votes, to 8,887 for J. J. Eager, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh ongress.

UTAH.

SENATOR.

JOSEPH LAFAYETTE RAWLINS, Democrat, of Salt Lake City, was born in Salt Lake County, Utah, March 28, 1850; lived on a farm until 18 years of age; completed a lassical course in the University of Indiana, but, having gone to Utah, did not return or graduation; was professor in the University of Deseret, in Salt Lake City, Utah, or two years, until 1875; was admitted to the bar in that year and followed the pro ession of the law until his election as Delegate in 1892; in politics has always been Democrat; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as Delegate on the Democratic icket, and was defeated for the Fifty-fourth Congress by Hon. Frank J. Cannon, and vas elected to the United States Senate in 1897; took his seat March 4, 1897. His erm of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.

WILLIAM HENRY KING, Democrat, of Salt Lake City, was born in Fillmore City, Utah, in 1863; graduated from the University of Michigan, and is a practicing attorney; has filled various offices in the State, being three times a member of the

legislature and presiding officer of the upper legislative branch during one session; was appointed associate justice of the Territory of Utah by President Cleveland, and served in that capacity until Utah was admitted to the Union; he was elected by the Democrats in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1898, and was a candidate for the Senate; a deadlock occurred in the legislature and no Senator was elected; was nominated by the Democrats in March, 1900, to fill a vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Congress, and was elected April 2, receiving 31,446 votes to 27,199 for James T. Hammond, Republican, and 627 for John H. Hamlin, Socialist.

VERMONT.
SENATORS.

WILLIAM PAUL DILLINGHAM, Republican, of Waterbury, was born at Waterbury, Vt., December 12, 1843; received an academic education and was admitted to the bar in 1867; was State's attorney for Washington County two terms; was commissioner of State taxes for several years; was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1876 and again in 1884; was a State senator from Washington County in 1878 and again in 1880; was governor of Vermont from 1888 to 1890. October 18, 1900, was elected United States Senator from Vermont to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justin S. Morrill. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REDFIELD PROCTOR, Republican, of Proctor, was born at Proctorsville, Vt., June 1, 1831; graduated at Dartmouth College and at the Albany Law School; served as lieutenant and quartermaster of the Third Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, on the staff of Maj. Gen. William F. (“Baldy") Smith, and was major of the Fifth and colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Regiments; was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1867, 1868, and 1888; was a member of the State senate and president pro tempore of that body in 1874 and 1875; was lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878 and governor from 1878 to 1880; was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884, and chairman of the Vermont delegation in the same conventions of 1888 and 1896; was appointed Secretary of War by President Harrison in March, 1889; in November, 1891, he resigned from the Cabinet to accept the appointment as United States Senator, to succeed George F. Edmunds, and October 18, 1892, was elected by the Vermont legislature to fill both the unexpired and the full terms; was elected October 18, 1898, to succeed himself for the term beginning March 4, 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, and Rutland (7 counties).

H. HENRY POWERS, Republican, of Morrisville, was born at Morristown, Lamoille County, Vt., May 29, 1835; was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1855; was admitted to the bar in 1858; was a member of the house of representatives of Vermont in 1858; was prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County in 1861-62; was member of council of censors of Vermont in 1869; was member of the constitutional convention of the State in 1870; was member of the State senate in 1872–73; was speaker of the house of representatives in 1874; was judge of the supreme court of Vermont from December, 1874, to December, 1890; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,350 votes, to 8,026 for Herbert F. Brigham, Democrat, and 8 scattering,

SECOND DISTRICT.

TIES.—Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans, Washington, Windham, and Windsor (7 counties) ILLIAM WALLACE GROUT, Republican, of Barton, was born at Compton, Provof Quebec, of American parents, May 24, 1836; received an academic education and uated at Poughkeepsie Law School in 1857; was admitted to the bar in December me year; practiced law and was State's attorney 1865-66; served as lieutenantel Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers in Union Army; was made brigadier-general of nont militia at time of St. Albans raid in 1864; was member of Vermont house of esentatives in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874, and of the senate in 1876, and president tempore of that body; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, -first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and cted to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 17,728 votes to 5,967 for C. A. G. son, Democrat.

VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.

HOMAS STAPLES MARTIN, Democrat, of Albemarle County (post-office, Scotts), was born in Scottsville, Albemarle County, July 29, 1847, and since 1853, at ch time his parents removed to the country, has lived in the county, about 2 es from the town; was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, where he was det from March 1, 1864, to April 9, 1865, and at the University of Virginia, where vas a student in the academic schools for two sessions, from October 1, 1865, to e 29, 1866, and from October 1, 1866, to June 29, 1867; though not a regularly sted soldier, considerable part of the time while he was a cadet at the Virginia itary Institute was spent in the military service of the Confederate States with battalion of cadets of the institute; soon after leaving the University of Virginia commenced the study of law by a course of private reading at home, and was used to practice law in the fall of 1869, since which time he has devoted himself ely to that profession; for a number of years has been a member of the board isitors of the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle County, and a member of board of visitors of the University of Virginia, but until elected to the Senate he never held nor been a candidate for any political office, State or national; Decem19, 1893, he was elected a Senator from Virginia for the term commencing March, 895, to succeed Hon. Eppa Hunton, who had been first appointed by the governor then elected by the legislature to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. n S. Barbour. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

OHN WARWICK DANIEL, Democrat, of Lynchburg, Campbell County; born re September 5, 1842; attended private schools, Lynchburg College, Dr. Gessner rrison's University School; entered Confederate army as second lieutenant, onewall Brigade," in May, 1861, and became major and chief of staff of Gen. al A. Early, on which he served until crippled in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; lied law at University of Virginia, 1865-66, and practiced with his father, the late ge William Daniel, jr., until his death, in 1873; is LL. D. of Washington and University and of Michigan University; is author of Daniel on Attachments I Daniel on Negotiable Instruments; member of Virginia house of delegates, 9 to 1872; member of State senate from 1875 to 1881; Democratic elector at large, 6, and delegate at large to national Democratic conventions of 1880, 1888, 1892, and 6; Democratic nominee for governor in 1881, and defeated by William E. Cameron, adjuster; elected to House of Representatives of Forty-ninth Congress in 1884; cted to United States Senate, to succeed William Mahone, and took his seat rch 4, 1887; unanimously reelected in December, 1891, and unanimously reelected the third term December, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Accomac, Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, Spottsylvania, and Westmoreland, and the city of Fredericksburg.

WILLIAM ATKINSON JONES, Democrat, of Warsaw, was born in Warsaw, Va., March 21, 1849; in the winter of 1864-65 entered the Virginia Military Institute, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving, as occasion required, with the cadets in the defense of that city; after the close of the war studied at Coleman's School, in Fredericksburg, until October, 1868, when he entered the academic department of the University of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1870; was admitted to the bar in July, 1870, and has continued to practice law since; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,934 votes, to 4,270 for J. A. Bristow, Republican, and 230 for Crockett, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Charles City, Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight, James City, Nansemond, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Southampton, Surry, Warwick, and York, and the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Williamsburg, and Newport News.

RICHARD ALSOP WISE, Republican, of Williamsburg, son of Gen. Henry A. and Sarah Sergeant Wise, was born at the residence of his grandfather, John Sergeant, in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 2d day of September, 1843; was educated at private schools in Richmond and at Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School; also studied at William and Mary College for two years, which place he left before graduation to join the Confederate Army at the commencement of the war, and served to the end, part of the time as a private in Stuart's cavalry; at the close of the war was assistant inspector-general of Wise's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia; graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1867, and has practiced his profession ever since; in 1869 was appointed professor of chemistry and physiology in the College of William and Mary, which conferred the honorary degree of master of arts upon him; was appointed assistant physician of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in 1878; two years after that he resigned from the college; in 1881, as captain of the Wise Light Infantry, of Williamsburg, and as senior officer, commanded the Fourth Virginia Infantry Regiment at the centennial at Yorktown; was elected superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in 1882, and served until the spring of 1884; was elected as a Republican to the Virginia legislature in 1885, and served during the sessions of 1885, 1886, and 1887; was elected in 1887 clerk of the circuit and county courts of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City, which place he held for six years; was for twenty years chairman of the county Republican committee; was the Republican nominee for the Fifty-fifth Congress in the Second district in 1896; the certificate was given to his Democratic opponent, William A. Young, but after a contest was declared elected, and took the oath of office on the 26th day of April, 1898; was Republican candidate for the Fifty-sixth Congress, also against Young; the certificate was again given to Young, and again the House seated Wise, March

12, 1900.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William, and New Kent, and the cities of Richmond and Manchester.

JOHN LAMB, Democrat, of Richmond, was born in Sussex County, Va., June 12, 1840, where his father was engaged in teaching school; removed to Charles City County, the home of his parents, when 5 years of age; the death of his father, in 1855, left him at the age of 15 years the main support of his mother's large family of small children; his early education almost ceased at this point, but his energy and application enabled him to master, by study at night, after the day's work was done, the science of civil engineering; at the first alarm of war in 1860 he went to the front as a volunteer in the Charles City Troop, afterwards Company D, Third Virginia Cavalry