four years; in 1893 was chosen as chairman of the State judicial convenSeptember, 1894, was elected, without opposition, to fill the unexpired term Breckinridge in the Fifty-third Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fourth -fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposiiving 3,415 votes. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

-Ashley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Desha, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, Sevier, and Union (16 counties).

AS CHIPMAN MCRAE, Democrat, of Prescott, was born at Mount Holly, ounty, Ark., December 21, 1851; received a limited education at the private t Shady Grove, Columbia County, Mount Holly, Union County, and Falcon, County, Ark.; in boyhood he worked on a farm, and one year in a wholesale le establishment at Shreveport, La., and one year in a retail store at Falcon, ceived a full course of instruction at Soulé Business College, New Orleans, 870; graduated in law at the Washington and Lee University, Virginia, in 871-72; was admitted to practice in State circuit courts in Rosston, Nevada Ark., January 8, 1873, in the Arkansas supreme court January 27, 1876, and ited States Supreme Court January 4, 1886; was a member of the State legisArkansas in 1877, in which year the county seat was changed, and he moved ston to Prescott, where he has since practiced his profession; was a member wn council of the incorporated town of Prescott in 1879; was a Presidential r Hancock and English in 1880; was chairman of the Democratic State conn 1884; was delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1884, and is Democratic national committeeman for Arkansas; was elected to the Fortyftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Conand reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposition, receiving es. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

-Conway, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell (8 counties). IAM LEAKE TERRY, Democrat, of Little Rock, was born in Anson County, ptember 27, 1850; when 7 years of age removed with his parents to Tippah Miss., and thence to Arkansas in 1861; received his preparatory education at I's Military Academy, North Carolina, and was admitted to Trinity College, rolina, in 1869, and graduated in June, 1872; studied law under Dodge & attorneys, of Little Rock, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1873; the State troops under Governor Baxter in the Brooks-Baxter troubles, and nd officer in command of Hallie Rifles in the fight at Palarm, in May, 1874; ed to city council in April, 1877; was elected to the State senate in September, I was elected president of senate at close of session in March, 1879; served ms as city attorney of Little Rock; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fiftyfty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Conhout opposition receiving 3,665 votes.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

-Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Faulkner, Madison, Newton, Searcy, Van Buren, Washington (10 counties).

I ANDERSON DINSMORE, Democrat, of Fayetteville, was born in Benton Ark., December 24, 1850; was educated in private schools in Benton and ton counties; studied law at Bentonville under Samuel N. Elliott; in April, s appointed by the governor clerk of the circuit court for Benton County, ed in that office until the autumn of 1874, when he was admitted to the bar; 1875, he moved from his native county of Benton to Fayetteville, where ince resided, and engaged in the practice of law; in September, 1878, he ted prosecuting attorney of the Fourth judicial district of Arkansas; was in 1880, and again without opposition in 1882; was chosen a Presidential 1 1884 on the Democratic ticket, and voted for Cleveland and Hendricks; ry, 1887, he was appointed by President Cleveland to be minister resident ul-general of the United States in the Kingdom of Korea and served in that until May 25, 1890, when he was relieved by Mr. Augustine Heard, appointed lent Harrison; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth es, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,423 votes, to 2,706

T Hopper Republican Flected to the Fifty seventh Congress

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Lonoke, Marion, Monroe, Prairie, Stone, and White (12 counties).

STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, JR., Democrat, of Searcy, was born in White County, Ark., January 1, 1857; was educated in the private schools of the county; studied law at Searcy with the firm of Coody & McRae, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar, and has since resided in Searcy, where he has been engaged in the practice of law; in September, 1886, was elected prosecuting attorney for the First judicial district of Arkansas, and reelected in 1888 without opposition; since 1890 has served a term as member of the Democratic State central committee of Arkansas; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposition, receiving 3,500 votes. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

CALIFORNIA.

SENATORS.

GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS, Republican, of Oakland, was born at Kennebunkport, Me., in 1839; was reared on a farm, with limited educational advantages; at the age of 12 went to sea as a cabin boy; followed this calling and that of a sailor for several years; in 1855 shipped "before the mast on a sailing vessel bound for San Francisco, Cal., where he arrived in the autumn of that year; engaged in mercantile business at Oroville and was very successful; subsequently engaged in banking, milling, mining, and the steamship business, in which he has been engaged during the past twenty-five years, operating steamships on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, and Mexico; in 1868 was elected to the State senate, serving eight years; has been president of the Merchants' Exchange in San Francisco; also of the San Francisco Art Association; is a director California Academy of Sciences, and other public institutions; in 1879 he was elected governor of California, serving until January, 1883; was appointed, July 24, 1893, United States Senator, to fill, until the election of his successor, the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his seat August 8, 1893. In January, 1895, having made a thorough canvass before the people of his State, he was elected by the legislature on the first ballot to fill the unexpired term. In the fall election of 1896 he was a candidate before the people of California for reelection, and received the indorsement of the Republican county conventions that comprised a majority of the senatorial and assembly districts in the State. When the legislature convened in joint convention (January, 1897) for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, he was reelected on the first ballot, although at the time he was absent from the State attending to his Congressional duties. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

THOMAS ROBERT BARD, Republican, of Hueneme, was born in Chambersburg, Pa., December 8, 1841; his ancestors were Scotch-Irish and among the earliest settlers of that part of the Cumberland Valley in which Chambersburg is situated; received a common-school education, and graduated at the Chambersburg Academy in 1858; before completing the study of law, engaged in railroading at Hagerstown, Md.; went to California in 1864, and has ever since resided in Ventura County, that State, where he has engaged in wharving and warehousing, banking, petroleum mining, sheep grazing, horticulture, and general farming; was the only Republican elected for California in 1892, but has held no other important public offices; on February 7, 1900, was elected to the United States Senate at an extra session of the State legislature, by unanimous vote of the Republican majority, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of Stephen M. White, Democrat, March 3, 1899, and took the oath of office in the Senate March 5, 1900. His term of office will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tehama, and Trinity (14 counties).

JOHN A. BARHAM, Republican, of Santa Rosa, was born in Missouri July 17, 1844; removed with his parents to California in 1849; was educated in the common schools and at the Hesperian College, in Woodland, Cal.; taught in the public schools of

a for three years; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1868, and has 1 his profession since; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Conand reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 19,598 votes, to 18,244 Let Seawell, Fusionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

—Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Eldorado, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Placer, mento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Tuolumne, and Yuba (15 counties).

EL DAVIS WOODS, Republican, of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Cal., was Mount Pleasant, Maury County, Tenn., on September 19, 1845; reached a in February, 1850, and was educated in the public schools, and admitted ce in the supreme court of California in April, 1875; has been actively in the practice of his profession in the city of Stockton and in the city and of San Francisco for the past fifteen years; his law business extends throughState, and he is one of the most widely known attorneys in California, his having been largely in the supreme court of the State during this entire as elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigf Marion De Vries; has always been a stanch Republican, and his election the Second Congressional district to the Republican party. Elected to the enth Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

-Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Lake, Solano, and Yolo (7 counties). OR HOWARD METCALF, Republican, of Oakland, was born in Utica, County, N. Y., October 10, 1853; graduated from the Utica Free Academy, n Russell's Military Academy, New Haven, Conn., and then entered the 876, Yale; during the college vacations he studied law in the office of Senacis Kernan, as also in the offices of Horatio and John F. Seymour, Utica, eft the academical department of Yale in his junior year and entered the w School, graduating therefrom in 1876; was admitted to practice in the court of Connecticut in June, 1876, and in the supreme court of New York practiced law in Utica, N. Y., for two years, and then moved to California, in Oakland; formed a law partnership in 1881 with George D. Metcalf (who graduate of Yale) under the firm name of Metcalf & Metcalf; was elected ifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,592 votes, to 14,051 for John Aubrey Jones, at and People's Party, and 1,309 for Thomas F. Burns, Socialist Labor. Elected fty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Y DISTRICTS OF CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.-Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, eth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-ninth, Forty-second, Forty-third, fourth, and Forty-fifth.

US KAHN, Republican, of San Francisco, was born at Kuppenheim, Grand of Baden, on the 28th day of February, 1861; removed with his parents to ia in 1866; was educated in the public schools of San Francisco, having ember of the class of 1878 of the Boys' High School. After leaving school red the theatrical profession, which he followed for ten years, playing with Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Tomasso Salvini, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, Clara and other well-known "stars." In 1890 he returned to San Francisco, and udying law; in 1892 was elected to the legislature of the State of California, during the thirtieth session; in July, 1893, was elected secretary of the finance ee of the California Midwinter International Exhibition; in January, 1894, itted to the bar by the supreme court of California; and was elected to the th Congress, receiving 13,695 votes, to 12,084 for James H. Barry, Democrat, r W. J. Martin, Socialist Labor, and 594 for Joseph P. Kelly, Independent Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

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FIFTH DISTRICT.

.-San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara (3 counties).

ENE FRANCIS LOUD, Republican, of San Francisco, was born in Abington, March 12, 1847; at the age of 13 went to sea and to California; in 1862 enlisted rnia Cavalry Battalion, which formed a part of Second Massachusetts Cavalry;

was with the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley until the close of the war; returned to California and studied law; was in the customs service; followed mercantile business; was member of California legislature in 1884, and was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,254 votes, to 17,352 for William Craig, Democrat, and 1,532 for E. T. Kingsley, Socialist Labor. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Los Angeles, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura (6 counties).

RUSSELL JUDSON WATERS, Republican, of Los Angeles, was born June 6, 1843, at Halifax, Vt.; removed at the age of 4 to Franklin County, Mass., where he grew to manhood; his early life was spent in factory and on the farm, attending district schools as he could find time; learned the machinist trade at Shellburne Falls, Mass.; taught school at Charlemont Center, Mass.; graduated at Franklin Institute, same State, where he was later engaged as professor of Latin and mathematics; studied law with Rich & Waterman, Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in 1863, continuing in the practice of his profession there until 1886; went to California for his health, and has since been actively and prominently engaged in the development of the southern part of the State; located at Redlands, and removed to Los Angeles in 1894; is a director of the Columbia Savings Bank, president of the Pasadena Consolidated Gas Company, president of the Los Angeles Directory Company, treasurer of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, vice-president of the Citizens' Bank, and connected with many other public institutions; was married in 1869 to Mary Adelaide Ballard, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Ballard, of Charlemont, Mass., and has four children; was unanimously nominated for the Fifty-sixth Congress, and elected, receiving 24,050 votes, to 20,508 for C. A. Barlow, Fusionist, and 1,132 for J. T. Van Rensselaer, Prohibitionist, fusion being for the first time defeated in the district.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Stanislaus, Merced. San Benito, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego (12 counties).

JAMES CARSON NEEDHAM, Republican, of Modesto, was born September 17, 1864, in Carson City, Nev., in an emigrant wagon, his parents being at the time en route across the plains to California; his early education was received in the public schools of California; graduated at the San Jose High School, and subsequently took a collegiate course at the University of the Pacific at San Jose, graduating in the year 1886 with the degree of Ph. B.; he then entered the law department of the University of Michigan and spent one year, at the end of which time he was appointed, under civil-service rules, to a clerkship in the Adjutant-General's Office at Washington, D. C.; resigning from the War Department, he returned to the University of Michigan and completed his law course, graduating with the class of 1889 with the degree of LL. B.; began the practice of law in November, 1889, at Modesto, where he has ever since resided; in 1890 was nominated by the Republican party for State senator, but the district being overwhelmingly Democratic, was defeated; has been chairman of the Republican county committee, member of the State central committee, and member of the Congressional committee; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,793 votes, to 20,680 for C. H. Castle, Fusionist, and 35 scattering. Elected to the Fifty-Seventh Congress.

COLORADO.

SENATORS.

EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT, Republican, of Denver, was born in Longmeadow, Mass., March 26, 1848; served for a few months as private in the One hundred and fiftieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers in 1864; entered Vale College in 1866, but did not graduate; graduated from Harvard Law School in 1871, and removed to Colorado; is a lawyer; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Thomas M. Bowen, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1889; was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

RY MOORE TELLER, Silver Republican, of Central City, was born in the Granger, Allegany County, N. Y., May 23, 1830; educated in the common Rushford Academy, and Alfred University; taught school several years; aw at Angelico, Allegany County; was admitted to practice at Binghamton, n January, 1858, removed to Illinois and practiced law there until April, 1861, removed to Colorado and resumed the practice of law; received the degree . from Alfred University in 1886; never held an office until he was elected nited States Senate from Colorado on the admittance of that State; took his he United States Senate December 4, 1876, and drew the term ending March was reelected December 11 for the full term, and served until April 17, 1882, resigned to enter the Cabinet of President Arthur as Secretary of the Interior, ed until March 3, 1885; was reelected to the Senate in January, 1885, and took March 4, 1885; was reelected in 1891, a Republican in politics, but withdrew national Republican convention at St. Louis in June, 1896, because of dision at the financial plank of the platform; was reelected in January, 1897, as pendent Silver Republican, receiving 94 votes out of a total of 100; took his ch 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

-Arapahoe, Boulder, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Park, Phillips, Sedg, Washington, Weld, and Yuma (13 counties).

F. SHAFROTH, Silverite, of Denver, was born in Fayette, Mo., June 9, 1854; the University of Michigan in the fall of 1872, and graduated in the literary ent in the class of 1875; studied law in the office of Hon. Samuel C. Major, in we town; was admitted to the bar in August, 1876, and soon thereafter formed rship with his preceptor; practiced law at Fayette, Mo., until October, 1879, removed to Denver, Colo., where he has ever since pursued his profession; in 887, he was elected city attorney of Denver, and was reelected to the same in April, 1889; in 1887 he formed a partnership with Judge Platt Rogers, of was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the th and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Silver Republican, receiving 43,III votes, o for Charles Hartzell, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-Seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

.-Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Delta, res, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, HinsHuerfano, Kiowa, Kit Carson, La Plata, Las Animas, Lincoln, Mesa, Mineral, Montea, Montrose, Otero, Ouray, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, ache, San Juan, San Miguel, Summit, and Teller (44 counties).

N C. BELL, Populist, of Montrose, was born in Grundy County, Tenn., er 11, 1851; attended the public schools of his native county in early youth, ther pursued his studies for two years at Alto and two years at Boiling Fork, n County, Tenn.; read law in Winchester, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar State in 1874, and the same year moved to Colorado and commenced the of law at Saguache in June, 1874; was appointed county attorney of Saguache and served until May, 1876, when he resigned and removed to Lake City, Colo., e most thriving city in the great San Juan mining region; was elected county f Hinsdale County in 1878, but did not perform the duties personally; was ected mayor of Lake City, and in August, 1885, resigned that position, and, a law partnership with Hon. Frank C. Goudy, removed to Montrose, where since resided; in November, 1888, was elected judge of the Seventh judicial of Colorado for a period of six years; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyand Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving -otes, to 27,335 for B. C. Wheeler, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh

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CONNECTICUT.

SENATORS.

ILLE H. PLATT, Republican, of Meriden, was born at Washington, Conn., 1827; received an academic education; studied law at Litchfield; was admitted bar in 1849 and has since practiced law at Meriden; was clerk of the State