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Ohio, at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, and at Oberlin College, from which last institution he graduated in 1872; began the practice of law at Cleveland in 1875; was a member of the Fifty-first Congress, but was defeated for reelection in 1890; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 17,599 votes, to 10,823 for L. A. Russell, Democrat, and 1,324 for J. J. Koler, Socialist Labor. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

OREGON.

SENATORS.

GEORGE W. MCBRIDE, Republican, of St. Helens, was born in Yamhill County, Oreg., March 13, 1854; received his primary education in the public schools and in the preparatory department of Willamette University; was a student at Christian College, Monmouth, Oreg., for two years; studied law and was admitted to the bar, but has not been engaged in the active practice of his profession; was engaged in mercantile business for ten years; was elected a member of the house of representatives of the legislative assembly of Oregon in June, 1882; was elected speaker of the house in September, 1882; was elected secretary of state in 1886; was reelected in 1890 and served eight years, his second term ending January 14, 1895; was elected United States Senator February 23, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

JOSEPH SIMON, Republican, of Portland, was born in 1851, and has resided in the city of Portland since 1857; attended the public schools of that city; was admitted to the bar in 1872, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since; was chairman of the Republican State central committee of Oregon in 1880, 1884, and 1886; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions which met at Minneapolis in 1892 and at Philadelphia in 1900; was elected to the State senate from Multnomah County in 1880, 1884, 1888, 1894, and 1898; was chosen president of the senate at the sessions of 1889, 1891, 1895, and 1897, and also at the special session of 1898; was elected to the United States Senate October 8, 1898, to fill a vacancy that had existed since March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Benton, Clackamas, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill (16 counties).

THOMAS H. TONGUE, Republican, of Hillsboro, was born in Lincolnshire, England, June 23, 1844; removed with his parents to Washington County, Oreg., November 23, 1859, where he has since resided; was educated at Pacific University, Forestgrove, Oreg., graduating from that institution in June, 1868; removed to Hillsboro, his present home, in September of that year; was admitted to the bar in September, 1870, and has ever since been engaged in active practice of his profession; is also interested in farming and the raising of live stock; has always been a Republican, but was not active in political affairs until 1888; in that year was elected a member of the State senate, serving a term of four years; served as a member of the judiciary committee, and during the last two years was chairman of that committee; in 1890 was the chairman of the State Republican convention; in February, 1892, was elected president of the State organization of Republican clubs, and served for a term of two years; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Minneapolis in 1892, and was the Oregon vice-president of that convention; in 1894 was again permanent chairman of the State Republican convention; was a member of the State central committee from 1886 to 1896, and chairman of the Congressional committee of the First Congressional district from the time of its organization until his own nomination; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 21,324 votes, to 19,287 for R. M. Veatch, Fusionist, 1,833 for J. L. Hill, Middle-of-the-Road Populist, and 1,113 for L. H. Pedersen, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

UNTIES.-Baker, Crook, Clatsop, Columbia, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Multnomah, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, and Wasco (15 counties).

MALCOLM A. MOODY, Republican, of The Dalles, was born in Brownsville, in County, Oreg., November 30, 1854; was educated in the public schools of egon, and at the University of California; upon leaving college entered mercantile siness at The Dalles with his father, Zenas F. Moody, ex-governor of Oregon, o had resided there with his family since 1862; in 1887 the mercantile business s merged into The Dalles National Bank, of which he was elected cashier; from 5 to 1889 was a member of the city council of The Dalles, and in 1889 was elected yor, serving two terms; was a member of the Republican State central and Conessional committees continuously from 1888 to 1898; has been Oregon's member of executive committee of the Republican League of the United States since 1895, also a member of the executive committee of the Republican League of Oregon; April 13, 1898, received by acclamation from the Republican convention, the mination of Congressman, and on June 6, 1898, was elected to the Fifty-sixth ngress, receiving 21,291 votes, to 14,634 for Charles M. Donaldson, Fusionist eople's, Democratic, and Silver Republican parties), 2,273 for H. E. Courtney, Regr People's Party, and 1,120 for G. W. Ingalls, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fiftyenth Congress.

PENNSYLVANIA.

SENATOR.

BOIES PENROSE, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia Novem1, 1860; was prepared for college by private tutors and in the schools of Philaphia; was graduated from Harvard College in 1881; read law with Wayne McVeagh 1 George Tucker Bispham, and admitted to the bar in 1883; practiced his profesn in partnership with S. Davis Page and Edward P. Allinson under the firm name Page, Allinson & Penrose; was elected to the Pennsylvania house of representaes from the Eighth Philadelphia district in 1884; in connection with Edward P. inson, wrote, at the request of Johns Hopkins University, for the university dies in historical and political science, a History of the City Government of Philaphia; was elected to the Pennsylvania State senate from the Sixth Philadelphia trict in 1886, reelected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected president pro temre of the senate in 1889, and reelected in 1891; was elected to the United States nate to succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.

GALUSHA A. GROW, Republican, of Glenwood, Susquehanna County, was born Ashford (now Eastford), Windham County, Conn., August 31, 1823; his father died en he was 3 years old; his mother, with her six children, removed to Susquehanna unty, Pa., in May, 1834; worked on a farm summers and went to the common school aters until the summer of 1837, when he began a regular course of study at anklin Academy, Susquehanna County, and entered the freshman class, Amherst llege, September, 1840; graduated July, 1844; was admitted to the bar of Susquena County April 19, 1847; declined a unanimous nomination for the legislature August, 1850; was elected to Congress the following October, succeeding David Wilt; was elected from the same district six consecutive terms, once by a unanimous e; was defeated in a new district, composed of Susquehanna and Luzerne counties, 1862; was elected the first three times as a Free Soil Democrat, the last three as epublican; entered Congress in December, 1851, being the youngest member of it Congress; was chairman of the Committee on the Territories in the Thirty-fourth 1 Thirty-sixth Congresses; was Republican nominee for Speaker in 1857; was cted Speaker of the Thirty-seventh Congress July 4, 1861; was a delegate to the ional Republican conventions of 1864, 1884, and 1892; was chairman of the Pennvania State Republican committee in 1868; from 1871 to 1876 was president of the

International and Great Northern Railroad Company of Texas; in the fall of 1879 declined the mission to Russia, tendered by President Hayes; February 20, 1894, at a special election to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-third Congress caused by the death of William Lilly, was elected Congressman at Large, receiving 486,260 votes, to 297,966 votes for James D. Hancock, Democrat; was reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 246,462, and a majority over all of 204,715, receiving 571,085 votes, to 324,623 Democratic votes, 22,980 Prohibition, 17,299 Populist, and 1,465 Socialist Labor; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 711,246 votes, to 413,800 votes for De Witt C. De Witt, Democrat, 18,091 for George Alcorn, Prohibitionist, 7,482 for John P. Corriell, People's Party, 1,432 for Fred. W. Long, Socialist Labor, and 663 for Isaac G. Pollard, National Democrat. His plurality over De Witt, Democrat, was 297,446; majority over all, 269,778, which was the largest ever given in any State of the Union to any candidate for any office; was reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 532,898 votes, to 350,213 for Franklin P. Iams, Democrat, 47,543 for Pennock E. Sharpless, Prohibitionist, 3,995 for Dennis E. Johnson, Populist, 4,300 for Donald S. Monro, Socialist Labor, and 837 for Charles P. Shaw, Liberty. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

S. A. DAVENPORT, Republican, of Erie, was born January 15, 1834, in Schuyler County, near Watkins, in the State of New York; since 1839 has lived in Erie, Erie County, Pa.; was educated at the Erie Academy, read law, and graduated at the Harvard Law University in 1855; in 1860 was elected district attorney for the county of Erie, and is now a practicing attorney; in 1888 was elected district delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago; in 1892 was elected one of the delegates at large to the national Republican convention at Minneapolis; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress from the State at large by a majority of 293,445, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 520,773 votes, to 350,213 for Franklin P. Iams, Democrat.

FIRST DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—First, Second, Seventh, Twenty-sixth, Thirtieth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty, ninth wards.

HENRY H. BINGHAM, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1841; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1862; studied law; entered the Union Army as a lieutenant in the One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1863, at Spottsylvania, Va., in 1864, and at Farmville, Va., in 1865; mustered out of service July, 1866, as brevet brigadier-general of volunteers; was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in March, 1867, and resigned December, 1872, to accept the clerkship of the courts of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace at Philadelphia, having been elected by the people; was reelected clerk of courts in 1875; was delegate at large to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also delegate from the First Congressional district to the Republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, St. Louis in 1896, and elected a delegate to the Republican national convention to be held at Philadelphia June 19, 1900; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fiftysecond, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 25,665 votes, to 8,213 for M. F. Doyle, Democrat, 1,091 for J. H.Holz, Prohibitionist, and 653 for J. E. Lennon, Independent. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.-Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Twentieth wards. ROBERT ADAMS, JR., Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 26, 1849; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1869; studied and practiced law for five years; was member of the United States Geological Survey from 1871 to 1875, engaged in explorations of the Yellowstone Park; member of the State senate of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887; graduated in 1884 from the Wharton School of Economy and Finance of the University of Pennsylvania; was appointed United States minister to Brazil April 1, 1889, and resigned June 1, 1890; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fiftysixth Congress, receiving 19,547 votes, to 3,850 for Herman V. Hetzel, Democrat. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Y OF PHILADELPHIA.-Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth wards.

VILLIAM MCALEER, Democrat, of Philadelphia, was born in County Tyrone, land, January 6, 1838; emigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1851; attended olic and private schools; is a flour merchant, having engaged in business with his er and brothers in 1861; was elected a member of councils from the Fifth Ward 1871 for a term of two years; was elected by select and common councils in 1873 member of the board of guardians of the poor for a term of three years, and lected five consecutive terms; was vice-president and president of the board; was sident of the First District Charity Organization for a number of years; was presit of the Hibernian Society, which was organized in 1771; is president of the ard of Presidents of the Benevolent Societies of Philadelphia; is a member of the mmercial Exchange; was vice-president and president of the same; was a director the Chamber of Commerce; was unanimously elected to the State senate in 1886 a term of four years, and received the nomination for president pro tempore by .Democratic members in 1889; was elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third ngresses; was not a candidate for the Fifty-fourth Congress; was elected to the ty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, unanimously supported the Republican and Democratic parties, receiving 18,321 votes, to 340 for E. M. rsh, Prohibitionist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Y OF PHILADELPHIA.-Fifteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh, Twentyeighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-second, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Fortieth wards.

AMES RANKIN YOUNG, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelia March 10, 1847; was educated in the public schools of his native city, entering Central High School in 1862; enlisted with a number of the professors and stuits of the high school as a private soldier, in June, 1863, in the Thirty-second nnsylvania Infantry, and served during the Gettysburg campaign as a part of n. William F. Smith's division of Gen. Darius N. Couch's command; made a sixnths' tour of the Southern States soon after the war as a correspondent of the New rk Tribune; served as chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Tribune m June, 1866, to December, 1870; was chief executive clerk of the United States nate from December, 1873, to March, 1879; chief clerk of the Department of stice from September, 1882, to December, 1883; again chief executive clerk of the ited States Senate from December, 1883, to April, 1892; was one of the founders the Philadelphia Evening Star in 1866, and has been a constant contributor to its umns from that date to the present time, writing over the signature of S. M.; was cted to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiv341,627 votes to 12,250 for Gideon Sibley, Democrat, and 3,372 for C. C. Hanck, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Y OF PHILADELPHIA.-Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fifth wards.

EDWARD MORRELL, Republican, of Torresdale, Philadelphia, was born at ewport, R. I., August 7, 1862, while his parents were sojourning at that resort; ancestors were old-time Philadelphians, and were prominent in the history that city; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with high nors in 1885; was elected to the select council of Philadelphia in 1891, serving ree years; has been active in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, entering that ganization as colonel of the Third Regiment, and afterwards being commissioned brigadier-general, commanding the First Brigade; in 1889 married Louise Bouvier -exel, daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel; was nominated by the Republican nvention to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Congress caused by the death of the ce Hon. A. C. Harmer, and elected, receiving 45,089 votes to 13,898 for S. R. Carter, emocrat, and 568 for Benson, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Chester and Delaware (2 counties).

THOMAS S. BUTLER, Republican, of West Chester, was born in Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa., November 4, 1855, where he was educated at the public schools, and also at Wyers's and Worrall's academies, and at the normal school at West Chester; is a member of the Chester County bar; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 15,169 votes, to 6,537 for John B. Robinson, Republican and candidate of the Honest Government Party, and 6,513 for William H. Berry, Democrat. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bucks and Montgomery (2 counties).

IRVING PRICE WANGER, Republican, of Norristown, was born in North Coventry, Chester County, Pa., March 5, 1852; commenced the study of law at Norristown in 1872, and was admitted to the bar December 18, 1875; was elected burgess of Norristown in 1878; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1880; was elected district attorney of Montgomery County in 1880, and again in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 21,567 votes, to 17,872 for Clinton Rorer, Democrat, and 1,195 for H. Leopold, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, and Pike (4 counties).

LAIRD HOWARD BARBER, Democrat, of Mauch Chunk, was born near Mifflinburg, Union County, Pa., October 25, 1848; prepared for college at the Mifflinburg Academy, and graduated from Lafayette in 1871; was principal of the Mauch Chunk public schools for several years; read law with Frederick Bertolette, esq., of Mauch Chunk, and was admitted to the bar in Carbon County June 20, 1881; has served for a number of years as a member of the committee on admissions to the bar in Carbon County, and is now a member of the committee on legal education of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 1896, but was defeated by the Hon. William S. Kirkpatrick by 329 votes; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 16,400 votes, to 13,516 for William S. Kirkpatrick, Republican.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Berks and Lehigh (2 counties).

HENRY DICKINSON GREEN, Democrat, of Reading, was born at Reading, Berks County, Pa., May 3, 1857, and has since continued to reside there; was educated in the public schools of his native city (graduating at the Reading High School in 1872) and at Yale University, graduating from the latter with the class of 1877; admitted to practice law at the Berks County bar in November, 1879, to the supreme court of Pennsylvania March 4, 1890, and to the Supreme Court of the United States March 19, 1900; and is now engaged in the practice of that profession; was captain of Company G, Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the war with Spain until mustered out of regiment; was a representative of the city of Reading in the house of representatives of Pennsylvania in the sessions of 1883-84 and 1885-86; was a member of the senate of Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1896, being originally elected in November, 1888, and reelected in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress November 7, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, receiving 17,584 votes, to 11,749 for Jeremiah S. Parvin, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

COUNTY.-Lancaster.

TENTH DISTRICT.

MARRIOTT BROSIUS, Republican, of Lancaster, was born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pa., March 7, 1843; received a common-school and academic education; enlisted as a private in Company K, Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in November, 1861, for three years, and March 6, 1863, while engaged on

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