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AT LARGE.-Populat.on (1920), 223,003.

CALEB RODNEY LAYTON, Republican, of Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., son of Samuel H. and Elizabeth A. Layton, was born at Frankford, Sussex County, Del., September 8, 1851; prepared for college at the Georgetown Academy; entered Amherst College in 1869; graduated in 1873; entered the University of Pennsylvania, as a student of medicine, in 1873, and graduated in 1876; was secretary of the Republican county committee of Sussex County, Del., from 1876 to 1888; was elected chairman of Union Republican county committee of Sussex County in 1896 and served until 1901; in 1901 was appointed secretary of state by Gov. John Hunn, and served until 1905; in 1906 was appointed Auditor for the State and Other Departments at Washington by President Roosevelt, and reappointed by President Taft in 1909, resigning the office in 1910; was identified with the Progressive movement in 1912, serving as a member of the Progressive State committee until the two elements of the Republican Party merged in 1918; was editor of the Union Republican, published at Georgetown, Del., from 1897 to 1905; was married in 1876 and has three children, two sons and one daughter; at the election of 1918, Albert F. Polk, Democrat, received 19,652 votes, and Caleb R. Layton, Republican, received 21,226—a majority of 1,574; was reelected in 1920 by a majority of 11,936.

FLORIDA.

(Population (1920), 968,470.)
SENATORS.

DUNCAN U. FLETCHER; born in Sumter County, Ga., January 6, 1859; educated in country schools and Gordon Institute; graduated from Vanderbilt University June, 1880; began practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla., July, 1881; admitted to practice in all State and Federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court; member Legislature of Florida 1893; mayor of Jacksonville 1893-1895 and 1901-1903; chairman board of public instruction of Duval County 1900-1906; chairman State Democratic executive committee 1904-1907; nominated United States Senator in primary election June, 1908, and unanimously elected by legislature; renominated in primary election June, 1914, and reelected November, 1914, by popular vote; renominated in primary election June, 1920, and reelected November, 1920; member Democratic steering committee of Senate; ranking Democratic member Committee on Commerce, of which he was chairman prior to Republican majority—March, 1919; also member Senate Committees on Banking and Currency, Military Affairs, and Printing; Democratic member Joint Committee on Printing; only four among the Democrats in the Senate are his senior in service; member United States Section of the Inter-American High Commission; was for number of years president Southern Commercial Congress now honorary president.

PARK TRAMMELL, Democrat, of Lakeland, Fla.; he was educated in the common schools of Florida; graduated in law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in May, 1889; practiced law at Lakeland and Tampa; married to Miss Virginia Darby, of Lakeland, Fla., 1901; elected mayor of Lakeland 1899, reelected 1901; elected member of Florida House of Representatives 1902; State senator 1904 for term of four years; president State senate 1905; attorney general of Florida 1909-1913; governor of Florida 1913-1917; elected United States Senator by popular vote in November, 1916, for a term of six years beginning March 4, 1917.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Citrus, De Soto, Hernando, Hillsboro, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sumter (11 counties). Population (1920), 248,034.

HERBERT JACKSON DRANE, Democrat, of Lakeland, was born at Franklin, Simpson County, Ky., June 20, 1863. At the age of 14 he was compelled to leave school on account of ill health, having just finished the high-school course; came to Florida in November, 1883, in connection with railroad construction, and from the railroad camp then established grew what is now the city of Lakeland, which has been his home since that date. He was married at Franklin, Ky., December 31, 1885, to Miss Mary Wright, and is the father of three children—a son and two daughters, the son serving in the United States National Guard on the Mexican border and in the

Army, a first lieutenant of Infantry, until discharged at the close of the World War. For 34 years he has been engaged in the insurance profession, and for the same period of time has been a grower of citrus fruits; served as mayor of his city for a number of years; county commissioner; served as chief engrossing clerk Florida House of Representatives 1889-1901, inclusive; member of the Florida House of Representatives 1903; elected to the Florida Senate 1912-1916; was elected president of the Florida Senate 1913; was a candidate for the party nomination for Representative in Congress from the first district in 1916, succeeding the then sitting Member, Hon. S. M. Sparkman; served in the Sixty-fifth Congress; was renominated by his party in the 1918 primaries and reelected without opposition to serve in the Sixty-sixth Congress; reelected to the Sixth-seventh Congress over all opposing party candidates by a large majority.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Suwanee, and Taylor (13 counties). Population (1920), 187,474. FRANK CLARK, Democrat, of Gainesville; born at Eufaula, Ala., March 28, 1860; moved to Florida January, 1884; married to Mary Ellen Mayo October 8, 1884, in Polk County, Fla.; four children; has served three terms in Legislature of Florida; has been assistant United States attorney and United States attorney for southern district of Florida; has been chairman Democratic State committee; elected to the Fiftyninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington (14 counties). Population (1920), 217,670.

JOHN HARRIS SMITHWICK, Democrat, of Pensacola, Fla.; a native of Cherokee County, Ga.; married Jessie Vereen, of Moultrie, Ga.; they have two children, William V. and Mary; located in Pensacola, Fla., January 1, 1906; elected to the Sixtysixth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brevard, Broward, Clay, Dade, Duval, Flagler, Monroe, Orange,
Osceola, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Putnam, St. John, St. Lucie, Seminole, and Volusia (16 counties).
Population (1920), 315,292.

WILLIAM JOSEPH SEARS, Democrat, of Kissimmee, Fla., was born December 4, 1874, in Smithville, Ga.; shortly afterwards moved to Ellaville, Ga., and from there to Kissimmee, Fla., in January, 1881. He received early education in the public schools of Osceola County; graduated from Florida State College, at Lake City, receiving degree of A. B. in 1895, at which time was senior captain corps of cadets, and for two months acted as commandant of the battalion in place of Lieut. Samuel Smoke, United States Army; from Mercer University, Macon, Ga., receiving degree of B. L. in 1896; and in May, 1911, A. B. degree was conferred by the University of Florida at Gainesville; admitted to practice law in Georgia and Florida courts, and in 1905 was admitted to the Supreme Court of Florida and in 1912 to the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Kissimmee, and from 1907 to 1911 served in the city council; in 1905 was elected county superintendent of public instruction, and held this office until February 1, 1915; in 1901 married Miss Daisy Watson, of Raleigh, N. C., and has one son, W. J. Sears, jr. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth, to the Sixty-fifth, to the Sixty-sixth, and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress; two years chairman Committee on Education.

GEORGIA.

(Population (1920), 2,895,832.)
SENATORS.

WILLIAM J. HARRIS, Democrat, was born at Cedartown, Ga., February 3, 1868, son of Charles Hooks and Margaret (Monk) Harris; educated at the common schools of Cedartown and the University of Georgia at Athens; engaged in the insurance and banking business; served as private secretary to the late Senator A. S. Clay; elected to the State senate without opposition, and chairman of the Democratic State committee without opposition; served as Director of the United States Census Bureau, Acting Secretary of the Department of Commerce, and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which latter position he resigned to make the race for the United States Senate in 1918; married Julia Knox Hull Wheeler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and has one child, a daughter, Julia Wheeler.

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THOMAS E. WATSON, of Thomson, Ga.; born in Columbia County, Ga., September 5, 1856; son of John S. and Ann Eliza (Maddox) Watson; studied two years in Mercer University; taught school; admitted to bar 1875; practiced in Thomson, Ga.; member Georgia House of Representatives 1882-83; Democratic elector at large 1888; Member Fifty-second Congress (1891-93) as Populist; was candidate and claimed election at elections in 1892 and 1894, but his opponent was given the certificate; resumed practice of law in 1895; while in Congress secured first appropriation for free delivery of rural mails that Congress ever passed; nominated for Vice President at St. Louis Populist convention, which indorsed Bryan for President, 1896; for some time conducted Populist paper at Atlanta; nominated for President by Peoples Party 1904, and made active campaign to revive the party; began publication of Tom Watson's Magazine in New York in 1905; published Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine and the Weekly Jeffersonian since 1906. Author of The Story of France, 1898; Life of Thomas Jefferson, 1900; Life of Napoleon, 1902; Bethany, a Study and Story of the Old South, 1904; Life and Times of Andrew Jackson, 1907; Handbook of Politics and Economics, 1908; The Methods of Foreign Missions Exposed, 1909; The Roman Catholic Heirarchy, 1910; Socialists and Socialism, 1909. Prosecuted in United States court for publication of three chapters in the Roman Catholic Heirarchy; bill quashed by Judge Rufus E. Foster, 1914; second indictment procured based on publication of same chapters; Judge William W. Lambdin overruled motion to quash; case tried and jury voted 10 to 2 for acquittal; tried again November, 1916, and acquitted. Proprietor and editor Columbia Sentinel, Thomson, Ga., established after Wilson administration had withdrawn mailing privileges and thus destroyed publications already referred to, said publications having become obnoxious to said administration because they opposed the conscription law, the espionage act, and similar war measures. Entered race for United States Senate in 1920 as anti-Wilson, anti-league, and anti-war measures Democrat; received nomination over Senator Hoke Smith and Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey in Democratic primary; elected over Harry S. Edwards, Proleague Independent, at November, 1920, election for a term of six years beginning March 4, 1921, receiving 124,630 votes, to 6,700 for Edvards.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Liberty, McIntosh, Screven, and Tattnall (12 counties). Population (1920), 259,359.

JAMES WHETSTONE OVERSTREET, Democrat, of Sylvania, Ga., was born August 28, 1866, in Screven County, Ga., spending his youth on his father's farm and attending high school in Sylvania, Ga.; graduated from Mercer University with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1888; taught school three years after graduation; read law in the office of Hon. J. C. C. Black, of Augusta, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in April, 1892, and has lived in Sylvania, Ga., ever since, practicing law in the circuit and appellate courts and Supreme Court of Georgia; was a member of the lower house of the General Assembly of Georgia 1898–99; did not offer for reelection; was married to Miss Dicie Nunnally in 1902; appointed judge of the city court of Sylvania in December, 1902; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1906 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Rufus E. Lester, serving during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, beginning December, 1906, and ending March 4, 1907; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention held in Baltimore in 1912 which nominated Woodrow Wilson for President and Thomas R. Marshall for Vice President; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress November 7, 1916. Elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress. Reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 7,995 over his Republican opponent.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Tift, Thomas, and Worth (12 counties). Population (1920), 245,545.

FRANK PARK, Democrat, Sylvester.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ben Hill, Clay, Crisp, Dooly, Lee, Macon, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Taylor, Terrell, Turner, and Webster (15 counties). Population (1920), 206,155. CHARLES R. CRISP, Democrat, of Americus, Ga., was born October 19, 1870; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress to serve out the unexpired term of his father, the late Speaker Charles F. Crisp; from January, 1900, to March, 1911, was judge of the city court of Americus, resigning from the bench to accept the position of parliamentarian under Speaker Clark; was parliamentarian of the Democratic national convention at Baltimore; is married; was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Harris, Heard, Marion, Meriwether,
Muscogee, Talbot, and Troup (10 counties). Population (1920), 221,188.

WILLIAM CARTER WRIGHT, Democrat, of Newnan, Ga., was born in Carroll County, on a farm, and moved to Newnan when about 3 years of age, where he has since resided; attorney at law, and practiced in the State, Supreme, and Federal courts; was for two years chairman of the State Democratic executive committee; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress in January, 1918, to fill the unexpired term of W. C. Adamson; reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses; married Miss Pauline E. Arnold, who died 1918; to this union there was born five children, three of whom survive-Mrs. Evelyn Banks, a married daughter, and two sons, Arnold and William C., jr., aged 19 and 13; on October 12, 1919, married Mrs. Rosa May F. Bunn, of Cedartown, Ga.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Campbell, Dekalb, Douglas, Fulton, and Rockdale (5 counties). Population (1920), 308,364.

WILLIAM DAVID UPSHAW; born October 15, 1866, in Coweta County, Ga.; parents, I. D. Upshaw and Addie Stamps, who were married in said county May 3, 1861; father-teacher, merchant, and farmer; educated in common country schools and public schools of Atlanta, Ga.; received spinal injury from fall on wagon while working on farm in Cobb County, Ga., at age of 18; on bed seven years as result of injury; dictated volume of inspirational, educational, and religious sketches and poems, entitled "Echoes from a Recluse"; from proceeds of this book and platform lectures delivered from rolling chair entered Mercer University, at Macon, Ga., at age of 31; soon became interested in helping struggling boys and girls, and gave seven years to this work at Mercer University, for men, and Bessie Tift College, Forsyth, Ga., for women; founded the Golden Age, an undenominational magazine of good citizenship, at Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1906; active in the fight against saloons that made Georgia a prohibition State in 1907; spoke widely over America in prohibition cause under auspices of Anti-Saloon League and Woman's Christian Temperance Union; elected to Sixty-sixth Congress from the fifth congressional district of Georgia, securing 12 out of 16 county unit votes over six opponents. Reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress, securing 14 out of 16 county unit votes in the Democratic nominations and carrying every county (five) over Republican opponent in the general election.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bibb, Butts, Clayton, Crawford, Fayette, Henry, Jasper, Jones, Monroe,
Pike, Spalding, and Upson (12 counties). Population (1920), 243,174.

JAMES WALTER WISE, Democrat, of Fayetteville, Ga.; member of the House of Representatives of Georgia 1902 to 1908; solicitor general of the Flint judicial circuit four years; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cobb, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield (13 counties). Population (1920), 236,027. GORDON LEE, Democrat, of Chickamauga, was born on a farm near Ringgold, Catoosa County, Ga.; received his primary education in the country schools; graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga.; is a farmer; served as member of the house of representatives of the State legislature in 1894 and 1895, and in the senate in 1902, 1903, and 1904; was appointed by Gov. Atkinson as member of State memorial board; is a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission, created by the act of March 1, 1911; member of the Joint Committee on Federal Aid in the Construction of Post Roads; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by 18,970 majority.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hart, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Walton, and Wilkes (13 counties). Population (1920), 262,446. CHARLES HILLYER BRAND, Democrat, of Athens, was born April 20, 1861, at Loganville, Ga.; graduated from the University of Georgia in 1881; admitted to the bar in September, 1882. Was elected to the Georgia Senate for the years 1894-95 and was president pro tempore of that body. Was grand master of the I. O. O. F. of Georgia in 1897-98. In 1896 he was elected solicitor general of the western judicial circuit by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia for four years, and in 1900, without opposition, he was reelected for four years by popular vote. In January, 1906, he was appointed judge of the superior courts of said circuit by Gov. Terrell to

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fill an unexpired term. In the State primary election in 1906 he was elected judge of said courts for four years, and reelected for four years in 1910, and again elected, without opposition, in 1914, which office he held until elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress January 11, 1917. Was thereafter elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixtyseventh Congresses.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Banks, Barrow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Milton, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White (19 counties). Population (1920), 226,377.

THOMAS MONTGOMERY BELL, Democrat, of Gainesville, was born in Nachoochee Valley, White County, Ga.; was educated in the common schools of the country and the Southern Business College, Atlanta, Ga.; was connected_for many years with some of the largest wholesale business houses in Atlanta, Ga., and Baltimore, Md.; married Miss Mary Ella Winburn, of Gainesville, Ga.; was elected clerk of the superior court of Hall County in 1898, and reelected in 1900 and 1902; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress without opposition, receiving the combined vote of the district; also reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress without opposition, receiving 12,943 votes. Reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress over Republican opposition by 14,962 majority. Renominated September 11, 1918, receiving 7,005 majority over his opponent, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving practically all the votes cast. Elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority vote of 5,001 over Republican opponent.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baldwin, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Hancock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkinson (12 counties). Population (1920), 221,792. CARL VINSON, Democrat, of Milledgeville, was born November 18, 1883, on a farm in Baldwin County; educated at the Georgia Military College at Milledgeville, Ga.; graduated from Mercer University Law School in 1902; commenced the practice of law the same year in Milledgeville; county court solicitor (prosecuting attorney) for Baldwin County, Ga., three years; served two terms (1909-1912) in the General Assembly of Georgia; speaker pro tempore during the term 1911-12; judge of the county court of Baldwin County two years; resigned November 2, 1914; married on April 6, 1921, to Mrs. Mary Greene McGregor, of New Philadelphia, Ohio; elected to the Sixty-third Congress to fill an unexpired term, without opposition; reelected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne (20 counties). Population (1920), 238,015.

WILLIAM CHESTER LANKFORD, Democrat, of Douglas, Ga., was born at Camp Creek, in Clinch County, Ga., on December 7, 1877, son of Jesse and Mary A. (Monk) Lankford; attended public schools in country; was graduated in Georgia Normal College and Business Institute, of Abbeville, Ga., class of 1899; received B. L. degree from University of Georgia in 1901; moved to Douglas, Ga., in 1901, where he has since practiced law; married Miss Mattie Lott in 1906; has three childrenChester Lott, William Cecil, and Laura Ava; has served as member of school board of the city of Douglas, as mayor of the city of Douglas, and as judge of the city court of Douglas; elected to Sixty-sixth Congress; nominated as Democratic candidate without opposition and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Houston, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Twiggs, Wheeler, and Wilcox (14 counties). Population (1920), 227,390.

WILLIAM WASHINGTON LARSEN, Democrat, of Dublin, was born at Hagan, Ga., August 12, 1871; is a lawyer by profession, but has farm interests and resided on a farm when elected to Congress; attended literary department University of Georgia; began the practice of law at Swainsboro 1897, but moved to Dublin 1912; served as lieutenant of Georgia Volunteers, as solicitor of city court of Swainsboro, as secretary executive department State of Georgia, and as judge of the superior courts Dublin judicial circuit, and is a member of board of trustees of the State Normal School; was elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.