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IDAHO.

(Population (1920), 431,866.)

SENATORS.

WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH, Republican, of Boise, was born June 29, 1865, in Wayne County, Ill.; was educated in the common schools of Wayne County, at the Southern Illinois Academy, Enfield, Ill., and at the Kansas State University, Lawrence; was admitted to practice law September, 1890, at Lyons, Kans., and devoted his entire time since exclusively to practice of the law until elected to the United States Senate January 15, 1907; reelected January 14, 1913, and again reelected November 5, 1918. His present term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

FRANK R. GOODING, Republican, of Gooding, Idaho; born in England; came to the United States with his parents in 1867; settled in Michigan; moved to California at the age of 17, and to Idaho at 21; was for many years a contractor for mining companies in the Wood River country, and during the past 33 years has been actively engaged in farming and live stock; has been member of the Idaho Senate; chairman of the Republican State central committee of Idaho; twice elected governor of Idaho, serving during the years 1905-1908; elected to the United States Senate November 2, 1920, for term beginning March 4, 1921; appointed to the Senate January 15, 1921, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. John F. Nugent, resigned.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Benewah, Boise, Bonner, Boundary, Canyon, Clearwater, Custer, Gem, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lewis, Nez Perce, Payette, Shoshone, Valley, and Washington (19 counties). Population (1920), 178,324.

BURTON L. FRENCH, Republican, of Moscow, was born near Delphi, Ind., August 1, 1875, son of Charles A. and Mina P. (Fischer) French; moved with his parents to Kearney, Nebr., in 1880, and moved to Idaho in 1882; attended public schools in Palouse, Wash.; graduated from University of Idaho 1901 with the degree of A. B., and was fellow in University of Chicago 1901 to 1903, graduating with degree of Ph. M.; married Winifred Hartley June 28, 1904; is an attorney at law; was member of fifth and sixth sessions of Idaho Legislature, during latter session being the Republican caucus nominee for speaker; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ada, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Power, Teton, and Twin Falls (25 counties). Population (1920), 253,542.

ADDISON T. SMITH, Republican, of Twin Falls, son of Isaac and Jane Forsythe Smith, who were of Scotch descent, was born and reared on a farm near Cambridge, Ohio. His father and eldest brother served in Company H, One hundred and twentysecond Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, and his two sons in the War with Germany. Mr. Smith attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Cambridge (Ohio) High School, the Iron City Commercial College, of Pittsburgh, Pa., the law department of the George Washington University, and the National Law School, Washington, D. C.; is a member of the bar of Idaho and the United States Supreme Court. When Idaho was admitted into the Union he was appointed secretary to the late Senator Shoup, and later occupied a similar position with the late Senator Heyburn; served as register of the United States land office at Boise, Idaho, by appointment of President Roosevelt; was secretary to the Republican State central committee of Idaho 1904-1911; present member national Republican congressional committee for Idaho; was married to Miss Mary A. Fairchild December 24, 1889, and they have two sons living, Hugh Fairchild and Walter Shoup; was elected to the Sixty-third and each succeeding Congress.

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ILLINOIS.

(Population (1920), 6,485,280.)

SENATORS.

MEDILL MCCORMICK, Republican, of Chicago; born May 16, 1877, son of Robert S. and Katharine Medill McCormick; was graduated from Yale 1900; married Ruth, daughter of Mark A. and C. Augusta Hanna; they have two children. Writer and farmer; twice elected to the Illinois General Assembly; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress as a Representative at large; elected United States Senator November 5, 1918, for term expiring March 4, 1925.

WILLIAM BROWN MCKINLEY, Republican, of Champaign, was born September 5, 1856, in Petersburg, Ill.; was educated in the common schools and spent two years in the University of Illinois; is a farmer and banker; is married; elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. Elected to the United States Senate November 2, 1920.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1920), 6,485,280.)

WILLIAM E. MASON, Republican, of Chicago; lawyer; born July 7, 1850; married Edith White, of Des Moines, Iowa, June 11, 1873; 40 years in law practice in Chicago; has served in both branches of the Illinois Legislature and both branches of Congress; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress at large, to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

RICHARD YATES, Republican, was born December 12, 1860; married 1888 to Helen Wadsworth; two children, Dorothy and Catharine, the latter married to John L. Pickering, jr.; member of Methodist Church; served nine years in the Illinois National Guard; elected city attorney of Jacksonville 1885-1890; county judge of Morgan County 1894-1897; governor of Illinois 1901-1904; Republican member State public utilities commission 1914-1917, under Gov. Dunne; assistant attorney general 1917-18, under Attorney General Brundage; elected Congressman at large November 5, 1918, and reelected November 2, 1920, receiving 1,369,673 votes, against 579,799 cast for William Murphy, Democrat-a plurality of 789,874.

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 1; ward 2; ward 3, precincts 1 to 30, inclusive; ward 4, precincts 1 to 18, inclusive, and precincts 21, 22, and 23. Population (1920), 167,220.

MARTIN B. MADDEN, Republican, of Chicago, was elected to the Fifty-ninth and each succeeding Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 3, precincts 36 to 77, inclusive; ward 6; ward 7: ward 8; ward 9, precincts 1 to 55, inclusive, and precinct 58. Population (1920), 401,585.

JAMES R. MANN, Republican, of Chicago, was born in 1856; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and each succeeding Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 9, precincts 56 and 57; ward 29, precincts 19 to 34 and 36 to 65, inclusive (all south of Fifty-first Street except precincts 35 and 66); ward 30, precincts 30 to 49, inclusive (all south of Fifty-first Street); ward 31 and ward 32. COOK COUNTY: Towns of Lemont, Palos, Worth, Orland, Bremen, Thornton, Rich, Bloom, and Calumet. Population (1920), 359,018. ELLIOTT W. SPROUL, Republican, of Chicago; born in New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, December 28, 1856; moved to Boston in 1879 and to Chicago in 1880; established contracting business in 1880 which bears name of the E. W. Sproul Co.; always active participant in Republican politics; member Chicago City Council 1896-1899; delegate to Republican national convention 1920; member board of directors of Chicago Public Library 1919 until resignation after election to Congress; member various business clubs and Masonic and Odd Fellow organizations; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, to succeed William W. Wilson.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 3, precincts 31 to 35, inclusive; ward 4, precincts 19, 20, and 24 to 41, inclusive; ward 5; ward 10, precinct 17 (part); ward 11, precincts 30 to 37, inclusive (all south of Twenty-second Street); ward 12, precincts 1 to 28, inclusive (all south of Twenty-second Street); ward 29, precincts 1 to 18, inclusive; ward 30, precincts 1 to 29, inclusive. Population (1920), 240,970.

JOHN W. RAINEY.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 10, precincts 2 to 16, inclusive, 17 (part), and 18 to 27, inclusive; ward 11, precincts 1 to 3, inclusive, and 6 to 29, inclusive (all north of Twenty-second Street except precinct 5); ward 12, precincts 29 to 47, inclusive (all north of Twenty-second Street); ward 20, precincts 3 to 23, inclusive; and ward 34, precincts 23 to 32, inclusive (all of ward 34 east of Homan Street). Population (1920), 158,092.

ADOLPH J. SABATH, Democrat, of Chicago; born in Czechoslovakia; in Chicago and the United States since 1881; lawyer; for 12 years judge of the municipal court of Chicago; member of the Press, Iroquois, Standard, and other clubs and organizations; elected to the Sixtieth and to all subsequent Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-Crry oF CHICAGO: Ward 11, precincts 4 and 5; ward 13; ward 14, precincts 31 to 34, inclusive; ward 18, precincts 18 to 49, inclusive; ward 19, precincts 22 to 29, inclusive (all west of Loomis Street); ward 29, precincts 35 to 66, inclusive; ward 33, precincts 82 to 92, inclusive; ward 34, precincts 1 to 22 and 33 to 77, inclusive; ward 35, precincts 38 to 90, inclusive (all south of West Kinzie Street). COOK COUNTY: Towns of Cicero, Proviso, Riverside, Lyons, and Stickney; villages of Oak Park, River Forest, and Berwyn city. Population (1920), 458,175.

JOHN JEROME GORMAN, Republican, of Chicago, Ill.; born in Minneapolis, Minn., June 2, 1883, the oldest of 11 children; obtained his education above the grades of the common schools through his own efforts; sold newspapers while attending high school; worked as a night distributor of mail in the Chicago post office while attending business college in the daytime; worked as a letter carrier in the daytime while attending evening law classes at Loyola University, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1914; was admitted to the practice of the law the same season; then collected mail at night, also worked as night clerk in the post office later on while practicing law in the daytime; associated in the practice of the law since admission to the bar with Howard A. Brundage, who was first lieutenant of Infantry in the famous Blackhawk Division during the war; formerly represented the post-office clerks and letter carriers in their organization work and contributed articles to their respective journals; elected a delegate to the constitutional convention of Illinois in November, 1919; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress over his Democratic opponent, Hon. James McAndrews, a long-time sitting Member of the Congress, by a plurality of 48,399; married, and has three children.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 14, precincts 1 to 30, inclusive, and 35 to 60, inclusive; ward 15, precincts 1 to 51, inclusive; ward 26, precincts 78 to 86, inclusive; ward 27; ward 28; ward 33, precincts 1 to 81, inclusive, and 93 to 97, inclusive; ward 35, precincts 1 to 37, inclusive (all north of West Kinzie Street). COOK COUNTY: Towns of Hanover, Schaumberg, Elk Grove, Maine, Leyden, Barrington, Palatine, Wheeling, and Norwood Park. Population (1920), 560,434.

M. ALFRED MICHAELSON, Republican, of Chicago, Ill., was born in Kristiansand, Norway, September 7, 1878; came to Chicago in October, 1885; educated in Chicago public schools; graduated from Chicago Normal School 1898; taught school in Chicago public schools 1898-1914; elected to city council as alderman thirty-third ward 191415, 1916-17; delegate to constitutional convention 1920; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 110,758 votes, to 34,202 for William J. Čullerton, Democrat; 12,097 for Samuel Holland, Socialist; and 1,103 for Robert M. Buck-a plurality of 76,556.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 10, precinct 1; ward 15, precincts 52 to 60, inclusive (all east of Robey Street); ward 16; ward 17; ward 18, precincts 1 to 17, inclusive; ward 19, precincts 1 to 21, inclusive (all east of Loomis Street); ward 20, precincts 1 and 2. Population (1920), 183,031. STANLEY HENRY KUNZ, Democrat, of Chicago; born September 26, 1864; educated in the Chicago public schools, St. Ignatius College classical course, and the Metropolitan Business College, both of Chicago; member Illinois State Legislature 1888-1890; member of Illinois State Senate 1902-1906; member Chicago City Council 1891-1921; member Democratic county central committee of Cook County and of the executive committee thereof 1888 to present time; married and has two sons- -Medard Alexander and Stanley Henry, jr.; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

NINTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 21; ward 22, precincts 8 to 34, inclusive; ward 23, precincts 1 to 13, inclusive, and 15 to 66, inclusive; ward 25, precincts 7 to 20, inclusive. Population (1920), 190,307.

FRED A. BRITTEN, Republican, of Chicago, was born in that city November 18, 1871; was educated in the public schools and business college of San Francisco; has been in the general building construction business in Chicago, doing work in different parts of the United States, since 1894; represented the twenty-third ward in the Chicago City Council from 1908 to 1912; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

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TENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 22, precincts 1 to 7, inclusive; ward 23, precincts 14 and 67 to 71, inclusive; ward 24; ward 25, precincts 1 to 6 and 21 to 111, inclusive; ward 26, precincts 1 to 77, inclusive. COOK COUNTY: Evanston city, townships of Niles, New Trier, and Northfield; and Lake County. Population (1920), 408,470.

CARL RICHARD CHINDBLOM, Republican, of Chicago, Cook County, was born in that city on December 21, 1870; attended the public schools in Chicago, and graduated from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., in 1890, with degree of A. B., and from Kent College of Law (Lake Forest University), Chicago, in 1898, with degree of LL. B.; received degree of A. M. from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans.; spent some years at teaching, and has practiced law at Chicago since 1900; was member of board of Cook County commissioners 1906-1910, county attorney of Cook County 1912-1914, and master in chancery of the circuit court of Cook County 1916-1918; is member of the law firm of Brecher & Chindblom, with offices at 69 West Washington Street, Chicago; married Christine Nilsson, of Minneapolis, Minn., April 27, 1907; they have two children, Richard N. and Ruth C.; was elected to Sixty-sixth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 101,361 votes, as against 30,924 for John Haderlein, Democrat, and 4,005 for Charles Lorch, Socialist.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dupage, Kane, McHenry, and Will 4 counties). Population (1920), 267,694.

IRA CLIFTON COPLEY, Republican, of Aurora, was born in Knox County, Ill., October 25, 1864; his family removed to Aurora in 1867; graduated from West Aurora High School in 1881; prepared for college at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, and graduated from Yale College in 1887, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts; graduated from Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1889, and has been connected with the gas and electric business in Aurora since that year; is married; was elected to the Sixtysecond and each succeeding Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Dekalb, Grundy, Kendall, La Salle, and Winnebago (6 counties). Population (1920), 259,169.

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CHARLES E. FULLER, Republican, of Belvidere, was born on a farm near Belvidere, Ill.; is a lawyer, and vice president of the Peoples Bank of Belvidere; has been State's attorney, representative in the general assembly, State senator, circuit judge; raised a regiment for the Spanish-American War in 1898, and was commissioned colonel by Gov. Tanner, but the regiment was never called into service; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress, receiving 67,391 votes, to 2,941 for Charles F. Johnson, Socialist.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, and Whiteside (6 counties). Population (1920), 170,013.

JOHN CHARLES MCKENZIE, Republican, of Elizabeth, Ill., was born on a farm in Woodbine Township, Jo Daviess County, Ill., February 18, 1860; educated in the common schools; taught school, farmed for a number of years, then read law; was admitted to the bar and is now engaged in the practice of the profession; served four years as a member of the Illinois State Claims Commission under Gov. John R. Tanner; served two terms in the house and three terms in the senate of the Illinois General Assembly; served one term as president pro tempore of the senate; married; has one child, a daughter; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1920), 197,952.

WILLIAM J. GRAHAM, Republican, of Aledo, Mercer County, was born near New Castle, Pa., February 7, 1872; moved to Mercer County 1879; educated in public schools and University of Illinois; admitted to bar 1895; married and has three children; State's attorney Mercer County 1900-1908; member House of Representatives of Illinois 1915-1917; elected to Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Fulton, Henry, Knox, and Schuyler (5 counties). Population (1920), 215,525.

EDWARD J. KING, Republican, of Galesburg, was born July 1, 1867, at Springfield, Mass.; graduate of Galesburg High School and Knox College; lawyer; city attorney of Galesburg 1803-94; member of the house of representatives of the Forty-fifth,

Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth General Assemblies of Illinois; married
January 1, 1895, to May B. Roberts, and they have one son, Lieut. Ivan R. King,
M. A.; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and re-
elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bureau, Marshall, Peoria, Putnam, Stark, and Tazewell (6 counties). Population (1920), 224,930.

CLIFFORD IRELAND, Republican, of Peoria, born February 14, 1878, Washburn, Ill.; educated at Cheltenham Military Academy, Knox College, University of Wisconsin, and Illinois College of Law; married; two children; farmer and lawyer.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ford, Livingston, Logan, McLean, and Woodford (5 counties). Population (1920), 174,545.

FRANK H. FUNK, Republican, of Bloomington, was born in Bloomington, Ill., April 5, 1869, son of Benjamin F. Funk, a Member of the Fifty-third Congress; educated at the Illinois Normal University, Lawrenceville School, New Jersey (graduated class of 1888), graduated Yale University 1891 with degree of Ph. B.; actively engaged in farming and live-stock production for 30 years upon his farm, Funks Grove, McLean County, Ill., which his grandfather, Isaac Funk, settled in 1824; member of Illinois Republican State central committee 1906-1908; member of Illinois State Senate 19081912; candidate of the Progressive Party for governor of Illinois in 1912, receiving 303,000 votes; chairman of the Illinois delegation to the Progressive national convention 1912; nominated by the Progressive Party for United States Senator 1913; chairman Illinois delegation to Progressive national convention 1916; appointed commissioner Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission 1913; commissioner Illinois Public Utilities Commission 1914-1921; delegate to Republican national convention at Chicago 1920 from the seventeenth Illinois district; married Miss Florence Risser, of Chicago, three children-Mary, Benjamin F., and Florence R.; belongs to Masons, Commandery, Consistory, and Shrine; Elks, T. P. A., Rotary Club, Modern Woodmen, Chicago Yale Club, Hamilton Club of Chicago, and University Club of Chicago; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 42,790 votes, to 17,912 for Frank Gillespie, Democrat-a plurality of 24,878.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT,-COUNTIES: Clark, Cumberland, Edgar, Iroquois, Kankakee, and Vermillion (6 counties). Population (1920), 225,735.

JOSEPH GURNEY CANNON, Republican, of Danville, was born at Guilford, N. C., May 7, 1836; is a lawyer; was State's attorney in Illinois March, 1861, to December, 1868; was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. Mr. Cannon was elected Speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Champaign, Coles, Dewitt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, and Shelby (8 counties). Population (1920), 256,252.

ALLEN F. MOORE, Republican, of Monticello, Piatt County, Ill.; born at St. Charles, Ill., September 30, 1869; married and has two children; manufacturer and banker; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 63,124 votes, to 35,210 for Edw. F. Poorman, Democrat, and 773 for John R. Hefner, Socialist.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Mason, Menard, Morgan,
Pike, and Scott (10 counties). Population (1920), 169,292.

GUY L. SHAW, Republican, of Beardstown, Cass County, was born on a farm near Summerhill, Ill., May 16, 1881; educated in public schools and college of agriculture, University of Illinois; married Bessie Dillon, of Normal, Ill., and has one daughter-Jean; farmer and farm manager; 1908–1921 devoted his time to the development, management, and farming of overflow lands along Illinois River; was Federal emergency demonstrating agent, Agricultural Department, during the World War; was delegate to 1920 Illinois constitutional convention; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 33,375 votes, to 29,466 for Henry T. Rainey, Democrat.

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