Biog BIOGRAPHICAL.* THE VICE PRESIDENT. CALVIN COOLIDGE, Republican, of Northampton, Mass., Vice President of the United States, was born in Plymouth, Vt., July 4, 1872; lawyer; A. B. Amherst College 1895; LL. D. Amherst College, Tufts College, Williams College, 1919, and Bates College, Wesleyan University, University of Vermont, 1920; Massachusetts House of Representatives 1907-8; mayor of Northampton 1910-11; Massachusetts Senate 19121915; president of the Senate 1914-15; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1916-1918; governor of Massachusetts 1919-20; was married on October 4, 1905, to Miss Grace A. Goodhue, and has two sons-John and Calvin. ALABAMA. (Population (1920), 2,348,174.) OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rugby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; was elected a Member of the House of Representatives to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and elected a Member of the United States Senate for term beginning March 4, 1915, and reelected for term beginning March 4, 1921. JAMES THOMAS HEFLIN, Democrat, of Lafayette, was born at Louina, Randolph County, Ala., April 9, 1869; was educated in the common schools of Randolph County, at the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and at the A. and M. College, Auburn, Ala.; studied law at Lafayette, Ala., under Judge N. D. Denson, and was admitted to the bar January 12, 1893; when first elected to Congress he gave up the law practice and since that date has devoted his time to the study of public questions; was married to Minnie Kate Schuessler (deceased), of Lafayette, Ala., December 18, 1895, and has one child-J. Thomas Heflin, jr.; was elected mayor of Lafayette March 16, 1893, and reelected, holding this office two terms; was register in chancery two years, resigning in 1896 to accept the Democratic nomination from Chambers County to the legislature; was elected in 1896, and reelected to the legislature in 1898; was a member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1896 to 1902; was a delegate in the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1901; was elected secretary of state in November, 1902, for a term of four years; resigned that office May 1, 1904; was elected, without opposition, May 10, 1904, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Charles W. Thompson, deceased, in the Fifty-eighth Congress; also elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He was nominated May 11, 1920, in the State Democratic primary for the office of United States Senator from Alabama to fill out the unexpired term of Senator John H. Bankhead. He resigned his position as Representative from the fifth congressional district in the Sixty-sixth Congress on November 1, 1920, and was elected on the following day, November 2, to serve as United States Senator from the State of Alabama until March 4, 1925. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties). JOHN MCDUFFIE, a Democrat, was born September 25, 1883, on a cotton plantation near River Ridge, in Monroe County, Ala.; he attended the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., one session; graduated at Auburn, Ala., 1904, and at University of Alabama Law School 1908; began practice of law at Monroeville, Ala., June 1, 1908; member of Alabama Legislature 1907-1911 and solicitor first judicial circuit *Biographies are based on information furnished or authorized by the respective Senators and Congressmen. List Stat De Ser id Sta ti Ser Co На C of Alabama 1911-1919; he married Miss Cornelia Hixon, of Hixon, Ala, October 20, 1915, and they have one child-Cornelia, 4 years old; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties). Population (1920, 302,002. JOHN RUSSELL TYSON, Democrat, of Montgomery; lawyer; born in Lowndes County, Ala.; graduate of Howard College, Marion, Ala., and of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; represented Lowndes County in the State legislature in 1880; member of the city council of Montgomery and its presiding officer for several years; circuit judge from 1892 to 1898; associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1898 to 1906, and chief justice of that court from 1906 to February, 1909, when he resigned to resume the practice of his profession; married and has three daughters and two sons, all grown; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, and Russell (9 counties). Population (1920), 258,646. HENRY BASCOM STEAGALL, Democrat, of Ozark, was born in Clopton, Dale County, Ala.; was educated in the common schools, with two years in the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School, Abbeville, Ala., and graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama; since graduation has been a practicing attorney; was county solicitor for a number of years; member of the legislature; State district prosecuting attorney for several years prior to nomination and election to Congress; member of State Democratic executive committee; delegate to party conventions, and a delegate to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore in 1912; was married December 27, 1900, to Miss Sallie Mae Thompson, of Tuskegee, Ala.; is a widower and has five children-Margaret Thompson, Mable Massey, Myra Mitchell, Porter Collingsworth, and Sallie Mae; was nominated for Congress June 29, 1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress without opposition, and nominated and elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties). Population (1920), 206,751. [Vacancy.] FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties). Population (1920), 231,453. WILLIAM B. BOWLING, Democrat, of Lafayette, Ala., was born in Calhoun County, Ala., September 24, 1870; attended the common schools of his native county; graduated at State normal school, Jacksonville, Ala.; taught seven years in the city schools of Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga.; was admitted to the bar January, 1900, and has since actively practiced his profession; was for 16 years solicitor fifth judicial circuit of Alabama, resigning in December, 1920, upon his election to Congress; is a member of the Baptist Church, and at the present time is moderator of the East Liberty Baptist Association; is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias; on June 2, 1896, married Miss Frances Collins, daughter of George E. and Jane Craig Collins, of Lafayette, Ala.; has three children-George Randolph, Marion, and Sarah Frances; was elected on November 2, 1920, to the Sixty-seventh Congress, and upon the election of Hon. J. Thomas Heflin to the United States Senate was elected to fill his unexpired term in the Sixty-sixth Congress. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bibb, Greene, Hale, Perry, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa (6 counties). Population (1920), 170,188. WILLIAM BACON OLIVER, Democrat, is a native of Eutaw, Ala., where he received his early education. He later attended the University of Alabama, where he received degrees from both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Law. He also attended the University of Virginia, and is a member of the honorary scholarship fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. In his early manhood he moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and entered the practice of law. From 1898-1909 he was solicitor for the sixth judicial circuit of Alabama. He resigned the office of solicitor in 1909 to accept a post as dean of the law school of the University of Alabama, and resigned the deanship in 1913 to become a candidate for Congress. On his election to the Sixty-fourth Congress he retired from the firm of Oliver, Verner & Rice to devote his entire time to his congressional duties; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Marshall, and St. LILIUS BRATTON RAINEY, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., was born at Dadeville, Ala., July 21, 1876; attended common schools of that county until 14 years of age; moved to Fort Payne, Dekalb County, Ala., where he attended public schools until he entered the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., in 1896; member of class of 1899; member of Phi Kappa Alpha; editor in chief of college annual; senior first lieutenant of first battalion of cadets; the following year he entered the University of Alabama Law School, finishing there with the class of 1902 (LL. D.); moved to Gadsden, opening a law office on July 1, 1902, where he continued in general practice until elected solicitor, assuming the duties of that office January 15, 1911; married to Miss Julia La Coste Smith, of Gadsden, on July 18, 1911; four children, one girl and three boys; he was elected captain in Alabama National Guard in 1903, serving three years, and reelected and commissioned, resigning the command in 1907; member of the Methodist Church, Shrine, Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World, B. P. O. E., and Odd Fellows; received Democratic nomination for Congress July 15, 1919; elected to Congress September 30, 1919. Reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and EDWARD B. ALMON, Democrat, of Tuscumbia, was born in Lawrence County, Ala., April 18, 1860; brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools of Lawrence County and the State Normal College, of Florence, Ala. In 1883 he received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Alabama, and has practiced law in Tuscumbia since 1885, except the time he was judge of the circuit court. In 1898 he was elected judge of the circuit court of the eleventh judicial circuit, and reelected in 1904 without opposition; was a presidential elector in 1896; has served in both branches of the Alabama Legislature, having been speaker of the house, and author of the bill which created the State highway commission in 1911; is a member of the Methodist Church, Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Woodmen of the World, and B. P. O. E.; was married in 1887 to Miss Luie Clopper, of Tuscumbia, and they have two children-Mrs. Lottie Almon Williams and Clopper Almon; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixtyseventh Congresses. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jefferson. Population (1920), 310,054. GEORGE HUDDLESTON, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1869; practiced law in Birmingham, Ala., from 1891 until 1911, when he retired; served as a private soldier in the Spanish War. TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston (7 counties). Population (1920), 170,857. WILLIAM B. BANKHEAD, Democrat, of Jasper, was born April 12, 1874, in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala.; attended country schools and graduated at the University of Alabama, A. B. 1893; Georgetown University Law School, LL. B. 1895; is a lawyer by profession; represented Madison County, Ala., in the legislature 19001901; city attorney of Huntsville for four years; circuit solicitor fourteenth judicial circuit 1910-1914; elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. ARIZONA. (Population (1920), 333,903.) SENATORS. HENRY FOUNTAIN ASHURST, Democrat, of Prescott, was born at Winnemucca, Nev., September 13, 1874; was educated in the public schools of Flagstaff, Ariz.; was graduated from the Stockton (Calif.) Business College; studied law and political economy in the University of Michigan; is a lawyer by profession; was married in 1904 to Elizabeth McEvoy Renoe; on March 27, 1912, was elected United States Senator by the unanimous vote of the First Legislative Assembly of the State of Arizona; on November 7, 1916, was reelected. His term of service will expire March 4, 1923. |