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to 97,711 for Clarence W. Watson, Democrat, and 2,288 for S. M. Holt, Socialist; is a member of the Metropolitan Club, of Washington, D. C., and the Harvard Club, and Tennis and Racquet Club of New York City.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Ohio, Taylor, and Wetzel (7 counties). Population (1920), 229,457.

BENJAMIN LOUIS ROSENBLOOM, Republican, of Wheeling, W. Va.; born at Braddock June 3, 1880, son of Morris and Fannie Rosenbloom; attended public schools, high school, and West Virginia University; attorney at law; admitted to practice 1904; admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States 1911; served in the West Virginia Senate 1914-1918; unmarried; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, the first Republican elected from his district since 1910.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Pendleton, Preston, Randolph, and Tucker (13 counties). Population (1920), 231,685.

GEORGE M. BOWERS, Republican, of Martinsburg, W. Va., was born September 13, 1863, at Gerrardstown, W. Va., in the Shenandoah Valley. Is a farmer, orchardist, and banker, being president of Peoples Trust Co. in Martinsburg, W. Va. Was a member of the West Virginia Legislature at the age of 23; a candidate for auditor of the State in 1888; census superintendent in 1890; treasurer World's Fair managers in 1893; appointed by President McKinley Commissioner of Fisheries in February, 1898, and reappointed by President Roosevelt and President Taft; resigned April 16, 1913. Elected at a special election held in the second congressional district of West Virginia on May 9, 1916, to the Sixty-fourth Congress, to the Sixty-fifth Congress, to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and to the Sixty-seventh Congress; member of the Committee on Ways and Means.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Nicholas, Ritchie, Upshur, and Webster (11 counties). Population (1920), 230,255.

STUART F. REED, Republican, of Clarksburg, was born and reared on a farm in Barbour County, W.Va., son of Maj. Milton D. and Margaret (Stuart) Reed; he obtained money to attend college by saving his earnings as a country-school teacher. A brief summary of Mr. Reed's career appearing in "Who's Who in America" shows that he was State senator four years; elected secretary of state two consecutive terms (19091917); elected president Association of American Secretaries of State (Cincinnati, 1915); vice president West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission (1913); editor Clarksburg Telegram eight years; elected president West Virginia Editorial Association three terms; was chairman senate committee on education; regent West Virginia University; originator of School of Commerce and founder of the Athenæum (college journal) of the university; member West Virginia Republican State committee; vice president National League of Republican Clubs; member national literary bureau of Republican national executive committee; member World's Literary Congress (Chicago); vice president National Republican Editorial Association (Washington, D. C., 1904); declined appointment consul general Buenos Aires 1905; president board trustees Broaddus Classical and Scientific Institute 1901-1908; eminent commander Knights Templar 1908; member International Tax Conference, Louisville, Ky., 1909; president State Y. M. C. A. convention 1910; received diploma (Fairmont State Normal) and degrees LL.B. (West Virginia University) and Ph. D. (Salem College); married Miss Bonnie Belle Smith, of Clarksburg; is a Shriner, Elk, and Modern Woodman of America; Baptist; elected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 12,067; and selected to serve on the following committees of the House of Representatives: District of Columbia, War Claims, Flood Control, and chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Pleasants Putnam Roane, Tyler, Wirt, and Wood (9 counties). Population (1920), 214,930.

HARRY C. WOODYARD, Republican, Spencer, W. Va.; born November 13, 1867, at Spencer, W. Va.; served four years as State senator from the fourth senatorial district of West Virginia; was elected in 1902 as Representative in Congress from the fourth congressional district and served in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses; was elected November 7, 1916, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Hunter H. Moss, jr., in the Sixty-fourth Congress, and also as a Member of the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Summers, Wayne, and Wyoming (9 counties). Population (1920), 278,302.

WELLS GOODYKOONTZ, Republican, of Williamson, W. Va.; born June 3, 1872, near Newbern, Va.; son of William M. and Lucinda K.; educated at Oxford Academy (Virginia), under Mr. John K. Harris, a Presbyterian minister, of Williams College; read law at Floyd, Va., under Judge Z. T. Dobyns, and at Washington and Lee University under Mr. John Randolph Tucker and Mr. Charles A. Graves; licensed to practice June 9, 1893; located at Williamson February 23, 1894; on December 22, 1898, married to Miss Irene Hooper, of New Orleans; admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia April 1, 1896, and “admitted and qualified as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme Court" (United States) December 13, 1909; served as member house of delegates from Mingo County sessions 1911-12; in 1914 nominated without opposition for office of State senator, and elected to represent the sixth district, constituted of McDowell, Mingo, Wayne, and Wyoming Countiesleading his ticket in each of the counties mentioned by a plurality of 3,009; in the senate, sessions 1915-16, was majority (Republican) floor leader; on January 10, 1917, was by his colleagues elected president of the senate, thereby becoming ex officio lieutenant governor of the State; this office he held until December 1, 1918; is the only one of the respective presidents of the State senate from whose rulings no appeal was ever taken (vide: Harris's Legislative Hand Book, 1918, p. 413); on November 5, 1918, elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress over W. W. McNeal, Democrat, by 2,936; on November 2, 1920, reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress over Mr. McNeal by a majority of 6,799; is senior member of the law firm of Goodykoontz, Scherr & Slaven, of Williamson; elected president of the West Virginia Bar Association July, 1917; was chairman of the central committee of lawyers that headed the West Virginia bar in assisting registrants and aiding, by advice and otherwise, soldiers and sailors, their families and dependents; is the author of a "legal booklet," of which 30,000 copies were distributed, giving information as to the more important laws, State and Federal, affecting soldiers and sailors; has been president, since it was founded, of the National Bank of Commerce of Williamson; is a Mason and a past master. Mr. Goodykoontz, upon entering Congress, was assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary, of which he is still a member.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Pocahontas, and Raleigh (6 counties). Population (1920), 279,072.

LEONARD S. ECHOLS, Republican, of Charleston, W. Va., is a native of the district he represents; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress over Hon. Adam B. Littlepage, Democrat, by a plurality of 1,833, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress over W. E. Wilson, Democrat, by a majority of 8,420; married Anne C. De Pue, of Charleston, W. Va., and has one child-Leonard S., jr.

WISCONSIN.

(Population (1920) 2,632,067.)

SENATORS.

ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE, Republican; residence, Madison, Wis.; educated Wisconsin State University; lawyer; prosecuting attorney Dane County, Wis., four years; Representative in Congress from Wisconsin three terms; governor of Wisconsin three terms; elected to United States Senate 1905, 1910, and 1916; his present term expires March 3, 1923.

IRVINE L. LENROOT, Republican, of Superior, was born in Superior, Wis., January 31, 1869; received a common-school education, became a court reporter, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1897; is married; was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in 1900, 1902, and 1904; was elected speaker of the assembly in 1903 and 1905; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses. On April 2, 1918, he was elected to the Senate to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Husting. On November 2, 1920, was reelected for term ending March 4, 1927.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth, and Waukesha (5 counties). Population (1920), 268,334.

HENRY ALLEN COOPER, Republican, of Racine; lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-third and each succeeding Congress, including the Sixty-fifth; was defeated for the Sixty-sixth Congress; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 51,144 votes, to 13,661 for Andrew F. Stahl, Democrat, and 2,585 for Samuel S. Walkup, Socialist.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Columbia, Dodge, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Washington (6 counties). Population (1920), 217,193.

EDWARD VOIGT, Republican, of Sheboygan, was born at Bremen, Germany; December 1, 1873; came to Milwaukee, Wis., with his parents when 11 years old, attended the city schools; worked in law and insurance offices for some years; entered the law department of the University of Wisconsin in 1896 and graduated therefrom and was admitted to the bar in 1899; has practiced law since 1899 at Sheboygan, Wis.; has been three terms district attorney of Sheboygan County and two terms city attorney of the city of Sheboygan; was married in 1910 to Miss Hattie Wellhausen, of Milwaukee, Wis.; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 20,665 votes, to 18,478 for M. C. Burke, Democrat, and 1,123 for John Bauernfeind, Social Democrat. Was reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by about 2,800 majority over John Clifford, Democrat, and about 8,000 over Oscar Ameringer, Socialist; was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a plurality of about 25,000 votes over Harry Bolens, Democrat, and Jacob Miller, Socialist.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, and Richland (7 counties). Population (1920), 228,145.

JOHN MANDT NELSON, Republican, of Madison, was born in the town of Burke, Dane County, Wis., October 10, 1870; received a collegiate education, graduating from the University of Wisconsin in June, 1892; was elected superintendent of schools in Dane County in 1892 and reelected in 1894; resigned to accept the position of bookkeeper in the office of the secretary of state 1894-1897; edited the State 1897-98; correspondent in State treasury 1898-1902; was graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin 1896; pursued postgraduate studies at the university 1904-5; was a member of the Republican State central committee 1902-1906; was married in 1891 to Thea Johanna Stondall; they have six children; is by profession a lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress in September, 1906, to fill a vacancy, to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 44,859 votes, to 18,794 for James T. Murphy, Democrat.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-MILWAUKEE COUNTY: Third, fourth, fifth, eighth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth wards of the city of Milwaukee; cities of Cudahy, South Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and West Allis; towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, Oak Creek, and Wauwatosa; and village of West Milwaukee. Population (1920), 262,946.

JOHN C. KLECZKA, Republican, was born in Milwaukee, Wis.; is a graduate of Marquette University, from which institution he received the degrees of A. B., A. M., and LL. B.; took postgraduate courses at the University of Wisconsin and Catholic University of America; has been engaged in active practice of law since 1909; was elected State senator in 1908; elected delegate to Republican national convention in 1912; appointed court commissioner of the circuit court of Milwaukee County in 1914; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-MILWAUKEE COUNTY: First, second, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-fifth wards of the city of Milwaukee; city of North Milwaukee; towns of Granville and Milwaukee; and villages of Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. Population (1920), 276,503.

WILLIAM H. STAFFORD, Republican, of Milwaukee; attended the public schools and later Harvard College and Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated; practiced law at Milwaukee; elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixtyfirst, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Manitowoc, Marquette, and Winnebago (6 counties). Population (1920), 214,206.

FLORIAN LAMPERT, Republican, of Oshkosh, Wis.; merchant. Elected to fill the unexpired term of Hon. James H. Davidson, deceased, in the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by the largest majority ever given a candidate in that district.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Clark, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe, Sauk, and Vernon (8 counties). Population (1920), 216,183.

J. D. BECK, Republican, of Viroqua, Wis., was born on a farm near Bloomingdale, Wis., March 14, 1866; was a teacher in the public schools of the State for 12 years; graduated at the State normal school at Stevens Point in 1897; graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 with the degree of A. B.; married to Miss Jane Peavy November 24, 1888; was appointed by Gov. La Follette as commissioner of labor and industrial statistics in 1901 and served in that capacity for 10 years; was appointed chairman of the industrial commission of Wisconsin in 1911 and served 6 years; was president of the International Association of Bureau of Labor Officials 1905-1909; is a farmer and breeder of pure-bred Guernsey cattle; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 37,204 votes, against 8,862 votes for R. J. Clarke, Prohibitionist, and 1,294 votes for A. W. Steinbach, Socialist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Marathon, Portage, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Wood (6 counties). Population (1920), 218,438.

EDWARD EVERTS BROWNE, Republican, of Waupaca, was born in that city February 16, 1868; graduated from the Waupaca High School, from the University of Wisconsin in 1890, and from the law school of the University of Wisconsin in 1892, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of the law; is married and has four children; was elected prosecuting attorney of Waupaca County for three terms and State senator for two terms; was appointed regent of the State University of Wisconsin, which position he held until he accepted a seat in the State senate; received the Republican nomination for the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses without opposition. Reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. Received a majority over both of his opponents in each county in the district, and a total majority in the district over Lippert, Socialist, of 19,845 and Pasternacki, Democrat, of 29,346 votes.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brown, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Langlade, Marinette, Oconto, and Outagamie (9 counties). Population (1920), 248,554.

DAVID G. CLASSON, Republican, of Oconto, was born in the town of Oconto, Oconto County, Wis., September 27, 1870; graduated from Oconto High School in 1887 and from the law department of the University of Wisconsin in 1891; is by profession a lawyer and a member of the law firm of Classon & O'Kelliher, of Oconto; was county judge of Oconto County 1894 to 1898; mayor of the city of Oconto 18981900; city attorney for six years; president of the board of education and president of the board of fire and police commissioners; is married and has four children. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 20,614 votes, to 18,078 for Thomas F. Konop, Democrat, and 576 for Frederick Nanman, Social Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 5,650; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress by a largely increased majority.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, St. Croix, and Trempealeau (9 counties). Population (1920), 228,875.

JAMES A. FREAR, Republican, of Hudson, Wis., was born in that city; graduated National Law University, Washington, D. C.; appointed district attorney St. Croix County in 1896, and elected thereafter for three terms; Wisconsin Assembly 1902; State senate 1904; secretary of state three terms; elected to Sixty-third and all subsequent Congresses, and renominated and reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition by 44,658 votes.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Polk, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor, Vilas, and Washburn (14 counties). Population (1920), 252,690. ADOLPHUS P. NELSON, Republican, of Grantsburg, Wis., was born on a farm near Alexandria, Minn., March 28, 1872, of Swedish parents. Graduated from the Alexandria High School in 1892; worked his way through college and graduated from

Hamline University, receiving degree of A. B. in 1897; has been a resident of Wisconsin for 24 years; has been a regent of the University of Wisconsin for 13 years, 4 years vice president and twice president of the board. June, 1919, the trustees and faculty of Upper Iowa University conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. Has been vice president and still is a member of the board of trustees of Hamline University, his alma mater; president of the First Bank of Grantsburg, Grantsburg, Wis., and Burnett County State Bank, Webster, Wis.; associate director of the Old Line Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee, Wis.; was president of the General Conference Laymen's Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the quadrennium (1916-1920), and has been delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the years 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1920. Has been chairman of the Burnett County council of defense; mayor of his town; president for eight years of the local school board; was married to Lulu E. Strang August 4, 1897; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress for the unexpired term of Hon. I. L. Lenroot, and to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a vote of 16,413 to 2,976 for his opponent, John P. Jensen, Socialist. Had no opposition for the unexpired term of the Sixty-fifth Congress; was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress at the general election held November 2, 1920, by a vote of 38,057 to 6,524 for his opponent, John P. Jensen, Socialist.

WYOMING.
(Population (1920), 194,402.)

SENATORS.

FRANCIS EMROY WARREN, Republican, of Cheyenne, was born in Hinsdale, Mass., June 20, 1844; was educated in common schools and academy; enlisted in 1862 in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, and served as private and noncommissioned officer in that regiment until it was mustered out of service; received the congressional medal of honor for gallantry on battle field at the siege of Port Hudson; was afterwards captain in the Massachusetts Militia; was engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts until early in 1868, when he moved to Wyoming (then a part of the Territory of Dakota); is at present interested in live stock and real estate; was president of the Senate of Wyoming Legislature in 1873-74 and member of the senate in 1884-85; was twice member of the council and also mayor of the city of Cheyenne, and served three terms as treasurer of Wyoming; was member of the Wyoming delegation to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1888, and chairman of the Wyoming delegation to the Republican national conventions at Philadelphia in 1900 and at Chicago in 1904, 1908, and 1912; was chairman of the Republican Territorial central committee, and chairman of Republican State central committee of Wyoming in 1896; was appointed governor of Wyoming by President Arthur in February, 1885, and served until November, 1886; was again appointed governor of Wyoming by President Harrison in March, 1889, and served until the Territory was admitted as a State, when he was elected the first governor of the State; was elected to the United States Senate November 18, 1890, took his seat December 1, 1890, and served until the expiration of his term, March 3, 1893; was reelected for terms commencing 1895, 1901, 1907, 1913, and 1919. His present term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

JOHN B. KENDRICK, Democrat, of Sheridan, was born in Cherokee County, Tex., September 6, 1857; was educated in the public schools; went to Wyoming in 1879; settled in the new State and engaged in stock growing, which business he has followed ever since; was elected State senator in 1910 and served in the eleventh and twelfth State legislatures; was elected governor of the State in 1914, and served until February, 1917, resigning to take his seat in the United States Senate. He is married and has a son and daughter.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.-Population (1920), 194,402.

FRANK WHEELER MONDELL, Republican, of Newcastle, was born in St. Louis, Mo., November 6, 1860; was left an orphan before reaching his sixth year; lived on a farm in Iowa until his eighteenth year; attended the local district schools;

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