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office; defeated Hon. J. M. Wagstaff for Taylor County's congressional candidate in preferential primary February 5, 1916; defeated Congressman W. R. Smith and R. N. Grisham in Democratic primary in July, 1916; married May Louise Matthews; children, Thomas L., jr., John Matthews, Anne Louise, Joseph Edwin, and William Watkins; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress with following vote: Thomas L. Blanton, 30,050; C. O. Harris, Republican, 2,507; T. B. Holliday, Socialist, 2,826. In the Sixty-fifth Congress represented the old sixteenth, known as the "Jumbo" district of Texas-59 counties, running east and west 556 miles from Mineral Wells to El Paso; after Texas was redistricted, was nominated in the Democratic primary on July 27, 1918, to represent the new seventeenth district by the following vote: Thomas L. Blanton, 32,034; Oscar Callaway, 3,355; William G. Blackmon, 3,641; Joe Adkins, 9,816, receiving a majority of 15,212 votes over all three opponents; was elected in November, 1918, to serve the seventeenth district in the Sixty-sixth Congress. Having refused to obey the commands of organized labor, and making an uncompromising fight against anarchy and autocratic domination of government by labor unions, was placed at the head of a black list for defeat by Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, but in the Democratic primary election on July 24, 1920, defeated his opponent, R. N. Grisham, by a majority of 11,176 votes, and in the general election on November 2, 1920, was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by the following vote: Thomas L. Blanton, 23,159; W. D. Cowan, 4,355, leading the State Democratic ticket in his district by 1,518 votes.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Collinsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Garza, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Hutchinson, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Scurry, Sherman, Stonewall, Swisher, Terry, Wheeler, and Yoakum (53 counties). Population (1910),

MARVIN JONES, Democrat, was born near Valley View, in Cooke County, Tex., son of Horace K. and Dosia Jones; was graduated from Southwestern University with A. B. degree and from University of Texas with degree of LL. B., having secured his education through his own efforts and in Texas institutions; was appointed to membership on the board of legal examiners for the seventh supreme judicial district of Texas, the youngest man who has held that position in Texas; was chosen as the Texas member of the national Democratic congressional campaign committee in 1917, and again chosen in 1919; enlisted man, Company A, Battalion 308, Tank Corps, United States Army, 1918; was elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixtyseventh Congresses.

UTAH.
(Population (1910), 373,351.)

SENATORS.

REED SMOOT, Republican, of Provo City, was born January 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah; was educated at the State University and Brigham Young Academy, being a graduate of the latter institution; is a banker and woolen manufacturer; married September 17, 1884, to Alpha M. Eldredge; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Joseph L. Rawlins, Democrat, and took his seat March 5, 1903; was reelected by the unanimous Republican vote of the Utah State Legislature for a second term of six years to begin March 4, 1909. Was reelected for a third term by the direct vote of the people. His present term of service will expire March 3, 1921. Was reelected November 2, 1920, for a fourth term.

WILLIAM H. KING, Democrat, of Salt Lake City, was born in Utah; attended the public schools, the B. Y. Academy, and the State university. Spent nearly three years in Great Britain, and upon returning began the study of law; was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1888, and has followed the practice of law since then; was elected to various State offices, including the Legislature of Utah, in which he served three terms, one term being president of the upper body; served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, beginning in 1904; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by more than 21,000 majority; declined renomination and was candidate for the United States Senate; a deadlock ensued and no one was elected; a vacancy occurring, was elected as Representative to the Fifty-sixth Congress; was unanimous choice of his party for the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, but the State was Republican; nominated by the Democratic legislative caucus in 1905 and 1909 for the United States Senate; has been delegate to various Democratic national conventions; was unanimous choice of his party for Senator, and in November, 1916, was elected by more than 24,000 majority for a term of six years.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch, Washington, Wayne, and Weber (25 counties). Population (1910), MILTON H. WELLING, Democrat, of Fielding, Box Elder County, was born January 25, 1876, at Farmington, Davis County, Utah; attended the common schools, the Latter-day Saints College, and the University of Utah; served two terms, 19111915. as a member of the Utah Legislature and was each session nominated by his party as its candidate for speaker of the house; has been a member of the board of trustees of the Brigham Young College since 1906. He was elected to the Sixtyfifth Congress, receiving 40,035 votes, to 29,902 for Timothy C. Hoyt, Republican. Reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 25,327 votes, to 20,478 for William H. Wattis; Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, and Utah (4 counties). Population (1910), 187,483.

JAMES H. MAYS, Democrat, of Salt Lake City, was born in east Tennessee; was meagerly educated in district schools; emigrated to Kansas when 15 years of age; labored in timber and mines to help sustain his father's family, of which he was the eldest, and to defray expenses of education; worked way through State normal school of Kansas and University of Michigan, where he received degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. in classes of 1895 and 1896; won first place for Michigan in intercollegiate debate in 1894, and won northern oratorical league contest for Michigan against Wisconsin, Northwestern, Chicago, Iowa, and Oberlin Universities in 1895; served in the legal department of the New York Life Insurance Co. and as agency director for same company for several years; married in 1893 to Sarah Elizabeth Randels, and has a family of four boys (three of whom served in the American Expeditionary Forces) and one girl; removed to Utah in 1902; organized and developed several industrial organizations now employing many men. He was nominated for Congress by Progressives and Democrats, his first political honor having been unsolicited, and after an interesting campaign was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by the close margin of 158 votes out of a total vote of 52,000. Reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by over 11,000 majority; reelected to the Sixtysixth Congress, carrying every county in the district against the Hon. William Spry, former governor.

VERMONT.
(Population (1910), 355,956.)
SENATORS.

WILLIAM PAUL DILLINGHAM, Republican, of Montpelier, was born at Waterbury, Vt., December 12, 1843; received an academic education and was admitted to the bar in 1867; was State's attorney for Washington County two terms; was commissioner of State taxes for several years; was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1876 and again in 1884; was a State senator from Washington County in 1878 and again in 1880; was governor of Vermont from 1888 to 1890. October 18, 1900, was elected United States Senator from Vermont to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Justin S. Morrill; on October 15, 1902, was elected to succeed himself; was reelected October 21, 1908; reelected by the people November 3, 1914; and again reelected November 2, 1920. His term of service will expire March 3, 1927.

CARROLL SMALLEY PAGE, Republican, of Hyde Park, was born at Westfield, Vt., January 10, 1843. He received an academic education, and is LL.D.of Norwich University. His principal business is that of dealer in raw calfskins; is president of the Lamoille County Savings Bank & Trust Co. and of the Lamoille County National Bank, both of Hyde Park; is a director of the Swanton Savings Bank & Trust Co., of Swanton, Vt. He represented Hyde Park in the house of representatives 1869 to 1872 and Lamoille County in the State senate 1874 to 1876; was a member of the Vermont Republican State committee for 18 years-from 1872 to 1890--and during the last four years was its chairman; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1880 and 1912, the latter year chairman of the delegation; savings-bank examiner 1884 to 1888; governor of the State 1890 to 1892; was elected to the United States Senate October 21, 1908, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Redfield Proctor. On the 19th day of October, 1910, was elected for the full term of six years as a Republican, although receiving the votes of every Democratic member of the legislature. On the 7th of November, 1916, was again elected by a vote of 47,362, to 14,956 for Oscar C. Miller, his Democratic opponent. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, and Rutland (7 counties). Population (1910), 178,186.

FRANK LESTER GREENE, Republican, of St. Albans, was born in St. Albans, Franklin County, Vt., February 10, 1870; left public school at the age of 13, because of family reverses, and became errand boy in the audit office of the Central Vermont Railway; studied shorthand in leisure hours, and a year later became stenographer in the general freight department, being subsequently promoted chief clerk, and holding that position until 1891, when he entered the newspaper business as reporter for the St. Albans Daily Messenger; became assistant editor in 1892 and editor in 1899; honorary degree of master of arts conferred by Norwich University in 1908, LL. D. 1915; served in the Vermont National Guard from October 4, 1888, to 1900, rising from private to captain; recruited Company B, First Infantry, Vermont Volunteers, War with Spain, and was mustered into United States service as its captain, serving for a time as adjutant general, Third Brigade, First Division, Third Army Corps; at the close of the war was commissioned colonel and aid-de-camp on the staff of the governor of Vermont; is married and has three children; was delegate at large to the Republican national convention of 1908; chairman Republican State convention 1914; served on various State commissions as appointee of the governor, one being commission to prepare and propose amendments to State constitution, but never sought or held an elective office until elected to the Sixty-second Congress to serve the unexpired term of the late David J. Foster, July 30, 1912; reelected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans, Washington, Windham, and Windsor (7 counties). Population (1910), 177,770.

PORTER HINMAN DALE, Republican, of Island Pond, was born at Island Pond, Vt., March 1, 1867; attended Vermont schools and Eastman Business College; studied in Philadelphia and Boston and two years with the Shakespearean scholar and actor, James E. Murdoch; was instructor in Bates College; studied law with his father, the late George N. Dale, and was admitted to practice in the Vermont courts in 1896 and the United States courts in 1900; is a director in several business enterprises; served in the State militia and as colonel on the staff of Gov. Grout; was chairman of the Vermont Republican convention in 1898; was chief deputy collector of customs, port of Island Pond, and resigned when elected to the Vermont State Senate, of which he was a member in 1910 and 1912, serving on the judiciary committee, the committee on education, and as chairman of the committees on Federal relations, banks, and the joint committee on temperance; was appointed judge of the Brighton municipal court by Gov. Mead in 1910; was member of the Republican State committee and took active part in the rallies of several campaigns; is married and has two sons and two daughters. Elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

VIRGINIA.

(Population (1910), 2,061,612.)

SENATORS.

CLAUDE AUGUSTUS SWANSON, Democrat, of Chatham, Va., was born at Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Va.; attended public schools until he attained the age of 16, at which time he taught public school for one year; then attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for one session; not having the means to complete his college course, he held a position in Danville as a clerk for two years; made arrangements to enter college after that time; matriculated at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., and remained there three sessions, graduating with the degree of A. B.; studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating with the degree of B. L.; practiced law at Chatham, Va., until he was nominated and elected to the Fifty-third Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses; was a candidate in the Democratic primary for governor of the State of Virginia in 1905, was nominated, and elected in November, 1905; resigned his seat in Congress and was inaugurated February 1, 1906, and served as governor of Virginia until February 1, 1910; on August 1, 1910, he was appointed by Gov. William Hodges Mann to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned by the death of Senator John Warwick Daniel for the remainder of his unexpired term,

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ending March 3, 1911; reappointed by Gov. Mann from March 4, 1911, until the meeting of the General Assembly of Virginia, which elected him to fill the unexpired term beginning March 4, 1911, and ending March 3, 1917; was nominated by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the United States Senate without opposition at the election held November 7, 1916; was elected without opposition at said election for the term beginning March 4, 1917, and ending March 3, 1923.

CARTER GLASS, Democrat, of Lynchburg, was born in that city; educated in private and public schools and in the newspaper business; owns the Daily News, the morning paper of the city, and the Daily Advance, the afternoon paper; member of the Virginia State Senate 1899-1903 and the Virginia constitutional convention 1901-2; eight years a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia, and has honorary LL. D. degree of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; was elected to the Fiftyseventh and all succeeding Congresses, including the Sixty-sixth; resigned seat in Congress December 16, 1918, to accept appointment as Secretary of the Treasury; resigned as Secretary of the Treasury on February 2, 1920, to qualify as Senator from Virginia, by appointment of the governor, to succeed the late Senator Martin, deceased; elected to Senate November 2, 1920, for balance of term expiring March 3, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Accomac, Caroline, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Warwick Westmoreland, and York. CITIES: Fredericksburg, Hampton, and Newport News. Population (1910), 227,144.

SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, Newport News, Va., Democrat, was born May 4, 1872, in Gloucester County, Va.; is lawyer; is member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, southern order, and of Phi Beta Kappa society; was elected to Sixty-fifth Congress for unexpired term, to Sixty-sixth Congress, and to Sixty-seventh Congress; married Miss Mary Putzel, of Newport News, Va.

SECOND_DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Norfolk, Princess Anne, and Southampton. CITIES: Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk. Population (1910), 233,029.

EDWARD EVERETT HOLLAND, Democrat, of Suffolk, Va., was born in Nansemond County, Va.; educated in private schools in the county, at Richmond College, Richmond, Va., and University of Virginia; married S. Otelia Lee, of Nansemond County, November 26, 1884; married Eunice M. Ensor, of Omaha, Nebr., September 29, 1920; is an attorney at law, and since 1892 president of the Farmers' Bank of Nansemond; mayor of Suffolk from 1885 to 1887; Commonwealth's attorney for Nansemond County from 1887 to 1907; State senator from 1907 to 1911; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected without opposition to the Sixty-sixth Congress; declined to stand for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King William, and New Kent. CITIES: Richmond and Williamsburg. Population (1910), 223,621. ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE, Democrat, of Richmond City; born in Campbell County, Va., October 3, 1863; received a public and private school education, then entered Richmond College and graduated in several of its academic schools in 1882; taught for two years; studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating therefrom with the degree of B. L. in June, 1885, and began the practice of law in October; appointed by President Cleveland United States attorney for the western district of Virginia 1893; attorney general of Virginia for four years commencing January 1, 1898; governor of Virginia for four years and one month, beginning January 1, 1902; delegate at large to Democratic national convention in 1904; LL. D. Brown University; American delegate to Third Conference of American Republics at Rio de Janeiro in 1906; delegate to Third International Conference on Maritime Law at Brussels in 1909 and 1910; some time dean of law school of Richmond College; presdent American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes for year 1917; president American Peace Society for 1920; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greenesville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Surry, and Sussex. CITY: Petersburg. Population (1910), 186,213.

PATRICK HENRY DREWRY, Democrat, of Petersburg; member of the State senate from 1912 to 1920; elected without opposition April 27, 1920, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Walter Allen Watson, deceased, in the Sixty-sixth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.--COUNTIES: Carroll, Charlotte, Franklin, Grayson, Halifax, Henry, Patrick, and Pittsylvania. CITY: Danville. Town: North Danville. Population (1910), 228,664.

RORER A. JAMES, Democrat, of Danville, Va.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke. CITIES: Lynchburg, Radford, and Roanoke. Population (1910), 172,145.

JAMES PLEASANT WOODS, Democrat, of Roanoke, Va.; born February 4, 1868; married 1904 to Susie K. Moon, of Chatham, Va.; three children; graduated (president of the class of 1892) Roanoke College; following year took law course at the University of Virginia, and has practiced in Roanoke since 1893; was elected mayor of Roanoke in 1898, and never aspired to any other public office until he was elected to fill the vacancy in the Sixty-fifth Congress caused by the resignation of Hon. Carter Glass, and at the same time was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a practically unanimous vote over his Independent opponent; was nominated without opposition for the Sixty-seventh Congress, and at the election received a majority of 4,999 over his Republican-Nonpartisan League opponent.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Albemarle, Clarke, Frederick, Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren. CITIES: Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, and Winchester. Population (1910), 166,372.

THOMAS WALTER HARRISON, Democrat; elected to Sixty-fourth Congress to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. James Hay, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alexandria, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun, Louisa, Orange, Prince William, and Stafford. CITY: Alexandria. Population (1910), 159,799. ROBERT WALTON MOORE, Democrat; a native and resident of Fairfax, Va.; educated at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, and the University of Virginia; lawyer, and has been president of the Virginia State Bar Association; served in the Virginia Senate one term and in the Virginia constitutional convention of 1901-2; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress at a special election held May 27, 1919, to fill a vacancy, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Giles, Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe. CITY: Bristol. Population (1910), 265,567. CAMPBELL BASCOM SLEMP, Republican, of Big Stone Gap, Va.; elected to the Sixtieth Congress December 17, 1907, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Hon. Campbell Slemp; served in the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixtythird, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress without opposition; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Buckingham, Craig, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Highland, Nelson, and Rockbridge. CITIES: Buena Vista, Clifton Forge, and Staunton. Population (1910), 199,058.

HENRY DELAWARE FLOOD, Democrat, of Appomattox, was educated at Washington and Lee University and University of Virginia; is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and other fraternities; received the degree of LL. D. from Washington and Lee University 1918; was married on April 18, 1914, to Miss Anna Portner, of Manassas, Va.; is a lawyer and was attorney for the Commonwealth for Appomattox County; served in both branches of the General Assembly of Virginia; while a member of the State senate he introduced and secured the passage of the law providing for a constitutional convention to readjust the franchise provisions of the then existing constitution of Virginia; was a member of the succeeding constitutional convention; was for eight years a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia; was chairman of the Committee on Territories and the author of the resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood; was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from January, 1913, to March 4, 1919; introduced, on April 2, 1917, the resolution declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and the Imperial German Government, and on December 5, 1917, the resolution declaring war on the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

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