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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 (1910),

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 twenty-second 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.

ILLINOIS.

(Population (1910), 5,638,591.)

SENATORS.

LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN, Republican, of Springfield, Ill., born in Miami County, Ohio, November 8, 1858; raised on farm; educated in common district schools of Jasper County, Lee's Academy, Coles County, and McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill.; occupation, lawyer; member Illinois Legislature 1897-1905-speaker of house 1899-1903, lieutenant governor and president of State senate 1905-1909; president State board of administration in control of all public charities of Illinois at time of election to the United States Senate, March 26, 1913, for the term expiring March 3, 1915, and reelected November 3, 1914, for the term expiring March 3, 1921.

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.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 5,638,591.

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: First and second wards, third ward north of Forty-third Street, and that part of the fourth ward east of Halsted Street. Population (1910), 169,828.

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

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth wards; part of the third ward south of Forty-third Street. Population (1910), 279,646.

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

THIRD DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton, and Worth. CITY OF CHICAGO: Thirty-first and thirty-second wards; parts of the twentyninth and thirtieth wards south of Fifty-first Street. Population (1910), 250,328.

WILLIAM WARFIELD WILSON, Republican, of Chicago, was born at Ohio, Bureau County, Ill.; had a literary, commercial, and legal education, receiving the degrees of LL. D. and LL. B.; is a lawyer by profession; admitted to the bar in 1893; was married to Sarah M. Moore in 1892 and has one son, Stephen Askew Wilson; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Fifth ward; part of the third ward west of Stewart Avenue; part of the fourth ward west of Halsted Street; part of the eleventh and twelfth wards south of Twentysecond Street; part of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth wards north of Fifty-first Street. Population (1910), 229,963.

JOHN W. RAINEY, Chicago.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Tenth and twentieth wards; part of the eleventh and twelfth wards north of Twenty-second Street; and the thirty-fourth ward east of South Homan Avenue. Population (1910), 192,411.

ADOLPH J. SABATH, Democrat, of Chicago; born in Czecho-Slovakia; 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.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Cicero, Lyons, Proviso, Riverside, and Stickney.
CITY OF CHICAGO: Thirteenth, twentieth, and thirty-fourth wards; part of the thirty-fifth ward south
of the Chicago & North Western Railway right of way. Population (1910), 283,148.
JAMES MCANDREWS, Democrat, Chicago, elected to Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Barrington, Elkgrove, Hanover, Leyden, Maine,
Norwood Park, Palatine, Schaumberg, and Wheeling. CITY OF CHICAGO: Fourteenth, twenty-seventh,
and twenty-eighth wards, and that part of the fifteenth ward west of Robey Street; part of the thirty-
fifth ward north of the Chicago & North Western Railway right of way. Population (1910), 349,883.
NIELS JUUL, Republican, of 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago.
He graduated
from the law department of Lake Forest University in 1898, passed the State bar
examination, and was admitted to practice in October, 1899; was elected_State
senator in 1898. He served for 16 years and became the dean of the Illinois Senate
and chairman of its committee on judiciary. Mr. Juul is the senior member of the
law firm of Juul & Juul and has resided in Chicago since his arrival in that city
from McIntosh County, Ga., in 1880. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-
sixth Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Part of the fifteenth ward east of Robey Street; all of the sixteenth and seventeenth wards; precincts one to twenty-three, inclusive, of the eighteenth ward; precincts one to twenty-one, inclusive, of the nineteenth ward; first precinct of the tenth ward; and the first and second precincts of the twentieth ward. Population (1910), 236,481.

THOMAS GALLAGHER, Democrat, of Chicago, was born in Concord, N. H.; lived in Chicago since 1866; was educated in the public schools; learned the trade of iron molder; in 1878 he entered the hat business; was elected twice a member of the city council of Chicago, and was for six years a member of the board of education; has served as president of the county Democracy, chairman of the county central committee of the Democratic Party of Chicago and Cook County, and a mem

ber of the executive committee of that body; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Twenty-first_ward; parts of twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth wards south of Irving Park Boulevard. Population (1910), 187,013.

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.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COOK COUNTY: Towns of Evanston, Niles, New Trier, and Northfield. CITY OF CHICAGO: Twenty-second ward west of Halsted Street between North Avenue and Center Street; twenty-third ward west of Halsted Street and south of Fullerton Avenue, and that part west of Racine Avenue; twenty-fourth ward; twenty-fifth ward north of Irving Park Boulevard, and that part south of Irving Park Boulevard between Racine and Southport Avenues; and the twenty-sixth ward east of Western Avenue, and also that part west of Western Avenue and north of Devon Avenue. LAKE COUNTY. Population (1910), 281,590.

CARL RICHARD CHINDBLOM, Republican, of Chicago, Cook County, was born in that city on December 21, 1870; attended the public schools of Chicago, and graduated from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., în 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, and they have two children, Richard N. and Ruth C.; was elected to Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 33,097 votes, as against 16,933 for Philip J. Finnegan, Democrat, and 3,284 for Irving St. John Tucker, Socialist; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dupage, Kane, McHenry, and Will (4 counties). Population (1910), 242,174.

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 (1910), 237,162.

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, and 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 (1910), 167,634.

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 (1910), 180,689.

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 (1910), 216,884.

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 1893-94; 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 reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bureau, Marshall, Peoria, Putnam, Stark, and Tazewell (6 counties). Population (1910), 211,595.

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 (1910), 176,291.

FRANK L. SMITH, Republican, was born at Dwight, Ill., November 24, 1867, where he has lived ever since; married; banker and farmer; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress to succeed Hon. John A. Sterling, deceased, receiving 19,115 votes, to 8,321 for C. S. Schneider, Democrat.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clark, Cumberland, Edgar, Iroquois, Kankakee, and Vermilion (6 counties). Population (1910), 219,425.

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 (1910), 241,728.

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 Sixtysixth Congresses.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Pike, and Scott (10 counties). Population (1910), 175,978.

HENRY T. RAINEY, Democrat, of Carrollton, was born August 20, 1860, at Carrollton, Ill. He graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1883 with the degree of A. B.; three years later this institution conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He graduated from Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1885, receiving the degree of B. L. Soon afterwards he was admitted to the bar. He practiced law after his graduation, but for a number of years has been engaged in farming, that being now his only occupation. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 17,355 votes, to 14,184 for Frank E. Blane, Republican.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES:

counties). Population (1910), 211,614.

Christian, Macoupin, Montgomery, and Sangamon (4

LOREN E. WHEELER, Republican, of Springfield, was born in Havana, Ill., in 1862; educated in the public schools, and removed to Springfield in 1880, entering business with his father; served two terms as mayor of the city of Springfield, and 13 years as postmaster at Springfield; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bond, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1910), 259,059.

WILLIAM A. RODENBERG, Republican, of East St. Louis, was born near Chester, Randolph County, Ill., October 30, 1865; was educated in the public schools, and was graduated from Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mo., in 1884; engaged in the profession of teaching for seven years; attended the St. Louis Law School (Washington University), and was admitted to the bar; was married to Mary Grant Ridgway, and has two sons, William Ridgway and Robert Ridgway Rodenberg; was a district delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1896 and 1908; was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention of 1916; was temporary and permanent chairman of the Illinois Republican State convention which convened in Springfield on May 10, 1920; was again delegate at large to the Republican national convention of 1920, and placed Gov. Frank O. Lowden in nomination for the Presidency; was appointed a member of the United States Civil Service Commission by President McKinley March 25, 1901, which position he resigned on April 1, 1902; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixtyfirst, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a plurality of over 23,000.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Crawford, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Jefferson, Lawrence, Marion, Richland, and Wabash (10 counties). Population (1910), 233,149. EDWIN B. BROOKS, Republican, of Newton, Jasper County, Ill.; born September 20, 1868; graduated from Valparaiso, Ind., 1892; postgraduate work University of Illinois; did city school supervision for 18 years; in the banking business; is married and has one son; elected to the Sixty-sixth and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress from twenty-third district of Illinois.

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline, Wayne, and White (11 counties). Population (1910), 187,279.

THOMAS S. WILLIAMS, Republican, of Louisville, was born February 14, 1872, in Clay County, Ill.; has held the office of city attorney and mayor of Louisville; represented the forty-second senatorial district in the lower house of the Illinois Legislature for one term; State's attorney of Clay County for seven years; is married and has three children; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress November 3, 1914; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses, receiving a majority of 16,598 over Asher R. Cox, Democrat, November 2, 1920.

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Perry, Pulaski, Randolph, Union, and Williamson (8 counties). Population (1910), 217,639.

EDWARD EVERETT DENISON, Republican, was born at Marion, Ill.; graduated at Baylor University, Waco, Tex., at Yale University, and at the Columbian University Law School. Admitted to the bar at Springfield, Ill., and practiced law at Marion, Ill., until elected to Congress. Elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

INDIANA.

(Population (1910), 2,700,876.)

SENATORS.

JAMES E. WATSON, Republican, was born at Winchester, Ind., November 2, 1864; graduated from the Winchester High School in 1881 and from De Pauw University in 1886; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and practiced law with his father, the late Enos L. Watson; was a candidate for presidential elector in 1892; removed to Rushville in 1893; was elected to Congress in November, 1894, over the veteran William S. Holman; was defeated in 1896 for the nomination in a newly made district by Henry U. Johnson; was reelected in 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1906; served on the Ways and Means Committee; was elected United States Senator in November, 1916, defeating Senator Thomas Taggart; he was chairman of the committee on reso

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