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MISSOURI.

(Population (1910), 3,293,335.)

SENATORS.

JAMES A. REED, Democrat, of Kansas City, was born November 9, 1861, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1887; is a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1885; elected to the United States Senate to succeed Maj. William Warner, Republican, for a term beginning March 4, 1911. He was reelected to the United States Senate by a majority of 25,000 for a term beginning March 4, 1917. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

SELDEN PALMER SPENCER, Republican, of St. Louis, Mo.; born Erie, Pa., September 16, 1862; A. B. Yale 1884, LL.B. Washington University 1886, honorary M. D. Missouri Medical College, where he lectured as professor of medical jurisprudence; Ph.D. and LL.D. Westminster College; member Missouri Legislature 1895-96, judge circuit court of St. Louis 1897-1903; captain and adjutant First Infantry, Missouri Home Guard; chairman district exemption board at St. Louis under selectiveservice law 1917-18; married Susan M. Brookes, daughter of Rev. James H. Brookes, D. D.; elected Senator from Missouri November 5, 1918, over Hon. Joseph W. Folk, Democrat, by a majority of 35,283, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. William J. Stone. Reelected November 2, 1920, by a majority of 121,663 over Mr. Breckenridge Long.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Marion, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, and Shelby (10 counties). Population (1910), 174,971.

MILTON ANDREW ROMJUE, Democrat, was born December 5, 1874, at Love Lake, Macon County, Mo., and grew to manhood on a farm near the above-named place; received his education in the public school, in the Kirksville State Normal, and at the Missouri State University at Columbia, Mo.; received the degree of LL. B. at the State University of Missouri in 1904, where he graduated with the highest honors of his class; was elected judge of the probate court of Macon County, Mo., in 1906; served for eight years, having been elected by the highest number of votes on the Democratic ticket at each election, being elected the second term without opposition of any party. His father, Andrew Jackson Romjue, was born in Scotland County, Mo., in 1840, and came of Kentucky parentage. His mother, Susan E. (Roan) Romjue, was born in Randolph County, Mo., her father having been a native of Caswell County, N. C., and her mother, Matilda Sears, of Virginia stock. He has served four years as chairman of the central Democratic committee and has been frequently a delegate to State Democratic conventions; was married to Maud Nickell Thompson July 11, 1900, and has one son, Lawson Rodney Romjue, now 13 years of age. Was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtysixth Congress over his Republican opponent by a majority of 3,129. During the time he was not serving as judge of the court to which he was elected he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession-the law. Was one of a delegation of 12 Congressmen to meet and welcome President Wilson at New York on his return to the United States from the peace conference in Europe July 8, 1919.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Monroe, Randolph, and Sullivan (8 counties). Population (1910), 171,135.

WILLIAM WALLER RUCKER, Democrat, of Keytesville, was born February 1, 1855, near Covington, Va.; at the beginning of the war moved with his parents to West Virginia, in which State he attended the common schools; at the age of 18 he moved to Chariton County, Mo., and for two years engaged in teaching district schools, during which time he continued the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1876; in 1886 was elected prosecuting attorney of Chariton County, which office he held for three consecutive terms and until he was nominated for circuit judge of the twelfth judicial circuit; in 1892 was elected circuit judge for a term of six years, which position he held at the time he was nominated for Congress; was elected to the Fiftysixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Šixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Dekalb, Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Ray, and Worth (10 counties). Population (1910), 159,419.

JACOB L. MILLIGAN, Democrat, Richmond, was born March 9, 1889; educated in the Richmond public schools; attended the law department of the University of Missouri 1910-1914; admitted to the bar 1913; enlisted in the Sixth Missouri Infantry April 8, 1917; served as captain of Company G, One hundred and fortieth Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, from August 4, 1917, to May 14, 1919; embarked for France April 23, 1918; returned April 28, 1919; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress February 14, 1920.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, and Platte (6 counties). Population (1910), 179,707.

CHARLES F. BOOHER, Democrat, of Savannah, was born in East Groveland, Livingston County, N. Y. Held the office of prosecuting attorney six years; was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1880; mayor of Savannah six years; is married and has four children; was elected to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the unexpired term of the Hon. James N. Burnes, deceased, and to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress. Was not a candidate for the Sixty-seventh Congress. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jackson. Population (1910), 283,522.

WILLIAM THOMAS BLAND, Democrat, of Kansas City, Mo., was born in Weston, Va. (now W. Va.), January 21, 1861; graduated University of West Virginia in 1883, degree of bachelor of science; graduated in law University of West Virginia in 1884, degree of bachelor of laws; took special course in law at the University of Virginia, entered upon the practice of law at Weston, W.Va., in 1885, and removed to Atchison, Kans., in 1887; elected county attorney of Atchison County, Kans., in 1890; declined nomination for a second term; was elected mayor of that city in 1894; was elected judge of the second judicial district of the State of Kansas in 1896; reelected in 1900, overcoming large Republican majorities; resigned from the bench in 1901 to engage in the wholesale drug business as vice president and later (in February, 1911) as president of the McPike Drug Co.; the business was removed to Kansas City in 1904; was elected president of the Manufacturers and Merchants Association of Kansas City in 1907; was elected president of the commercial club (now the chamber of commerce) in 1909, and unanimously reelected for a second term but declined to serve; was chairman of the river and harbor improvement committee of Kansas City from 1910 until 1918; is a director of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, and a vice president of the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association; was elected one of the six members of the board of education of Kansas City in 1912, six-year term, and served as vice president and president of said board, declining a renomination; retired from business in 1917, and since the commencement of the war was actively engaged in war activities, being chairman of the first Liberty bond campaign, chairman of the first Red Cross Christmas membership campaign for the State of Kansas and that part of the State of Missouri comprising the tenth Federal reserve district; was a member of the executive committee and actively engaged in subsequent Liberty bond campaigns, as well as other war activities; is a director of the following: Commerce Trust Co., of Kansas City, Mo., Business Men's Accident Association of America, Kansas City, Mo., and Morris Plan Bank, Kansas City, Mo.; member A. F. & A. M., Knights of Pythias and past chancellor commander, B. P. O. E. and past exalted ruler, Modern Woodmen of America, Loyal Order Moose, and Sons of the American Revolution; married Miss Bertha H. McPike in 1891; has one child, William T. Bland, jr., who was an aviator in the Army and is now a lieutenant in the reserve; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress from the fifth Missouri district.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Henry, Johnson, and St. Clair (7 counties). Population (1910), 150,486.

CLEMENT CABELL DICKINSON, Democrat, of Clinton, Henry County, Mo., was born December 6, 1849, in Prince Edward County, Va.; graduated from Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, in June, 1869; taught school thereafter in Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri; located at Clinton, Mo., in September, 1872; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875; was elected prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Mo., in 1876, and served three terms of two years each; was Democratic presidential elector in 1896; was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1900 and served one term of two years; was elected to the State Senate of Missouri in 1902, and served one term of four years. In 1907 was appointed a member of the board of regents of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., for a term of six

years; was elected to Congress from the sixth congressional district of Missouri at the special election on February 1, 1910, to fill the unexpired term of David A. De Armond, deceased, and took his seat February 7, 1910. Was elected to the Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and not reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Greene, Hickory, Howard, Lafayette, Pettis, Polk, and Saline (8 counties). Population (1910), 218,182.

SAMUEL C. MAJOR, Democrat, Representative from the seventh congressional district of Missouri, was born in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., July 2, 1869; he received his education in the public schools and Central College at Fayette and at the St. James Military Academy of Macon, Mo.; married Miss Elizabeth M. Simpson, of St. Louis, Mo., on December 17, 1895; admitted to the bar in July, 1890, and was appointed prosecuting attorney of Howard County by Gov. David R. Francis in 1892, and afterwards twice elected to this office; elected to the State senate in 1906, and in the forty-fourth general assembly was a member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the committee on insurance; in the forty-fifth general assembly was a member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the committee on criminal jurisprudence; is a resident of Fayette, Howard County, Mo., as was his father, Samuel C. Major, and his grandfather, Samuel C. Major; at the last general election he was defeated by Roscoe Patterson, of Springfield, Mo.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Camden, Cole, Cooper, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, and Osage (8 counties). Population (1910), 142,621.

WILLIAM L. NELSON, Democrat, of Columbia, was born August 4, 1875, on a farm near Bunceton, Cooper County, of which county his parents, T. Alpheus and Sarah A. (Tucker) Nelson, are natives, having descended from Virginia and Kentucky families; after completing a course in the country school, he continued his education in Hooper Institute, William Jewell College, and the Missouri College of Agriculture; he also taught for five years; before becoming of age he became associated with L. 0. Nelson, oldest of the six brothers, in the ownership of a weekly newspaper, the Bunceton Weekly Eagle, which for a quarter of a century has continued as an exponent of the live stock and farming interests of central Missouri; represented Cooper County in the Forty-first and Forty-fourth Missouri General Assemblies, being the author of various agricultural measures; in 1908 removed to Columbia to become assistant secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, which position he held for 10 years; was married June 9, 1909, to Stella Boschert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Boschert, of Bunceton, and has one son, Will L. Nelson, jr.; owns and operates a farm; was elected to the Sixty-sixth. Congress November 5, 1918, by the following vote: William L. Nelson, Democrat, 13,326; North Todd Gentry, Republican, 13,133; Nelson's majority being 193.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Audrain, Callaway, Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, St. Charles, and Warren (10 counties). Population (1910), 190,688.

CHAMP CLARK, Democrat, of Bowling Green, was born March 7, 1850, in Anderson County, Ky.; educated in common schools, Kentucky University, Bethany College, and Cincinnati Law School; 1873-74 president of Marshall College, West Virginia, the youngest college president in America; a hired farm hand, clerk in a country store, edited a country newspaper, practiced law; moved to Missouri in 1875; city attorney of Louisiana and Bowling Green; deputy prosecuting attorney, presidential elector, prosecuting attorney; vice president of Denver Trans-Mississippi Congress; member Missouri Legislature 1889-90; author of Missouri's antitrust statute and the Missouri Australian ballot law; permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention, St. Louis, 1904; chairman committee notifying Judge Parker of his nomination; married Miss Genevieve Bennett; four children-Little Champ, Ann Hamilton, Bennett (lately colonel in our Army in France), and Genevieve (now Mrs. James M. Thomson, of New Orleans), the two latter still living; elected to the Fifty-third Congress, also the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-sixth, inclusive; the unanimous nominee of the Democrats for the Speakership of the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; elected Speaker in the Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; led in the Baltimore Democratic national convention of 1912 for the presidential nomination on 29 ballots, receiving a clear majority on 8 ballots; was tendered appointment as United States Senator and declined to accept it. In the Sixty-sixth Congress was the unanimous nominee of his party for Speaker, and received the full party vote in the ensuing election, thereby becoming minority leader.

TENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. Louis: First, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty-first, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-eighth wards; also eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth precincts of the second ward; the first, second, and third precincts of the fifteenth ward; the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth precincts of the twenty-second ward; the fourteenth and fifteenth precincts of the twenty-third ward; the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh precincts of the twenty-seventh ward; and all of St. Louis County. Population (1910),

CLEVELAND A. NEWTON, Republican, of St. Louis, was born on a farm in Wright County, Mo., September 3, 1873; received academic education in Drury College, Springfield, Mo.; took law course in Missouri State University; became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity; graduated in law on June 7, 1902; elected representative from Wright County to Missouri Legislature in 1902; reelected in 1904; served as chairman of committee on judiciary in Missouri Legislature in 1905; resigned from Missouri Legislature July 1, 1905, and became assistant United States attorney for the western district of Missouri; resigned as assistant United States attorney January 1, 1907, and became assistant circuit attorney in St. Louis; resigned as assistant circuit attorney on January 1, 1911, and became special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington; resigned as special assistant to the Attorney General July 1, 1912, and entered practice of law in St. Louis; married; elected to Congress from the tenth Missouri district November 5, 1918; reelected November 2, 1920.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Precincts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and thirteen of the second ward; third, fourth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth wards; precincts one to eight and thirteen to eighteen, inclusive, of the twenty-second_ward; twenty-sixth ward; and precincts twelve to thirty, inclusive, of the twenty-seventh ward. Population (1910),

WILLIAM L. IGOE, Democrat, of St. Louis, lawyer; member of the law firm of Igoe & Carroll; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses. Reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress without opposition from the Republican Party, his only opponent being a Socialist. Declined nomination for reelection to Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Fifth, sixth, seventh, sixteenth, and seventeenth wards, and precincts four to fourteen, inclusive, of the fifteenth ward, and precincts one to thirteen,inclusive, of the twenty-third ward. Population (1910), 149,390.

LEONIDAS CARSTARPHEN DYER, Republican, of the city of St. Louis, was born on a farm in Warren County, Mo., June 11, 1871; was educated in the public schools, Central Wesleyan College, of Warrenton, Mo., and the Washington University, of the city of St. Louis, Mo.; is married, and has two daughters-Martha and Catherine; his father, James Coleman Dyer, and his mother, Martha Emily (Camp) Dyer, came to Missouri in its early history with their parents from the States of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively; served as assistant circuit attorney of the city of St. Louis; was in the War with Spain; served as colonel on the staff of Gov. Herbert S. Hadley, of Missouri; was elected to the Sixty-second Congress; received the certificate of election to the Sixty-third Congress, but was unseated through a contest instituted by the Democratic candidate. The Sixty-third Congress was largely Democratic, having elected its Speaker by a majority of 138 votes, yet the vote to seat the contestant in place of Mr. Dyer only showed a majority for the contestant of 16 votes, all Republicans and Progressives voting for Mr. Dyer, and many Democrats also. Reelected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bollinger, Carter, Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Perry, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Washington, and Wayne (11 counties). Population (1910), 167,188. MARION EDWARD RHODES, Republican, of Potosi, was born on a farm January 4, 1868, near Glen Allen, Bollinger County, Mo.; educated in the public schools, Mayfield Smith Academy, Cape Girardeau State Normal, Missouri State University, and Stanberry College; taught school, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1896; located at Potosi and has since resided there, where he has practiced his chosen profession; was elected prosecuting attorney of Washington County in 1900, and reelected in 1902; served one term as city attorney of the city of Potosi, one term as mayor, one term as a member of the lower house of the Missouri State Legislature, and one term as a member of the Missouri State board of law examiners; was chairman of the committee on revision of the laws that revised the Missouri statutes in 1909; married Miss Annie P. Davidson, of Potosi; has one son, Marion Benjamin, a senior in the State University of Missouri; was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1908; elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress over his Democratic opponent, Arthur T. Brewster, by a majority of 6,235.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Cape Girardeau, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Mississippi, New Madrid, Oregon, Ozark, Pemiscot, Ripley, Scott, Stoddard, Stone, and Taney (16 counties). Population (1910), 296,316.

EDW. D. HAYS, Republican, of Cape Girardeau, was born on a farm near Oak Ridge, in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., on April 28, 1872; his parents were John W. Hays and Mary J. Hays, who came to Missouri from Pennsylvania in 1866; he graduated from the Oak Ridge High School in 1889 and from the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau in 1893; he taught school for four years, his last service in the school room being as principal of the New Madrid High School in 1895; in January, 1896, he was admitted to the bar at Jackson, Mo., and has practiced law in Cape Girardeau County since that date, the first 17 years at Jackson and the last 4 years at Cape Girardeau; elected mayor of Jackson two terms, from 1903 to 1907; elected probate judge of Cape Girardeau County three terms, serving from 1907 to 1918, inclusive; was married to Maggie Burford, of Burfordville, Mo., in 1898; has two children, Dallas B. Hays and Cathryn M. Hays; two other children, a girl and a boy, Eddie Maxine and John Maxwell, died in infancy; nominated by the Republican Party for circuit judge and defeated; nominated by the Republican Party for Congress in the fourteenth district in 1918 and elected over Joseph J. Russell, Democrat, the vote being as follows: Russell, Democrat, 21,001; Hays, Republican, 21,472. In 1920 elected over Robert L. Ward, Democrat, by a majority of 14,978.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Barry, Barton, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, and Vernon (7 counties). Population (1910), 226,374.

ISAAC V. MCPHERSON, Republican, of Aurora, Mo., was born near Rome, Douglas County, Mo., March 8, 1868; was educated in the public schools and at Marionville College, at Marionville, Mo.; admitted to the bar 1891, and has since practiced law at Aurora, Mo.; 1891 married Miss Bessie Barnette, of Mount Vernon, Mo.; member Forty-second General Assembly of the State of Missouri from Lawrence County 1903-4; prosecuting attorney Lawrence County, Mo., 1901-2; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 19,333 votes, to 17,815 cast for Perl D. Decker, Democrat, and 557 for Mr. Landis, Socialist; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas, Webster, and Wright (11 counties). Population (1910), 163,280.

THOMAS LEWIS RUBEY, Democrat, of Lebanon, Laclede County, Mo., was born at Lebanon, Mo.; spent his early life on the farm, going to the district school and later to a near-by town school; graduated from the University of Missouri; was for five years superintendent of schools at Lebanon, Mo., and for a number of years taught in the Missouri School of Mines, a department of the University of Missouri, located at Rolla, Mo.; served in both branches of the general assembly of his State, and while in the State senate was president pro tempore of that body; was lieutenant governor of Missouri from 1903 to 1905; married Miss Fannie J. Horner, of Columbia, Mo.; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

MONTANA.

(Population (1910), 376,053.)
SENATORS.

HENRY LEE MYERS, Democrat, of Hamilton, was born on a farm in Cooper County, Mo., October 9, 1862. His father was a native of Jefferson County, Va., and his mother's family was from Bourbon County, Ky. Received an academic education; taught school and studied law. In 1893 located at Hamilton, Mont., and engaged in the practice of law. Has served as county attorney, State senator, and district judge. March 2, 1911, elected by the legislature United States Senator for term beginning March 4, 1911; reelected in 1916; delegate to Democratic national convention in 1912; is married and has one daughter.

THOMAS J. WALSH, Democrat, was born at Two Rivers, Wis., June 12, 1859; received early education in the public schools, from which he graduated; taught as principal of several high schools, and while so engaged was awarded a life certificate on an examination covering all the branches included in the usual college course; in 1884 took his degree of B. L. from the University of Wisconsin; began the practice of his profession at Redfield, S. Dak., associated with his brother, Henry Comer Walsh;

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