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opened an office at Helena, Mont., in 1890, and in 1907 associated with himself Col. C. B. Nolan, former attorney general of the State; made an unsuccessful race for Congress in 1906; was candidate for United States Senator in 1910 against Senator Thomas H. Carter; through his efforts a Democratic legislature was elected, but a deadlock ensued, which ended on the last night of the session in the election of Henry L. Myers; was again a candidate in 1912, being unanimously nominated at the State convention as the candidate of his party, and received the highest number of votes cast for any candidate at the following election. The legislature of 1913 ratified the choice of the people, every member of both branches, irrespective of party, voting for him. Was reelected on November 5, 1918. His term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaverhead, Broadwater, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Gallatin, Granite, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Madison, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli, Sanders, and Silver Bow (16 counties). Population (1910),

JOHN M. EVANS, Democrat, of Missoula, was educated at the United States Military Academy and the University of Missouri; practiced law in Missoula, Mont., since 1888; was police judge of the city from 1889 to 1894; register of the United States land office at Missoula from 1894 to 1898; was largely instrumental in establishing commission form of government in his home city, and was chosen the first commission mayor of his State; married Helena G. Hastings, of Columbia, Mo., they have two children, Beverly Price and Philip Cabell; was elected to the Sixtythird, Sixty-fourth, and the Sixty-fifth Congresses. Again elected, from the first district, to the Sixty-sixth Congress, leading his Republican opponent, Hon. Frank B. Linderman, by 3,100 votes.

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SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, McCone, Meagher, Musselshell, Park, Phillips, Pendera, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, and Yellowstone (38 counties). Population (1910), ·

CARL W. RIDDICK, Republican, of Lewistown, Mont., rancher, was born in Wells, Minn., February 25, 1872; graduated at Menominee, Mich., High School 1890; attended Albion, Mich., College and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; editor and publisher of Winamac, Ind., Republican for 11 years, and secretary of Indiana Republican State central committee campaigns of 1906 and 1908; married in 1893 to Miss Grace Keith, of Green Bay, Wis.; has four children, two sons and two daughters; elected to Congress from second Montana district in 1918; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating the Nonpartisan League opponent by a majority of 31,382.

NEBRASKA.

(Population (1910), 1,192,214.)

SENATORS.

GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK, Democrat, of Omaha, was born in that city September 18, 1859; educated in the Omaha public schools, supplemented by two years' study in Germany and a law course at Michigan University, from the law department of which he graduated in 1881; married in 1883; established the Omaha Evening World in 1885, and is now publisher of the Omaha Morning, Evening, and Sunday World-Herald; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, defeated for reelection to the Fifty-ninth Congress, elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtyfirst Congress; was elected Senator from Nebraska for the term beginning March 4, 1911; was reelected to the Senate November 7, 1916, receiving 143,082 votes. Other candidates were John L. Kennedy, Republican, with 131,359; E. E. Olmstead, Socialist, with 7, 425; and D. B. Gilbert, Prohibitionist, with 4,429.

GEORGE W. NORRIS, Republican, of McCook, Nebr., was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861, and his early life was spent on the farm where he was born. His father died when he was a small child; his only brother was killed in the War of the Rebellion, and his mother was left in straitened circumstances; was compelled to work out among the neighboring farmers by the day and month during the summer and attended district school during the winter; afterwards taught school and earned the money to defray expenses for a higher education; attended Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the Valparaiso University; studied law while teaching

and afterwards finished the law course in law school; was admitted to the bar in 1883; removed to Nebraska in 1885; was three times prosecuting attorney, twice by appointment and once by election, refusing a second nomination for the position; was elected district judge of fourteenth district in 1895 and reelected to the same position in 1899, which position he held when nominated for Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses; was elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1913, and reelected in 1918. His present term expires March 3, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cass, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, and Richardson (7 counties). Population (1910), 164,214.

C. FRANK REAVIS, Republican, of Falls City, Nebr., was born in Falls City September 5, 1870; was educated at the high schools of Falls City, and attended the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.; was admitted to the bar in March, 1892, and practiced law with his father, Judge Isham Reavis, at Falls City, Nebr., until May, 1914, when his father died; was elected prosecuting attorney for Richardson County in 1894, serving one term; was married on the 26th day of June, 1895, his family consisting of wife and two sons; was a Member of the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Douglas, Sarpy, and Washington (3 counties). Population (1910), 190,558.

ALBERT W. JEFFERIS, Republican, of Omaha, Nebr., was born December 7, 1868, on a farm in Chester County, Pa., near Embreeville, along the old Brandywine, where his forefathers settled long prior to the Revolutionary War; he attended school at Romansville, Pa., and State Normal School at West Chester, Pa.; taught school in West Bradford Township three years; studied law at West Chester and at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in June, 1893; while at the University of Michigan he was president of his class during the senior year, and a member of the football and baseball teams of the university; has practiced law in Omaha since the fall of 1893, his present firm being Jefferis & Tunison; never held public office; was a member of the Republican State committee for many years; in 1897 married Miss Helen J. Malarkey, of Oregon, Ill.; has two children—son, Albert, jr., and daughter, Janet.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Nance, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Thurston, and Wayne (18 counties). Population (1910), 233,178.

ROBERT EMORY EVANS, Republican, of Dakota City; born 1856, in Coalmont, Pa.; educated in normal schools located at Indiana and Millersville, Pa., and the University of Michigan; lawyer; county attorney; district judge; president Nebraska State Bar Association; married; has three children; elected to the Sixty-sixth and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Fillmore, Gage, Hamilton, Jefferson, Polk, Saline, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, and York (11 counties). Population (1910), 189,670.

MELVIN O. MCLAUGHLIN, Republican, of York, was born at Osceola, Iowa, August 8, 1876; moved with parents to Nebraska in 1884; spent childhood and youth on the farm, attending the common schools in the winter; attended Lincoln Normal University and Peru State Normal, and taught school for 7 years near Lincoln; is an alumnus of Iowa Christian College, the University of Omaha, Union Biblical Seminary, of Dayton, Ohio, and has studied law under the direction of Hugh A. Myers, of Omaha; served 10 years in the ministry of the United Brethren Church; was married August 4, 1897, to Elma Pierson, of Bennett, Nebr.; has served as president of York College for 6 years; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress in November, 1918, by a majority of 6,277, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 13,873. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Chase, Clay, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hall, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Kearney, Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Redwillow, and Webster (18 counties). Population (1910), 176,806.

WILLIAM E. ANDREWS, Republican, of Hastings, was born near Oskaloosa, Iowa, and lived on the farm until he entered college; graduated from Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in June, 1885, and was married to Miss Mira McCoy, of that city, September 1, 1885; located in Hastings, Nebr., in January, 1885, and served as a member of the faculty of Hastings College from that date until January 1, 1893-eight

years; was private secretary to the governor of Nebraska, Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, during 1893-94—two years; was a Member of the Fifty-fourth Congress, March 4, 1895, to March 4, 1897; was appointed by former President McKinley as Auditor for the United States Treasury Department, and served continuously in that position from June 9, 1897, to April 30, 1915-18 years lacking 40 days; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 17,819 votes, to 17,268 for former Congressman Ashton C. Shallenberger, Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 31,695 votes, to 22,663 for former Judge Harry S. Dungan, Democrat. Mr. Andrews's majority in 1918 was 551, as compared with his majority in 1920 of 9,030.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boxbutte, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Cheyenne, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Garden, Garfield, Grant, Greeley, Holt, Hooker, Howard, Keith, Keyapaha, Kimball, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Morrill, Rock, Scotts Bluffs, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Thomas, Valley, and Wheeler (36 counties). Population (1910), 237,788.

MOSES P. KINKAID, Republican, of O'Neill; lawyer, Mason, Odd Fellow, and Elk; president of law class of 1876, University of Michigan; chairman of judiciary committee, Nebraska State Senate, 1883; Nebraska district judge for 13 years; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress and each successive Congress since.

NEVADA.

(Population (1910), 81,875.)
SENATORS.

KEY PITTMAN, Democrat, of Tonopah, Nev.; born in Vicksburg, Miss., September 19, 1872; son of William Buckner Pittman and Catherine (Key) Pittman; educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn.; commenced practice of law at Seattle, Wash., in 1892; was in the Northwest Territory and Alaska from 1897 until the fall of 1901; was one of the committee that formulated the "consent" form of government for Nome; was first prosecuting attorney at Nome, Alaska; went to Tonopah, Nev., in January, 1902; never ran for any office except that of United States Senator; was appointed by the governor of the State as representative to the St. Louis Exposition, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the Irrigation Congress, and by the supreme court of the State as its representative to the international congress of jurists and lawyers that met in St. Louis during the exposition. Reelected November 7, 1916, to serve until March 4, 1923.

CHARLES BELKNAP HENDERSON, Democrat, of Elko, Elko County, Nev.; born at San Jose, Calif., June 8, 1873; lived in the State of Nevada since 1876; graduated from the University of the Pacific in 1892; took special course at Stanford University; graduated from Ann Arbor with degree of LL. B. in 1895; following year took postgraduate course; in 1905 was a member of the Nevada Legislature; served 10 years as regent of the University of Nevada; was first lieutenant in Second Regiment of Torrey's Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War; in 1901 he was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Smith, of Elko, Nev., and they have two sons; his grandfather, Lewis R. Bradley, was one of the first governors of the State; appointed by Gov. Emmet D. Boyle on January 4, 1918, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Francis G. Newlands. Elected November 5, 1918, for the unexpired term.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.-Population (1910), 81,875.

CHARLES ROBLEY EVANS, Democrat, of Goldfield, Nev., was born at Breckenridge, Ill., August 9, 1866; received his education at high school at Waco, Nebr.; in the mining business; delegate to national Democratic convention, Denver, Colo., 1908; is married and has one son, Corpl. H. H. Evans, Company C, Three hundred and sixty-fourth Infantry, Ninety-first Division, and one daughter 8 years old, and has five brothers and four sisters; father was a pioneer Christian preacher in Nebraska 1872 to 1918, having died January 1, 1918, at the age of 90 years; was elected to Sixtysixth Congress from Nevada at large by the following vote: Charles R. Evans, Democrat, 12,670; Sylvester S. Downer, Republican, 10,660; H. H. Cordill, Socialist, 1,377— a plurality of 2,010 and a majority of 433 for Mr. Evans.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

(Population (1910), 430,572.)

SENATORS.

GEORGE HIGGINS MOSES, Republican, of Concord, was born in Lubec, Me., February 9, 1869, the son of Rev. Thomas Gannett and Ruth (Smith) Moses; educated in the public schools of Eastport, Me., and Franklin, N. H., at the Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1887), and at Dartmouth College (A. B. 1890, A. M. 1893); served as private secretary to Gov. David H. Goodell 1889-1891 and to Gov. John McLane 1905, during the sessions of the Portsmouth Peace Conference; secretary to the chairman of the Republican State committee 1890; member and secretary of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission 1893-1907; member board of education, Concord, 1902-3,1906-1909, 1913–1916; delegate at large Republican national convention 1908 and 1916: American minister to Greece and Montenegro during the administration of President Taft; editor Concord Evening Monitor 1892-1918; was elected November 5, 1918, to fill the unexpired term of the late Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger; reelected November 2, 1920. His term will expire March 3, 1927.

HENRY WILDER KEYES, Republican, of Haverhill, was born at Newbury, Vt., in 1863; graduated, degree of A. B., Harvard University 1887; also recipient of B. S. and LL. D. degrees New Hampshire College, and A. M. Dartmouth; member New Hampshire House of Representatives 1891-1895, 1915-1917; member New Hampshire Senate 1903-1905; treasurer State license commission 1903-1915; chairman State excise commission 1915-1917; governor 1917-1919; elected to the United States Senate November 5, 1918; it is the first time for nearly a hundred years that a Senator has been elected while holding the office of governor; married Frances Parkinson Wheeler and has three sons; is a farmer, and president of the Woodsville (N. H.) National Bank; his term of office will expire March 4, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Belknap, Carroll, Rockingham, and Strafford. HILLSBORO County: City of Manchester; towns of Bedford, Goffstown, Merrimack, Hudson, Litchfield, and Pelham. MERRIMACK COUNTY: Towns of Allenstown, Canterbury, Chichester, Epsom, Hooksett, Loudon, Northfield, Pembroke, and Pittsfield. Population (1910), 218,572.

SHERMAN EVERETT BURROUGHS, Republican, of Manchester, was born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, N. H., February 6, 1870; educated in public schools of Dunbarton and Bow, and Concord, N. H., High School; graduated at Dartmouth College (A. B.) in 1894; private secretary to Hon. Henry M. Baker, Member of Congress second New Hampshire district, 1894-1897; graduated Columbian University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1896, LL. B., and in 1897 LL. M.; admitted to bar of District of Columbia 1896, and of New Hampshire 1897; practiced law at Manches ter, N. H., 1897-; member New Hampshire Legislature 1901-2; member State board of charities and corrections 1901-1917; member State board of equalization 1909-10; defeated at primary for Republican nomination as candidate for Sixtysecond Congress; married and has four sons, the two eldest being now students at Dartmouth College; elected to Sixty-fifth Congress to succeed Cyrus A. Sulloway, deceased, at special election May 29, 1917. Reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses, receiving 46,606 votes, to 31,334 for R. W. Pillsbury, Democrat.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES. Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan. HILLSBORO COUNTY: City of Nashua; towns of Amherst, Antrim, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hillsboro, Hollis, Lyndeboro, Mason, Milford, Mount Veron, New Boston, New Ipswich, Peterboro, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton, and Windsor. MERRIMACK COUNTY: Cities of Concord and Franklin; towns of Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Danbury, Dunbarton, Henniker, Hill, Hopkinton, Newbury, New London, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, Webster, and Wilmot. Population (1910), 212,000.

EDWARD H. WASON, Republican, of Nashua, was born in New Boston, N. H.; graduate of New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Boston University School of Law, since which time he has practiced law in Nashua. Elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NEW JERSEY.

(Population (1910), 2,537,167.)
SENATORS.

JOSEPH SHERMAN FRELINGHUYSEN, Republican, of Raritan, was born March 12, 1869, at Raritan, N. J.; is descended from Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, who came from Holland in 1720, settling in New Jersey; is the fourth member of his family to occupy a seat in the United States Senate; is married and has three children; is an insurance underwriter and a veteran of the Spanish-American War; served several years as president of the State board of education of New Jersey; is now, and for a considerable period has been, president of the department of agriculture of New Jersey; is a trustee of Rutgers College, which conferred upon him the degree of A. M.; was president of the New Jersey State Senate in 1909 and 1910; was elected to the Senate by a plurality of 74,696, receiving 244,715 votes, to 170,019 for James E. Martine, Democrat; 13,358 for Doughty, Socialist; 7,178 for Barbour, National Prohibitionist; and 1,826 for Katz, Socialist-Labor. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

WALTER EVANS EDGE, Republican; resides in Atlantic City; born on November 20, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Pleasantville, N. J.; graduated from the public schools; founded the Atlantic City Daily Press, and later purchased the Atlantic City Evening Union, publishing both newspapers in conjunction with his advertising business, which he expanded until branch offices were established in New York, London, Paris, Brussels, and elsewhere; Mr. Edge is a widower with one son, Walter Evans Edge, jr.; 1897-1899 served as journal clerk of the New Jersey Senate; 1901-1904 was secretary of that body; volunteered in the War with Spain in 1898 and served with Company F, Fourth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, as second lieutenant; after the war served as captain of Company L, Third Regiment New Jersey National Guard, on the personal staffs of Govs. Murphy and Stokes, of New Jersey, and subsequently was lieutenant colonel and chief of ordnance department on the staff of the major general commanding the New Jersey National Guard; in 1904 Col. Edge was a presidential elector, in 1908 an alternate delegate at large to the Republican national convention; elected to the New Jersey Assembly from Atlantic County in 1909, and to the New Jersey Senate in 1910, and again in 1913; served as majority leader in both branches and in 1915 as president of the senate. In 1920 was elected delegate at large to the Republican national convention. Received the degree of LL.D. from Rutgers College. He was elected governor of New Jersey in 1916 with a plurality of 69,647 over the Democratic candidate, a vote which exceeded by 18,003 the largest plurality ever received by a gubernatorial candidate in the State; Gov. Edge was nominated in the Republican primaries for the United States Senate in 1918 with a plurality of 71,575, and in the following November he was elected to succeed Senator David Baird and to serve for the full term of six years; the vote, including both civilians and soldiers, was as follows: Edge, Republican, 179,022; La Monte, Democrat, 153,743; Reilly, Socialist, 14,723; Wallace, Single Tax, 2,352; Day, National Prohibition, 5,816; Edge's plurality, 25,279.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Camden, Gloucester, and Salem (3 counties). Population (1910),206,396. FRANCIS F. PATTERSON, JR., Republican, of Camden, N. J., was born July 30, 1867, at Newark, N. J., his parents being Francis F. Patterson and Abigail Null Patterson; his ancestors have lived in New Jersey for 250 years; in 1874 his father moved to Woodbury, N. J., where young Patterson received a public-school education and started to learn the printing trade as printer's devil on the Woodbury Liberal Press; the family moved to Camden in 1882 and have resided there ever since; that year the father of Mr. Patterson started the Camden Daily Courier and he began his career there as a reporter and editor until 1899, when he was elected a member of the New Jersey Assembly; the following year he was elected county clerk of Camden County and has held that office for four terms of five years each, being reelected by an increased majority each term; upon the death of the late Hon. William J. Browning he was unanimously chosen as the latter's successor in Congress and had no opposition for the nomination; he was elected over four opponents in November by over 32,000 majority; Mr. Patterson is now the principal owner and general manager of the Camden Post-Telegram, the leading daily newspaper of his district, and is also president of the West Jersey Trust Co., besides being connected with many other activities and numerous clubs and societies.

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