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TENTH DISTRICT.-LOS ANGELES COUNTY: Sixty-second, sixty-third, sixty-fourth, seventy-first, seventy-second, seventy-third, seventy-fourth, and seventy-fifth assembly districts. Population (1920), 516,283.

HENRY ZENAS OSBORNE, Republican; born New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y., October 4, 1848; son of Rev. Zenas Ward Osborne and Juliette (Bristol) Osborne; newspaper man and miner; apprenticed at 13 and learned printer's trade; enlisted in Civil War at 16, private, Company E, One hundred and ninety-second New York Volunteer Infantry, and honorably discharged at close of war; after war worked several years as printer in New York, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, and Austin, Tex.; at 24 was president of New Orleans Typographical Union, in 1873, and at 27 was first vice president of the International Typographical Union, in 1876; was New Orleans correspondent of Chicago Tribune from 1873 to 1878 and reporter and writer on New Orleans papers; in latter year (1878) removed to the live gold mining camp of Bodie, Calif., where for six years, from 1878 to 1884, was editor and publisher of the Bodie Daily Free Press; in 1884 removed to Los Angeles, which then had 15,000 population, and has taken an active interest in its phenomenal growth to a highly modern and well-constructed city of 600,000 people; was editor and publisher Los Angeles Evening Express 13 years, 1884 to 1897. Participated in organizing and conducting many of the civic, social, and commercial organizations of the city, among them the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a charter member in 1888, director six years, and president in 1912; charter member California Club and Sunset Club; president of the latter 1905; charter member of the Chamber of Mines and Oil 1907; president Southern California Editorial Association 1889; vice president California Press Association 1888; was senior vice commander in chief Grand Army of the Republic 1912-13, and for 37 years has been active member of the G. A. R.; member California Society, Sons of the Revolution; served six years as captain in National Guard of California, retiring 1897; in Masonic fraternity is senior living past master Southern California Lodge, No. 278; senior living past commander Los Angeles Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar; charter member Al Malaikah Temple, Mystic Shrine. In official positions, was United States receiver of public moneys, Bodie, Calif., 1878-1884; United States collector of customs, Los Angeles, 1891-1894; United States marshal, Los Angeles district, 1898-1906; commissioner board of public works, Los Angeles, 1914-15; delegate from California to Republican national convention, Chicago, 1888; member executive committee Republican State central committee of California five terms of two years each, 1890-1900; was married to Miss Helen Annas, at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1872, and has four sons and one daughter. Elected to Sixty-fifth Congress in 1916, as a Republican, by 63,913 votes, a majority of 30,688 over the Democratic nominee. Renominated as a Republican for the Sixty-sixth Congress; was indorsed by and made the Democratic nominee, and "written in" as the Prohibition nominee at the open primaries, and received 72,773 votes, to 9,725 for the Socialist nominee; majority, 63,048. Renominated without opposition by Republicans for Sixty-seventh Congress and indorsed by Democrats and Prohibitionists, and received 97,469 votes, to 20,439 for Socialist nominee; majority, 77,030.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Imperial, Inyo, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and
San Diego (7 counties). Population (1920), 348,765.

PHILIP DAVID SWING, Republican, of El Centro, Calif., was born November 30, 1884, at San Bernardino, Calif.; attended public schools and graduated 1905 from Stanford University with the degree of A. B.; was elected member honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa; admitted to the practice of law 1906; became law partner of the late Lieut. Gov. John M. Eshleman 1907; elected district attorney Imperial County 19111915; chief counsel Imperial irrigation district 1916-1919; judge superior court Imperial County 1919-1921; married Nell C. Cremeens 1912, and family includes one child; during the late war was county chairman Four Minute Men, permanent member legal advisory board, chairman executive committee second Liberty loan campaign, member county council of defense; put in 4-A classification by draft board, waived exemptions, and enlisted; was in service at Camp Taylor, Ky.; succeeds Hon. William Kettner, Democrat, who represented the district for eight years but who was not a candidate for reelection; was elected November 2, 1920, by the largest majority ever cast for a Congressman in the eleventh district, receiving 59,425 votes, against 22,144 for Hugh L. Dickson, Democrat.

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COLORADO.

(Population (1920), 939,629.)

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LAWRENCE COWLE PHIPPS, Republican, of Denver, Colo., was born in Amwell Township, Washington County, Pa., August 30, 1862, son of Rev. William Henry Phipps, a native of England, and Agnes (McCall) Phipps, a native of Scotland; educated in Pittsburgh High School, Pittsburgh, Pa., from which he graduated at the age of 16; honorary degree of master of arts from Denver University; member national finance committee American Red Cross; member board of directors Denver Civic and Commercial Association; after leaving school he was employed in one of the iron mills owned by the Carnegie Co., and filled various positions from time to time until the Carnegie Co. was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation, in 1901, at which time he resigned his positions as vice president and treasurer of the Carnegie Co. and retired from active business, making his home in Denver, Colo.; in July, 1904, he founded and endowed the Agnes Memorial Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis; this institution has accommodations for 150 patients; he has six children-Lawrence C., Mrs. William White, Mrs. Donald C. Bromfield, Mrs. Van Holt N. Garrett, Allan, and Gerald; in the general election of November 5, 1918, Mr. Phipps received 107,726 votes, Hon. John F. Shafroth 104,347, and P. A. Richardson 5,606.

SAMUEL D. NICHOLSON, Republican, of Leadville, Colo., was born on Prince Edward Island; was educated in the public schools there and at Bay City, Mich.; arrived in Colorado in 1881, and after working for several years in metal mines of Leadville and coal mines of Trinidad as miner and foreman became mine manager and later mine owner; for many years has been engaged in management and development of mine properties in several Western States; elected mayor of Leadville in 1893 and served until 1897-two terms; was twice defeated by small pluralities in the Republican primaries for the nomination for governor; was State chairman of Liberty and Victory loan campaigns, State chairman of Roosevelt memorial campaign, State chairman of national Salvation Army drive, and was a member of State United States Fuel Administration; business, mining, farming, and banking; elected United States Senator November 2, 1920, to succeed Hon. Charles S. Thomas, the vote being: Samuel D. Nicholson, Republican, 156,577; Tully Scott, Democrat, 112,890; G. F. Stevens, FarmerLabor, 9,041; Charles S. Thomas, National, 8,665; term expires March 3, 1927.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT-City and county of Denver. Population (1920), 256,491.

WILLIAM NEWELL VAILE, Republican, of Denver, Colo., was born June 22, 1876, at Kokomo, Ind.; removed with family to Denver, Colo., in 1881; attended Denver public schools and Yale University, graduating in 1898; afterwards attended the law school of the University of Colorado and Harvard Law School; admitted to the Colorado bar in 1901; was private in Battery A, Connecticut Volunteer Field Artillery, 1898, in War with Spain; was Republican candidate for Congress from first district of Colorado in 1916, at which time he was in military service on the Mexican border as lieutenant of Infantry, Colorado National Guard; is married and has one child; member of Scottish and York rite, Masonic order, and Mystic Shrine; in the 1918 election was opposed by John Leo Stack, Democrat, and Benjamin C. Hilliard, Democrat, running as an Independent; the vote was as follows: Vaile, 27,815; Stack, 16,011; Hilliard, 6,137. Reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating Benjamin C. Hilliard, Democrat, by majority of 23,000.

SECOND DISTRICT-COUNTIES: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Cheyenne, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, and Yuma (17 counties). Population (1920), 286,808.

CHARLES BATEMAN TIMBERLAKE, Republican, of Sterling, was elected to the Sixty-fourth and each succeeding Congress; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 28,354.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer,
Fremont, Gilpin, Huerfano, Jefferson, Kiowa, Las Animas, Mineral, Otero, Park, Prowers, Pueblo,
Rio Grande, Saguache, and Teller (22 counties). Population (1920), 257,775.

GUY U. HARDY, Republican, of Canon City, Colo., was born at Abington, Ill., April 4, 1872; attended college at Albion, Ill., and Transylvanian University, Lexington, Ky.; taught school in Illinois and Florida; became a resident of Canon City, Colo., in November, 1894; purchased the Canon City Record in 1895 and has since been engaged in the publishing business; is at present editor and publisher of the Canon City Daily and Weekly Record and the Colorado Press; was president of the National Editorial Association 1918-19; is president and treasurer of the Fremont Building and Loan Association; has for several years been president of the Canon City Chamber of Commerce and of the University Club; was appointed postmaster of Canon City by William McKinley in 1899; was married to Jessie Mack, of Canon City, in 1899; has four children; is a Knight of Pythias, a Moose, and an Elk; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by 31,715 votes, to 29,075 for Edward Keating, Democrat, and 1,453 for Edith Holcomb, Socialist; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress by 43,426 votes, to 31,896 for Samuel J. Burris, Democrat.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Archuleta, Chaffee, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Gunni son, Hinsdale, Jackson, Lake, La Plata, Mesa, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, San Juan, San Miguel, and Summit (23 counties). Population (1920), 138,555. EDWARD THOMAS TAYLOR, Democrat, of Glenwood Springs, was born at Metamora, Woodford County, Ill., June 19, 1858; son of Henry R. and Anna (Evans) Taylor; spent his early life on farm and stock ranch; was educated in the common schools of Illinois and Kansas; graduated from Leavenworth (Kans.) High School in 1881; moved to Leadville, Colo., that summer, and during the school year of 1881-82 was the first principal of the Leadville High School; that fall entered the law department of the University of Michigan; was president of his class, and graduated in 1884, receiving the degree of LL. B.; returned to Leadville and at once began the practice of the law in partnership with his uncle, the Hon. Joseph W. Taylor. In the fall of 1884 was elected county superintendent of schools of that (Lake) county; in 1885 was deputy district attorney; in the spring of 1886 moved to Aspen, Colo., and in February, 1887, to Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. For many years he has been associated in the practice of the law with his brother, Charles W. Taylor. In 1887 was elected district attorney of the ninth judicial district; 1888-1890 he adjudicated the irrigation water rights of a large part of northwestern Colorado; 1896 was elected State senator for the twentyfirst senatorial district, and reelected in 1900 and 1904, his 12 years' service ending December, 1908; was president pro tempore of the senate one term, and was the author of 40 statutes and 5 constitutional amendments adopted by a general vote of the people; he also served five terms as city attorney and two terms as county attorney of his home town and county. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Mystic Shriner, and an Elk, and served two terms as eminent commander of the Glenwood Commandery of Knights Templar; was formerly president of the Rocky Mountain Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, and vice president of the State bar association, and has for many years been the vice president of the State Association of the Sons of Colorado, and has taken an active part in public affairs in Colorado for nearly 40 years. For 12 years he has been the Colorado member of the Democratic national congressional committee. He organized the bureau of naturalized citizens at the Democratic national headquarters at Chicago in 1916, and conducted the party campaign throughout the western 24 States to secure the votes of foreign-born citizens of 46 different nationalities and languages. On October 19, 1892, was married to Mrs. Durfee, formerly Miss Etta Tabor, of Council Bluffs, Iowa; has three children-Capt. Edward T., jr., Miss Etta, and Joseph Evans Taylor. He was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses as Congressman at large. Elected from the fourth congressional district to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 5,003.

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CONNECTICUT.

(Population (1920), 1,380,631.)

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FRANK BOSWORTH BRANDEGEE, Republican, of New London; born in New London, Conn., July 8, 1864; graduated from Yale in 1885; admitted to the bar in 1888; elected a representative to the general assembly in 1888; a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1888, 1892, 1900, and 1904; speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1899; elected a Representative to the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1902; reelected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses; elected United States Senator May 9, 1905, January 20, 1909, November 3, 1914, and reelected November 2, 1920. His term of service will expire March 3, 1927.

GEORGE PAYNE MCLEAN, Republican, of Simsbury, was born in Simsbury, Conn., October 7, 1857; graduated from Hartford High School; admitted to the bar in 1881 and practiced in Hartford; member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1883-84; member of the commission to revise the Connecticut statutes in 1885; member of the Connecticut Senate in 1886; was United States district attorney for Connecticut from 1892 to 1896; governor of Connecticut 1901-2; received the degree of A. M. from Yale University in 1904; was nominated in the Republican caucus January, 1911, by a vote of 113 to 64 for opposing candidates, and elected by the general assembly by a vote of 158 to 96 for Homer S. Cummings, Democrat, and 1 for Morgan G. Bulkeley, Republican. Was reelected to the United States Senate November 7, 1916, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Hartford. Population (1920), 336,027.

E. HART FENN, Republican, of Wethersfield, was born in Hartford September 12, 1856; was graduated from Hartford High School in 1875; three years in academic course at Yale; left college to engage in newspaper work; associated with Hartford Post and Hartford Courant as reporter, city editor, State editor, special and editorial writer; from 1878 to 1908 reported sessions of Connecticut Legislature; is married; representative in Connecticut Legislature 1907 and 1915; senator from the fourth district sessions of 1909 and 1911; fish and game commissioner by appointment of Govs. Weeks and Baldwin; served five years in First Regiment Connecticut Nation. I Guard; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 53,461 votes, against 30,757 for Joseph F. Dutton, Democrat; 2,496 for Henry Vanderburgh, Socialist; 604 for Benjamin Beardsley, Prohibitionist; and 1,070 for Daniel Stewart, Farmer-Labor.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Middlesex, New London, Tolland, and Windham (4 counties). Population (1920), 232, 192.

RICHARD P. FREEMAN, Republican, of New London, was born in that city April 24, 1869; was graduated from Bulkeley High School 1887, A. B. Harvard 1891, LL. B. Yale Law School 1894; is married; elected prosecuting attorney city of New London; served during the War with Spain as regimental sergeant major Third Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and afterwards as major and judge advocate of Connecticut National Guard; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-NEW HAVEN COUNTY: Towns of Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Wallingford, and Woodbridge. Population (1920), 267,050.

JOHN QUILLIN TILSON, Republican, of New Haven, was born at Clearbranch, Tenn., April 5, 1866, son of William E. and Katharine (Sams) Tilson; spent his early life on a farm; educated in public and private schools and Yale College, graduating from the latter in 1891 and from the Yale Law School in 1893; began the practice of law in the offices of White & Daggett in New Haven, and later became a member of the firm of White, Daggett & Tilson. During the War with Spain he served as a second lieutenant in the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry; from the end of the Spanish War to November 8, 1916, served in the Second Connecticut Infantry, being in command of the regiment at the time of withdrawal from it; responded to call of the President on June 20, 1916, and served on the Mexican border until mus

ter out of the regiment on November 8, 1916; in 1904 he was elected a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly from the town of New Haven; was reelected in 1906, and was speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives during the session of 1907; served in the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses as Representative at large from Connecticut; elected from the third congressional district to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Fairfield. Population (1920), 320,936.

SCHUYLER MERRITT, Republican, of Stamford, was born in New York City December 16, 1853; prepared for college at private school in Stamford; Yale, B. A. 1873; Columbia, LL. B. 1876; since 1877 has been interested in manufacturing and banking; was a member of the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1904, and delegate to the Republican national convention in 1916; was elected to the Sixtyfifth Congress at a special election on November 6, 1917, and reelected to the Sixtysixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-LITCHFIELD COUNTY. NEW HAVEN COUNTY: Towns of Ansonia, Beacon Falls,
Derby, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Waterbury, and Wolcott.
Population (1920), 224,426.

JAMES P. GLYNN, Republican, of Winsted, Conn., was born at that place November 12, 1867; was educated in the public schools of his native town; was admitted to the bar in 1895; is married; town clerk 1892-1902; prosecuting attorney town court 1899-1902; postmaster at Winsted 1902-1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

DELAWARE.

(Population (1920), 223,003.)

SENATORS.

JOSIAH O. WOLCOTT, Democrat, of Dover, son of James L. Wolcott (State librarian of Delaware, secretary of state of Delaware, and chancellor of Delaware) and Mary Mills Goodwin, his wife, was born at Dover, Del., October 31, 1877; married Mary R. Fooks, of Laurel, Del., daughter of Daniel J. Fooks, December, 1906; has four children-James L., 3d, Daniel F., Josiah O., jr., and Rebecca Dashiell Wolcott; graduated public schools Dover, Del., Wilmington Conference Academy, Dover, Del., and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., receiving degree of Ph. B. in 1901; read law in the offices of Edward Ridgely, Esq., and Henry R. Johnson, Esq., at Dover, and admitted to the bar in April, 1904, immediately moving to Wilmington, where he opened an office for the practice of law; January 1, 1918, returned to Dover, where he now pursues his practice; member of Kent County Bar Association and American Bar Association; appointed deputy attorney general of Delaware for New Castle County by Attorney General Andrew C. Gray for the four-year term commencing January, 1909; elected attorney general of Delaware for the four-year term commencing January, 1913; elected United States Senator in November, 1916, for the full term of six years, receiving a plurality of 2,491 votes over the regular Republican candidate, and a majority over all of 130 votes.

LEWIS HEISLER BALL, Republican, of Marshallton, Del., was born September 21, 1861, near Wilmington, Del.; graduated from Rugby Academy in 1879, from Delaware College with degree of Ph. B. in 1882, and from the University of Pennsylvania with degree of M. D. in 1885; was married November 14, 1893, to Catherine Springer Justis; was State treasurer of Delaware from 1898 to 1900; was elected Representative to the Fifty-seventh Congress; was elected to an unexpired term in the United States Senate and served from March 2, 1903, to March 4, 1905; is a trustee of Delaware College, member of the Wilmington Club, Wilmington, and the University Club, of Philadelphia; has been chairman of the New Castle County Republican committee since 1894 with the exception of two years, when he was State chairman; was a delegate to the national convention in 1896 at St. Louis which nominated William McKinley for President; May 1, 1916, was elected president of the Wilmington and New Castle County public building commission; was again elected to the Senate, for a full term of six years, on November 5, 1918, by the following vote: Lewis Heisler Ball, Republican, 21,519; Willard Saulsbury, Democrat, 20,113; and William Connor, Socialist, 420. Was delegate to convention in Chicago which nominated Warren G. Harding.

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