TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Christian, Macoupin, Montgomery, and Sangamon (4 counties). Population (1920), 237,397. 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 (1920), 290,334. 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, Sixty-first, 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 (1920), 222,960. 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 Sixty-seventh 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 (1920), 179,836. 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 (1920), 266,344. 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 (1920), 2,930,390.) 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 dis, trict 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 resolutions at the Republican national convention held in Chicago, Ill., June, 1920; he was reelected United States Senator in November, 1920, receiving a plurality over Thomas Taggart of 167,397. His term of service will expire in 1927. HARRY STEWART NEW, Republican, born in Indianapolis, Ind., December 31, 1858; educated in Indianapolis public schools and later took special course in Butler University, Indianapolis; member Indiana State Senate for four years, 1896– 1900; captain and assistant adjutant general, United States Volunteers, during War with Spain; member national Republican committee 1900-1912; chairman 1907-8; for 25 years-1878-1903-connected with Indianapolis Journal as reporter, editor, and part owner; married; elected United States Senator 1916. His term will expire March 3, 1923. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburg, and Warrick (6 counties). OSCAR RAYMOND LUHRING, Republican, of Evansville, Ind., was born in Gibson County, Ind., on the 11th day of February, 1879; educated in the public schools and the University of Virginia; studied law at the latter institution, and graduated with the degree of bachelor of laws June 13, 1900; was admitted to the practice of law in August of the same year at the Evansville, Ind., bar; was married June 16, 1902, to Margaret Graham Evans, of Minneapolis, daughter of the late Robert G. Evans; elected to the Sixty-third General Assembly of Indiana in 1902, and served one term as a member of the house; appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for the first judicial circuit of Indiana in 1904, and served in that capacity until 1908; elected prosecuting attorney for the same circuit for two terms, 1908-1912; renominated for the third term but declined the nomination; was a Member of Sixtysixth Congress. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Morgan, Monroe, Owen, and Sullivan (8 counties). Population (1920), 210,605. OSCAR E. BLAND, Republican, of Linton, Ind., was born in Greene County, Ind., November 21, 1877; is a lawyer; educated at Indiana University and Valparaiso University. While a member of the Indiana Senate he was the author of the "2-cent railroad-fare law," "the public uniform accounting law," and a number of acts concerning employees and conditions in coal mines, among which were: The miners' washhouse law, the wide-entry law, and the miners' liability law; was the Republican nominee for Congress of the second district 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1918, and 1920; succeeds William A. Cullop, Democrat, and was elected in 1916 by a majority of 1,005; 1918, elected by a majority of 4,200; reelected in 1920 by 8,500. He is an honorary life member of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Free and Accepted Masons, Woodmen of the World, and belongs to the Sigma Nu Greek letter college fraternity. Married Josephine Hanna, the daughter of Dr. Jesse Hanna, and has one daughter, Helen. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Lawrence, Orange, Perry, JAMES W. DUNBAR, Republican, of New Albany, Ind., was born in New Albany FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, Jefferson, Alpha. List Stat Serv ice Stat tic Sen Cor Ho Co C schools for 14 years; he has been engaged in business and farming at Benham, Ind., since 1907; married to Miss Bertha Greemann; he has always taken an active part in local and State politics, his political slogan being "Clean politics and cleanness and efficiency in office"; delegate to national Republican convention in 1916; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress over Hon. Lincoln Dixon by a majority of 528, overcoming a normal Democratic majority of 3,300; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 5,200. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Hendricks, Parke, Putnam, Vermilion, and Vigo (6 counties). EVERETT SANDERS, Republican, of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., was born near Coalmont, Ind., March 8, 1882, son of Rev. James Sanders and Melissa Everal Sanders; was married to Miss Ella Neal in 1903; taught school for three years; attended the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute for two years; entered Indiana University in 1904 and graduated from that institution with the degree of LL. B. in the year 1907; was admitted to the Indiana bar in the city of Terre Haute in June, 1907, and has practiced law since that date with the firm of McNutt, Wallace, Sanders & Randel and its predecessors; was elected to and served in the Sixty-fifth and Sixtysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 46,464 votes, to 36,403 votes for Judge Charles S. Batt, Democrat. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fayette, Franklin, Hancock, Henry, Rush, Shelby, Union, and Wayne (8 counties). Population (1920), 183, 220. RICHARD NASH ELLIOTT, Republican, was born in Fayette County, Ind., April 25, 1873, on a farm, a son of Charles W. and Eliza Nash Elliott. He was educated in the common schools of his native county. He taught school for three years, then studied law in the offices of Conner & McIntosh, attorneys, Connersville, Ind. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1896. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Indiana General Assembly in 1905 and in 1907. On January 20, 1898, he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie A. Ostheimer. They have no children. At a special election held June 26, 1917, Mr. Elliott, the Republican candidate, was elected to fill the unexpired term of the Hon. Daniel W. Comstock, of Richmond, Representative in Congress from the sixth district of Indiana. Judge Comstock died about two months after he had taken his seat, having assumed his office as a Member of the Sixty-fifth Congress March 4, 1917. The official vote cast at the special election on June 26, 1917, is as follows: Elliott, Republican, 17,151; Gray, Democrat, 14,381; Hufferd, Prohibitionist, 1,032; Nipp, Socialist, 968. Elliott's plurality, 2,770. Mr. Elliott was reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress over Hon. Henry G. Strickland, Democrat, of Greenfield, by a plurality of 3,511. Reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress over William A. Yarling, Democrat, of Shelbyville, by a plurality of 10,031. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Marion. Population (1920), 348,061. MERRILL MOORES, Republican, of Indianapolis, was born in Indianapolis April 21, 1856, son of Charles Washington and Julia Dumont (Merrill) Moores; student at Butler College, Indianapolis, 1870-1872, 1874-75; at Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., 1872-73; Yale, 1875-1878; A. B. Yale 1878, LL. B. Central Law School of Indiana, Indianapolis, 1880; admitted to the bar 1880; assistant attorney general of Indiana 1894-1903; commissioner from Indiana on National Conference on Uniform State Laws 1909–1921; is unmarried; is a Presbyterian. He was elected to the Sixtyfourth Congress by a plurality of 5,108 votes, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by a plurality of 6,130, receiving 40,862 votes, to 34,732 for Schlosser, Democrat; 229 for Jones, Progressive; 753 for Clark, Socialist; and 2,259 for Leonard, Prohibitionist. He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a plurality of 9,530, receiving 29,714 votes, to 20,284 for Schlosser, Democrat, and 1,010 for Henry, Socialist. Elected February, 1919, member of the executive council of the Interparliamentary Union, the conference of which he attended in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 6, 7, and 8, 1919; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, the vote being: Moores, 79,572; Spaan, Democrat, 61,893; Simmons, Socialist, 3,297; Fessler, Farmer-Labor, 309. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Delaware, Jay, Madison, Randolph, and Wells (6 counties). ALBERT H. VESTAL, Republican, of Anderson, was born January 18, 1875, on a farm in Madison County; educated at the country schools; later worked in steel mill and factories to obtain funds for further education; taught several terms of Alpha. State school; graduated in the law department of Valparaiso University; admitted to the bar at the age of 21; was elected prosecuting attorney of the fiftieth judicial circuit in 1900, reelected in 1902 and reelected in 1904; has engaged in the practice of law at Anderson since his admission to the bar; is married and has two children. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 26,135 votes, to 23,854 for Denny, Democrat; 332 for Thompson, Progressive; 1,753 for Hurlbert, Prohibitionist; and 2,348 for Whitney, Socialist; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 4,900; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 15,561. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Hamilton, Howard, Montgomery, and Tipton (8 counties). Population (1920), 199,279. FRED S. PURNELL, Republican, of Attica, Ind., was born in Fountain County, Ind., October 25, 1882; attended country school and common and high schools of Veedersburg, Ind.; attended Indiana University from 1899 to 1904, graduating from the law department in 1904 with the degree of LL. B.; has been engaged in the practice of law since graduation; served four years as city attorney of Attica, Ind.; was married in 1907 to Elizabeth Shoaf, and their family consists of two sons; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by a plurality of 3,165; reelected to the Sixtysixth Congress by a plurality of 6,571; and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a plurality of 13,173. TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, Tippecanoe, Warren, and White (8 counties). Population (1920), 286,387. WILLIAM R. WOOD, Republican, of La Fayette, was born at Oxford, Benton County, Ind., January 5, 1861; son of Robert and Matilda Wood; was educated in the public schools of that town, and was graduated from the law department of Michigan University in 1882, receiving the degree of LL. B.; entered upon the practice of law in La Fayette April, 1882; was married in 1883 to Mary Elizabeth Geiger; was elected prosecuting attorney in 1890, and reelected in 1892; was elected to the Indiana State Senate in 1896 and was reelected four times, serving in all in that body 18 years; was twice president pro tempore of the senate and four times leader of the Republican side; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses; plurality at last election 36,769. ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blackford, Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Pulaski, and Wabash (7 counties). Population (1920), 203,725. MILTON KRAUS, Republican, of Peru, son of Charles J. and Hannah Rosenthal Kraus, was born at Kokomo, Ind., June 26, 1866; graduated from the high school of Peru, Ind.; entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1886; returned to Peru, where he was admitted to the bar the following year, and established himself in the practice of law. Becoming identified with the industrial interests of his community and its vicinity, their demnds engrossed his attention, forcing him in later years to curtail time devoted to general practice. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he assisted in organizing and enlisted in a company, the services of which were tendered to the Government. He was elected presidential elector for the eleventh congressional district in 1908, and to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Dekalb, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and Whitley (6 counties). Population (1920), 205,402. LOUIS W. FAIRFIELD, Republican, of Angola, was born near Wapakoneta, Ohio, October 15, 1858; elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congresses. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Laporte, St. Joseph, and Starke (7 counties). Population (1920), 287,751. ANDREW J. HICKEY, Republican, of Laporte, Ind.; lawyer; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. IOWA. (Population (1920), 2,404,021.) SENATORS. ALBERT BAIRD CUMMINS, Republican, of Des Moines, was born near Carmichaels, Pa., February 15, 1850; is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the house of representatives of the Twenty-second General Assembly of Iowa; a member of the Republican national committee from 1896 to 1900, and governor of Iowa from January, 1902, until elected, November 24, 1908, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Hon. W. B. Allison; was reelected January 19, 1909, for the term beginning March 4, 1909. Reelected November 3, 1914, for the term beginning March 4, 1915. Reelected November 2, 1920, for the term beginning March 4, 1921. His term of service will expire March 3, 1927. WILLIAM SQUIRE KENYON, Republican, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was born at Elyria, Ohio, June 10, 1869; educated at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, and law school of the State University of Iowa. He was elected to the United States Senate April 12, 1911, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver, and took his seat April 24, 1911; was reelected January 22, 1913, for the term beginning March 4, 1913. Reelected November 5, 1918, for the term beginning March 4, 1919. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren, and Washington (7 counties). Population (1920), 156,594. WILLIAM F. KOPP, Republican, of Mount Pleasant, was born June 20, 1869, on a farm near Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa; graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in June, 1892, and from the law department of the State University of Iowa in June, 1894; was married December 4, 1894, to Miss Clara Bird; has actively practiced law since his graduation; served as county attorney of Henry County, Iowa, from 1895 to 1899; was postmaster at Mount Pleasant from 1906 to 1914; represented Henry County in the Iowa Legislature in the Thirty-sixth General Assembly; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, and Scott (6 counties). Population (1920), 211,358. HARRY E. HULL, Republican, Williamsburg, Iowa County, Iowa; born Belvidere, Allegany County, N. Y., March 12, 1864; Cuba, N. Y., 1872; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1873; common school education; grain buyer Palo, Iowa, 1883; Williamsburg 1884; married Mary Louise Harris June 3, 1891; wife died May 21, 1917; one child, Harris, 11 years old; alderman 2 years, mayor 10 years, postmaster 13 years, Williamsburg, Iowa; Episcopalian; I. O. Ŏ. F., K. of P., B. P. O. E., and Masonic 32°; nominated Congress January 29, 1914; election held February 10, 1914, first real indication of a reunited Republican Party. Elected Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. Elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by plurality of 41,000. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blackhawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Delaware, Dubuque, Franklin, Hardin, and Wright (9 counties). Population (1920), 246,970. BURTON ERWIN SWEET, Republican, of Waverly, was born in Bremer County, Iowa, on December 10, 1867; educated in the common schools, Iowa State Normal School, and graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, in June, 1893; graduated in June, 1895, from the law department of the State University of Iowa; was admitted to the bar of Iowa in 1895, and also admitted to practice in Federal courts, and has been engaged in the practice of law at Waverly, Iowa, ever since, the firm name being Sager & Sweet. He is also a member of the law firm of Sager, Sweet & Edwards, at Waterloo, Iowa; was city solicitor of Waverly, Iowa, for three years; was a member of the house of representatives in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies of Iowa; served four years on the Republican State central committee from the third congressional district of Iowa; in 1913 was elected as a member of the board of trustees of Cornell College, Iowa. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress. |