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FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd,
Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Worth (10 counties). Population (1920), 201,881.

GILBERT N. HAUGEN, Republican, of Northwood, Worth County, was born April 21, 1859, in Rock County, Wis.; since the age of 14, and prior to his election to Congress, he was engaged in various enterprises, principally real estate and banking; was treasurer of Worth County, Iowa, for six years; was elected to the Iowa Legislature, serving in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth General Assemblies; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Cedar, Grundy, Jones, Linn, Marshall, and Tama (7 counties).
Population (1920), 203,162.

JAMES WILLIAM GOOD, Republican, of Cedar Rapids, was born September 24, 1866, in Linn County, Iowa; graduated from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, in 1892, receiving the degree of bachelor of sciences; graduated from the University of Michigan in 1893, receiving the degree of bachelor of laws; is a lawyer by profession; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Davis, Jasper, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, and Wapello (7 counties). Population (1920), 168,996.

C. WILLIAM RAMSEYER, Republican, of Bloomfield, was born on a farm near Collinsville, Butler County, Ohio, March 13, 1875. His parents emigrated from Switzerland in 1874; moved to McLean County, Ill., in 1877, where his father died in 1881; since 1887 Davis County, Iowa, has been his residence; was married to Miss Ruby Phillips June 2, 1915, and they have two children—Jane, born March 17, 1917, and Barbara, born September 26, 1920. He is a graduate of the Southern Iowa Normal, Iowa State Teachers' College, and the College of Law of the State University of Iowa; taught school six years and practiced law in Bloomfield nine years; was elected county attorney of Davis County in 1910 and reelected in 1912; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dallas, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1920), 263,358.

CASSIUS C. DOWELL, Republican, of Des Moines, was born in Warren County, Iowa; graduated from Drake University in the liberal arts and law departments; lawyer by profession; represented Polk County in the senate of the State for a number of years; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Union, and Wayne (11 counties). Population (1920), 184,477.

HORACE MANN TOWNER, Republican, of Corning, was born in Illinois; profession, lawyer; judge of third district of Iowa; lecturer constitutional law State University of Iowa; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, and Shelby (9 counties). Population (1920), 198,369.

WILLIAM RAYMOND GREEN, Republican, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was born at Colchester, Conn.; graduated at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1879, in the classical course. He was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1882, and shortly after began the practice of law in Iowa. In 1894 he was elected one of the judges of the fifteenth judicial district of Iowa, and was reelected four times thereafter. On June 5, 1911, he was elected to the Sixty-second Congress, and resigned his position as judge. He was reelected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster, and Winnebago (14 counties). Population (1920), 273,407.

L. J. DICKINSON, Republican, of Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa, Representative in Congress from the tenth district, was born in Lucas County, Iowa, October 29, 1873; his early education was received in the Danbury (Iowa) High School, from which he graduated with the class of 1892; attended Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa,

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and graduated in 1898 with the B. S. degree; then took up a law course in the University of Iowa and was graduated in 1899 with the degree of LL. B.; admitted to the bar in 1899, and located at Algona, Iowa, July 1; was married August 21, 1901, to Miss Myrtle Call, two children being born to them-Levi Call and Ruth Alice; served as county attorney of Kossuth County two terms; committeeman tenth congressional district, Republican State central committee, 1914-1918; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without Democratic opposition; a lifelong Republican in politics.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux, and Woodbury (13 counties). Population (1920), 295, 449. WILLIAM DAYTON BOIES, Republican, of Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa, was born January 3, 1857, on the farm that his father homesteaded in the year 1845 in Boone County, Ill.; came to Buchanan County, Iowa, with his parents in 1873; received his education in the country schools and public schools of Belvidere, Ill.; graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa with the class of 1880; was married in 1881; has two sons; located in O'Brien County, Iowa, October, 1881, where he practiced law continuously until appointed judge of the district court, fourth judicial district of Iowa, January 1, 1913; on a division of the district he became judge of the twenty-first judicial district of the State, and at the general election in 1914 was elected judge for the term of four years, which position he resigned March 31, 1918, to become a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress; was nominated at the June primaries and elected November 5, 1918, by a majority vote of 5, 108; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority vote of 36,389.

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(Population (1920), 1,769,257.)

SENATORS.

CHARLES CURTIS, Republican, of Topeka, was born in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kans., January 25, 1860; received his education in the common schools of the city of Topeka; studied law with A. H. Case, at Topeka; was admitted to the bar in 1881; entered into a partnership with Mr. Case in 1881 and remained with him until 1884; was elected county attorney of Shawnee County in 1884 and reelected in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth_Congresses from the fourth Kansas district and to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fiftyeighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses from the first district; in January, 1907, was elected to the United States Senate to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. J. R. Burton, resigned, succeeding Hon. A. W. Benson, appointed ad interim, and for the full term beginning March 4. He took his seat January 29, 1907. He was President pro tempore of the Senate from December 4 to December 12, 1911. He received the popular vote for nomination as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1912, but lost the nomination under the district plan. The Kansas Legislature in the session of 1913 provided for the nomination of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and at the primary in 1914 Mr. Curtis received the nomination over Senator J. L. Bristow, and at the election in November, 1914, he defeated Hon. George A. Neeley, the Democratic candidate, and Hon. Victor Murdock, the Progressive candidate. He was reelected to the Senate November 2, 1920, and his term of service will expire March 4, 1927.

ARTHUR CAPPER, Republican, of Topeka, was born in Garnett, Anderson County, Kans., July 14, 1865; received his education in the common schools and high school of Garnett; learned the printing trade on the Garnett Journal; went to Topeka in 1884 and secured work as typesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital, of which he is now owner and publisher; later became a reporter on this paper, and then city editor; in 1891 went to New York and was a reporter on the New York Tribune, and in 1892 was in Washington as special correspondent; in 1893 started in business for himself by purchasing the North Topeka Mail, a weekly paper, which he afterwards combined with the Kansas Breeze; a few years later he purchased the Topeka Daily Capital and other publications; was president of board of regents Kansas State Agricultural College from 1910 to 1913; in 1912 he was nominated for governor of Kansas, but was defeated by the split in the Republican Party; renominated and elected in

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1914, and again in 1916; elected United States Senator at the general election November 5, 1918, the popular vote being: Arthur Capper, Republican, 281,931; William H. Thompson, Democrat, 149,300; Eva Harding, Socialist, 11,429; married Florence Crawford, daughter of former Gov. Samuel J. Crawford.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Nemaha, and Shawnee (8 counties). Population (1920), 214,091.

DANIEL READ ANTHONY, JR., Republican, of Leavenworth, was born August 22, 1870, at Leavenworth, Kans.; attended public schools and afterwards the Michigan Military Academy and the University of Michigan; received a law degree and was admitted to the bar, but has been engaged in newspaper work all his life; was mayor of Leavenworth in 1903–1905; received the nomination by the Republicans of the first district March 29, 1907, and was elected to the Sixtieth Congress; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte (9 counties). Population (1920), 279,793.

EDWARD CAMPBELL LITTLE, a Republican, of Kansas City; graduated in 1883 from the University of Kansas as bachelor of arts and bachelor of didactics and in 1886 as master of arts and bachelor of laws; for 35 years since then he has been actively engaged in the practice of the law, except during his service in the diplomatic corps, the Army, and Congress; President Harrison appointed him diplomatic agent and consul general to Egypt; in 1898 and 1899 he was in the Philippines as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, commanding the regiment in several engagements; he has been elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixtyseventh Congresses, the last time by a majority of 16,500; he has been chairman of three State conventions and delegate at large to two national conventions; Richard Harding Davis dedicated to him his work on The Rulers of the Mediterranean, and Little has written several sketches of western life for the magazines, one of which was illustrated by Frederic Remington; he was married in 1899 to Edna Margaret Steele, and their son, Donald, is now a sophomore at Kansas University. Mrs. Little is the author of The Works of Jesus, published by Paul Elder & Co., of San Francisco.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery,
Neosho, and Wilson (9 counties). Population (1920), 280,045.

PHILIP PITT CAMPBELL, Republican, of Pittsburg, was born in Novia Scotia; when 4 years old moved with his parents to Kansas and has resided there ever since; graduated A. B. from Baker University; degree of A. M. conferred in course, also honorary degree of doctor of laws; read law on the farm, and was admitted to practice in the fall of 1889; in 1892 married Helen Goff; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fiftyninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chase, Coffey, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Osage, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee, and Woodson (10 counties). Population (1920), 152,378.

HOMER HOCH, Republican, of Marion, Kans., was born at Marion, Kans., July 4, 1879; graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., class of 1902, with A. B. degree; attended George Washington Law School, Washington, D. C., two years, and one year at Washburn Law School, Topeka Kans., receiving degree of LL. B. from Washburn, class of 1909; served in Post Office Department, Washington, D. C., 1903– 1905, as clerk, Chief of Appointment Division, and confidential clerk to purchasing agent; private secretary to governor of Kansas 1907-8; married June 7, 1905, to Miss Edna Wharton; two children; is an editor and lawyer; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress November 5, 1918, defeating Dudley Doolittle, Democrat; elected November 2, 1920, to the Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating Walter W. Austin, Democrat, by a majority of approximately 18,000.

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FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic, Riley,
Saline, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1920), 184,344.

JAMES GEORGE STRONG, Republican, of Blue Rapids, Kans., was born at Dwight, Ill., in 1870; his parents were James G. Strong, lawyer and business man, who was a Republican member of both houses of the Illinois Legislature, and Rebecca M. Witt; both parents were born at Lebanon, Ind.; he was educated in the public schools and Baker University; located at Blue Rapids in 1891, where he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1895; had no financial assistance and inherited no property; married Frances Erma Coon; she was born at Elyria, Ohio, and reared at Blue Rapids, Kans.; they have two children, George E. Strong, a graduate of the University of Chicago, the University of Kansas, and George Washington University (law), volunteer in the late war, commissioned as an airplane pilot, and now his father's private secretary; and Miss Erma E. Strong, now with the family in Washington. Mr. Strong is a lawyer and business man; has been interested in farming and general merchandising; organized and developed the Blue Rapids Telephone Co. and the Marshall County Power & Light Co.; was assistant attorney general; has always been a Republican; was elected county attorney of Marshall County in 1916 without opposition; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 11,591 over a Democrat who had carried the district for six years; renominated to Sixty-seventh Congress by 40 per cent increased majority over 1918, and reelected by 22,680 majority-the largest majority given any candidate for Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln,
Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Russell, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith,
Thomas, Trego, and Wallace (22 counties). Population (1920), 197,604.

HAYS B. WHITE, Republican, of Mankato, Kans., was born near Fairfield, Iowa, September 21, 1855; was educated in the common schools of Iowa; married to Diana Parson December 30, 1874; family of five sons and one daughter; removed to Kansas in 1875; as a pioneer he experienced all the hardships incident to that period on a Kansas farm; farmer by occupation; living upon his first homestead for 33 years, when he moved to Mankato, the county seat; he still owns and personally operates his farm. Mr. White taught school in 1876; was elected to the legislature in 1888 until 1890; State senator 1900 until 1905; was mayor of Mankato, Kans., 1914, resigning in 1915 to become State tax commissioner, which position he held three years, resigning to become a candidate for the Sixty-sixth Congress. His majority was 7,579. Was renominated without opposition in 1920 and elected by a majority of 15,800.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant,
Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harper, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Lane, Meade,
Morton, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Scott, Seward, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, and
Wichita (32 counties). Population (1920), 253,124.

J. N. TINCHER, Republican, of Medicine Lodge, was born in Sullivan County, Mo., November 2, 1878; the family moved from there to Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kans., in 1892, where his education in the common and high schools was completed; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1899; in addition to the practice of law, he has been largely engaged in farming and live-stock operations; he was married in 1901 to Nellie M. Southworth, of Medicine Lodge; they have two children-Coreine, aged 15, and J. N. Tincher, jr., aged 4; he was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by the following vote: J. N. Tincher, Republican, 49,601; J. R. Beeching, Democrat, 26,992; and Edw. E. Colglazier, Socialist, 2,234.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Sedgwick, and Sumner (5 counties).
Population (1920), 207,878.

RICHARD E. BIRD, Republican, of Wichita, Kans., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1878; moved to Wichita with parents in 1887; was educated in the public schools of Kansas and admitted to the practice of law in 1901; married Gertrude M. Hacker in 1903, and has two children--Margaret Cordelia and Richard E., jr.; elected to the district bench for the eighteenth judicial district of Kansas, first division, in 1916; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating W. A. Ayres, Democrat.

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A. OWSLEY STANLEY, Henderson, Ky.; Democrat; born in Shelbyville, Ky., May 21, 1867; graduated class 1889 Centre College, Danville, Ky.; received honorary degree LL. D. State University of Kentucky June 1, 1916; admitted to bar 1894; congressional elector in 1900; married Miss Sue Soaper April 29, 1903; has three sonsA. Owsley, jr., William Soaper, and Marion Shelby; elected to Congress in 1902; served in Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixtythird Congresses from the second district of Kentucky; elected governor of Kentucky in November, 1915; served as governor until May, 1919; resigned that office to attend the extraordinary session of the United States Senate, to which he was elected in November, 1918; term expires March 3, 1925.

RICHARD PRETLOW ERNST, Republican, of Covington, Ky., where he was born on the 28th day of February, 1858, son of William and Sarah Butler Ernst, and where he has since lived; prepared for college at Covington and at Chickerings Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1874; after spending four years at Centre College, Danville, Ky., he graduated there in 1878 with the degree of B. A.; his legal education was received at the law school of the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 1880, and he was in the same year admitted to the bar in Kentucky; has since practiced law in Kentucky and Ohio; in 1886 he married Susan Brent, daughter of Hugh Taylor Brent, of Covington, Ky., and has two children-William Ernst and Sarah Ernst Darnall, wife of John Palmer Darnall; at the election of November 2, 1920, he received 454,226 votes for Senator, to 449,244 for his opponent, Senator J. Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, Democrat.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg (13′ counties). Population (1920), 211,298.

ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY, Democrat, of Paducah, Ky., was born in Graves County, Ky., November 24, 1877; educated in the county schools and in Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., graduating there in 1897, receiving A. B. degree, afterwards attending Emory College at Oxford, Ga., and the University of Virginia Law School at Charlottesville, Va.; is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the bar at Paducah, Ky., in 1901; was married June 23, 1903, to Miss Dorothy Brower, of Paducah, Ky., and has three children; was elected prosecuting attorney for McCracken County, Ky., in 1905 for a term of four years; at expiration of term was elected judge of the McCracken County court and served until elected to Congress; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a majority of more than 12,000 over his Republican opponent; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses by similar majorities; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of more than 23,000.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Christian, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Union, and Webster (8 counties). Population (1920), 196,607.

DAVID H. KINCHELOE, Democrat, of Madisonville, was born on a farm near Sacramento, McLean County, Ky., on the 9th day of April, 1877; attended the public schools and afterwards one year at Valparaiso, Ind., and two years at Bowling Green College, at Bowling Green, Ky., and was graduated from said institution in July, 1898, with the B. S. degree; read law at Calhoun, Ky., and was admitted to the bar in May, 1899; was elected county attorney of McLean County in November, 1901, and served for four years, and was the youngest county attorney in Kentucky at that time; was married on January 14, 1904, to Miss Laura Stateler, then of Evansville, Ind., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Stateler; has one girl, now 6 years old, named Laura Immogene Kincheloe; moved to Madisonville, Ky., January 1, 1906, and has been practicing law there ever since in the firm of Gibson & Kincheloe; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and to the Sixty-seventh Congress by the largest majority ever given a candidate from the district.

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