THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Metcalfe, Muhlenberg, Simpson, Todd, and Warren (10 counties). Population (1920), 192,971.

ROBERT YOUNG THOMAS, JR., Democrat, of Central City, was born in Logan County, Ky.; was educated at Bethel College, Russellville, Ky.; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the State legislature in 1885 and 1886; was elected Commonwealth's attorney for the seventh judicial district in 1903 for six years, which office he held when elected to Congress; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixtysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Ohio, Taylor, and Washington (13 counties). Population (1920), 207,721.

BEN JOHNSON, Democrat, born May 20, 1858, near Bardstown, Ky. Educated St. Mary's College (degree A. M.), Louisville Law University. Served two terms in Kentucky House of Representatives; was speaker of Kentucky House one term; served one term in Kentucky State Senate; was chairman of Kentucky Democratic campaign committee in 1908; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jefferson. Population (1920), 286,369.

CHARLES FRANKLIN OGDEN, Republican, was born at Charleston, Ind.; after graduating from the Jeffersonville (Ind.) High School, he attended the University of Louisville Law Department at Louisville, Ky.; following his graduation he entered the active practice of law in Louisville, Ky.; in 1901 he formed a partnership with James P. Edwards, under the firm name of Edwards & Ogden; in 1907 the firm name became Edwards, Ogden & Peak, Judge R. Frank Peak having resigned as circuit judge of the twelfth judicial district of Kentucky and become associated with Messrs. Edwards and Ogden; he was elected from one of the Louisville districts to the Kentucky Legislature, serving from 1898 to 1899; at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he was commissioned captain of Company H, in the Eighth United States Volunteer Infantry, by President McKinley; he is married and has one son, Willson; his home is at Anchorage, Ky., a suburb of Louisville; he was elected to the Sixtysixth Congress by a majority of 1,084 and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 12,669.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton, and Trimble (8 counties). Population (1920), 186,068.

ARTHUR B. ROUSE, Democrat, of Burlington, Boone County, son of Dudley and Eliza B. Rouse, was born June 20, 1874; attended school at Burlington and graduated from Hanover College, Indiana, with the degree of B. S. in 1896; graduated from the Louisville Law School in 1900; served as a member of the State executive committee for seven years and resigned to become a candidate for Congress in 1910; married Minnie Elizabeth_Kelly December 14, 1910; has two sons-Arthur B., jr., born August 22, 1916, and Robert, born June 1, 1920; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 13,998 majority.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bourbon, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Lee, Oldham, Owen, Powell, Scott, and Woodford (12 counties). Population (1920), 205,328.

JAMES CAMPBELL CANTRILL, Democrat, of Georgetown, was born at Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., July 9, 1870; was educated at Georgetown (Ky.) College; in 1893 he married Miss Carrie Payne, of Georgetown, who died December 8, 1913. To this union was born one son, James E. Cantrill; on June 26, 1918, married Mrs. Ethel Gist Ripy, of Newcastle, Ky.; in 1895 was elected chairman of the Scott County Democratic committee; in 1897 elected a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, and reelected in 1899; in 1901 was elected a member of the Kentucky Senate from the twenty-second senatorial district; in 1904 was elected chairman of the joint caucus of the Kentucky Legislature; in 1904 was nominated at Lexington for Congress, but declined the nomination, although the nomination was equivalent to election; the same year he was elected a delegate to the Democratic national convention; in 1906 Mr. Cantrill became active in the work of organizing the tobacco growers of Kentucky, and for several years past has given almost his entire time to this work; January, 1908, he was elected president of the American Society of Equity for Kentucky, an

organization for the cooperation of farmers in securing more profitable prices for their products; in 1916 was campaign chairman of the Democratic Party for Kentucky; 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 without opposition.

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EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison,
Mercer, Shelby, and Spencer (11 counties). Population (1920), 168,067.

RALPH GILBERT, Democrat, of Shelby County, Ky., was born in Taylorsville, Spencer County, Ky., January 17, 1882; son of George G. Gilbert, who represented this same district in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses; educated in the public schools; received degree in Latin and mathematics in the University of Virginia and in law at the University of Louisville; began practice of law in 1901; elected judge of Shelby County court and served two terms, 1910-1917, when he voluntarily retired from the bench and formed a partnership for the practice of law with Hon. W. T. Beckham, with whom he is now associated; married Miss Jane Thompson, of Shelby County, Ky., and has three children-Jane Emerson, Dorothy, and Betsy; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress over King Swope, Republican, receiving 37,381 votes, to 34,525 for Swope.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bath, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Fleming, Greenup,
Harrison, Lawrence, Lewis, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Robertson, Rowan, and
Wolfe (19 counties). Population (1920), 272,725.

WILLIAM JASON FIELDS, Democrat, of Olive Hill, Carter County, Ky., was born at Willard, Ky., December 29, 1874; was educated in the common schools of Carter County and at Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky.; was married October 28, 1893, to Miss Dora McDavid, of Rosedale, Ky.; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley,
Perry, and Pike (10 counties). Population (1920), 199,710.

JOHN WESLEY LANGLEY, Republican, of Pikeville, was born in Floyd County, Ky.; received his early education in the common schools, in which he was a teacher for three years; attended the law departments of the National, Georgetown, and Columbian (now George Washington) Universities for an aggregate period of eight years; had conferred on him the degrees of bachelor of laws in the National University, master of laws in each of the three universities named, and doctor of the civil law and master of diplomacy in the George Washington University; was an examiner in the Pension Office, a member of the board of pension appeals, a law clerk in the General Land Office, and disbursing and appointment clerk of the Census Office; served two terms in the Kentucky Legislature, receiving the caucus nomination of his party for speaker of the house; was twice a delegate from his district to Republican national conventions, and a delegate at large to the Republican national convention of 1916; married and has three children; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Monroe, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Wayne, and Whitley (15 counties). Population (1920), 289,766.

JOHN MARSHALL ROBSION, Republican, of Barbourville, Knox County, Ky., was reared on a farm and attended the common schools; received degree from the National Normal University, of Lebanon, Ohio; also attended the National Normal University, of Ada, Ohio, and Holbrook College, at Knoxville, Tenn.; received the degree of bachelor of laws from Centre College, Danville, Ky.; taught for several years in the public schools of Kentucky and Union College, Barbourville, Ky.; has been active in the practice of law for several years; is now and has been for several years president of the First National Bank of Barbourville, Ky.; was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in June, 1916; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by nearly 18,000 majority; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by nearly 44,000 majority; assigned to the Committees on Roads, Education, Pensions, and Mines and Mining in the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. Married Lida Stansberry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stansberry, of Grays, Ky.; to this union were born two children-Daisy S. and John M., jr.

LOUISIANA.

(Population (1920), 1,798,509.)

SENATORS.

JOSEPH EUGENE RANSDELL, Democrat, of Lake Providence, was born in Alexandria, La., October 7, 1858, the eighth child of John H. and Amanda (Terrell) Ransdell; obtained his early education in the private schools of Alexandria, and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in June 1882, which institution elected him honorary chancellor and conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, June, 1907; was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in June, 1883; was elected district attorney of the eighth judicial district of Louisiana in April, 1884, which office he held for 12 years; was married to Olive Irene Powell, of Lake Providence, November 15, 1885; was a member of the fifth Louisiana levée board from May, 1896, until August, 1899; represented East Carroll Parish in the State constitutional convention of 1898; was elected to the Fiftysixth Congress in September, 1899, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. S. T. Baird, who died April 22, 1899; on his election to Congress gave up the practice of law and has devoted himself exclusively to his congressional duties and cotton-planting interests; has been especially active in behalf of legislation for waterways and flood control; served continuously in the lower House until the close of the Sixty-second Congress; received the nomination for United States Senator in a Democratic primary election held January 23, 1912; was elected by the legislature to succeed Hon. M. J. Foster May 21, 1912, and took his seat on March 4, 1913. His first term of service expired on March 3, 1919. In August, 1918, he was unopposed for nomination by the Democratic Party for the term ending March 4, 1925, and at the general election in November was elected without opposition.

EDWIN SIDNEY BROUSSARD, of New Iberia, La., was born on his father's plantation in Iberia Parish, La., on December 4, 1874; son of John D. Broussard and Anastazie Gonsoulin; was educated in the public schools of Iberia Parish and the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, graduating from this institution in 1896 and receiving the degree of bachelor of science; taught in the public schools in 1897 and 1898; at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War resigned position and volunteered for service; joined the Second United States Volunteer Infantry and was elected by the men captain of Company I of said regiment, seeing service in Santiago Province; remained one year in service in Cuba; accompanied the Taft Commission to the Philippine Islands as an assistant secretary; after a year's service with the Philippine Commission, returned and took up law at Tulane University, New Orleans, La.; was pres dent of the 1901 law class; began practice of law with his brother, Robert F. Broussard, former United States Senator from Louisiana, and L. T. Dulany, under the firm name of Broussard, Dulany & Broussard; in 1903 was appointed district attorney, being subsequently elected twice to this office-once as a Democrat and once as a Progressive; in 1916 was the candidate of the Progressive Party for the office of lieutenant governor of Louisiana; in 1920 secured the nomination in the Democratic primaries for United States Senator over Congressman J. Y. Sanders and Hon. Donelson Caffery; was not opposed at the general election; in 1905 married Marie Patout, and has six children-Felix P., Edwin S., jr., Marie Louise, John D., George P., and Eugene De B.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and fifteenth wards. PARISHES: Plaquemines and St. Bernard. Population (1920), 220,478.

JAMES O'CONNOR, Democrat, of New Orleans, La., was born April 4, 1870; educated in the public schools of New Orleans; graduated from the law department of Tulane University and admitted to the bar in 1900; married Florence Bland in 1903 and has a family of three sons; in 1912 was named assistant city attorney at New Orleans, serving until 1918, when he became judge of the criminal court of the parish of Orleans; resigned the judgeship in 1919 to take a seat in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-sixth Congress, to which elected to succeed Hon. Albert Estopinal, deceased; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: First, second, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth wards. PARISHES: Jefferson, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John. Population (1920), 245,176.

HENRY GARLAND DUPRÉ, Democrat, of New Orleans, was born at Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, La., on July 28, 1873; is the eldest child of the late Laurent Dupré and of Marie Celeste (Garland) Dupré; was educated in the public schools of Opelousas, and was graduated in 1892 from the Tulane University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, with the degree of bachelor of arts. He subsequently received the degree of bachelor of laws from the same institution; began the practice of his profession in the city of New Orleans in 1895; served as assistant city attorney of New Orleans from 1900 to 1910; was elected to the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana from the fourteenth ward of the parish of Orleans in 1900; was reelected in 1904 and in 1908; was speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana for the sessions of 1908 and 1910; was chairman Democratic State convention in 1908 to select delegates to the Democratic national convention at Denver; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress on November 8, 1910, to fill the unexpired term occasioned by the death of the Hon. Samuel L. Gilmore, and at the same election was elected to the Sixty-second Congress. He was reelected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and was elected without opposition as a Member of the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Assumption, Iberia, Lafayette, Lafourche, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, and Vermilion (8 parishes). Population (1920), 212,152.

WHITMELL PUGH MARTIN, of Thibodaux, was born in Assumption Parish August 12, 1867. He studied in public schools and under private tutors until he entered the Louisiana State University, and was graduated from there in 1888 with the degree of B. S.; studied law at the University of Virginia, and after passing examinations before the courts of Virginia and Louisiana entered upon the practice of law in 1891. After practicing his profession for a short time in Assumption, he moved to Thibodaux, which place has since been his home; was superintendent of public education from 1894 to 1900; district attorney from 1900 to 1907; elected judge of the twentieth judicial district in 1907; was married to Miss Amy Williamson, of De Soto Parish, in 1896, and four children were born to them-Amy, Whitmell Pugh, jr. (who died at the age of 12 years, in May, 1914), Marshall Leigh, and Robert Campbell. In 1912 Judge Martin was alternate delegate to the Baltimore convention that nominated President Woodrow Wilson and was an ardent supporter of Wilson, but when the Underwood tariff bill placing sugar on the free list was passed, materially reducing the duty upon other products of Louisiana, believing that the Democratic Party had violated its traditions and platform pledges, and being of the opinion that a free-trade policy would prove ruinous to the interests of Louisiana, he left the Democratic Party and joined the Progressive Party. He was nominated by convention as the Progressive candidate for Congress and defeated his Democratic opponent by 1,426 votes, being the first non-Democratic Congressman to be sent from Louisiana in over 25 years. He was reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress on the Progressive ticket. He was nominated by the Democratic Party and elected without opposition to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River, and Web. ster (7 parishes). Population (1920), 223,777.

JOHN N. SANDLIN, Democrat, of Minden, was born near Minden, in Webster Parish; is a lawyer; served six years as district attorney and 10 years as judge of the second judicial district of Louisiana; is married; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and West Carroll (14 parishes). Population (1920), 221,715.

RILEY JOSEPH WILSON, Democrat, of Harrisonburg, was born in Winn Parish, La., November 12, 1871; educated in the public schools of Louisiana and at Arcadia Male and Female College, Arcadia, La., and Iuka Normal College, Iuka, Miss., graduating at the latter institution in 1894; was principal of Harrisonburg High School for 1895 and 1896; while teaching took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar of Louisiana November, 1898, by the supreme court; represented Catahoula Parish in the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1898, and also in the legislature from 1900 to 1904; was married to Miss Pearl Barnett, of Iuka, Miss., June 14, 1899; bas

three children, two boys and one girl; was editor of Catahoula News from 1898 to 1904; was elected district attorney of the eighth judicial district of Louisiana November, 1904, and reelected to the same office November, 1908; resigned the office of district attorney May, 1910, on being elected judge of the same district to fill out an unexpired term, and was reelected as judge November, 1912; was elected a Member of the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixtyseventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana (12 parishes). Population (1920), 255,372.

GEORGE KENT FAVROT, Democrat; born in Baton Rouge, La., November 26, 1868; graduated at Louisiana State University and at law school Tulane University; district attorney 1892-1896 and 1900-1904; district judge 1904-1906; delegate from the State at large to constitutional convention 1898; Member of the Sixtieth Congress; member Louisiana Legislature 1912-1916; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, and St. Landry (8 parishes). Population (1920), 204,909.

LADISLAS LAZARO, Democrat, of Washington, La., was born June 5, 1872, near Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish (then St. Landry), of the marriage of Alexandre Lazaro and Miss Marie Denise Ortego; educated in the public and private schools of St. Landry Parish and St. Isadore's College, New Orleans; graduated in medicine in 1894 and followed medicine as a profession until 1913; was member and president of his parish school board for four years; also is interested in farming. Was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1908 and in 1912, both times without opposition; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected without opposition to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Avoyelles, Grant, La Salle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon, and Winn (8 parishes). Population (1920), 214,930.

JAMES BENJAMIN ASWELL, Democrat, of Natchitoches, was born in Jackson Parish, La., December 23, 1869; was reared on a cotton farm and worked his way through school; was graduated from Peabody Normal College in 1892; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the University of Nashville in 1893 and 1898; taught in country schools, high school, and did graduate work in Chicago University; specialized in literature, pedagogy, and political science; was State institute conductor 1897-1900; president of the Louisiana Industrial Institute 1900-1904; elected twice to office of State superintendent of public education without opposition 1904-1908; elected chancellor of the University of Mississippi in 1907, but was prevented from accepting by the earnest solicitation of the Louisiana teachers; president Louisiana State Normal School 1908-1911; received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Arkansas in 1907; reorganized the State public-school system; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

MAINE.

(Population (1920), 768,014.)

SENATORS.

BERT M. FERNALD, Republican, of West Poland, Me., governor of Maine 1909-10, was elected to the United States Senate September 11, 1916, to succeed the late Edwin C. Burleigh. Reelected September 9, 1918.

FREDERICK HALE. Republican, of Portland, Cumberland County, Me., was born at Detroit, Mich., October 7, 1874; prepared for college at Lawrenceville and Groton schools, and graduated from Harvard in 1896; admitted to the bar in 1899; served in the Maine Legislature in 1905; elected to the United States Senate in September, 1916, to succeed Senator Charles F. Johnson. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.