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REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cumberland and York (2 counties). Population (1920), 195,072.

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CARROLL L. BEEDY, Republican, of Portland, Me.; born in Phillips, Me., August 3, 1880; graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Me., in 1903; a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; graduated from Yale University Law School in 1906; a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, local chapter of Corbey Court; active in intercollegiate debating; member Bates-Colby, Bates-Trinity, and Bates-Harvard debating teams; while at Yale was a member of the Yale-Harvard and Yale-Princeton debating teams; admitted to the practice of law in Portland, Me., 1907; elected prosecuting attorney by popular vote in 1916; reelected in 1918; served as public prosecutor for four years; elected a Member of the Sixty-seventh Congress from the first district of Maine in September, 1920.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Androscoggin, Franklin, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, and Sagadahoc (6 counties). Population (1920), 188,563.

WALLACE HUMPHREY WHITE, JR., Republican, of Lewiston, was born in that city August 6, 1877; was educated in the public schools of Lewiston, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1899. Following his graduation he came to Washington as assistant clerk to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, and later served as secretary to the President of the Senate and as private secretary to the late Senator Frye, of Maine. He is a lawyer by profession. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hancock, Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington (5 counties),
Population (1920), 194,413.

JOHN ANDREW PETERS, Republican, of Ellsworth, Me., was born in that city August 13, 1864; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1885; was admitted to the bar in Maine in 1887; practiced law since 1887; was elected representative to the Maine Legislature for the sessions of 1909, 1911, and 1913, and speaker of the house of representatives for the session of 1913; delegate at large to Republican national convention 1916; overseer of Bowdoin College; was elected to the Sixty-third and subsequent Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Aroostook, Penobscot, and Piscataquis (3 counties). Population (1920), 189,966.

IRA GREENLIEF HERSEY, Republican, of Houlton, was born March 31, 1858, at Hodgdon, Me.; educated in the public schools and Ricker Classical Institute, at Houlton, Me.; admitted to the Maine bar in September, 1880; married Annie Dillen January 6, 1884; representative in the Maine Legislature 1909-10, 1911-12; State senator 1913-14; and president of the Maine Senate 1915-16. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 17,647 votes, to 12,969 for Leonard Pierce, Democrat, and 156 for Esterline, Socialist. Reelected September 9, 1918, to the Sixty-sixth Congress. Reelected September 13, 1920, to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 19,000 votes.

MARYLAND.
(Population (1920), 1,449,661.)

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JOSEPH IRWIN FRANCE, Republican, of Port Deposit, Cecil County, Md., born October 11, 1873; son of Joseph Henry France, A. B., LL. B., D. D., whose ancestors settled in Baltimore, Md., before the Revolutionary War, and Hannah Fletcher James, A. B., his wife, daughter of Col. William James, of Richmond, Va.; great great-grandfather was Capt. Thomas Boyle, of Baltimore, who commanded the Chasseur and Comet in War of 1812; graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., class of 1895; awarded Elihu Root foreign fellowship in physical science; after graduation became student in physical science at University of Leipzig, Germany, and later at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.; entered College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, from which he graduated; elected to senate of Maryland from Cecil County, defeating Austin L. Crothers, and served in senate 1906-1908; delegate national Republican convention 1908; secretary Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland 1916–17; fellow American Medical Association; trustee of Ham

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ilton College; nominated in Republican senatorial direct primary May 1, 1916, over ex-Gov. Phillips Lee Goldsborough; elected by direct vote to United States Senate November 7, 1916, over Congressman David J. Lewis, Democrat; married Evalyn S. Tome, daughter of Henry Clay Nesbitt, of Port Deposit, Md.; term expires March 3, 1923.

0. E. WELLER, Republican, of Baltimore; born in Reisterstown, Md., January 23, 1862; graduated from the Franklin High School in Reisterstown in 1877, from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1881, and from the National Law University, in Washington, D. C., in 1887; practiced law, and later engaged in business; retired in 1901 and traveled extensively; is married; in 1912-1915, as chairman of the State roads commission, expended $16,000,000, placed in his hands by two Democratic legislatures, in the construction of the Maryland State roads system; in 1915 was nominated for governor by 112 to 17 in the State convention, and lost the election by about 2,800 in a vote of a quarter of a million; in 1916 managed the campaign of Senator John W. Weeks for the presidential nomination, and was delegate at large and chairman of the Maryland delegation to the national convention; 1918-1920 was treasurer of the Republican senatorial committee in Washington; on May 25, 1920, was unanimously nominated for the United States Senate, and was elected by 15,799 over his Democratic opponent, Senator John Walter Smith, who suffered his first defeat at the polls in 32 years; term will expire March 3, 1927.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester (9 counties). Population (1920), 194,568.

THOMAS ALAN GOLDSBOROUGH, Democrat, of Denton, Caroline County, Md.; born September 16, 1877, at Greensboro, Caroline County, Md.; A. B. Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1899; LL. B. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., 1901; lawyer; State's attorney for Caroline County 1904-1908; coauthor road law of Caroline County, passed in 1904; parent of Maryland State road system; head of the Y. M. C. A. and United War Work campaigns in Caroline County 1917 and 1918; married; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by approximately 2,910 majority.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baltimore, Carroll, and Harford; and fifteenth, sixteenth, twentysixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth wards, and the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth precincts of the twenty-fifth ward of Baltimore city. Population (1920), 311,413.

ALBERT A. BLAKENEY, Republican, of Ten Hills, Md., was born in Baltimore County, Md., September 28, 1850; educated in public and night schools; cotton manufacturer; president of Cooperative Syndicate, Tucker Mills (Inc.); director of City Dairy Co., Woodlawn Cemetery Co., Chesapeake Iron Works, and Liberty Bank; vice president board of education of Baltimore County; not married; elected to Fifty-seventh Congress; retired from active politics for 20 years; accepted nomination for Sixty-seventh Congress, and defeated Carville D. Benson, Democrat, by 7,551 votes, Benson receiving 33,809 votes and Blakeney 41,360 votes.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF BALTIMORE: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and twenty-second wards, and the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth precincts of the eighteenth ward. Population (1920), 228,168.

JOHN PHILIP HILL, Republican, of Baltimore; born 1879 at Annapolis, Md.; A. B. Johns Hopkins 1900, LL. B. Harvard 1903; United States attorney for Maryland 1910-1915; of counsel for United States in Bath Tub and American Can Co. antitrust cases; lawyer (Hill, Randall & Leser); enlisted National Guard 1904; border service 1916; defense center sector Haute-Alsace and Meuse-Argonne offensive (Twenty-ninth Division); lieutenant colonel October, 1918; croix de guerre (Verdun, October, 1918); honorably discharged May 9, 1919; author The Federal Executive, National Protection-Policy and Armament, Hill and Padgett's Annotated Public Service Commission Law of Maryland; chairman Republican city committee, Baltimore; married Suzanne Howell Carroll 1913; two children; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

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FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF BALTIMORE: Ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, and twentieth wards, and the first, second, third, and twelfth precincts of the eighteenth ward. Population (1920), 255,084.

JOHN CHARLES LINTHICUM, Democrat, of Baltimore, was born at Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Md., on November 26, 1867. He received his early education in the public schools of that county and of Baltimore city, later entering the State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1886, when he became principal of Braddock School, Frederick County, and later taught school in his native county of Anne Arundel; returning to Baltimore he took a special course in the historical and political department of the Johns Hopkins University, after which he entered the University of Maryland school of law, from which he obtained his degree of LL. B. in 1890; has ever since practiced law in the city of Baltimore, some years ago having associated with himself his brother, Seth Hance Linthicum, under the firm name of J. Chas. Linthicum & Bro.; in 1903 was elected to the house of delegates from the third legislative district of Baltimore city. During the session of 1904 he was chairman of the city delegation, chairman of the elections committee, a member of the judiciary committee, and of the printing committee. In 1905 he was nominated to the State senate from his district, and was duly elected in November of that year, and in 1907 was reelected; in 1908 was elected a presidential elector; was appointed in 1908 by his excellency Gov. Crothers as judge advocate general upon his staff. He has always been a Democrat, and taken a great interest in party affairs and especially in the welfare and prosperity of his city. He is married, residing at 705 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, his wife being Helen A. Perry, a daughter of the late Dr. John L. Perry and Harriet Sadler Perry, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress against William O. Atwood, the Republican candidate.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Prince Georges, and St. Mary (6 counties), the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth precincts of the eighteenth ward, the twenty-first, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth wards, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth precincts of the twenty-fifth ward of Baltimore city. Population (1920), 223,656.

SYDNEY E. MUDD, Republican, of La Plata, Charles County, Md., was born at Gallant Green, Charles County, Md., June 20, 1885; is the son of the late Sydney E. Mudd, who for many years was the Republican Representative of the same congressional district; received his early education in the public schools of his county and the District of Columbia; graduated at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., with the degrees of A. B. in 1906 and LL. B. in 1909, at which institution he later became a member of the law faculty, instructing in criminal law and other subjects; defeated for the State legislature in 1909; admitted to the bar of Maryland and the District of Columbia in 1910 and has been actively engaged in the practice of law in both jurisdictions; appointed assistant district attorney for the District of Columbia in February, 1911; resigned in March, 1912, and was defeated for the nomination as a candidate for the Sixty-third Congress; reappointed assistant district attorney in July, 1912, and again resigned in March, 1914, to become a candidate for the Sixtyfourth Congress, to which he was elected; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 17,407 votes, to 13,909 for Jackson H. Ralston, Democrat; 539 for James L. Smiley, Socialist; and 462 for John E. Wetherald, Prohibitionist; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington (5 counties).
Population (1920), 236,772.

FREDERICK N. ZIHLMAN, Republican, of Cumberland, was born October 2, 1879, at Carnegie, Pa., his family moving to Cumberland three years later. At the age of 11 years he began working in a glass factory, and subsequently became a journeyman; president of local Flint Glass Workers 1904-1909, national delegate 1904-1908, member national executive board 1905-6; president Allegany Trades Council 1904-1909; president Maryland State Federation of Labor 1906-7. He continued working at the glass trade until 1912, when he entered the real estate firm of Cowden & Zihlman, with offices at Cumberland, in which business he is still engaged. Elected State senator for Allegany County in 1909, and was reelected in 1913, serving until 1917, when he resigned to take his seat in the Sixty-fifth Congress. Was minority leader in Maryland State Senate 1914-1916. In 1914 he was defeated for the Sixty-fourth Congress by David J. Lewis by 742 plurality. Elected a Member of the Sixty-fifth Congress by 2,722 plurality over H. Dorsey Etchison, Democrat. Elected Member of the Sixty-sixth Congress by 3,519 plurality. Elected Member of the Sixty-seventh Congress by 9,860 plurality.

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MASSACHUSETTS.

(Population (1920), 3,852,356.)

SENATORS.

HENRY CABOT LODGE, Republican, of Nahant, was born in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1850; received a private-school and collegiate education; was graduated from Harvard College in 1871; studied law at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875, receiving the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876; in the same year-1876-received the degree of Ph. D. from Harvard University for his thesis on "The Land Law of the Anglo-Saxons"; profession, that of literature; has published, 1877, "Life and Letters of George Cabot"; 1881, "Short History of the English Colonies in America"; 1882, "Life of Alexander Hamilton"; 1883, "Life of Daniel Webster"; 1885, edited the works of Alexander Hamilton in 9 volumes; published, in 1886, "Studies in History"; 1889, "Life of Washington" 2 volumes; 1891, "History of Boston" (in the Historic Towns Series, published by the Longmans); 1892, Historical and Political Essays," and a volume of selections from speeches; 1895, in conjunction with Theodore Roosevelt, "Hero Tales from American History 1897, "Certain Accepted Heroes," and other essays; 1898, "Story of the Revolution,' 2 volumes; 1899, "Story of the Spanish War,' ," "A Fighting Frigate," and other essays; 1906, "A Frontier Town," and other essays; 1910, "Speeches and Addresses, 1884-1909"; 1913, "Early Memories" and "One Hundred Years of Peace"; 1915, 'The Democracy of the Constitution"; 1917, "War Addresses"; is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the Virginia Historical Society, of the American Academy of Arts and Science, of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, of the Mayflower Society, of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, of the American Antiquarian Society, of the American Institute of Arts and Letters, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of the Royal Historical Society of London, and has received the degree of doctor of laws from Williams College, Clark University, Yale University, Harvard University, Brown University, Amherst College, Union College, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College; elected in 1915 president of Massachusetts Historical Society; was permanent chairman of the Republican national convention which met in Philadelphia June 19, 1900; chairman of the committee on resolutions of the Republican national convention of 1904 at Chicago; permanent chairman of the Republican national convention of 1908 at Chicago; chairman of the committee on resolutions of the Republican national convention of 1916 at Chicago; temporary and permanent chairman of the Republican national convention of 1920 at Chicago; was a member of the Commission on Alaskan Boundary appointed by President Roosevelt; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution during service in the House of Representatives, and appointed Regent again in 1905; trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; served two terms as member of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Legislature; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fiftyfirst, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses; was elected to the Senate January 17, 1893, to succeed Henry L. Dawes; resigned his seat in the House and took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1893. He was reelected in 1899, 1905, 1911, and 1916. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

DAVID IGNATIUS WALSH, Democrat, of Fitchburg, Mass., was born in Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., on November 11, 1872; was educated in the public schools of Clinton, Mass.; was graduated from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in 1893, receiving degree A. B.; was graduated from Boston University School of Law, 1897, receiving degree LL. B.; holds honorary degree LL. D. from Holy Cross College, Notre Dame University, and Georgetown University; began the practice of law at Fitchburg, Mass., 1897, and in recent years continued the practice of law at Boston; was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1900, and reelected 1901; was elected lieutenant governor 1913, governor 1914, reelected 1915; delegate at large to the Democratic national convention 1912, 1916, and 1920; delegate at large to the Massachusetts constitutional convention 1917-18; elected to the United States Senate November 5, 1918, to succeed the Hon. John W. Weeks, receiving 207,478 votes, to 188,287 votes for John W. Weeks, his Republican opponent; his term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT-BERKSHIRE COUNTY. FRANKLIN COUNTY: Towns of Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway, Greenfield, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Towns of Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, Southhampton, Westhampton, and Worthington. HAMPDEN COUNTY: City of Holyoke and towns of Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, Tolland, and Westfield. Population (1920), 225,974.

ALLEN TOWNER TREADWAY, Republican, of Stockbridge, was born in Stockbridge, Mass., September 16, 1867; Amherst College, class of 1886; thirty-third degree Mason; past warden Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; member Massachusetts House of Representatives 1904; member Massachusetts Senate 1908-1911; elected president of senate in 1909 and presided over it three succeeding years, annually receiving the unanimous Republícan vote and twice the unanimous Democratic indorsement; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by over 13,000 majority.

SECOND DISTRICT. FRANKLIN COUNTY: Towns of Bernardston, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Leverett,
Montague, Northfield, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately. HAMPSHIRE
COUNTY: City of Northampton; towns of Amherst, Belchertown, Easthampton, Enfield, Granby,
Hadley, Hatfield, Pelham, South Hadley, Ware, and Williamsburg. HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of
Chicopee and Springfield; towns of Agawam, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Longmeadow, Ludlow,
West Springfield, and Wilbraham. Population (1920), 283,712.

FREDERICK HUNTINGTON GILLETT, Republican, of Springfield, was born at Westfield, Mass., October 16, 1851; graduated at Amherst College in 1874 and Harvard Law School in 1877; was admitted to the bar in Springfield in 1877; was assistant attorney general of Massachusetts from 1879 to 1882; was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1890 and 1891; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress in 1892, and has been reelected to all succeeding Congresses, receiving at the last election 47,658 votes, to 36 for all other candidates. Elected Speaker for the Sixty-sixth Congress and reelected Speaker for the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-FRANKLIN COUNTY: Towns of New Salem and Orange. HAMPDEN COUNTY: Towns
of Brimfield, Holland, Monson, Palmer, and Wales. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Towns of Greenwich and
Prescott. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Towns of Ashby and Townsend. WORCESTER COUNTY: City of
Fitchburg; towns of Ashburnham, Athol, Barre, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Dana,
Dudley, Gardner, Hardwick, Holden, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Lunenburg,
New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton,
Royalston, Rutland, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Templeton, Warren, Webster, West
Boylston, West Brookfield, Westminster, and Winchendon. Population (1920), 221,019.

CALVIN D. PAIGE, Republican, of Southbridge, Mass.; born there; president Central Mills Co., cotton manufacturers; president Southbridge Savings Bank; married and has one son; has been a member of the Massachusetts Legislature; delegate to the Republican national convention; presidential elector 1904; member of governor's council 1907-8; was elected to Sixty-third Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by over 23,000 majority.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-WORCESTER COUNTY: City of Worcester; towns of Auburn, Blackstone, Douglas,
Grafton, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Northbridge, Shrewsbury, Sutton, Upton,
Uxbridge, and Westboro. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Town of Hopkinton. Population (1920), 253,713.
SAMUEL E. WINSLOW, Republican; born Worcester April 11, 1862; A. B. Har-
vard 1885. Colonel on Gov. Brackett's staff 1890; married; manufacturer. Member
Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Towns of Methuen and Andover. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of
Lowell and Woburn; towns of Acton, Ayer, Bedford, Billerica, Boxboro, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelms-
ford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Hudson, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, Pepperell, Reading,
Shirley, Stow, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro, Westford, and Wilmington. WORCESTER COUNTY: Towns of
Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, and Northboro. Population (1920), 232,019.

JOHN JACOB ROGERS, Republican, of Lowell; born Lowell August 18, 1881;
graduate Harvard College (A. B. 1904), Harvard Graduate School (A. M. 1905),
Harvard Law School (LL. B. 1907); lawyer; private, Field Artillery, 1918; Member
Sixty-third and subsequent Congresses.

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