Alpha TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon (8 counties). Population (1920), 218,916. W. FRANK JAMES, Republican, of Hancock, Mich., son of W. F. and E. A. (Williams) James, was born May 23, 1873, at Morristown, N. J., of Cornish parentage. His father was a miner. He graduated from Hancock High School in 1890, and attended Albion College in 1890-91. He enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-fourth Michigan Volunteers, Spanish-American War. Has been county treasurer of Houghton County, alderman and mayor of city of Hancock, and served two terms as State senator in Michigan Legislature. Is engaged in real estate and general insurance business; married Jennie M. Mingay 1904; four children-Ann, Frank, Newell, and Jean; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress; was elected to the Sixtyfifth Congress over W. J. MacDonald (running as a Progressive on the Democratic ticket) by a majority of over 10,000. Was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a vote of 17,316 over a former Republican running on the Democratic ticket, who received 6,681 votes; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 33,337. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF DETROIT: Second, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, four- MINNESOTA. SENATORS. KNUTE NELSON, Republican, of Alexandria, was born in Norway February 2, 1843; came to the United States in July, 1849, and resided in Chicago, Ill., until the fall of 1850, when he removed to the State of Wisconsin, and from there he removed to Minnesota in July, 1871; was a private and noncommissioned officer in the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment during the War of the Rebellion, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863; was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1867; was a member of the assembly in the Wisconsin Legislature in 1868 and 1869; was county attorney of Douglas County, Minn., in 1872, 1873, and 1874; was State senator in 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878; was presidential elector in 1880; was a member of the board of regents of the State university from February 1, 1882, to January 1, 1893; was a member of the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses for the fifth district of Minnesota; was elected governor of Minnesota in the fall of 1892 and reelected in the fall of 1894; was elected United States Senator for Minnesota January 23, 1895, for the term commencing March 4, 1895; reelected in 1901, 1907, and 1913. Again reelected, by a majority of nearly 70,000, on the 5th of November, 1918, for the term commencing March 4, 1919. FRANK B. KELLOGG, Republican, was born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., December 22, 1856; in 1865 his parents removed to Minnesota and settled on a farm in Olmsted County; studied law at Rochester, Minn.; admitted to bar in 1878; city attorney of Rochester three years; county attorney of Olmsted County five years; married in 1886 to Miss Clara M. Cook; removed to St. Paul in October, 1887, and associated with the late Senator Cushman K. Davis and Cordenio A. Severance in the law firm of Davis, Kellogg & Severance; practiced law as a member of that firm up to the time of his election to the United States Senate; Government delegate to Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in 1904; member Republican national committee 1904 to 1912; delegate to Republican national conventions 1904 and 1908; as special counsel for the Government he prosecuted the dissolution suits against the Standard Oil Co., the Paper Trust, and the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger; Stat Del. Serv ice Stati tica Sena Con Hou Co C president American Bar Association 1912-13; received honorary degree of LL. D. from McGill University, Montreal, 1913; elected to United States Senate November 7, 1916, receiving 185,159 votes, to 117,541 for Daniel W. Lawler, Democrat, and 78,425 for W. G. Calderwood, Prohibitionist. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasa, Waseca, and Winona (10 counties). Population (1920), 214,360. SYDNEY ANDERSON, Republican, of Lanesboro, was born in Goodhue County, Minn., September 17, 1882; was educated in the common schools of Zumbrota, Minn., and the University of Minnesota; is a lawyer; served as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, during the War with Spain; is married and has three children; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lincoln, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock, and Watonwan (13 counties). Population (1920), 225,702. FRANK CLAGUE, Republican, of Redwood Falls, Minn.; born on farm in Warrensville, Ohio; educated in common schools and at Mankato (Minn.) State Normal; taught school four years; admitted to the practice of law in 1891; prosecuting attorney of Redwood County, Minn., January 1, 1895, to January 1, 1903; representative Minnesota State Legislature January 1, 1903, to January 1, 1907; speaker Minnesota House of Representatives session 1905; State senator Minnesota Legislature January 1, 1907, to January 1, 1915; elected district judge of ninth judicial district, Minnesota, November, 1918; at November election, 1920, was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 49,181 votes, as against 6,934 for Frank Simon, Democrat, and 19,274 for H. A. Fuller, Independent; is married; for the past 25 years has also been interested in farming and other business enterprises. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Lesueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Rice, Scott, Sibley, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1920), 212,010. CHARLES RUSSELL DAVIS, Republican, of St. Peter, Minn., was born at Pittsfield, Ill.; moved to Lesueur County, Minn., at an early age; was educated in the common schools; for several years thereafter received private instruction in the higher branches and graduated at a business college in St. Paul; lawyer, having extensively practiced for 30 years in all the State and United States courts; aside from his extensive general practice he achieved marked success as a criminal lawyer; was prosecuting attorney for 12 years, and city attorney and city clerk of St. Peter for 18 years; was captain in the Minnesota National Guard for 4 years; served 6 years in the Minnesota Legislature as representative and senator; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Ramsey. Population (1920), 244,554. OSCAR EDWARD KELLER, Independent Republican, was born in Helensville, Jefferson County, Wis., July 30, 1878; educated in public schools and high school of Jefferson County; completed short courses in dairying and agriculture in the University of Wisconsin; moved to Minnesota in 1901; married Alice Seebeck, of St. Paul, in 1911; has three children-one son, Oscar Edward, jr., 3 years old; two daughters, Margaret, aged 7 years, and Florence, aged 5 years; engaged in politics for past 12 years; elected to the assembly of the city of St. Paul in 1910; reelected in 1912; when commission form of government was adopted in 1914 he became a candidate for commissioner, and was elected; appointed to the office of commissioner of public utilities; reelected as commissioner 1916 and 1918, and assigned to the same office; when the late Congressman Carl C. Van Dyke died, an old-fashioned convention was held to nominate candidates for the special election; Mr. Keller lost the Republican nomination in the convention, but was persuaded by his friends to run as an Independent, and with the support of labor was elected in a very spirited campaign, defeating his Republican and Democratic opponents; reelected on Republican ticket to Sixty-seventh Congress by a large majority. FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS: First, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh' twelfth, and thirteenth wards, and the town of St. Anthony. Population (1920), 275,645. WALTER HUGHES NEWTON, Republican, of Minneapolis, Minn.; born_at Minneapolis, Minn., October 10, 1880; educated at public schools of Minneapolis; LL. B. University of Minnesota Law School; is a lawyer by profession; was first assistant county attorney of Minneapolis, Minn., 1914 to 1918; married Cora M. Noracon, of Minneapolis, Minn., June 14, 1905; three children-Grace Laura, aged 14 years, Walter Hughes, jr., aged 9 years, and John Marshall, aged 1 year; elected to the Sixtysixth Congress by majority of 5,695 votes; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress by plurality of 32,378 votes. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Morrison, HAROLD KNUTSON, Republican, of St. Cloud, was raised on a farm; attended common and agricultural schools; learned printer's trade; is a newspaper man, having published Royalton Banner and Foley Independent; later was associate editor of St. Cloud Daily Journal-Press; was president Northern Minnesota Editorial Association 1910-11; has never before held office; served in Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. Mr. Knutson is the Republican whip of the House. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bigstone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lyon, Meeker, Pope, Renville, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and Yellow Medicine (14 counties). Popu lation (1920), 215,496. ANDREW J. VOLSTEAD, Republican, of Granite Falls; native of Minnesota; occupation, lawyer; was elected to the 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. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis (6 counties). OSCAR J. LARSON, Republican, of Duluth, Minn., was born in Finland May 20, 1871; came to this country when 5 years old; attended the public schools of Calumet, Mich., the Northern Indiana Normal School (now Valparaiso University), and the University of Michigan; was graduated from the latter two institutions of learning in 1891 and 1894, respectively; practiced law in Calumet, Mich., from 1894 to 1907, during which time he served as prosecuting attorney of Houghton County, Mich., for six years; moved to Duluth in 1907, where he is engaged in the practice of the law; married to E. Dorothy Roberts, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and has four children; was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress over Hon. William L. Carss, Democrat. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Ottertail, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau, and Wilkin (13 counties). Population (1920), 235,112. HALVOR STEENERSON, Republican, of Crookston, was born in Dane County, Wis.; moved to Minnesota when a year old, his parents having settled in Houston County, where he was educated in the common schools and at the high school; studied law in an office at Austin, Minn., and at Union College of Law, Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Illinois in June, 1878, and in the courts of Minnesota the same year; began the practice of his profession at once, and removed to Crookston in April, 1880; was in the fall of that year elected county attorney and served two years, and in 1882 was elected State senator and served for four years; was delegate to the Republican national conventions at Chicago in 1884 and 1888. Was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixtysecond, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. TENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Millelacs, Pine, and Wright, and all of the county of Hennepin except the town of St. Anthony outside of the city of Minneapolis, and the third, fourth, and tenth wards of the city of Minneapolis. Population (1920), 256,191. THOMAS D. SCHALL, A. B., LL. B.; Republican; practicing lawyer, Minneapolis, Minn.; residence, Excelsior, Minn.; (blind); lost sight through electric shock. List MISSISSIPPI. (Population (1920), 1,790,618.) SENATORS. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Yazoo County, Miss., post-office address, Yazoo City "Star route," was born July 30, 1854, at Memphis, Tenn.; his mother having died, his father, who was colonel of the Twenty-seventh Tennessee Volunteers, Confederate States Army, being killed at Shiloh, and Memphis being threatened with capture by the Federal Army, his family removed to his mother's family homestead in Yazoo County, Miss.; received a fair education at private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky., the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University of Virginia, and the University of Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany; subsequently studied law under Profs. Minor and Southall at the University of Virginia and in the office of Harris, McKisick & Turley in Memphis; in 1877 got license to practice in the courts of law and chancery of Shelby County, Tenn.; in December, 1878, moved to Yazoo City, Miss., where he engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter; was a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Cleveland and Stevenson; served as temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention in 1904; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving all the votes cast; he had no opposition either for renomination or election. Was the candidate of his party for the office of Speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses. On August 1, 1907, Mr. Williams was chosen at a primary election to be the candidate of the Democratic Party for the United States Senate, and on January 23, 1908, elected by the legislature to succeed Hon. H. D. Money, and took his seat April 4, 1911. Was a delegate to the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson. Was renominated and reelected Senator for the term beginning March 4, 1917, without opposition. PAT HARRISON, Democrat, of Gulfport, Miss., was born at Crystal Springs, Miss., August 29, 1881; was educated in the public schools of Crystal Springs and the Louisi ana State University; he was married in January, 1905, to Mary Edwina McInnis, of Leakesville, Miss., and they have three children; while teaching school in Greene County, Miss., he studied law and was admitted to the bar; was elected district attorney of his district, comprising six counties, and served in that capacity for six years, resigning in September, 1910, to accept the nomination to the Sixty-second Congress; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; on August 20, 1918, was nominated for United States Senator, receiving 56,715 votes, to 44, 151 for Senator James K. Vardaman and 6,730 for former Gov. E. F. Noel; in the general election he received 95 per cent of the vote cast; his term will expire March 4, 1925. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, and Tishomingo (9 counties). Population (1920), 200, 158. JOHN ELLIOTT RANKIN, Democrat, of Tupelo; born in Itawamba County, Miss., on March 29, 1882, son of Thomas B. and Modest Rutledge Rankin; educated in the common schools, the high school, and the University of Mississippi, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in 1910 with the degree of LL. B.; entered the practice of law at West Point, Miss., in June, 1910, and moved to Tupelo, Miss., in November of that year, where he has practiced his profession since that time, during which period he served four years as prosecuting attorney; an ex-soldier of the World War, member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Masonic fraternity, and several other orders; was married on October 1, 1919, to Miss Annie Laurie Burrous, of West Point, Miss. ; was nominated in the Democratic primaries of 1920 over four opponents, leading the ticket by 851 votes in the first primary and defeating his nearest opponent in the second primary by 968 majority; at the general election on November 2, 1920, he received 9,920 majority over his Republican opponent. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, De Soto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, and Union (9 counties). Population (1920), 198,455. B(ILL) G. LOWREY, Democrat, of Blue Mountain, Miss.; born at Kossuth, Miss., May 25, 1862; son of Gen. M. P. and Mrs. Sarah Holmes Lowrey; prepared for college at Blue Mountain Academy; graduated Mississippi College 1887; did graduate work at Tulane University 1888-89; received degrees of A. M. and LL. D. from Mississippi College; married Miss Marylee Booth, of Montgomery County, Miss., 1889; has spent most of his active life in faculty of Blue Mountain College, having been professor of English, vice president, and president; was never before the people as a candidate for public office until he announced for the Sixty-seventh Congress; was nominated in the Democratic primaries and had no opponent in the general election November 2, 1920. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bolivar, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica, and Washington (11 counties). Population (1920), 349,662. BENJAMIN GRUBB HUMPHREYS, Democrat, of Greenville, was born in Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865; his father was Brig. Gen. Benj. G. Humphreys, Confederate States Army, and governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, when he was forcibly ejected from the executive mansion by Federal soldiers under the command of Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames, United States Army, who succeeded him as military governor; his mother was Mildred Hickman Maury, of Tennessee; he was educated at Lexington (Miss.) High School and at the University of Mississippi; he engaged in mercantile pursuits, first as a clerk, afterwards as a commercial traveler, ordrummer," and subsequently on his own account; he was married to Miss Louise Yerger, of Greenville, Miss., October 9, 1889; studied law, and was admitted to the bar November, 1891; was appointed superintendent of education for Leflore County in January, 1892, for term of four years; he was selected messenger by the presidential electors in 1892 to deliver the electoral vote of Mississippi; in 1895 he was elected district attorney for the fourth circuit court district of Mississippi for a term of four years, and was reelected without opposition in 1899; when war was declared against Spain, in April, 1898, he raised a company at Greenwood, and was elected first lieutenant; he offered to resign the office of district attorney in order to join the Army, but United States Senator A. J. McLaurin, who was then governor of Mississippi, refused to permit it, and gave him a leave of absence instead; he served in the Second Mississippi Volunteer Infantry under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee during the entire war, being mustered out with his regiment at Columbia, Tenn., December 22, 1898; upon reorganization of the National Guard in 1899 he was commissioned major in First Mississippi Infantry; retired from National Guard upon being elected to Congress in 1902; was elected to the 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 without opposition. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Montgomery, Pontotoc, Webster, and Yalobusha (11 counties). Population (1920), 192,927. THOMAS UPTON SISSON, Democrat, of Winona, Montgomery County, was born FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, ROSS A. COLLINS, Democrat, of Meridian, was born near Meridian, in Lauderdale County, Miss., April 25, 1880; attended the city schools of Meridian, and in 1894-95 was at the Mississippi A. and M. College; received degree of A. B. at Kentucky University and the degree of LL. B. at the University of Mississippi; admitted to the bar and practiced law in Meridian from 1901 to January, 1912; elected attorney general of Mississippi in 1911, and was reelected without opposition in 1915; was a candidate for governor in 1919, but was defeated; in 1920 was elected to the Sixtyseventh Congress; married to Alfreda Grant, of Meridian, in 1904, and they have two children—Jane, aged 5 years, and Melville, aged 1 year. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Simpson, Stone, and Wayne (17 counties). Population (1920), 267,453. PAUL BURNEY JOHNSON, Democrat, of Hattiesburg, Miss., was born at Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss., March 23, 1880; attended the public schools, Harpersville College, and Millsaps College; admitted to the bar and practiced law from March 23, 1903, until elected city judge of Hattiesburg, Miss.; served one term and resumed law practice until appointed circuit judge of the twelfth judicial district by Gov. Noel; served four years on the circuit bench by appointment; the State constitution being changed, making the office elective, became a candidate and was elected by a Alpha. State Del. Serv ice Stati tica Sena Com Hou Co Ca t B D |