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REPRESENTATIVES.

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FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaverhead, Broadwater, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Gallatin, Granite,
Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Madison, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli, Sanders, and Silver
Bow (16 counties). Population (1920), 215,413.

WASHINGTON JAY MCCORMICK, Republican, was born at his present residence, Missoula, Mont., January 4, 1884, the son of Washington J. and Kate (Higgins) McCormick, both pioneers of Montana; he attended the public schools of Missoula and later was a student at the University of Montana and Notre Dame University, Indiana; he is a graduate of Harvard (A. B. 1906) and of Columbia University (LL. B. 1910); he is a member of the bar of New York and Montana; on September 21, 1915, he was married to Edna Theresa Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Fox, of Twin Bridges, Mont., and they have three children-Washington J., jr., Angela, and Camilla; he served in the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly (1919) of Montana from Missoula County, Mont., and was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by slightly over 10,000 majority. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, McCone, Meagher, Musselshell, Park, Phillips, Pondera, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rose bud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, and Yellowstone (38 counties). Population (1920), 333,476.

CARL W. RIDDICK, Republican, of Lewistown, Mont., rancher, was born in Wells, Minn., February 25, 1872; graduated at Menominee, Mich., High School 1890; attended Albion, Mich., College and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; editor and publisher of Winamac, Ind., Republican for 11 years, and secretary of Indiana Republican State central committee campaigns of 1906 and 1908; married in 1893 to Miss Grace Keith, of Green Bay, Wis.; has four children-two sons and two daughters; elected to Congress from second Montana district in 1918; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating the Nonpartisan League opponent by a majority of 31,382,

NEBRASKA.

(Population (1920), 1,296,372.)

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GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK, Democrat, of Omaha, was born in that city September 18, 1859; educated in the Omaha public schools, supplemented by two years' study in Germany and a law course at Michigan University, from the law department of which he graduated in 1881; married in 1883; established the Omaha Evening World in 1885, and is now publisher of the Omaha Morning, Evening, and Sunday World-Herald; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, defeated for reelection to the Fifth-ninth Congress, elected to the Sixtieth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtyfirst Congress; was elected Senator from Nebraska for the term beginning March 4, 1911; was reelected to the Senate November 7, 1916, receiving 143,082 votes. Other candidates were John L. Kennedy, Republican, with 131,359; E. E. Olmstead, Socialist, with 7,425; and D. B. Gilbert, Prohibitionist, with 4,429.

GEORGE W. NORRIS, Republican, of McCook, Nebr., was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861, and his early life was spent on the farm where he was born. His father died when he was a small child; his only brother was killed in the War of the Rebellion, and his mother was left in straitened circumstances; was compelled to work out among the neighboring farmers by the day and month during the summer and attended district school during the winter; afterwards taught school and earned the money to defray expenses for a higher education; attended Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the Valparaiso University; studied law while teaching and afterwards finished the law course in law school; was admitted to the bar in 1883; removed to Nebraska in 1885; was three times prosecuting attorney, twice by appointment and once by election, refusing a second nomination for the position; was elected district judge of fourteenth district in 1895 and reelected to the same position in 1899, which position he held when nominated for Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses; was elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1913, and reelected in 1918. His present term expires March 3, 1925.

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FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cass, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, and Richardson (7 counties). Population (1920), 173,458.

C. FRANK REAVIS, Republican, of Falls City, Nebr., was born in Falls City September 5, 1870; was educated at the high schools of Falls City, and attended the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.; was admitted to the bar in March, 1892, and practiced law with his father, Judge Isham Reavis, at Falls City, Nebr., until May, 1914, when his father died; was elected prosecuting attorney for Richardson County in 1894, serving one term; was married on the 26th day of June, 1895, his family consisting of wife and two sons; was a Member of the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Douglas, Sarpy, and Washington (3 counties). Population (1920), 226,074.

ALBERT W. JEFFERIS, Republican, of Omaha, Nebr., was born December 7, 1868, on a farm in Chester County, Pa., near Embreeville, along the old Brandywine, where his forefathers settled long prior to the Revolutionary War; he attended school at Romansville, Pa., and State Normal School at West Chester, Pa.; taught school in West Bradford Township three years; studied law at West Chester and at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in June, 1893; while at the University of Michigan he was president of his class during the senior year, and a member of the football and baseball teams of the university; has practiced law in Omaha since the fall of 1893, his present firm being Jefferis & Tunison; never held public office; was a member of the Republican State committee for many years; in 1897 married Miss Helen J. Malarkey, of Oregon, Ill.; has two children-son, Albert, jr., and daughter, Janet. Elected to Sixty-sixth Congress by majority of 463, receiving 13,302 votes, to 12,839 for Charles O. Lobeck; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress by majority of 14,850, receiving 33,196 votes, to 18,346 for James F. O'Hara, Democrat.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Nance, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Thurston, and Wayne (18 counties). Population (1920), 244,367.

ROBERT EMORY EVANS, Republican, of Dakota City; born 1856, in Coalmont, Pa.; educated in normal schools located at Indiana and Millersville, Pa., and the University of Michigan; lawyer; county attorney; district judge; president Nebraska State Bar Association; married; has three children; elected to the Sixty-sixth and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Fillmore, Gage, Hamilton, Jefferson, Polk, Saline, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, and York (11 counties). Population (1920), 182,181.

MELVIN O. MCLAUGHLIN, Republican, of York, was born at Osceola, Iowa, August 8, 1876; moved with parents to Nebraska in 1884; spent childhood and youth on the farm, attending the common schools in the winter; attended Lincoln Normal University and Peru State Normal, and taught school for 7 years near Lincoln; is an alumnus of Iowa Christian College, the University of Omaha, Union Biblical Seminary, of Dayton, Ohio, and has studied law under the direction of Hugh A Myers, of Omaha; served 10 years in the ministry of the United Brethren Church; was married August 4, 1897, to Elma Pierson, of Bennett, Nebr.; has served as president of York College for 6 years; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress in November, 1918, by a majority of 6,277, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 13,873. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Chase, Clay, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hall, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Kearney, Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Redwillow, and Webster (18 counties). Population (1920), 182,202.

WILLIAM E. ANDREWS, Republican, of Hastings, was born near Oskaloosa, Iowa, and lived on the farm until he entered college; graduated from Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in June, 1885, and was married to Miss Mira McCoy, of that city, September 1, 1885; located in Hastings, Nebr., in January, 1885, and served as a member of the faculty of Hastings College from that date until January 1, 1893-eight years; was private secretary to the governor of Nebraska, Hon. Lorenzo Crouse, during 1893-94-two years; was a Member of the Fifty-fourth Congress, March 4, 1895,

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to March 4, 1897; was appointed by former President McKinley as Auditor for the
United States Treasury Department, and served continuously in that position from
June 9, 1897, to April 30, 1915-18 years lacking 40 days; elected to the Sixty-sixth
Congress, receiving 17,819 votes, to 17,268 for former Congressman Ashton C. Shallen-
berger, Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 31,695 votes, to
22,663 for former Judge Harry S. Dungan, Democrat. Mr. Andrews's majority in 1918
was 551, as compared with his majority in 1920 of 9,030.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boxbutte, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry,
Cheyenne, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Garden, Garfield, Grant, Greeley, Holt, Hooker, Howard,
Keith, Keyapaha, Kimball, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Morrill, Rock, Scotts Bluffs, Sheridan,
Sherman, Sioux, Thomas, Valley, and Wheeler (36 counties). Population (1920), 288,090.

M. P. KINKAID, Republican, of O'Neill; president of law class of 1876, University
of Michigan; chairman of judiciary committee of the Nebraska State Senate 1883;
Nebraska district judge for 13 years; Mason, Odd Fellow, and Elk; elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress and each successive Congress since.

NEVADA.

(Population (1920), 77,407.)

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KEY PITTMAN, Democrat, of Tonopah, Nev.; born in Vicksburg, Miss., September 19, 1872; son of William Buckner Pittman and Catherine (Key) Pittman; educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn.; LL.D. Southwestern Presbyterian University; LL. D. George Washington University; commenced practice of law at Seattle, Wash., in-1892; was in the Northwest Territory and Alaska from 1897 until the fall of 1901; was one of the committee that formulated the "consent" form of government for Nome; was first prosecuting attorney at Nome, Alaska; went to Tonopah, Nev., in January, 1902; never ran for any office except that of United States Senator; was appointed by the governor of the State as representative to the St. Louis Exposition, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the Irrigation Congress, and by the supreme court of the State as its representative to the international congress of jurists and lawyers that met in St. Louis during the exposition. Reelected November 7, 1916, to serve until March 4, 1923.

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TASKER LOWNDES ODDIE, Republican; was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 24, 1870; son of Henry Meigs and Ellen Gibson Oddie; lived from early childhood in East Orange, N. J.; educated in public and private schools; at age of 16 went to Nebraska to build up his health and lived life of cowboy there for three years; returned and entered business life in New York; held responsible positions in real estate and financial institutions; during this time took three-year night course of law while holding business position, being graduated from the New York University with degree of LL. B. in 1895; was admitted to the New York bar the same year; in February, 1898, moved to Nevada in the interest of his employers, Anson Phelps Stokes and the Phelps estate, where they held mining, railroad, and banking interests; unearthed series of large frauds in spectacular manner which were being practiced on his employers and brought guilty ones to justice; took up the study of mining and started for the sparsely populated desert and mountain country of central and southern Nevada; acquired mining prospects and did hard manual labor on them himself and underwent many hardships for years; during this time met the famous Jim Butler, who discovered the great gold and silver camp of Tonopah in 1899; became a partner of Butler in these locations, together with Wilson Brougher; these three men, without capital, developed these properties by their own hard work into one of the greatest gold and silver camps in the West; Goldfield, another famous camp, came into being as the result of the work of these men, and their action started the revival in Nevada mining enterprises from which many millions of dollars have been produced; was the first manager of the original Tonopah properties and developed them during first five years to the point of successful production; has since been active in prospecting and mine development; has been active in agricultural and live-stock interests; was district attorney for Nye County, Nev., in 1901-2 and State senator 1903-1906; governor of Nevada from 1911 to 1915, and elected United States Senator November 2, 1920, for six years, defeating his opponents, Senator Charles B. Henderson, Democrat, and Ann Martin, Independent

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Republican, by a vote of 11,550 to 10,402 and 3,622. Member of Nevada bar, New York bar, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Bohemian Club of San Francisco, and various organizations in Nevada; was member of Essex Troop of Cavalry of New Jersey for three years before going to Nevada, and volunteered for Spanish-American War with the other members of that troop; was member of the State council of defense in Nevada during the World War; also chairman highway transport committee and war industries board in Nevada; married to Daisy Rendall, daughter of Stephen Arnold and Cecelia Murray Barnes Rendall, of Los Angeles, Calif.

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AT LARGE.-Population (1920), 77,407.

SAMUEL SHAW ARENTZ, Republican, of Simpson, Lyon County, Nev.; born in Chicago, Ill., in 1879; son of Andrew C. and Mary Shaw Arentz; graduated from the Chicago English High and Manual Training School in 1897; was machinist apprentice in shops of Chicago; surveyor, assessor, miner, and timberman in Bear Gulch and Butte, Mont., and also in Lake Superior copper country; worked way through college; graduated in 1904 with degree of B. S. in mining engineering from South Dakota School of Mines; in 1906 degree of E. M. conferred; mining engineer and superintendent of mines in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada; chief engineer Nevada Copper Belt Railway, chief engineer Salt Lake & Utah Railway; consulting engineer United States Bureau of Mines on complex ore problem; president Utah Society of Engineers, member American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, member University Club; member South Dakota National Guard 1901-1904; married to Harriet Keep, of Los Angeles, in 1910, and they have one son and three daughters; captain of Engineers, United States Army, 1918; a mining and civil engineer, rancher, and mine operator in Nevada; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 13,149 votes, to 9,167 for Charles R. Evans, Democrat; 3,349 for Paul Jones, Independent; and 1,205 for Donovan, Socialist.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

(Population (1920), 443,083.)
SENATORS.

GEORGE HIGGINS MOSES, Republican, of Concord, was born at Lubec, Me., February 9, 1869, the son of Rev. Thomas Gannett and Ruth (Smith) Moses; educated in the public schools of Eastport, Me., and Franklin, N. H., at the Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1887), and at Dartmouth College (A. B. 1890, A. M. 1893); served as private secretary to Gov. David H. Goodell 1889-1891 and to Gov. John McLane 1905, during the sessions of the Portsmouth Peace Conference; secretary to the chairman of the Republican State committee 1890; member and secretary of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission 1893-1907; member board of education, Concord, 1902-3, 1906-1909, 1913-1916; delegate at large Republican national convention 1908 and 1916; American minister to Greece and Montenegro during the administration of President Taft; editor Concord Evening Monitor 1892-1918; was elected November 5, 1918, to fill the unexpired term of the late Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger; reelected November 2, 1920. His term will expire March 3, 1927.

HENRY WILDER KEYES, Republican, of Haverhill, was born at Newbury, Vt., in 1863; graduated, degree of A. B., Harvard University 1887; also recipient of B. S. and LL. D. degrees New Hampshire College and A. M. Dartmouth; member New Hampshire House of Representatives 1891-1895, 1915–1917; member New Hampshire Senate 1903-1905; treasurer State license commission 1903-1915; chairman State excise commission 1915-1917; governor 1917-1919; elected to the United States Senate November 5, 1918; it is the first time for nearly a hundred years that a Senator has been elected while holding the office of governor; married Frances Parkinson Wheeler and has three sons; is a farmer, and president of the Woodsville (N. H.) National Bank; his term of offee will expire March 4, 1925.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Belknap, Carroll, Rockingham, and Strafford. HILLSBORO COUNTY:
City of Manchester; towns of Bedford, Goffstown, Merrimack, Hudson, Litchfield, and Pelham.
MERRIMACK COUNTY: Towns of Allenstown, Canterbury, Chichester, Epsom, Hookset, Loudon,
Northfield, Pembroke, and Pittsfield. Population (1920), 224,842.

SHERMAN EVERETT BURROUGHS, Republican, of Manchester, was born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, N. H., February 6, 1870; educated in public schools of Dunbarton and Bow, and Concord, N. H., High School; graduated at Dartmouth College (A. B.) in 1894; private secretary to Hon. Henry M. Baker, Member of Congress second New Hampshire district, 1894-1897; graduated Columbian University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1896, LL. B., and in 1897 LL. M.; admitted to bar of District of Columbia 1896, and of New Hampshire 1897; practiced law at Manchester, N. H., from 1897; member New Hampshire Legislature 1901-2; member State board of charities and corrections 1901-1917; member State board of equalization 1909-10; defeated at primary for Republican nomination as candidate for Sixtysecond Congress; married and has four sons, the two eldest being now students at Dartmouth College and another at the United States Naval Academy; elected to Sixty-fifth Congress to succeed Cyrus A. Sulloway, deceased, at special election May 29, 1917. Reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses, receiving 46,606 votes, to 31,334 for R. W. Pillsbury, Democrat.

SECOND DISTRICT. --COUNTIES: Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan. HILLSBORO COUNTY: City
of Nashua; towns of Amherst, Antrim, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield,
Greenville, Hancock, Hillsboro, Hollis, Lyndeboro, Mason, Milford, Mount Vernon, New Boston,
New Ipswich, Peterboro, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton, and Windsor. MERRIMACK COUNTY:
Cities of Concord and Franklin; towns of Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Danbury, Dunbarton,
Henniker, Hill, Hopkinton, Newbury, New London, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, Webster, and
Wilmot. Population (1920), 218,241.

EDWARD H. WASON, Republican, of Nashua, was born in New Boston, N. H.; graduate of New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Boston University School of Law; practiced law in Nashua for 25 years and operates a dairy farm; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NEW JERSEY.

(Population (1920), 3,155,900.)

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JOSEPH SHERMAN FRELINGHUYSEN, Republican, of Raritan, was born March 12, 1869, at Raritan, N. J.; is descended from Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, who came from Holland in 1720, settling in New Jersey; is the fourth member of his family to occupy a seat in the United States Senate; is married and has three children; is an insurance underwriter and a veteran of the Spanish-American War; served several years as president of the State board of education of New Jersey; is now, and for a considerable period has been, president of the department of agriculture of New Jersey; is a trustee of Rutgers College, which conferred upon him the degree of A. M.; was president of the New Jersey State Senate in 1909 and 1910; was elected to the Senate by a plurality of 7496, receiving 244,715 votes, to 170,019 for James E. Martine, Democrat; 13,358 for oughty, Socialist; 7,178 for Barbour, National Prohibitionist; and 1,826 for Katz, Socialist-Labor. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

WALTER EVANS EDGE, Republican; resides in Atlantic City; born on November 20, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Pleasantville, N. J.; graduated from the public schools; founded the Atlantic City Daily Press, and later purchased the Atlantic City Evening Union, publishing both newspapers in conjunction with his advertising business, which he expanded until branch offices were established in New York, London, Paris, Brussels, and elsewhere; Mr. Edge is a widower with one son, Walter Evans Edge, jr.; 1897-1899 served as journal clerk of the New Jersey Senate; 1901-1904 was secretary of that body; volunteered in the War with Spain in 1898 and served with Company F, Fourth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, as second lieutenant; after the war served as captain of Company L, Third Regiment New 35405°-67-1-1ST ED- 6

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