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versity and other institutions; commenced the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875; elected to the House of Representatives in 1888 and served in that body in the Fiftyfirst and Fifty-fourth to Sixtieth Congresses; Member of the United States Senate from Ohio 1909-1915; chairman Inland Waterways Commission, by appointment of President Roosevelt, 1907-8, and of the National Waterways Commission, created by Congress, 1908-1912; member of the National Monetary Commission; member of the executive committee Interparliamentary Union 1904–1915, and as such participated in meetings at St. Louis, London, Paris, Geneva, and The Hague; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 80,300 votes, to 27,347 for Matthew B. Excell, Democrat, and 676 for Max J. Sillius, Farmer-Labor Party.

OKLAHOMA.

(Population (1920), 2,028,283.)

SENATORS.

ROBERT LATHAM OWEN, Democrat, of Muskogee, was born February 2, 1856, at Lynchburg, Va., of Scotch-Irish and Indian ancestry; son of Robert L. Owen, president of the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, and of Narcissa Chisholm, of the Cherokee Nation; was educated in Lynchburg, Va., Baltimore, Md., and at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; married Daisey Deane Hester, daughter of Capt. George B. Hester, December 31, 1889; has served as lawyer, banker, and business man; was a member of the Democratic national committee from 1892 to 1896; was member of subcommittee that drew the Democratic national platform in 1896, and has always actively served in Democratic campaigns; is an Episcopalian; Mason, 32°; Mystic Shrine; Knight Templar; A T ; B K; Elk; Moose; M. W. A., etc. University degrees: M. A., LL. D. Mr. Owen was elected United States Senator by the unanimous vote of the Democrats of the Legislature of Oklahoma December 11, 1907, and took his seat December 16, 1907. Renominated August 6, 1912, by 35,600 majority; reelected November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 42,989 votes, exceeding the plurality of the national ticket by 14,619 votes. When elected Senator by the Oklahoma Legislature he received the vote of every member, every member being present and voting. President of National Popular Government League. Advocate of cloture, short ballot, preferential ballot, initiative and referendum, and a gateway constitutional amendment as the needed mechanism of government through which to make practicable the rule of the majority of the people and overthrow plurality nominations, elections, and thereby government by self-seeking minorities. Responsible for Federal reserve act, farm loan act, child-labor act, etc. Renominated August, 1918, by 48,000 majority, and reelected in November, 1918, by a plurality of 36,066. His term of service will expire March 3, 1925.

JOHN WILLIAM HARRELD, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was born near Morgantown, Ky., January 24, 1872, the son of T. N. and Martha (Helm) Harreld; educated in the schools of Kentucky and at National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio; began the practice of law at Morgantown, Ky., in 1895; practiced 11 years there; moved to Ardmore, Okla., in 1906, and practiced 11 years there; retired from practice in 1917 and moved to Oklahoma City, Okla.; was county attorney of Butler County, Ky., 4 years, and referee in bankruptcy in a district of 13 counties in southern Oklahoma for 6 years; married Laura Ward, of Morgantown, Ky.; has one son, Ward; was elected to Congress on Republican ticket at a special election held November 8, 1919, to fill the unexpired term of Joseph B. Thompson, deceased, over Claude Weaver, Democratic nominee; normal Democratic majority in the district more than 5,000. Elected to the United States Senate November 2, 1920, over Hon. Scott Ferris, Democratic nominee, by a majority of 30,147.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Rogers,
Tulsa, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1920), 316,156.

THOMAS A. CHANDLER, Republican, Vinita, Okla.

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SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Sequoyah, and Wagoner (8 counties). Population (1920), 244,315.

ALICE MARY ROBERTSON, Republican, Muskogee; born January 2, 1854, at Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Ind. T.; granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees from 1825 till his death, who gave to the Cherokees the Scriptures, a hymn book, and other publications in their own language; daughter of Rev. William Schenk Robertson, missionary to the Creeks from 1849 to his death, and his wife, Ann Eliza Worcester, who together did a like work in giving to the Creek Indians the Scriptures and other publications; educated at Elmira College, New York; elected on the platform: I am a Christian, I am an American, I am a Republican; the vote, as counted, was: Alice M. Robertson, Republican, 24,188; W. W. Hastings, Democrat, 23,960; John T. Cooper, Socialist, 1,402.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, McCurtain, Marshall, Pittsburg, and Pushmataha (11 counties). Population (1920), 325,680.

CHARLES D. CARTER, Democrat, of Ardmore, born on Boggy River, Choctaw Nation, Ind. T., August 16, 1869; early life spent on ranch at Mill Creek stage stand, on western frontier of Indian Territory, and in attendance at Indian school at Tishomingo; worked as cowboy, clerk in store, auditor, superintendent of Chickasaw schools, mining trustee, fire insurance agent, and in live-stock business until elected to Congress on admission of new State, in November, 1907; married, and has five children; elected to Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Coal, Creek, Hughes, Johnston, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, and Seminole (9 counties). Population (1920), 286,298.

JOSEPH C. PRINGEY, Republican, of Chandler, Okla., was born May 22, 1858, in Somerset, Pa.; reared on a farm; educated in the country schools; graduated with distinction in the university of "hard knocks"; settled in Oklahoma at the opening of the Sac and Fox country in 1891; homesteaded the farm that he now owns; was a member of the Senate of the Territory of Oklahoma in 1893; delegate to the Republican national convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1900; member of the board of regents of the University of Oklahoma for four years; was elected county clerk of Lincoln County, Okla., in 1912 for a term of two years, and was reelected three times; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cleveland, Garvin, Logan, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, and Payne (7 counties). Population (1920), 258,312.

F. B. SWANK, Democrat, of Norman, Okla., was born on a farm in Davis County, Iowa, April 24, 1875, son of Wallace Swank and Melinda Swank (née Wells); moved to near Beef Creek, Ind. T. (now Maysville, Okla.), in 1888; worked on the farms and ranches of the Indian Territory until after becoming of age; moved to Cleveland County, Okla., 24 years ago; taught school, and in 1902 was elected county superintendent of schools in Cleveland County, and served until statehood, November 16, 1907; was the first private secretary to Hon. Scott Ferris, Congressman from the old fifth Oklahoma district; resigned after the election of 1908; while in Washington attended the night law school of Georgetown University; graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1909, with the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the practice of law the same year; in 1910 was elected county judge of Cleveland County, served four years, and in 1914 was elected district judge of Cleveland, McClain, Garvin, and Murray Counties; reelected in 1918 without opposition; resigned as district judge September, 1920, after being nominated for Congress; married in 1914 to Miss Ada Blake, of Norman, Okla., and they have one son-F. B. Swank, jr.; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 35,167 votes, to 31,304 for the Republican candidate and 2,922 for the Socialist candidate; in the November, 1919, special election, the district had gone Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Kingfisher, and Stephens (9 counties). Population (1920), 207,648.

L. M. GENSMAN, Republican, of Lawton, Okla.; lawyer; born on a farm 20 miles west of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans.; educated in the country district school of that county, the graded school Garden Plain, Sedgwick County, Kans., Wichita Commercial College, the Lewis Academy, Wichita, Kans., Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, Kans., Kansas University, Lawrence, Kans.; was principal of the Andale,

Kans., schools two years, after Kansas Normal School training; during school years spent vacations running a steam engine and worked at the blacksmith trade; admitted to bar from Kansas University spring 1901; came to Lawton, Okla., at the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country in 1901; served as referee in bankruptcy under Hon. Frank E. Gillett until statehood; was elected county attorney in 1918, being the first county attorney and second county official elected in Comanche County on the Republican ticket since organization of county in 1901; ran for Congress while filling that position in the fall of 1920 against J. Elmer Thomas, president of the State senate and State senator since the statehood of Oklahoma; was elected by a majority of 1,057 votes.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa,
Roger Mills, Tillman, and Washita (11 counties). Population (1920), 189,472.

JAMES V. MCCLINTIC, Democrat, of Snyder, Okla., was born on a farm at Bremond, Tex., September 8, 1878, and is the son of G. V. and Emma McClintic, of Oklahoma, Okla.; married to Emma May Biggs and has two children, Olive Erle and Mary Vance McClintic; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress and is the first Representative from the seventh congressional district of Oklahoma; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alfalfa, Beaver, Cimarron, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay, Major,
Noble, Texas, Woods, and Woodward (12 counties). Population (1920), 200, 402.
MANUEL HERRICK, Republican, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio,
September 20, 1876, being the only son of John and Belinda Herrick; removed with
his parents to Greenwood County, Kans., in 1877, where he resided until 1892, when
the family returned to Ohio; in the fall of the same year they went to Oklahoma
to await the opening of the "Cherokee strip"; at the opening they settled upon a
farm near Perry, where Mr. Herrick has lived ever since; his occupation is that of a
farmer and cattle raiser, specializing on Herrick's Giant Yellow corn and Copper-
Faced Hereford cattle; his early life was one of hardship and pioneering; owing to
poverty and lack of facilities he never saw the inside of a schoolhouse for educational
purposes and was compelled to educate himself as best he could while laboring to
support an invalid father and mother; he was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress
November 2, 1920, receiving 31,287 votes, while his Democratic opponent received
23,405 and his Socialist opponent received 3,304.

OREGON.

(Population (1920), 783,389.)
SENATORS.

CHARLES L. McNARY, Republican, of Salem, Oreg.; born on a farm near that city June 12, 1874; educated in Salem public schools and attended Stanford University; dean of Willamette College of Law 1908-1913; received degree of doctor of laws from Willamette University; by profession a lawyer; associate justice of Oregon Supreme Court 1913 and 1914; chairman Republican State central committee 1916-17; appointed by Gov. Withycombe May 29, 1917, to fill unexpired term of Senator Harry Lane, deceased; term of office expired general election November 5, 1918; appointed December 17, 1918, by Gov. Withycombe to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Hon. F. W. Mulkey, elected to fill short term ending March 4, 1919; elected November 5, 1918, for six-year term beginning March 4, 1919; term expires March 4, 1925.

ROBERT NELSON STANFIELD, Republican, of Portland, Oreg., was born at Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oreg., July 9, 1877; educated in the public schools and State normal schools of Oregon; engaged in the live-stock industry, being America's largest producer of wool and mutton; also engaged in banking, particularly in the financing of live-stock producers; served three terms in the Oregon State Legislature; one term as speaker of the house of representatives; married to Inez E. Hill in 1897; one daughter, Miss Barbara Stanfield, who is now 17 years of age; nominated as Republican candidate for the United States Senate over one other opponent; elected United States Senator November 2, 1920, defeating the incumbent opponent by 16,500 votes.

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REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill (17 counties). Population (1920), 346,989.

WILLIS CHATMAN HAWLEY, Republican, of Salem, was born near Monroe, in Benton County, Oreg., May 5, 1864; his parents crossed the plains to Oregon in 1847 and 1848. He was educated in the country schools of the State and at the Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., from which he has received degrees, including those of A. M. and LL. D.; engaged in educational work; was president of Willamette University; was regularly admitted to the bar in Oregon and to the district and circuit courts of the United States; is a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission created by the act of March 1, 1911, and was appointed as a member of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Rural Credits created by act of 1915, and of the Select Committee on the Budget; is married and has one daughter and two sons; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress with a majority of 67,339 votes.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baker, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler (18 counties). Population (1920), 160,502.

NICHOLAS J. SINNOTT, Republican, of The Dalles; born in that city December 6, 1870; educated in the public schools and at the Wasco Independent Academy, The Dalles; received degree of A. B. Notre Dame University, Indiana, in 1892; is a lawyer; is married; member of Oregon State Senate 1909 and 1911; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress; reelected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Multnomah. Population (1920), 275,898.

CLIFTON NESMITH MCARTHUR, Republican, of Portland; born at The Dalles, Oreg., June 10, 1879; was graduated from University of Oregon in 1901 with degree of A. B.; reporter on Morning Oregonian and in Portland office of Associated Press until 1903; engaged in farming at Rickreall, Oreg., until 1906, when he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Portland; married to Lucile Smith, of Portland, June 25, 1913; secretary Republican State central committee 1908; secretary to governor 1909-1911; speaker of Oregon Legislative Assembly sessions of 1909 and 1913; elected to Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses. Member of Committee on Naval Affairs, Board of Visitors United States Naval Academy, and Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission.

PENNSYLVANIA.

(Population (1920), 8,720,017.)

SENATORS.

BOIES PENROSE, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia November 1, 1860; was prepared for college by private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia; was graduated from Harvard College in 1881; read law with Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, and was admitted to the bar in 1883; practiced his profession in Philadelphia for several years; was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the eighth Philadelphia district in 1884; was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate from the sixth Philadelphia district in 1886, reelected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected president pro tempore of the senate in 1889, and reelected in 1891; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1916; was chairman of the Republican State committee in 1903-1905; was elected a member of the Republican national committee from Pennsylvania in 1904, 1908, 1916, and 1920; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed J. Donald Cameron, for the term beginning March 4, 1897; reelected in 1903, 1909, 1914, and 1920. His term of service will expire March 3, 1927.

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PHILANDER CHASE KNOX, Republican, of Pittsburgh, was born in Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853; was graduated from Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1872, receiving the degree of A. M., and later the degree of LL. D., and also from Yale, Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh Universities and from Washington and Jefferson and Villa Nova Colleges and the University of Guatemala; practiced law in Pittsburgh from 1875 to 1901; appointed Attorney General in President McKinley's Cabinet April 5, 1901; in President Roosevelt's Cabinet as Attorney General from the death of President McKinley until July 1, 1904; appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Hon. M. S. Quay in Senate July 1, 1904; subsequently elected to fill Senator Quay's unexpired term, then to the full term of six years; resigned from the Senate to accept the position of Secretary of State in President Taft's Cabinet March 4, 1909; was Secretary of State to March 5, 1913; elected to the Senate November 6, 1916, to succeed Hon. George T. Oliver. His term of service will expire March 3, 1923.

REPRESENTATIVES.

AT LARGE.-Population (1920), 8,720,017.

WILLIAM J. BURKE, Republican, of Pittsburgh, was born September 25, 1862; educated in the public schools of Reynoldsville, Pa.; has been identified with organized labor for more than 30 years and is now chairman of the general committee of adjustment, Order of Railroad Conductors, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad system; was elected to the State senate 1914, to the city council of Pittsburgh 1917, and Congressman at large 1918, receiving 580,815 votes, a majority of 282,597; reelected in 1920.

JOSEPH MCLAUGHLIN, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Burt, county Donegal, Ireland, on June 9, 1867; has been a resident of Philadelphia since 1889; is married to Miss Eleanor Driscoll, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has two sons; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress in 1916 and to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 1,108,538 votes.

ANDERSON H. WALTERS, Republican, of Johnstown; editor and publisher of the Johnstown Tribune; married to Jessie Octavia Woodruff; Member Sixty-third Congress; elected to Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

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FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: First, seventh, twenty-sixth, thirtieth, thirty-sixth, thirtyninth, and forty-eighth wards. Population (1920), 328,336.

WILLIAM SCOTT VARE, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born on a farm in the first district of Pennsylvania December 24, 1867; educated in the public schools; entered mercantile life at the age of 15; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1920. As a citizen and public official has been particularly solicitous in behalf of the public-school system of Philadelphia, securing for the first congressional district the first sectional high and manual-training school established in the city; was married to Ida Morris in Philadelphia July 29, 1897, and has two daughters; elected to the Sixty-second Congress from the first district of Pennsylvania to fill an unexpired term; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 43,108 votes, to 11,682 for Lawrence E. McCrossin, Democrat.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Eighth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twentieth, and thirty-seventh wards. Population (1920), 183,510.

GEORGE SCOTT GRAHAM, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in that city September 13, 1850; was educated in the public schools and by private tutors; graduate of University of Pennsylvania (LL.B.) and Lafayette College, Pa. (LL. D.); is married; member of Select Councils of Philadelphia 1877-1880; district attorney of Philadelphia 1871-1898; professor of criminal law and procedure in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania for 11 years; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 23,978 votes, to 6,420 for P. P. Conway, Democrat and Washington Party; and reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, on the Republican and Washington Party tickets, with a majority of 16,752 votes; and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress over a Democrat, a Socialist, and a Prohibitionist by a majority of 16,285; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a majority of 26,398 over the Democratic opponent, who received 7,541 votes out of a total poll of 41,480.

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