FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.

ALABAMA.

SENATORS.

. JOHN T. MORGAN, Democrat, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when 9 years old, and where he has since resided; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential elector in 1860 for the State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. Rodes, he was elected major, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; was commissioned in 1862 as colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was appointed brigadier-general in 1863 and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to join his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was again appointed brigadier-general and assigned to an Alabama brigade which included his regiment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was chosen a Presidential elector for the State at large.in 1876 and voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was a member of the commission appointed to prepare a system of laws for the Hawaiian Islands; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877; was reelected in 1882, in 1888, and in 1894; was nominated for a fifth term in the Senate by a caucus of the Democratic party, and also by a meeting of the Republican and Populist parties, who differed with him politically, and on the 17th of November, 1900, was chosen by the unanimous vote of the senate and house of representatives of Alabama for a fifth term in the Senate. His term of service will expire March 3, 1907.

EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS, Democrat, of Selma, was born in Limestone County, Ala., July 6, 1821; is the youngest child of John Pettus and Alice T. Pettus, who was a daughter of Capt. Anthony Winston, of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier; was educated at the common schools in Alabama and at Clinton College, in Smith County, Tenn.; studied law in the office of William Cooper, then the leader of the bar in north Alabama; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and commenced the practice of law at Gainesville, Ala., as the partner of Hon. Turner Reavis; in 1844 was elected solicitor for the seventh circuit; served as a lieutenant in the Mexican war; in 1849 resigned the office of solicitor and went, with a party of his neighbors, on horseback to California; was elected judge of the seventh circuit after his return to Alabama in 1855, but resigned that office in 1858 and removed to Dallas County, where he now resides; resumed the practice of law as a member of the firm of Pettus, Pegues & Dawson; in 1861 went into the Confederate army as major of the Twentieth Alabama Infantry, and soon afterwards was made lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; in October, 1863, was made a brigadier-general of infantry, and served till the close of

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the war, and was in many battles; after the war returned to his home and to the practice of law, which he has continued to this time; ever since he became a voter has been a member of the Democratic party; in November, 1896, was nominated by that party, and elected by the legislature of Alabama United States Senator for the term commencing March 4, 1897; after his nomination the opposition to his election was merely nominal; received the entire vote of his party, and more; never was, before, a candidate for any political office; has been a delegate to all of the Democratic national conventions, except the first and last, since the war, and when a delegate was chairman of the Alabama delegation. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. (Written March 4, 1897.)

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties). GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR, Democrat, of Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala., was born January 16, 1849, in Montgomery County, Ala.; was educated at the South Carolina University, Columbia, S. C.; is a lawyer, and was admitted to practice at Mobile, Ala., November, 1871; entered the army as a Confederate soldier at the age of 15 years, in November, 1864, being then a student at the academy in Columbia, S. C.; served a few weeks with the South Carolina State troops on the coast near Savannah, and then enlisted as a private in Company D, First Regiment South Carolina Cavalry, and served as a courier till the end of the war; left the South Carolina University at 18, having graduated in Latin, Greek, history, and chemistry; taught school for several years, and studied law at the same time; was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Alabama in 1878, and served one term as a member from Choctaw County; in 1880 was elected State solicitor for the first judicial circuit of Alabama, and was reelected in 1886; declined a third term; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Appropriations in the latter, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 9,804 votes, to 2,046 for John W. Schell, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties).

ARIOSTO APPLING WILEY, Democrat, of Montgomery, was born November 6, 1848, in Clayton, Barbour County, and when I year old his father moved to Troy, in Pike County, Ala., where the son was reared; was graduated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, in June, 1871, and in October, 1872, located in the city of Montgomery and engaged in the practice of the law; entered the legal profession in partnership with an eminent jurist, ex-Chief Justice Samuel F. Rice, of the State supreme court, which partnership continued for eighteen years, until Judge Rice's death; at an early day essayed the management of the many important causes, involving large interests, confided to the firm, with the result that, although a young man, he forged rapidly to the front rank of his profession at a bar noted for its great ability; in 1882 was elected to the house of representatives from Montgomery County, and as chairman of the committee on the revision of laws and as member of the committee on corporations wielded considerable influence in that body; almost continuously from that time until elected to Congress served in the general assembly of the State, either in the house or the senate, taking a leading and conspicuous part in matters of legislation and in all questions affecting the interests and welfare of the State, and at that time was senator from the Twenty-eighth district and chairman of the judiciary committee of the senate; for five years was captain of the Montgomery Mounted Rifles, a famous military organization, and a member of Governor Seay's staff, holding the position of judge-advocate-general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; was also a member of Governor Oates's staff, holding the position of inspector-general, with the same rank; also a member of Governor Johnston's staff, holding the position of chief of ordnance, with the same rank, and was a member of Governor Samford's staff, with like rank; June 9, 1898, President McKinley appointed him lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, one of the ten so-called immune regiments organized by special act of Congress, and on June 16 his nomination was unanimously confirmed by the United

States Senate; received his commission as lieutenant-colonel of this regiment June 17, and hurried with his command to Santiago de Cuba, his regiment reaching the eastern province shortly after the battle of San Juan Hill; shortly after arriving at Santiago was appointed by General Lawton, commanding that department, his chief legal adviser, and was subsequently assigned to duty as acting civil governor of Santiago; framed a constitution which gave great satisfaction to the people of that province and had a tendency to harmonize all discordant elements amongst both the Spanish and Cuban population; set in motion the machinery of civil government, organized the courts, and contributed greatly to the restoration of law and order in the eastern province of Cuba; for the services thus rendered, General Lawton, who was his personal friend, recommended Colonel Wiley's appointment as brigadier-general; was mustered out after eleven months' service; Colonel Wiley has great fondness for military life, and was until recently lieutenant-colonel of the Second Regiment, Alabama National Guard; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress November 6, 1900, his fifty-second birthday, practically without opposition, after a unanimous nomination in a Democratic convention, held in the city of Montgomery, May 17, 1900, composed of delegates from every county of the Second Congressional district, receiving 12,496 votes, about 2,500 more than the Democratic Presidential electors received at that election.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lee, and Russell (8 counties).

HENRY DE LAMAR CLAYTON, Democrat, of Eufaula, was born in Barbour County, Ala., February 10, 1857; is a lawyer by profession; is now and has been since 1888 the Alabama member of the Democratic national committee; has served one term in the Alabama legislature, being chairman of the judiciary committee; was a United States district attorney from May, 1893, to October, 1896; was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1888 and 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fiftysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 13,420 votes, to 3,179 for W. O. Mulkey, Republican, and 142 scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties).

SYDNEY JOHNSTON BOWIE, Democrat, of Anniston, was born in Talladega, Ala., July 26, 1865, where he resided until January 1, 1899; attended public schools until 16 years of age, and graduated from the law school of the University of Alabama June 20, 1885, with the degree of bachelor of laws; was admitted to the bar the next month and has since been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession; was town clerk of Talladega 1885–86 and alderman of the town in 1891; is a trustee of Isbell College at Talladega, director of the First National Bank, and president of the Talladega Real Estate and Loan Association; married Miss Annie Foster Etheridge, of Ocala, Fla., April 29, 1891; for seven years a member of the State Democratic executive committee of Alabama, and now a member from the State at large; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Talladega County from 1896 to 1899, and frequently attended political conventions as a delegate, but never until 1900 a candidate for any position of more than local importance; in 1898, as a member of the legislative committee of the Commercial Club of Alabama, actively assisted in the preparation and passage through the legislature of a bill to provide for holding a constitutional convention in that State; in November, 1899, was appointed chairman of the committee to investigate the sale of 4,000 acres of mineral lands belonging to the university of the State which was alleged to have been made at a secret meeting of a part of the trustees through the instrumentality of the governor; the report on the subject, which he prepared, covered over fifty typewritten pages, and declared the sale illegal and contrary to the best interest of the university and that it had been brought about by the illegal and unwarranted acts of the governor of the State; its report was indorsed by the society of the alumni of the university by an overwhelming majority and by the board of trustees of the university by a vote of six to two; the report figured prominently in the Senatorial contest between Governor Johnston and Senator Morgan and was regarded as having had a material influence on the result; was subsequently made a member of Senator Morgan's campaign committee and spent about two months canvassing the State for him; was nominated for Congress, carrying five of the six counties of the district, the first Democrat ever nominated in the district by acclamation, or on the first ballot; although the district has been a political storm center since it was organized 57-IST-IST ED

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in 1890, the Hon. W. F. Aldrich having as a Republican successfully sustained three contests in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, he was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress without opposition, receiving 10,821 votes.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties).

CHARLES WINSTON THOMPSON, Democrat, of Tuskegee, was born in Macon County, near Tuskegee, December 30, 1860; was educated in the common schools of the county, at the Park High School at Tuskegee, Ala., and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Louisville, Ky., graduating with first honor in 1878; married Miss Estelle Ailey, daughter of William Alley, a prominent Republican, April 20, 1880; followed the mercantile business with his father from 1881 until his father's death, in 1892, after which he succeeded his father and did a large and successful mercantile business until 1893, when he organized the Bank of Tuskegee and was elected president, which position he now holds; in 1896 he was appointed by Governor Joseph F. Johnston as a member of his staff, as lieutenant-colonel, and served in that capacity until the end of his term; is a member of the Methodist Church, a trustee of the Girls' Industrial School of Alabama, and a trustee of the Methodist District High School at Notasulga; in 1898 was unanimously chosen without opposition to represent the Twenty-sixth senatorial district in the senate of Alabama, where he won considerable reputation as a legislator and orator; in 1900 became a candidate against Col. Willis Brewer for the Congressional nomination from the Fifth district of Alabama, and after a most bitterly contested election was nominated by an overwhelming majority, and was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress by a majority of 7,985, carrying every county in the district except one, receiving 15,737 votes, to 7,782 for A. J. Millstead, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker (8 counties). JOHN H. BANKHEAD, Democrat, of Fayette, was born in Moscow, Marion County (now Lamar), Ala., September 13, 1842; was self-educated; is a farmer; served four years in the Confederate army, being wounded three times; represented Marion County in the general assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; was a member of the State senate 1876-77, and of the house of representatives 1880-81; was warden of the Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1885; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fiftyfirst, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 8,073 votes, to 4,218 for T. B. Morton, Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Franklin, Marshall, St. Clair, and Winston (8 counties).

JOHN LAWSON BURNETT, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., was born at Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January 20, 1854; was educated in the common schools of the county, at the Wesleyan Institute, Cave Springs, Ga., and Gaylesville High School, Gaylesville, Ala.; studied law at Vanderbilt University, and was admitted to the bar in Cherokee County, Ala., in 1876; was elected to the lower house of the Alabama legislature in 1884, and to the State senate in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 10,549 votes, to 9,802 for N. B. Spears, Populist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Democrat, of Huntsville, is a native of Limestone County, Ala.; entered the Confederate army as a private in 1861, and was promoted to be captain; was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga; has been a member of the bar of Huntsville, Ala., since 1867; was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Rucker, daughter of Ambrose B. Rucker, of Lynchburg, Va., December 18, 1872, who died October 24, 1891; was judge of the court of probate and county court of

Madison County, Ala., from 1875 to 1886; was Democratic elector for the State at large in 1888 for Cleveland; was a member of the Alabama general assembly from Limestone County in 1865–1867; was nominated by acclamation on the third of July, 1900, for the unexpired term of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who resigned on the 20th of April, 1900, in the Fifty-sixth Congress, and for the Fifty-seventh Congress, and was elected, receiving 13,193 votes, to 8,800 for A. N. Holland, Republican.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Bibb, Blount, Hale, Jefferson, and Perry (5 counties).

OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rigby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; commenced the practice of law at Birmingham, Ala., September, 1884; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the Ninth district in the campaign of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fiftysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress without opposition of any kind, receiving 10,591 votes.

ARKANSAS.

SENATORS.

JAMES KIMBROUGH JONES, Democrat, of Washington, Hempstead County, was born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839; received a classical education; was a private soldier during the "late unpleasantness on the losing side; lived on his plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law; was elected to the State senate of Arkansas in 1873; was a member of the State senate when the constitutional convention of 1874 was called; was reelected under the new government, and in 1877 was elected president of the senate; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was reelected in 1890 and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

JAMES H. BERRY, Democrat, of Bentonville, was born in Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841; removed to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited education at a private school at Berryville, Ark.; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1866; entered the Confederate army in 1861 as second lieutenant, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry; lost a leg at the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862; was elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; was reelected in 1872; was elected speaker of the house at the extraordinary session of 1874; was president of the Democratic State convention in 1876; was elected judge of the circuit court in 1878; was elected governor in 1882; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was reelected in 1889, 1895, and His term of service will expire March 3, 1907.

1901.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, Randolph, Sharp, St. Francis, and Woodruff (15 counties).

PHILIP DODDRIDGE MCCULLOCH, Democrat, of Marianna, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 23, 1851; was removed by his parents to Trenton, Tenn., when 3 years of age, where he was reared; was educated at Andrew College of that place; admitted to the bar in August, 1872, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that time; removed to Marianna, Ark., in February, 1874, where he has since resided; was elected as the Democratic nominee to the office of prosecuting attorney of the First judicial district of the State in September, 1878; was renominated and elected three successive terms; at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again; was elected Democratic Presidential elector of the First