the Collegiate Institute of Baton Rouge; was graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1874; completed a course of law study, and was admitted to practice in 1877; was elected a member of the State legislature from the parish of East Baton Rouge in 1879 for a term of four years; in 1880 was elected a member of the faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College; filled the chair of natural history in that institution and the position of commandant of cadets until he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacancy created by the death of his father, E. W. Robertson; was elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fiftyseventh Congress, receiving 7,432 votes, to 1,455 for J. H. Ducate, Republican.

MAINE.

SENATORS.

EUGENE HALE, Republican, of Ellsworth, was born at Turner, Oxford County, Me., June 9, 1836; received an academic education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and commenced practice at the age of 20; was for nine successive years county attorney for Hancock County; was a member of the legislature of Maine in 1867, 1868, and 1880; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; was appointed Postmaster-General by President Grant in 1874, but declined; was reelected to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses; was tendered a Cabinet appointment, as Secretary of the Navy, by President Hayes, and declined; was chairman of the Republican Congressional committee for the Forty-fifth Congress; received the degree of LL. D. from Bates College, from Colby University, and from Bowdoin College; was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention in 1876 and the Chicago conventions in 1868 and 1880; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, Republican (who declined a reelection), and took his seat March 4, 1881; was reelected in 1887, 1893, and in 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE, Republican, of Lewiston, was born at Lewiston, Me., September 2, 1831; graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, 1850; studied and practiced law; was a member of the State legislature in 1861, 1862, and 1867; was mayor of the city of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867; was attorney-general of the State of Maine in 1867, 1868, and 1869; was elected a member of the national Republican executive committee in 1872 and reelected in 1876 and 1880; was elected a trustee of Bowdoin College in June, 1880, received the degree of LL. D. from Bates College in July, 1881, and the same degree from Bowdoin College in 1889; was a Presidential elector in 1864; was a delegate to the national Republican conventions in 1872, 1876, and 1880; was elected chairman of the Republican State committee of Maine in place of Hon. James G. Blaine, resigned, in November, 1881; was elected a Representative in the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of James G. Blaine, appointed Secretary of State; took his seat March 18, 1881; was reelected in 1883, in 1888, in 1895, and again in 1901; was elected President pro tempore of the Senate February 7, 1896, and reelected March 7, 1901; was a member of the commission which met in Paris September, 1898, to adjust terms of peace between the United States and Spain. His term of service will expire March 3, 1907.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Cumberland and York (2 counties).

AMOS LAWRENCE ALLEN, Republican, of Alfred, was born in Waterboro, York County, Me., March 17, 1837; attended the common school, and entered Whitestown Seminary, Whitestown, N. Y., in 1853, and the sophomore class of Bowdoin College in 1857, graduating in 1860; studied law at Alfred, and attended the Columbian Law School in Washington, D. C.; was admitted to the bar of York County in 1866; served as clerk in Treasury Department for about three years; was elected clerk of the courts for York County in 1870 and reelected three times and served twelve years, until January 1, 1883; was clerk of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, in 1883-84, and a special examiner under the Pension Bureau for a year in 1884-85; was member of the Maine legislature in 1886-87; was private secretary to Speaker Reed in the Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses; was a delegate at large

from Maine in the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896, and member of the committee on resolutions; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress November 6, 1899, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. T. B. Reed, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 17,803 votes, to 10,040 for John J. Lynch, Democrat, 1,533 for David P. Parker, Prohibitionist, 135 for Clinton Simonton, Socialist, and 3 scattering.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Androscoggin, Franklin, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, and Sagadahoc (6 counties).

CHARLES EDGAR LITTLEFIELD, Republican, of Rockland, was born June 21, 1851, in Lebanon, York County, Me.; received a common-school education and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1876; was a member of the Maine legislature in 1885, and speaker of the house in 1887; was attorney-general of the State from 1889 to 1893; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress June 19, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nelson Dingley, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 19,215 votes, to 11,439 for Halsey H. Munroe, Democrat, 714 for Oren S. French, Prohibitionist, 128 for A. L. Carlton, Socialist, and 10 scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hancock, Kennebec, Somerset, and Waldo (4 counties).

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH, Republican, of Augusta, was born at Linneus, Aroostook County, Me., November 27, 1843; received a common-school and academic education; followed the business of land surveying, and purchasing and operating timber lands; is principal owner of the Kennebec Journal, daily and weekly; State land agent 1876– 1878; State treasurer 1885-1888; governor of Maine 1889-1892; elected to the Fiftyfifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 17,057 votes, to 10,241 for Amos F. Gerald, Democrat, 510 for William S. Thompson, Prohibitionist, 291 for Charles L. Nye, Socialist, and 8 scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington (4 counties).

LEWELLYN POWERS, Republican, of Houlton, was born at Pittsfield, Somerset County, Me., in 1839; graduated from the Ricker Classical Institute, attended Colby University two years, and graduated from the law department of the university of Albany, N. Y.; Colby has since given him the honorary degrees of A. M. and LL. D.; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and began the practice of his profession at Houlton; was attorney for the State for the county of Aroostook 1864-1871; collector of customs for the district of Aroostook 1868–1872; a member of the house of representatives, State legislature, for six terms, and speaker of the house one of them; elected governor of Maine in 1896 by a majority of 28,696, and reelected in 1898, receiving a majority of 48,696; was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress from the then Fourth district, and elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress in April, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Charles A. Boutelle, receiving 8,359 votes to 5,598 for Thomas White, Democrat.

MARYLAND.

SENATORS.

GEORGE L. WELLINGTON, Republican, of Cumberland, was born of German parentage at Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., January 28, 1852; attended a German school for a brief period, otherwise self-educated; at the age of 12 began work in a canal store in Cumberland; in 1870 was appointed to a clerkship in the Second National Bank of Cumberland; later became teller; was appointed treasurer of Allegany County in 1882 and served until 1888; was again appointed in 1890; was delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1884 and 1888; was nominated by the Republican party for comptroller of Maryland in 1889 and was defeated after an active canvass, though he received the largest vote ever given a candidate of his party on the State ticket; was appointed by President Harrison assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore in July, 1890; was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth Congressional district in 1892 and was defeated by W. McM. McKaig; was renominated in 1894 and elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was elected to the United States Senate and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

LOUIS EMORY MCCOMAS, Republican, of Williamsport, was born in Washington County, Md.; was educated at St. James College, Maryland, and at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter in 1866; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Hagerstown, Md., in 1868, and practiced law there until 1892; was the Republican candidate for the Forty-fifth Congress; was elected to the Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was defeated for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress; was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention in 1892, and during the Presidential campaign was the secretary of the Republican national committee; on November 17, 1892, he was appointed by President Harrison an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which office he held until he was elected to the Senate to succeed Arthur P. Gorman, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester (8 counties).

WILLIAM H. JACKSON, Republican, of Salisbury, was born in 1839, six miles from Salisbury, Md., on a farm belonging to his great-grandfather, Elihu Jackson; remained on the farm until 1864, receiving his education at the country schools; in 1864 he married a daughter of Josephus Humphreys, and moved to Salisbury; from that year until 1867 was dealing in horses and cattle; in 1867 went into the lumber business with the firm of E. E. Jackson & Co., consisting of Hugh Jackson, his father, and E. E. Jackson, ex-governor of Maryland; in 1889 this partnership was dissolved, and the firm was known as W. H. Jackson & Son, which continued until 1894, when the firm was consolidated into Jackson Bros. Co., which is still doing business; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 19,714 votes, to 18,171 for J. P. Moore, Democrat, and 1,315 for G. A. Cox, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.-Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth wards. COUNTIES.-Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth districts of Baltimore County, Carroll, Cecil, and Harford. ALBERT ALEXANDER BLAKENEY, Republican, of Franklinville, Baltimore County, was born at Sherwood, in that county, September 28, 1850; is a son of the late John D. Blakeney, a prominent contractor and builder, who, though past the age prescribed by Congress for the drafting of soldiers, responded to the call of President Lincoln for troops and enlisted in the Third Maryland Cavalry, and was killed in battle in North Carolina; was educated in private schools; learned the cotton manufacturing business and established the large cotton-duck mills now located at Franklinville, Md.; is a director in the Bel Air & Havre de Grace R. R. Co. and in the Automobile and Manufacturing Company of Baltimore; was nominated by his party in 1895 for county commissioner, and although a Democratic nomination in Baltimore County had always been regarded as equivalent to an election, he succeeded in defeating his opponent, Capt. John Ridgely, being the first Republican county commissioner that had ever been elected in the county up to that time; although elected for a term of six years, after serving a period of four years resigned; was president of the board and handled the reassessment of the $75,000,000 of property in the county to the satisfaction of all concerned; was nominated on the first ballot by his party for the Fifty-seventh Congress, to which he was elected, receiving 27,710 votes, to 27,420 for J. F .C. Talbot, Democrat, 1,016 for John W. Angell, Prohibitionist, and 714 for Nicholas W. Steele, Independent Democrat.

THIRD DISTRICT.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.-First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth wards. FRANK CHARLES WACHTER, Republican, of Baltimore, was born in that city, September 16, 1861; was educated at private schools; learned the trade of clothing cutter, and afterwards engaged in the business, which he now conducts, of examining, adjusting, sponging, and refinishing woolens, cloths, etc.; was appointed by Mayor Hooper in 1896 a member of the jail board of Baltimore City, and served as such for the full term of two years; was a candidate for police commissioner of Baltimore City before the legislature of 1898, and succeeded in getting the Republican caucus nomination; his election, however, was prevented by fourteen members, who combined with the

Democrats not to go into a joint convention, thus preventing the election of a commissioner and resulting in the Democratic commissioner holding over; his loyalty to his party and his devotion to his friends during that contest won him the admiration and respect of the Republicans of the Third Congressional district, who unanimously tendered him the nomination in 1898 as Representative to the Fifty-sixth Congress, to which he was elected, and was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 21,641 votes, to 19,570 for Robert F. Leach, Democrat, 298 for Henry L. Hillegeist, Prohibitionist, 44 for Henry F. Magness, Union Reform, and 253 for Levin T. Jones, Socialist Democrat.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.-Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second wards.

CHARLES REGINALD SCHIRM, of Baltimore, was born in that city, of German parentage, on August 12, 1864; received his preliminary education at the public schools of his native city; in 1880, at the age of 16, began a four years' apprenticeship at iron molding in the shop of Isaac A. Sheppard & Co.; from 1884 to 1888 pursued a course of study at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., and for several years thereafter taught school in Pennsylvania and Maryland; later was engaged with Messrs. McKee & Koethen, attorneys and abstracters, of Pittsburg, Pa.; on March 8, 1891, married Miss Annie Maude Charlton, of Washington, Pa., who lived but a year and three months thereafter; a month after his marriage returned to Baltimore where he secured a position with the Patapsco Title Company; in April, 1894, went into the office of Edwin J. Farber, attorney at law, and attended the Baltimore University School of Law at night; was admitted to the Baltimore County bar, on examination, March 6, 1896, and on May 19 of the same year graduated from the university, being the valedictorian of his class, having also been the banquet orator in his junior year; at college he once represented the Franklin and Washington Literary Society in public as essayist, and on an occasion when the students held a mock Republican convention he was one of five students selected from 300 to make nominating_speeches; was a member of the house of delegates of Maryland, 1898– 1900; served as chairman of the judiciary committee and was the recognized leader on the Republican side; in the senatorial contest he supported the Hon. Louis E. McComas, who was elected to succeed Hon. Arthur P. Gorman; in March, 1899, was appointed counsel to the board of police commissioners for Baltimore city, which place he held until May, 1900, when the board became Democratic; in April, 1899, was elected and still is president of the Maryland League of Republican Clubs; in June of the same year was selected for the supervisorship of the Twelfth Census of Baltimore city, but declined it; December, 1900, was tendered a position with the rank of captain on the staff of Col. Williard Howard of the Fourth Maryland Regiment, which he also declined; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 21,932 votes, to 20, 149 for James W. Denny, Democrat, 415 for William Gisrial, Prohibitionist, and 159 for Charles B. Dackman, Socialist Labor.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Prince George, and St. Mary (6 counties), and the first and thirteenth districts of Baltimore County and the Twenty-third and Twentyfourth wards of the city of Baltimore.

SYDNEY EMANUEL MUDD, Republican, of Laplata, was born February 12, 1858, in Charles County, Md.; was educated at Georgetown (D. C.) College and St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., graduating from the latter in 1878; read law privately and attended the law department of the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in 1880, and has practiced since; was elected to the State house of delegates in 1879 and reelected in 1881; was an elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880; was elected to the Fifty-first and defeated for the Fifty-second Congress; was elected to the State 'house of delegates in 1895, and was speaker of that body; was delegate to the national Republican convention, 1896; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 20,936 votes, to 17,305 for B. H. Camalier, Democrat, and 364 for W. H. Thompson, Prohibitionist.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington (5 counties).

GEORGE ALEXANDER PEARRE, Republican, of Cumberland, was born in that city July 16, 1860, a son of Hon. George A. Pearre, a distinguished judge and

for many years a leading lawyer in Maryland, and Mary Worthington, a member of the old Worthington family of Maryland; his early education was had at private schools, Allegany County Academy, St. James College, University of West Virginia, and Princeton University; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882, having graduated at the law school of the Maryland University, of Baltimore; in large and active practice ever since; in 1890 was elected to the State senate by a majority of over 400, and served in the sessions of 1890 and 1892; in 1895 was nominated prosecutiug attorney by the Republican party, and was elected by a majority of 1,400, which office he held until elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress in 1898; in that contest he received 18,878 votes to 14,372 for his opponent, C. T. Poffenberger, a plurality of 4,506, carrying all the counties in the district for the first time in its history; reelected to the Fiftyseventh Congress, receiving 23,541 votes to 20,160 for C. A. Little, Democrat, and 710 for S. M. Hockman, Prohibitionist.

MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.

GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR, Republican, of Worcester, was born at Concord, Mass., August 29, 1826; studied in early youth at Concord Academy; graduated at Harvard College in 1846; studied law and graduated at the Dane Law School, Harvard University; settled at Worcester, where he practiced; was city solicitor in 1860; was president of the trustees of the city library; was a member of the State house of representatives in 1852 and of the State senate in 1857; was elected Representative to the Forty-first, Fortysecond, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses; declined a renomination for Representative in the Forty-fifth Congress; was an overseer of Harvard College, 1874-1880; declined reelection, but was reelected in 1896 and again for six years in 1900; is president of the Association of the Alumni of Harvard; presided over the Massachusetts State Republican conventions of 1871, 1877, 1882, and 1885; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati, and of 1880, 1884, and 1888, at Chicago, presiding over the convention of 1880; was chairman of the Massachusetts delegation in 1880, 1884, and 1888; was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1880; has been president and is now vice-president of the American Antiquarian Society, president of the American Historical Association, president board of trustees of Clark University, 1900, trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archæology, trustee of Leicester Academy; is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the American Historical Society, the Historic-Genealogical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; is a trustee of the Peabody fund; has received the degree of doctor of laws from William and Mary, Amherst, Vale, Harvard, and Dartmouth colleges; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed George S. Boutwell, took his seat March 5, 1877, and was reelected in 1883, 1889, 1895, and 1901. His term of service will expire March 3, 1907.

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;" 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, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and has received the degree of

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