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SIXTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Cities of Beverly, Gloucester, Haverhill, Newburyport, and Salem; towns of Amesbury, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Newbury, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, and West Newbury. Population (1920), 224,324.

WILLFRED W. LUFKIN, Republican, of Essex, was born in that town March 10, 1879; educated in Essex and Gloucester public schools; married and has four children; was newspaper correspondent; member and chairman Essex school board; member Massachusetts constitutional convention 1917; private secretary to the late Congressman Augustus P. Gardner for 15 years. Upon Congressman Gardner's resignation to become a colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States Army, Mr. Lufkin was nominated and elected to succeed him for the unexpired term of the Sixty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 47,074 votes, to 15,465 for John P. O'Connell, of Salem, Democratic and Liberal Labor candidate.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Cities of Lawrence, Lynn, and Peabody; towns of Boxford, Lynnfield, Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, and Saugus. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Town of North Reading. Population (1920), 235,661.

ROBERT S. MALONEY, Republican, of Lawrence; born at Lawrence, Mass., February 3, 1881; printer; New England organizer of the International Typographical Union 1908-1912; fraternal delegate from American Federation of Labor to Canadian Trades and Labor Congress at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1907; alderman and director of public health and charities, Lawrence, eight years; member Lawrence Lodge, No. 65, B. P. O. E., and many other fraternal orders.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of Cambridge, Medford, and Melrose; towns of Arlington, Belmont, Lexington, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, and Winchester. Population (1920), 255,540.

FREDERICK WILLIAM DALLINGER, Republican, of Cambridge, was born in Cambridge, Mass., October 2, 1871; educated in the public schools of Cambridge and at Harvard University, graduating in 1893 with highest honors in political science; is attorney at law; married and has four children, two sons and two daughters, the oldest being a student in Harvard College and the other three in the public schools of Cambridge; author of "Nominations for Elective Office in the United States lecturer in government at Harvard University 1912-13; for three years president of Cambridge Board of Trade; director of two trust companies and trustee of savings bank; member American, Massachusetts, Middlesex, and Boston bar associations; member of A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., B. P. O. E., and Patrons of Husbandry; member of Massachusetts House of Representatives 1894 and 1895 and Massachusetts Senate 1896, 1897, 1898, and 1899, serving on committees on election laws, taxation, and chairman of joint committees on metropolitan affairs and counties; nominated by both Republican and Progressive Parties and elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 15,226 votes, to 14,359 for Frederick S. Deitrick, Democrat, and 1,044 for Henry C. Long, Progressive Citizen; reelected to Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 21,185 votes, to 14,305 for Frederick S. Deitrick, Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 16,858 votes, to 11,093 for James F. Aylward, Democrat; reelected to Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 54,246 votes, to 12,818 for Whitefield Tuck, Democrat, and 7,407 for John D. Lynch, Independent.

NINTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of Everett, Malden, and Somerville. SUFFOLK COUNTY: Cities of Chelsea and Revere; town of Winthrop. Population (1920), 269,776.

CHARLES L. UNDERHILL, Republican, of Somerville; member Massachusetts Legislature for 10 terms and constitutional convention; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by over 25,000 majority.

TENTH DISTRICT.-SUFFOLK COUNTY: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth wards, city of Boston. Population (1920), 195,620.

PETER F. TAGUE, Democrat, of Boston, Mass., was born in the city of Charlestown June 4, 1871; attended the Boston public schools, graduating from Frothingham and English High Schools; married Josephine T. Fitzgerald January 31, 1900, and has two sons; business, manufacturing chemist; member Boston Common Council 1894, 1895, 1896; member Massachusetts House of Representatives 1897, 1898, 1913, 1914; member Massachusetts Senate 1899, 1900; elected by Democrats as house chairman in 1913 and again in 1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 12,409 votes, to 3,018 for J. A. Cochran, Republican, and 1,407 for Daniel T. Callahan, Progressive; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress with no opposition; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, defeating John F. Fitzgerald; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-SUFFOLK COUNTY: Seventh, eighth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-third wards, city of Boston. Population (1920), 235,795.

GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, Republican; born in Boston October 29, 1870; attended public and private schools in Boston and Harvard College (A. B. 1894); attorney at law; not married. Elected to the Boston Common Council 1897, 1898; to the Boston Board of Aldermen 1900, 1901, 1902; to the Massachusetts State Senate 1910, 1911, 1912; to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and to the Sixty-seventh Congress with a majority of 21,720. He was the first American to fire a shot against the Austrians after the declaration of war by the United States against Austria, at Capo d'Argine, on the Piave River, December 11, 1917. The title of "Chevalier della Corona d'Italia" was conferred upon him by the King of Italy. This title he has not accepted because of the provision in the Constitution that no person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States shall without the consent of Congress accept any title from any king or foreign State. The letters patent and insignia of the title are in the possession of the Department of State.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-SUFFOLK COUNTY: Ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first wards, city of Boston. Population (1920), 250,694.
JAMES A. GALLIVAN, Democrat, of South Boston, was educated in the Boston
public schools, graduating from the Boston Latin School in 1884. He received the
degree of A. B. from Harvard College in 1888; was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives 1895-96 and Massachusetts State Senate 1897-98; was
elected street commissioner of city of Boston in 1900 and held that office until he
resigned April 16, 1914; was chosen at a special election on April 7, 1914, to fill an
unexpired term in the Sixty-third Congress; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-
fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority rising 12,000;
reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by 16,600.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT-SUFFOLK COUNTY: Twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth wards, city of Boston.
NORFOLK COUNTY: Towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dover, Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis,
Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Walpole, Wellesley, and Wrentham. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of
Marlboro, Newton, and Waltham; towns of Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Natick, Sherborn,
Sudbury, Wayland, and Weston. WORCESTER COUNTY: Town of Southboro. Population (1920),
255,031.

ROBERT LUCE, Republican, of Waltham, was born in Auburn, Me., December 2, 1862; graduated from Harvard College in 1882; is president of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau and a member of the bar; is married; served in Massachusetts House of Representatives 1899 and 1901-1908; lieutenant governor 1912; chairman of committee on rules and procedure of constitutional convention 1917-1919; chairman of commissions on cost of living 1910 and 1916-17; president of Republican Club of Massachusetts 1918; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 18,257 votes, to 12,538 for Aloysius J. Doon, Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 56,451 votes, to 23,122 for Charles F. McCarthy, Democrat.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-BRISTOL COUNTY: Town of Easton. NORFOLK COUNTY: City of Quincy, towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Foxboro, Holbrook, Milton, Norwood, Randolph, Sharon; Stoughton, Westwood, and Weymouth. PLYMOUTH COUNTY: City of Brockton; towns of Abington, Rockland, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, and Whitman. SUFFOLK COUNTY: Twenty-fourth ward, city of Boston. Population (1920), 259,194.

LOUIS ADAMS FROTHINGHAM, Republican, of Easton, Mass.; born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., July 13, 1871; educated in public schools and Adams Academy; graduated from Harvard College in 1893 (A. B.), Harvard Law School 1896 (LL. B.); admitted to Massachusetts bar 1896; private secretary to Congressman William C. Lovering 1897; elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives 1901-1905, inclusive; speaker of house 1904-5; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1909-1911; alternate at large Republican national convention 1916; lecturer Harvard College; author of A Brief History of the Constitution and Government of Massachusetts; served as second lieutenant, United States Marine Corps, Spanish-American War; colonel Thirteenth Regiment Massachusetts State Guard 1917; major, United States Army, 1918; member commission to visit soldiers and sailors of Massachusetts in France 1918; first vice commander Massachusetts Branch American Legion 1919; overseer Harvard University (third term); president Blackstone Savings Bank; trustee Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Women's Free Hospital; director Federal Trust Co.; wife, Mary Ames Frothingham; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 46,814 votes, to 28,494 for Richard Olney, Democrat.

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FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-BRISTOL COUNTY: Cities of Fall River, Taunton, and Attleboro, and towns of Berkley, Dighton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport. PLYMOUTH COUNTY: Town of Lakeville. Population (1920), 217,307.

WILLIAM STEDMAN GREENE, Republican, of Fall River, was born in Tremont, Tazewell County, Ill., April 28, 1841; removed to Fall River with his parents in 1844, was educated in the public schools of that city, and was a clerk in the insurance business from 1858 to 1865; he married Mary E. White March 8, 1865, and has three children-Mabel L., Chester W., and Foster R.; commenced business as auctioneer; real estate and insurance agent in 1866; was elected member of common council in 1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879, and was president of the body the latter three years; elected mayor in 1880; also alternate delegate to Republican national convention which nominated President Garfield; was reelected mayor in 1881, but resigned the same year, being appointed postmaster by President Garfield; in 1886 was again elected mayor; was a candidate in 1887 and 1888, but was defeated; in July, 1888, was appointed by Gov. Ames general superintendent of prisons for the State, and served until 1893, when he was removed by the Democratic governor for political reasons; was again candidate for mayor in 1894 and defeated; elected mayor in 1895 by 734 majority, in 1896 by 1,514 majority, and in 1897 by 3,121 majority, and declined a reelection in 1898; was appointed postmaster by President McKinley, and entered upon his duties April 1, 1898; resigned this position and was elected to Congress May 31, 1898, to fill the unexpired term of the late John Simpkins for the Fifty-fifth Congress; also elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixtysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-BARNSTABLE COUNTY: Towns of Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, and Yarmouth. BRISTOL COUNTY: City of New Bedford; towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven. PLYMOUTH COUNTY: Towns of Bridgewater, Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Scituate, and Warehamn. NORFOLK COUNTY: Town of Cohasset. DUKES AND NANTUCKET COUNTIES. Population (1920), 236,977.

JOSEPH WALSH, Republican, of New Bedford; Member Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

MICHIGAN.

(Population (1920), 3,668,412.)

SENATORS.

CHARLES ELROY TOWNSEND, Republican, of Jackson, was born in Concord, Jackson County, Mich., August 15, 1856; attended common schools in Concord and Jackson, and in 1877 entered the literary department of the Michigan University, where he remained one year; was admitted to the Jackson bar to practice law in 1895; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses; was nominated United States Senator at the primary on September 7, 1910, and elected by the Michigan Legislature January 18, 1911. Reelected to Senate November 7, 1916.

TRUMAN HANDY NEWBERRY, Republican, of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., was born at Detroit, Mich., November 5, 1864; educated in public and private schools; graduated from Yale University in 1885 with degree of Ph. B.; honorary degree of M. A. conferred by Yale University in 1910; engaged in manufacturing business; was Assistant Secretary of the Navy from October, 1905, to November, 1908; Secretary of the Navy from November, 1908, to March, 1909; served in the State Militia from 1894 to 1898, lieutenant (junior grade); served as lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy, Spanish-American War, and as lieutenant commander, United States Naval Reserve Force, class 1, from June 6, 1917, to January 9, 1919; married Harriet Josephine Barnes 1888; was elected to the Senate November 5, 1918, the vote being as follows: Truman H. Newberry, Republican, 220,054; Henry Ford, Democrat, 212,487; C. O. Foss, Socialist, 4,763; W. J. Faull, Prohibitionist, 1,133; scattering, 15.

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FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF DETROIT: First, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first wards. Population (1920), 535,353.

GEORGE P. CODD, Republican, of Detroit, was born in that city in 1869; educated in the public schools of Detroit and in the University of Michigan; was graduated in 1891 with degree of A. B.; studied law in the offices of Alfred Russell and Griffin & Warner, of Detroit, and admitted to the bar in 1892; assistant city attorney 1894 to 1897; member of common council of the city of Detroit 1901 to 1904 and mayor of the city of Detroit 1905 and 1906; regent of the University of Michigan 1911; circuit judge third judicial circuit of Michigan 1911-1921; married to Kathleen Warner 1894; three children; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 89,171 votes, to 19,803 for Frank Murphy, Democrat; 2,102 for Robert L. Barnett, Farmer-Labor; 1 for Joseph Bernstein, Socialist; and 5 for Harry Slavin.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw. WAYNE COUNTY:
Townships of Brownstown, Canton, Ecorse, Grosse Isle, Huron, Manguagon, Plymouth, Romulus,
Sumpter, Taylor, and Van Buren, and Wyandotte city. Population (1920), 262,905.
EARL CORY MICHENER, Republican, of Adrian; born in Seneca County, near
Attica, Ohio, November 30, 1876; removed with parents to Adrian, Mich., in 1889;
educated in public schools of Adrian, the University of Michigan, and the law depart-
ment of Columbian University; admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and
State of Michigan in 1903, since which time he has practiced law; served four years
as assistant prosecuting attorney and four years as prosecuting attorney of Lenawee
County; served throughout the Spanish-American War with Company B, Thirty-
first Michigan Volunteer Infantry; married; has two children; was elected to the
Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 4,269 votes; reelected to the Sixty-seventh
Congress, receiving 61,857 votes, to 25,281 for William H. Moore, Democrat, and
119 for James W. Helme, Liberty Party.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, and Kalamazoo (5 counties). Population (1920), 225,678.

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FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph, and Van Buren (6 counties).
Population (1920), 199,504.

JOHN CLARK KETCHAM, Republican, of Hastings, Mich., was born January 1, 1873, in Toledo, Ohio, the son of John C. and Mary L. Ketcham; educated in the rural schools of Barry County, Mich., and in the high schools of Nashville and Hastings, graduating from the latter in 1892; he was successively a rural-school teacher, high-school teacher, and county commissioner of schools in Barry County; was appointed postmaster in 1907 at Hastings by President Roosevelt and served six and a half years; in 1912 he was chosen master of the Michigan State Grange and served eight years; he was chosen lecturer of the National Grange in 1917, and is serving his second term in this position; was married to Cora E. Rowlader, of Woodland, Mich., June 30, 1897; they have three children-Mildred C., aged 20, a junior in Michigan Agricultural College, and John C., jr., and Ruth M., twins, aged 17, juniors in Hastings High School. Mrs. Ketcham shares with her husband an active interest in public affairs, being chairman of the National Grange home economics committee, a leading worker in the American Farm Bureau Federation, and a member of the Republican State central committee of Michigan. On August 31, 1920, he was nominated for Congress in the fourth district of Michigan, receiving a plurality of 3,461 in a five-cornered contest; on November 2, 1920, he was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by 32,472 plurality, receiving 47,671 votes, to 15,199 for Roman I. Jarvis, Democrat.

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FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Kent and Ottawa (2 counties). Population (1920), 230,701.

CARL E. MAPES, Republican, of Grand Rapids; born December 26, 1874; lawyer; married; has three children; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Genesee, Ingham, Livingston, and Oakland. COUNTY OF WAYNE: Townships of Dearborn, Greenfield, Gratiot, Grosse Pointe, Livonia, Nanken, Northville, Hamtramck, Redford, and Springwells, and the city of Highland Park. Population (1920), 442,797.

PATRICK H. KELLEY, Republican, of Lansing; born in Cass County, Mich., October 7, 1867; graduated University of Michigan 1900; is a lawyer; married, and has three children, two girls and a boy; was State superintendent of public instruction 1905-1907; lieutenant governor 1907-1911; elected to Sixty-third Congress from State at large; reelected to Sixty-fourth Congress from sixth district; reelected to Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses, receiving at the November, 1920, election a majority of 69,308 over Frank L. Dodge, Democrat.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Huron, Lapeer, Macomb, Sanilac, St. Clair, and Tuscola (6 counties). Population (1920), 219,237.

LOUIS C. CRAMTON, Republican, of Lapeer, Mich.; born in Hadley Township, Lapeer County, Mich., December 2, 1875; graduate of University of Michigan 1899; married to Miss Fame Kay, and has two children; grand master Ï. O. O. F.; elected to the Sixty-third and each subsequent Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Gratiot, Ionia, Montcalm, Saginaw, and Shiawassee (6 counties). Population (1920), 256,762.

JOSEPH WARREN FORDNEY, Republican, of Saginaw W. S., was born in Blackford County, Ind., November 5, 1853; received a common-school education, living with his parents on a farm until 16 years of age; came to Saginaw in June, 1869; began life in the lumber woods, logging and estimating pine timber, thus acquiring a thorough knowledge of the pine land and lumber industry, which has occupied his attention since; was vice president of the Saginaw Board of Trade; was elected alderman in 1895 and reelected in 1897; was elected to the Fifty-sixth and each succeeding Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benzie, Grand Traverse, Lake, Leelanau, Manistee, Mason, Missaukee,
Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, and Wexford (11 counties). Population (1920), 203,245.
JAMES C. MCLAUGHLIN, Republican, of Muskegon; elected to the Sixtieth and
each succeeding Congress, including the Sixty-seventh.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alcona, Arenac, Bay, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Iosco, Isabella, Mecosta, Midland, Ogemaw, Osceola, Oscoda, and Roscommon (14 counties). Population (1920), 198,679. ROY ORCHARD WOODRUFF, Republican, of Bay City, Mich.; born at Eaton Rapids, Mich., March 14, 1876; educated in the high school of Eaton Rapids and the Detroit College of Medicine, Detroit; received the degree of doctor of dental surgery from the latter institution; practiced dentistry for 10 years in Bay City; was elected mayor of Bay City in April, 1911, and was elected to the Sixty-third Congress in November, 1912, on the Progressive ticket; served as an enlisted man through the Spanish War with the Thirty-third Michigan Volunteer Infantry; served two years in the World War as an Infantry officer, acquiring the rank of major during service in France; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a majority of 29,967 over Democratic opponent.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alger, Alpena, Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Kalkaska, Luce, Mackinac, Menominee, Montmorency, Otsego, Presque Isle, and Schoolcraft (16 counties). Population (1920), 216,310.

FRANK DOUGLAS SCOTT, Republican, of Alpena, was born in Alpena August 25, 1878; educated in the public schools of Alpena and at the University of Michigan; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1901; a lawyer; for two terms prosecutor; four years city attorney; four years a member of the Michigan State Senate, 1911-1914; president pro tempore of the senate 1913-14; married; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

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