Page images
PDF
EPUB

named university; served on medical staff of several large hospitals for the insane, including New York City Asylum and Hudson River State Hospital; also served in London National Hospital for Nervous Diseases under Hughlings Jackson and at Royal River Edinburgh (Scotland) Asylum under Sir Thomas Clouston; in 1896 established the River Crest Sanitarium at Astoria, Queens Borough, New York City, and later founded the Farm Colony and Sanatorium at Belle Mead, N. J., both for mental diseases; studied law and took the degree of LL. B.; member of several prominent scientific and medical societies; is a thirty-second degree Mason (Scottish Rite), and belongs to Sigma Chi and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities; married July 10, 1902, Ella Cramer (A. B. Vassar); has one son, John C.; has lectured on medical jurisprudence and contributed scientific articles on mental diseases, eugenics, and medical jurisprudence; extensively engaged in farming; served in Sixty-second Congress, and was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

THIRD DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of East River and North Eleventh Street, thence along North Eleventh Street to Berry Street, to North Twelfth Street, to Union Avenue, to Frost Street, to Lorimer Street, to Broadway, to Walton Street, to Throop Avenue, to Lorimer Street, to Harrison Avenue, to Flushing Avenue, to Broadway, to De Kalb Avenue, to Hamburg Avenue, to Stanhope Street, to the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties; thence along said boundary line to Newtown Creek; thence through the waters of Newtown Creek to East River; through the waters of the East River to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 240,290.

JOHN KISSEL, Republican, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born and has lived within the confines of the district he represents all his life; was educated at public and private schools; has served as clerk in the Kings County clerk's office, Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the board of supervisors; was presidential elector, State senator, member Republican State committee, Republican leader of the nineteenth ward; by trade a printer; he has also been publisher of the Kings County Republican; he served in the National Guard; has been a member of the Republican county committee since 1886; was the first to suggest the use of school rooms for neighborhood meetings in New York and a free labor bureau by the State. Senator Kissel organized and for 15 years conducted, at his own expense, the first free labor bureau in this country; that was his original idea; later this was used as a model for founding the present national employment agency; this institution was discontinued by Senator Kissel when the city, State, and Nation carried out his idea by founding free employment agencies. He has been the standard bearer of the John Kissel Republican Battery since 1894; he is a member of Marsh Lodge, No. 188, F. & A. M., and S. F. Dupont Camp, No. 168, Sons of Veterans; he was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, from the strongest Democratic district in Kings County by a margin of 1,352 votes.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of New York Bay and Sixty-third Street; thence along Sixty-third Street to Third Avenue, to Sixty-fifth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to Forty-ninth Street, to Seventh Avenue, to Fortieth Street, to Fort Hamilton Avenue or Parkway, to Gravesend Avenue, to Terrace Place, to Eleventh Avenue, to Seventeenth Street, to Terrace Place, to Prospect Avenue, to Fourth Avenue, to Garfield Place, to Fifth Avenue, to St. Marks Avenue or Place, to Fourth Avenue, to Bergen Street, to Boerum Place, to Dean Street, to Court Street, to Amity Street, to Clinton Street, to Warren Street, to Columbia Street, to Congress Street, to the waters of Buttermilk Channel and East River; thence through the waters of Buttermilk Channel to the waters of New York Bay; thence through the waters of New York Bay to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 247,873.

THOMAS H. CULLEN, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of Bergen Street and Nevine Street, thence along Nevine Street to Atlantic Avenue, to Bond Street, to Fulton Street, to Hudson Avenue, to De Kalb Avenue, to Washington Park or Cumberland Street, to Myrtle Avenue, to Spencer Street, to Willoughby Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to Lafayette Avenue, to Bedford Avenue, to Dean Street, to New York Avenue, to Park Place, to Nostrand Avenue, to Eastern Parkway, to New York Avenue, to Sterling Street, to Flatbush Avenue or Washington Avenue, to Malbone Street, to Ocean Avenue, to Parkside Avenue, to Parade Place, to Caton Avenue, to Coney Island Avenue, to Beverly Road, to East Ninth Street, to Avenue C or Avenue C West, to West Street, to Fifteenth Avenue, to Thirty-seventh Street, to Fourteenth Avenue, to Forty-first Street, to Thirteenth Avenue, to Fortieth Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Thirty-ninth Street, to Fort Hamilton Avenue or Parkway, to Gravesend Avenue, to Terrace Place, to Eleventh Avenue, to Seventeenth Street, to Terrace Place, to Prospect Avenue, to Fourth Avenue, to Garfield Place, to Fifth Avenue, to St. Marks Avenue or Place, to Fourth Avenue, to Bergen Street, to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 231,807.

ARDOLPH L. KLINE, Republican, is a native of Sussex County, N. J., where he was born February 21, 1858, the son of Anthony and Margaret Busby Kline; on the paternal side he is of German extraction, while his mother is derived from a Scotch-Irish strain; his father was a member of the Twenty-seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers during the Civil War and served throughout that conflict, so that it was quite natural for his son to become interested in military affairs; as a boy he

Alpha.

List

State

Del.

Serv.

ice

Stati

tica

Sena

Con

Ηοι

Co

Ca

t

E

attended the private and public schools at Andover and Newton, N. J.; in 1877 entered the employ of W. C. Peet & Co., of New York City; in 1876 he joined the Fourteenth Regiment National Guard of New York as a private, and when the Spanish-American War broke out he was made lieutenant colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment New York Volunteers, with which regiment he saw service at the front; later he passed through all grades up to and including brevet brigadier general, for which he was named on July 26, 1901; in 1902 he was Republican nominee for sheriff of Kings County and although defeated waged such a vigorous campaign and was so popular that he ran some 5,000 votes ahead of his ticket; in the year following he was elected to represent the fifty-first district on the board of aldermen, and served for the term of 1904-5; in the latter year he was returned for the period of 1906-7; his party again nominated him for the succeeding term, but owing to a reapportionment of his aldermanic district he was defeated; on January 1, 1908, he was appointed assistant appraiser of merchan dise for the port of New York by President Roosevelt, which office he held until the time of his resignation, July 1, 1911; in November, 1911, he was again elected to the board of aldermen, and represented the fifty-first district for the term 1912-13; he was elected vice chairman of the board January 1, 1912, by the members of that body; he served on many important committees and was identified with numerous bills bearing directly on civic welfare; he fulfilled the duties of former aldermanic president, John Purroy Mitchel, for a considerable period, part of the time being also mayor of the city pro tempore, and on June 5, 1913, when the late John Purroy Mitchel resigned his office to accept the appointment of collector of the port of New York, under the city charter he became president of the board of aldermen, and filled this office with distinguished credit until September 10, 1913, when by the tragedy of Mayor William J. Gaynor's death he became mayor of New York City for the unexpired term up to January 1, 1914; he was returned to the board of aldermen for the years 1914-15; he attended the first meeting and helped organize the board for its term, but resigned January 6, 1914, to accept appointment as commissioner of taxes and assessments for New York City, which office he filled for four years, 1914-1917, inclusive; he is a member of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth assembly district Republican clubs and also a member of the Kings County Republican_general committee; as a fraternalist he is included on the roster of the Fort Greene Council, Royal Arcanum, of Brooklyn, United Spanish War Veterans, and president of the Former Officers' Association of the Fourteenth Regiment National Guard of the State of New York, and served one term as president of the National Guard Association of the State of New York; he is also a member of Lafayette Camp, No. 140, Sons of Veterans; past commander of New York Commandery of the Naval and Military Order for the SpanishAmerican War, of the Old Guard of New York City, of which he is past commander, and is an associate member of Winchester Post, No. 397, G. A. R., and member of the Montauk Club, the Press Club, and the Chamber of Commerce; on November 25, 1886, he was married to Miss Frances A. Phalon, and they reside at 238 Carlton Avenue; they have one daughter, Mrs. Edward J. Schell, who lives in Queens County, near Jamaica, and with whom Col. and Mrs. Kline usually spend their summer vacation; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 42,129 votes, to 27,650 for Ed. Cassin, Democrat; 2,047 for I. M. Chatcuff, Socialist; and 574 for William M. Nichol, Prohibition.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Lafayette Avenue; thence along Lafayette Avenue to Bedford Avenue, to Dean Street, to New York Avenue, to Park Place, to Nostrand Avenue, to Eastern Parkway, to New York Avenue, to Sterling Street, to Flatbush Avenue or Washington Avenue, to Malbone Street, to Ocean Avenue, to Parkside Avenue, to Parade Place, to Caton Avenue, to Coney Island Avenue, to Beverly Road, to East Ninth Street, to Avenue C or Avenue C west, to West Street, to Fifteenth Avenue, to Thirty-seventh Street, to Fourteenth Avenue, to Forty-fourth Street, to Fifteenth Avenue, to Fiftieth Street, to Sixteenth Avenue, to Forty-ninth Street, to Nineteenth Avenue, to Forty-seventh Street, to Washington Avenue or Parkville Avenue, to Gravesend Avenue, to Foster Avenue, to East Seventeenth Street, to Avenue I, to Flatbush Avenue, to East Thirty-fourth Street, to Avenue J, to Schenectady Avenue, to Glenwood Road, to East Forty-sixth Street, to Farragut Road, to Schenectady Avenue, to Clarendon Road, to Ralph Avenue, to Church Avenue, to East Ninety-first Street, to Linden Avenue, to Rockaway Parkway, to Church Avenue, to East Ninetyeighth Street, to Lott Avenue, to Thatford Avenue, to Livonia Avenue, to Osborn Street, to Dumont Avenue, to Thatford Avenue, to Sutter Avenue, to Howard Avenue, to Pacific Street, to Ralph Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Utica Avenue, to Pacific Street, to Schenectady Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Sumner Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Lewis Avenue, to Green Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 258,770.

WARREN I. LEE, Republican, is the son of Arthur D. Lee, and was born at Bartlett, Oneida County, N. Y.; prepared for college at Colgate Academy and was graduated from Hamilton College with the class of 1899, and was later graduated from the New York Law School; is a lawyer, and served for six years as a member of the New York State Legislature, for three years as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, and for two years as first deputy controller of New York State; he has

also acted as one of the counsel to the public service commission of New York; he is a trustee of Hamilton College, a member of the University Club of New York, vice president of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, and a member of the twentyfirst assembly district Republican club and of various other clubs and civic organizations; he was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a plurality of 22,051 over his Democratic opponent, William F. X. Geoghan.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of the waters of Buttermilk Channel, East River, and Congress Street; thence along Congress Street to Columbia Street, to Warren Street, to Clinton Street, to Amity Street, to Court Street, to Dean Street, to Boerum Place, to Bergen Street, to Nevins Street, to Atlantic Avenue, to Bond Street, to Fulton Street, to Hudson Avenue, to De Kalb Avenue, to Washington Park or Cumberland Street, to Myrtle Avenue, to Spencer Street, to Willoughby Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to Flushing Avenue, to Harrison Avenue, to Lorimer Street, to Throop Avenue, to Walton Street, to Broadway, to Lorimer Street, to Frost Street, to Union Avenue, to North Twelfth Street, to Berry Street, to North Eleventh Street, to the waters of East River; thence through the waters of East River to the waters of Buttermilk Channel, to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 266,592.

MICHAEL J. HOGAN, Republican, 171 Warren Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; born April 22, 1871, in New York City; educated in the parochial and public schools; in the forwarding and truck business; served six years on the board of aldermen of New York City; nine years a member Thirteenth Regiment New York National Guard, serving through various ranks of private, corporal, and being honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant; married Anna Brittan, and they have two children-Anna Marie and Redmond; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 20,489 votes, to 16,554 for James P. Maher, Democrat; 6,561 for J. J. Coronel, Socialist; and 446 for C. E. Gildersleeve, Prohibition.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of Sutter Avenue and Williams Avenue; thence along Williams Avenue to Blake Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to Hegeman Avenue, to New Jersey Avenue, to Vienna Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to the waters of Jamaica Bay; thence southerly through the waters of Jamaica Bay to a point east of Duck Point marsh; thence southerly and easterly to the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties; thence southerly and westerly along said boundary line, south of Barren Island, to the Atlantic Ocean; thence through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the waters of Gravesend Bay; through the waters of Gravesend Bay to the Narrows of New York Bay; through said waters to Sixtythird Street; thence along Sixty-third Street to Third Avenue, to Sixty-fifth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to Forty-ninth Street, to Seventh Avenue, to Fortieth Street, to Fort Hamilton Avenue or Parkway, tó Thirty-ninth Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Fortieth Street, to Thirteenth Avenue, to Forty-first Street, to Fourteenth Avenue, to Forty-fourth Street, to Fifteenth Avenue, to Fiftieth Street, to Sixteenth Avenue, to Forty-ninth Street, to Nineteenth Avenue, to Forty-seventh Street, to Washington Avenue or Parkville Avenue, to Gravesend Avenue, to Foster Avenue, to East Seventeenth Street, to Avenue I, to Flatbush Avenue, to East Thirty-fourth Street, to Avenue J, to Schnectady Avenue, to Glenwood Road, to East Forty-sixth Street, to Farragut Road, to Schenectady Avenue, to Clarendon Road, to Ralph Avenue, to Church Avenue, to East Ninety-first Street, to Linden Avenue, to Rockaway Parkway, to Church Avenue, to East Ninety-eighth Street, to Lott Avenue, to Thatford Avenue, to Livonia Avenue, to Osborn Street, to Dumont Avenue, to Thatford Avenue, to Sutter Avenue, to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 298,968.

CHARLES GROSVENOR BOND, Republican, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; born at Columbus, Ohio, May 29, 1877; attended collegiate and law departments of the Ohio State University, from which he graduated in the year 1899 with the degree of LL. B.; lawyer; member of the firm of Coulter & Bond, 2 Rector Street, New York City; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a vote of 30,908, to 22,585 for William E. Cleary, Democrat; 9,124 for V. H. Lawn, Socialist; and 386 for A. J. Copeland, Socialist.

NINTH DISTRICT.-KINGS AND QUEENS COUNTIES: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties and Stanhope Street, thence along Stanhope Street to Hamburg Avenue, to DeKalb Avenue, to Broadway, to Hopkinson Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Broadway, to Jamaica Avenue, to Alabama Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Williams Avenue, to Blake Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to Hegeman Avenue, to New Jersey Avenue, to Vienna Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to the waters of Jamaica Bay; thence southerly through the waters of Jamaica Bay to a point east of Duck Point marsh; thence southerly and easterly to the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties; thence northerly and westerly along said boundary line of said counties to the point where said line is intersected by the center line of Atlantic Avenue; thence along Atlantic Avenue, in the county of Queens, to Morris Avenue, to Rockaway Plank Road, to Bergen Landing Road, to Van Wyck Avenue, to Newtown Road, to the boundary line of the second and fourth wards in the said county, to the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties; thence westerly and northerly along said line to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 291,851.

ANDREW N. PETERSEN, Republican, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; born in Denmark March 10, 1870; educated in public schools; married; two children-Harry E. and Elliott I.; president of the Brooklyn Foundry Co.; member of Masonic, social, civic, and political clubs; never held public office; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, over David J. O'Connell by a vote of 41,142 to 30,368.

Alpha.

List

State

Del.

Serv

ice

Stati

tica

Sena

Cor

Ho

Co

C

TENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Flushing Avenue, thence along Flushing Avenue to Broadway, to Hopkinson Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Broadway, to Jamaica Avenue, to Alabama Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Williams Avenue, to Sutter Avenue, to Howard Avenue, to Pacific Street, to Ralph Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Utica Avenue, to Pacific Street, to Schenectady Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Sumner Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Lewis Avenue, to Green Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 252,062.

LESTER D. VOLK, Republican, of 140A Floyd Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; born in Brooklyn September 17, 1884, son of Aron B. and Esther Volk; graduated from public school, Boys' High School, Long Island Medical College with degree of M. D., Brooklyn Law School with degree of LL. B.; engaged in practice of medicine from 1906 to 1914; coroner's physician Kings County 1914; for many years editor of Medical Economist; admitted to bar in 1913 and has since engaged in practice of the law; elected to New York Assembly 1912 as Progressive, being the only non-Democrat elected from Kings County that year; refused renomination; saw active service as first lieutenant in Medical Corps with the American Expeditionary Forces; chairman bonus parade committee, New York City; chairman bonus drive committee, New York, which organized the State and passed the State bonus by more than one-half million votes; chairman national bonus drive committee; chairman central committee Veterans of Foreign Wars, representing all posts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island; judge advocate Veterans of Foreign Wars State of New York; member many civic and fraternal organizations; delegate to Republican State convention, Saratoga, 1920; elected to Sixty-sixth Congress for unexpired term, receiving 25,608 votes, to 13.943 for Rhodes, Democrat, and 11,512 for O'Neal, Socialist; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 25,801 votes, to 14,607 for Rhodes, Democrat, and 11,521 for O'Neal, Socialist.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-Richmond County, Governors Island, Bedloes Island, and Ellis Island. NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion bounded as follows: Beginning at Christopher Street and North River, northeast to Bleecker Street, southeast to Carmine Street, northeast to Sixth Avenue, north to West Third Street, east to Sullivan Street, south to Canal Street, east to Division Street, southwest to Market Street, southeast to the East River, southwest to the North River, and northwest to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 217,371.

DANIEL J. RIORDAN, Democrat, of New York City, was born in that city in 1870. He attended the public schools of the district until 1886, when he entered Manhattan College, and was graduated in 1890, receiving the degree of A. B. He became a partner in the real estate business conducted by his father. In 1902 he was elected to the State senate. He was renominated for State senator in 1904, and on his election was appointed by Lieut. Gov. Bruce a member of the committees on insurance, forest, fish and game, and military affairs. In the latter part of 1905 he was appointed a member of the special insurance investigating committee. Mr. Riordan was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, to the Fifty-ninth Congress to serve out the unexpired term of Timothy D. Sullivan (resigned), to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth. Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion bounded as follows: Beginning at the East River and Market Street, northwest to Division Street, northeast to Essex Street, north to Stanton Street, northeast to Pitt Street, north to East Fourth Street, east to the East River, and to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 165,123.

MEYER LONDON, Socialist, of New York City, was born in Russia December 29, 1871; came to the United States on the 1st day of October, 1891; married and has one child; admitted to the bar in New York in 1898, and has been since practicing law in New York City; active in the Socialist and labor movement for close to 30 years; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by 5,969 votes, as against 4,947 for Henry M. Goldfogle, the candidate of the Democratic and Independence League Parties, and 1,133 for Benjamin Barovsky, the Republican and Progressive candidate; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, over Henry M. Goldfogle, who was the candidate of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion bounded as follows: Beginning at West Third and Sullivan Streets, east to Lafayette Street, north to East Fourth Street, east to Avenue C, south to Stanton Street, west to Essex Street, south to Division Street, to Canal Street, west to Sullivan Street, and north to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 163,292.

CHRISTOPHER D. SULLIVAN, Democrat, of New York City, was born in that city in 1870; was educated at St. James Parochial School and St. Mary's Academy; is in the real estate business, with offices at 1482 Broadway, New York City; was nominated and elected to the State senate in the year 1906, and was reelected in the

years 1908, 1910, 1912, and 1914, and served until the end of the year 1916, when he was nominated and elected to Congress. As a member of the State senate he was chairman of the committee on miscellaneous corporations, and served on the following committees: Revision, trades and manufactures, public health, labor and industry, and privileges and elections. In 1916, as Democratic candidate, he was indorsed by the Independence League and was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, receiving 5,114 votes, to 3,786 for his opponent, Frank L. Dostal, Republican and Progressive candidate; reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion bounded as follows: Beginning at West Fourteenth Street and the North River, east to the East River, to East Fourth Street, west to Lafayette Street, south to Great Jones Street, west to Sixth Avenue, south to Carmine Street, to Bleecker Street, northwest to Christopher Street, southwest to the North River, and to the point of beginning. Population (1920), 179,572.

NATHAN D. PERLMAN, Republican, of New York City, was born on August 2, 1887; graduated from public school, College of the City of New York, and New York University Law School with degree of B. L.; was admitted to the bar in January, 1909; member of the law firm of Kopp, Markewich & Perlman, with offices at 51 Chambers Street, New York City; as special deputy attorney general of the State of New York 1910 and 1911 he successfully prosecuted violators of the pure food law and collected thousands of dollars in penalties; member of New York State Assembly 1915, 1916, and 1917; during his service there he was chairman of the assembly committee on claims and a member of the judiciary, insurance, and general laws committees; during the years 1916 and 1917 he served as a member of the New York State legislative committee which investigated the financial conditions of the city of New York; married to Florence S. Bierman and they have one child, Jacob; was elected to fill the vacancy in the Sixty-sixth Congress caused by the resignation of Maj. F. H. LaGuardia by a majority of 10,000 over Algernon Lee, Socialist; reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress by a similar majority; he was the nominee of both Republican and Democratic Parties.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion bounded as follows: Beginning at the
Hudson River and West Sixty-second Street, thence easterly along West Sixty-second Street to
Amsterdam Avenue, along Amsterdam Avenue to West Sixtieth Street, along West Sixtieth Street
to Columbus Avenue, along Columbus and Ninth Avenues to West Fifty-fifth Street, along West
Fifty-fifth Street to Eighth Avenue, along Eighth Avenue to West Thirty-eighth Street, along West
Thirty-eighth Street to Seventh Avenue, along Seventh Avenue to West Fourteenth Street, along
West Fourteenth Street to the Hudson River, and thence along the Hudson River to West Sixty-
second Street, the point or place of beginning. Population (1920), 191,645.

THOMAS JEFFERSON RYAN, Republican, of New York City, was born in 1890 in the city of New York; educated in the public schools, City College of the City of New York, and Fordham University, receiving the degree of B. S. in 1908; LL. B. Fordham University School of Law 1911; admitted to the bar in 1912; single; graduated from the Second Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg; served as an aviator in France during the World War; was wounded, cited for bravery in action, and decorated with the croix de guerre with the palm; is a member of the Catholic Club, Flying Club, County Lawyers' Association, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, New Amsterdam Council K. of C., etc.; a prominent trial lawyer and lecturer; never held any other public office; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, over Peter J. Dooling, Democrat, by a vote of 19,890 to 15,014.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-All of Blackwells Island and that portion of the county of New York beginning at the East River and East Sixty-third Street and running westerly along East Sixty-third Street to Third Avenue, along Third Avenue to East Sixty-first Street, along East Sixty-first Street to Lexington Avenue, along Lexington Avenue to East Sixty-second Street, along East Sixty-second Street to Park Avenue, along Park and Fourth Avenues to East Fourteenth Street, along East Fourteenth Street to the East River, and along the East River to East Sixty-third Street, the point or place of beginning. Population (1920), 200,072.

W. BOURKE COCKRAN, Democrat, of New York, was born in Sligo, Ireland, February 28, 1854; educated in Ireland and France; LL. D. St. Francis Xavier College 1887, Georgetown College (D. C.) 1900, Manhattan College 1902, St. John's College (Brooklyn) 1914; came to United States in 1871; taught in private academy; later principal of a public school in Westchester County, N. Y.; admitted to bar 1876, soon becoming prominent in New York City politics; married, at New York, Anne, daughter of Henry Clay Ide, November 5, 1906; delegate Democratic State convention 1881; made noteworthy speeches at Democratic national conventions 1884 and 1892, opposing nomination of Cleveland, and in 1920 placing Gov. Smith, of New York, in nom

Alpha.

List

State

Del.

Serv

ice

Stat tica

Sen

Co

Ho

Co

C

« PreviousContinue »