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RALPH HENRY CAMERON, Republican, of Phoenix, was born at Southport, Me., October 21, 1863; received a common-school education, augmented later by night schools and study; is interested in mining and stock raising, and is the locator and builder of the Bright Angel trail into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona; moved to Arizona in 1883; was sheriff of Coconino County, Ariz., for three terms, and served one term as member and one term as chairman of the board of supervisors of Coconino County; is married; was elected Delegate to the Sixty-first Congress; was elected to the United States Senate November 2, 1920, by a majority of nearly 7,000 votes over his opponent, Marcus A. Smith.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.-Population (1920), 333,903.

CARL HAYDEN, Democrat, of Phoenix, was born at Tempe, Ariz., October 2, 1877; was educated in public schools of Tempe, Normal School of Arizona, and Stanford University; delegate to Democratic national convention 1904; elected treasurer of Maricopa County in 1904, sheriff in 1906, reelected in 1908; appointed major of Infantry, United States Army, October 4, 1918, and honorably discharged December 10, 1918; is married; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 35,397 votes, to 25,841 for Dunseath, Republican.

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(Population (1920), 1,752,204.)

SENATORS.

JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON, Democrat, of Little Rock, was born August 26, 1872; educated in the common schools and the University of Arkansas; began the practice of law in 1895; was elected to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas in 1894 and served in the session of 1895; was presidential elector for the sixth congressional district of Arkansas in 1900, and selected as electoral messenger; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses. He resigned from the Sixty-second Congress on January 14, 1913; was inaugurated governor of Arkansas on the 16th of January, 1913, having been elected to that position in September, 1912; and on the 28th of January, 1913, was elected Senator. He took his seat on March 10, 1913; was elected in November, 1918, for the term beginning March 4, 1919.

T. H. CARAWAY, Democrat, of Jonesboro.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis, and Woodruff (11 counties). Population (1920), 330,292.

WILLIAM J. DRIVER, Democrat, of Osceola, Ark.; born on plantation near Osceola, Ark., March 2, 1873; education obtained in the public schools; admitted to bar May 1, 1894; married June 2, 1897, to Miss Clara Haynes; one son, William J. Driver, jr., aged 18 years; served two terms as representative from Mississippi County in Legislature of Arkansas-sessions of 1897-1899; judge of second judicial circuit of Arkansas 1911-1918; member constitutional convention of Arkansas 1918; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Prairie, Randolph, Sharp, Stone, and White (12 counties). Population (1920), 220,544. WILLIAM A. OLDFIELD, Democrat, of Batesville, was born near Franklin, Izard County, Ark., February 4, 1874; was educated in the common schools of the county and at Arkansas College, Batesville, taking the degree of A. B. in the latter institution in 1896; is a lawyer by profession; was elected prosecuting attorney in September, 1902, and reelected to the same office in 1904. When war broke out between the United States and Spain, in 1898, he enlisted in Company M, Second Regiment Arkansas Infantry, as a private; was promoted to first sergeant of the same company,

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and later to first lieutenant, and was mustered out with that rank in March, 1899; is married; was elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy,
Van Buren, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1920), 180,348.

JOHN N. TILLMAN, Democrat, of Fayetteville; eldest son of N. J. and Mary (Mullins) Tillman. He was reared on a farm in Washington County, Ark., and was educated at the State University, working his way through and graduating therefrom with the degree of bachelor of Latin letters; LL. D. degree from the University of Mississippi in 1906, and same degree from Vermont University in 1911. He worked as a hired farm hand, clerked in a village store, taught in the public schools, and was admitted to the bar; served as State senator; was elected prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas for three terms, and thereafter served two terms as circuit judge of the same circuit; from 1905 to 1912 was president of the University of Arkansas; is married and has three children. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery, Pike,
Polk, Scott, Sebastian, and Sevier (11 counties). Population (1920), 238,685.

OTIS WINGO, Democrat; born June 18, 1877; educated in the public schools, Bethel College, and McFerrin College; taught in the public schools; admitted to the bar in 1900, taking up the practice of law at his present home; State senator in 1907 and 1909; married Effie Gene Locke October 15, 1902; has two children-Blanche and Otis T., jr. Member of Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and
Yell (8 counties). Population (1920), 262, 862.

H. M. JACOWAY, Democrat, of Dardanelle, was born in Dardanelle, Yell County, and is the third son of Judge W. D. Jacoway and Elizabeth Davis Jacoway; was graduated from the Dardanelle High School, and subsequently was graduated from the Winchester Literary College, Winchester, Tenn., in 1892. In 1898 was graduated from the law department of Vanderbilt University, receiving the degree of LL. B. Was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney in 1904, and was reelected in 1906 without opposition. On the 19th day of September, 1907, was married to Miss Margaret Helena Cooper, daughter of Judge and Mrs. S. B. Cooper, of Beaumont, Tex.; they have had three children-Bronson Cooper, Henderson, jr. (deceased), and Margaret Elizabeth; was elected to the Sixty-second and to the Sixty-third, Sixtyfourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring,
Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, and Saline (12 counties). Population (1920), 273,850.

SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR, Democrat, of Pine Bluff, Ark.; lawyer.
Elected to fill unexpired term in Sixty-second Congress. Reelected to Sixty-third,
Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Hempstead,
Lafayette, Nevada, Ouachita, and Union (11 counties). Population (1920), 245, 623.

TILMAN BACON PARKS, Democrat; born on a farm in Lafayette County, near Lewisville, Ark., on May 14, 1872, a son of Capt. William P. and Mattie D. Parks; was educated in the common schools of the State and the University of Virginia; was admitted to practice law February 2, 1900, since which time has been a member of the law firm of Searcy & Parks; was a member of the house of representatives of the Arkansas General Assembly in the sessions of 1901, 1903, and 1909, and was presidential elector at large in 1904 on the Democratic ticket, and received the highest number of votes of any elector in that election; was messenger selected to deliver the electoral vote to the Vice President at Washington; was temporary chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1910; was elected prosecuting attorney of the eighth judicial circuit of Arkansas in 1914, and reelected in 1916; was nominated for Congress over W. S. Godwin, and was elected at the general election on November 2, 1920, over J. C. Russell, the vote being: Parks, 18,303; Russell, 7,064; married March 4, 1897, to Fay Newton, and has three children-Mrs. M. W. Woodliff, Amarillo, Tex., Tilman B. Parks, jr., and Josephine Parks.

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CALIFORNIA:

(Population (1920), 3,426,861.)

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HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON, Republican and Progressive, was born in Sacramento, Calif., September 2, 1866; was married in the city of Sacramento to Minnie McNeal, daughter of Archibald McNeal, and of this marriage there are two sons, both adults, Hiram Warren Johnson, jr., and Archibald McNeal Johnson; resided in Sacramento until 1902, and then removed to San Francisco; present residence, 857 Green Street, San Francisco; educated in the public schools of Sacramento and University of California; by profession, lawyer; elected governor of California in 1910, reelected governor in 1914, and elected United States Senator in 1916.

SAMUEL MORGAN SHORTRIDGE, Republican; born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 3, 1861, son of Rev. Elias W. and Talitha C. Shortridge; married to Laura Leigh Gashwiler and they have two sons-Samuel M., jr., and John G. Shortridge; lawyer; presidential elector for Harrison 1888, for McKinley 1900, for Taft 1908; nominated for United States Senator by Republicans of California at primary election August, 1920, and elected at general election November 2, 1920, for the term commencing March 4, 1921. Legal residence, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, Calif.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Sonoma, Sutter, and Yuba (11 counties). Population (1920), 220,785.

CLARENCE FREDERICK LEA, Democrat, of Santa Rosa, born July 11, 1874, near Highland Springs, Lake County, Calif., son of James M. and Elizabeth Lea; educated in the common schools, Lakeport Academy, Stanford University, and law department of the University of Denver; admitted to bar 1898; district attorney of Sonoma County 1907 to 1917; president of the District Attorneys' Association of California 1916-17; married Daisy A. Wright July 18, 1907; suffered loss of only child, Frederick, aged 6 years, September 5, 1918; served in the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress as nominee of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Eldorado, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, and Tuolumne (16 counties). Population (1920), 129,357.

JOHN E. RAKER, Democrat, of Alturas, Modoc County, was born on a farm near Knoxville, Knox County, Ill., February 22, 1863. Soon after his parents moved to Sedalia, Mo., and, remaining there but a short time, removed to Knoxville. In 1873 moved with his parents to Lassen County, Calif.; worked on the ranch and farm and attended the public schools, working his own way; attended the grammar school at Susanville, and the State Normal School at San Jose, Calif., 1882-1884. In the spring of 1885 entered the law office of Judge E. V. Spencer, of Susanville, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1885; became a partner of Judge Spencer under the firm name of Spencer & Raker. This firm became one of the leading law firms of northern California, and was engaged in many important suits involving water rights and land matters, as well as many noted criminal cases. By special order of the superior court of Lassen County, in 1885, before being admitted to the bar, was permitted to defend an important murder trial; was his party's candidate for district attorney of Lassen County in 1886. December 6, 1886, moved to Alturas, where he has resided ever since, engaging in the practice of the law, the firm having an extended practice in California, Oregon, and Nevada. In 1894 was elected district attorney of Modoc County, which office he held four years, 1895-1898; at the general election in 1898 was the Democratic nominee for State senator. In 1901 was the attorney for the defendants in the criminal case known as the Modoc lynching case. This case became famous in California and the West, 21 men indicted for five separate murder charges; the trial commenced in November, 1901, and ended in March, 1902, no conviction had, and all defendants discharged. Elected judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the county of Modoc in 1902 and reelected in 1908, which position he resigned December 19, 1910. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Oregon, the United States Circuit and District Courts of California, United States Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Assisted

in organizing the First National Bank of Alturas, and has been one of the directors ever since. In 1906 was elected grand sachem of the Democratic Iroquois Clubs of California, and reelected in 1907; delegate to many Democratic State conventions, chairman committee on platform and resolutions at one time, and in 1908-1910 chairman Democratic State central committee, resigning on becoming a candidate for Congress; was delegate to the Democratic national convention at Denver in 1908; grand master Independent Order of Odd Fellows of California 1908-9, and representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Seattle; delegate to Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of California at several sessions; was married November 21, 1889, to Iva G. Spencer, daughter of Judge E. V. Spencer, of Susanville, at Anaheim, in southern California; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress without opposition.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, and Yolo (6 counties). Population (1920), 303,208.

CHARLES FORREST CURRY, Republican, of Sacramento, was born in Naperville, Ill., and is the son of the late Charles H. M. and Emma J. (Kimball) Curry; moved with his parents to Seattle; after spending some time in the then Territory of Washington, the family removed to California, of which State his maternal grandfather was a resident and pioneer; in 1886 was elected a member of the California Assembly from the thirty-sixth district in San Francisco; in 1890 was appointed superintendent of Station B post office in San Francisco, and in 1894 resigned that position to accept the Republican nomination for county clerk, to which office he was elected and served a term of four years; in 1898 received the Republican nomination for secretary of state, to which office he was elected and served three consecutive terms of four years each; appointed building and loan commissioner of California January, 1911; October 5, 1891, married Lillie A. Siperly, who died October 2, 1898; his family consists of two children, Florence A. and C. F. Curry, jr., captain in the Air Service Reserve, who served in France and Germany; one sister, Mrs. A. M. Peterson, and two nephews, Leonard C. Curry and Emmett J. Peterson, who was in the Naval Flying Corps and now in reserves. Mr. Curry was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 54,984 votes, to 14,964 for J. W. Struckenbruck, Democrat, and 3,631 for M. W. Beck, Socialist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: Twenty-first, twenty-eighth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third assembly districts. Population (1920), 269,373.

JULIUS KAHN, Republican, of San Francisco, also nominated by Democratic Party; was born on the 28th day of February, 1861, at Kuppenheim, present Republic of Baden, Germany; came to California with his parents in 1866; was educated in the public schools of San Francisco. In 1892 was elected to the Legislature of the State of California; in January, 1894, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: Twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-ninth assembly districts. Population (1920), 237,303. JOHN I. NOLAN, Republican, of San Francisco, was born in San Francisco, Calif.; attended the public schools of San Francisco; was married to Miss Mae Ella Hunt, of San Francisco, March 23, 1913; have one child, Corlis Theresa Nolan; is an iron molder by trade; was a member of the board of supervisors of the city and count y of San Francisco 1911; secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council 1912, and has been identified with the International Molders' Union of North America as an officer for 14 years; was elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Alameda. Population (1920), 344,177.

JOHN ARTHUR ELSTON, Republican, of Berkeley, was born February 10, 1874, at Woodland, Calif., son of Allen Mandeville and Florence (Elliott) Elston; graduated from Hesperian College, Woodland, of which his father was president, in 1892, and from the University of California in 1897; married Tallulah Le Conte, of Berkeley, in 1911, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Jane; is a lawyer by profession; was executive secretary to the governor of California 1903-1907; member of the board of trustees of the State Institution for the Deaf and Blind 1911-1914; appointed Regent of Smithsonian Institution 1919; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

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SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and Tulare (7 counties). Population (1920), 345,023.

HENRY ELLSWORTH BARBOUR, Republican, of Fresno, Calif., was born at Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., March 8, 1877; was educated in the public schools of Ogdensburg, the Ogdensburg Free Academy, Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.), and the law department of George Washington University, Washington, D. C.; admitted to the practice of law in New York State in 1901, and the State of California in 1902; located in Fresno, Calif., in 1902, and has since been a resident and practicing attorney of that city; married Mary D. Meux, of Fresno, Calif., October 29, 1907; they have two sons, John Meux Barbour and Richard Houston Barbour; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 2,731; received both the Republican and Democratic nominations in the primary election of 1920 and was reelected to the Sixtyseventh Congress by a majority of 49,164.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura (8 counties). Population (1920), 292,415.

ARTHUR MONROE FREE, Republican, of San Jose, Calif., was born in that city January 15, 1879; graduated from the grammar and high school in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, Calif., and then attended the University of the Pacific at San Jose, Calif., one year; in 1901 received the degree of A. B. from Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and in 1903 received the degree of LL. B. from the same institution; in September, 1903, entered upon the practice of law in Santa Clara County, and shortly afterwards was appointed city attorney of the town of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, Calif.; in November, 1906, was elected district attorney of Santa Clara County, the fourth largest county in California, and was reelected in November, 1910, and again reelected in 1914; voluntarily retired from the office of district attorney on January 1, 1919, to enter the private practice of law at San Jose, Calif.; in November, 1920, was elected to Congress from the eighth congressional district of California by a majority of 20,500 over Hon. Hugh S. Hersman, who was the Democratic Congressman from the district. Mr. Free from time to time has been a member of the Republican county central committee of Santa Clara County and the State central committee of California, and in each campaign for the last 16 years has taken the stump in behalf of the Republican ticket. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, past exalted ruler of San Jose Lodge, No. 522, B. P. O. Elks, a member of the San Jose Rotary Club, and a director of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. He is married and has five children, including two sets of twins.

NINTH DISTRICT.-LOS ANGELES COUNTY: Sixty-first, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh, sixtyeighth, sixty-ninth, and seventieth assembly districts. Population (1920), 420,172. WALTER FRANKLIN LINEBERGER, Republican, of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Calif., born near Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tenn., the son of John Henry Lineberger and Lucy Aynesworth Lineberger; ancestry American, of French (Alsace-Lorraine), English, and Scotch extraction; educated in public schools and at the A. and M. College of Texas, where he studied agriculture and civil engineering; after college course went to old Mexico, where he practiced engineering and engaged in mining and agricultural pursuits for a period of nine years; married Miss Florence Elizabeth Hite, of Columbus, Ohio, June 16, 1909, and they have four children— Florence Elizabeth, Walter Franklin, jr., Janet Hite, and Anne Lorraine; came to Long Beach in 1911 and acquired business, citrus, and agricultural properties in Los Angeles County; is president of Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co. (Inc.) and senior member of firms of Lineberger Bros. and Lineberger, Hite & Lineberger, all of Long Beach, Calif.; member American Society of Civil Engineers, order of F. & A. M., Congregationalist Church, and Society Sons of the Revolution; has always been an active Republican but never held public office before election to Congress; enlisted in United States Army soon after the entrance of the United States into the World War and served 15 months in France with the engineering units of the First, Thirtysecond, and Fortieth combat divisions, and was wounded in action; returned to the United States April, 1919, and was honorably discharged; at the special election called to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman-elect Charles F. Van de Water, was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 32,442 votes, to 21,056 for Charles H. Randall, Prohibitionist, and 1,922 for John J. Hamilton, Independent-a plurality of 11,386.

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