THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth wards. Population (1920), 214,869.

HARRY C. RANSLEY, Republican, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born February 5, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pa.; was educated in public and private schools; he was married March 31, 1902, to Harrie A. Dilks, and they have two daughters, Elizabeth A. and Harriet; he is a member of the firm of Dunlap, Slack & Co., dealers in oils and naval stores, Philadelphia; he was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature 1891-1894, and for 16 years was a member of the Select Council of Philadelphia; during 8 of these years he was president of that body; he was sheriff of Philadelphia County 19161920, and was chairman of the Republican city committee 1916-1919. Member Sixty-sixth Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, thirtyeighth, and forty-seventh wards. Population (1920), 238,859.

GEORGE WASHINGTON EDMONDS, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born at Pottsville, Pa., February 22, 1864; educated in the public schools and the Central High School; graduate (Ph. G.) of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; is in the coal business; member of the common councils of Philadelphia 1896-1902; is married; was a Member of the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-third, twenty-fifth, thirty-first, thirty-third, thirty fifth, forty-first, forty-third, and forty-fifth wards. Population (1920), 314,293.

JAMES J. CONNOLLY, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia September 24, 1881; graduated from the Nativity B. V. M. School and special course in the Catholic High School; was married September 30, 1908, to Mary A. Morrissey; has four children-James J., jr., Margaret R. H., Catherine, and William; has been a member of the Republican State committee and at present is a member of the Republican city committee; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, receiving 48,457 votes, to 15,671 for Henry J. Burns, Democrat—a majority of 32,786. SIXTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, twentyseventh, thirty-fourth, fortieth, forty-second, forty-fourth, and forty-sixth wards. Population (1920), 543,912.

GEORGE POTTER DARROW, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born at Waterford, Conn., February 4, 1859; educated in common schools of New London County, Conn.; graduate of Alfred University, New York, 1880; president twenty-second sectional school board of Philadelphia three years; elected to common council of Philadelphia February, 1910; member of that body when elected to the Sixtyfourth Congress; director Chelten Trust Co.; member of board of managers of Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Germantown. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a plurality of 71,213, receiving 104,576 votes, to 33,363 for Harry S. Jeffery, Democrat. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chester and Delaware (2 counties). Population (1920), 288,204.

THOMAS S. BUTLER, Republican, of West Chester, was born in Uwchland, Chester County, Pa., November 4, 1855; received a common-school and academic education; is an attorney at law; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and succeeding Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 52,913 votes, Republican and Prohibition, to 15,944 for Freeland S. Brown, Democrat, and 1,088 for Walter N. Lodge, Socialist.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bucks and Montgomery (2 counties). Population (1920), 281,786. HENRY WINFIELD WATSON, Republican, of Langhorne; born in Bucks County, Pa.; admitted to the bar; elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixtysixth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Lancaster. Population (1920), 173,797.

W. W. GRIEST, Member since 1909.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Lackawanna. Population (1920), 286,311.

CHARLES R. CONNELL, Republican, of Scranton, Pa., was born at Scranton September 22, 1864, the son of William and Annie Lawrence Connell; his father served four terms in Congress, being first elected on the Republican ticket in 1896

and reelected three successive times; educated in the public schools, finishing at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass., in the class of 1884; married September 26, 1889, to Elizabeth R. Shafer, and they have two children-Bernard L., who entered the World War as a second lieutenant and came out at the close of the war a captain, and Gladys S. Connell, both of whom are married. Is connected with various manufacturing enterprises in his community, being president of the Lackawanna Mills, manufacturers of underwear; president of the Scranton Button Co., manufacturers of buttons, etc.; vice president of the Third National Bank and a director of the South Side State Bank of Scranton. The last census gave his district a population of 286,311, and at the election held November 2, 1920, there were 67,551 votes cast, of which he received 35,181, Patrick McLane, Democrat, received 30,411, Repp, Prohibitionist, received 1,268, and Jones, Socialist, received 691, showing a plurality of 4,770 over the Democrat and a majority over all of 2,811 for Mr. Connell. Had never previously aspired to or held a political office, although having always been exceedingly active in his endeavors to promote the welfare of the Republican Party. ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Luzerne. Population (1920), 390,991.

CLARENCE D. COUGHLIN, Republican, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was born July 27, 1883, at Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa.; his parents were both natives of Luzerne County, his father, James M. Coughlin, being a prominent educator in Pennsylvania, a member of the College and University Council of Pennsylvania, a member of the State board of education, and a member of the commission revising and codifying the school laws of Pennsylvania; he received his education in the public schools of WilkesBarre, Wesleyan College, and Harvard University, graduating from the latter in 1906; he was a teacher of literature and history in Fairview and Wilkes-Barre High Schools; a practicing lawyer in Luzerne County since 1910; the treasurer and a director of the Wilkes-Barre Can Co.; the treasurer and a director of the W. B. Bertels & Sons Co., manufacturers, of Wilkes-Barre; a director of the Diamond Land & Improvement Co., of Scranton; appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania as a member of the committee of public safety of the State; chairman of the committee of public safety in Luzerne County; member of the commission to revise the penal code of Pennsylvania; elected and twice reelected chairman of the Republican Party of Luzerne County; elected a member of the State committee of the Republican Party; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a majority of 14,680, receiving 45,092 votes, his opponent receiving 30,412; he is married and has two children.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Schuylkill. Population (1920), 217, 754.

JOHN REBER, Republican, of Pottsville; born in South Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pa.; parents were farmers; attended public schools in Pottsville, and graduated from Eastman National Business College; taught rural schools two winters; is married; started the manufacture of hosiery in 1885 and remained in that business until January 1, 1917; was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, receiving 13,599 votes, to 9,806 cast for his Democartic opponent, James F. Moran; was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, over Thomas J. Butler, Democrat and Labor candidate, by 5,029 majority.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Berks and Lehigh (2 counties). Population (1920), 348,955.

FRED B. GERNERD, the first Republican to be elected Representative of the thirteenth Pennsylvania district, comprising Berks and Lehigh Counties; born in 1879 in Allentown, Pa., where he resides; graduate of Allentown High School, Franklin and Marshall College, School of Political Science of Columbia University, and Columbia Law School; began practice in the office of Bissell, Carey & Cook, Buffalo, N. Y.; served as district attorney of Lehigh County 1908-1912, and was a Pennsylvania Republican State committeeman from 1912 to 1920; member of Lehigh County Bar, Pennsylvania State Bar, and American Bar Associations; trustee of Franklin and Marshall College and Allentown College for Women; married; elected to the Sixtyseventh Congress November 2, 1920, by 38,026 votes, to 29,922 for Harry J. Dunn, Democrat, and 6,245 for Charles E. Yeager, Socialist.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming (4 counties).
Population (1920), 129,465.

LOUIS T. MCFADDEN, Republican, of Canton, was born in Troy, Pa., July 25, 1876; elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, with 2,934 plurality; the Sixty-fifth, with 4,757 plurality; the Sixty-sixth, with 6,394 plurality; and the Sixty-seventh, with 19,028 majority.

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FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, and Tioga (4 counties). Population (1920), 174,862.

EDGAR RAYMOND KIESS, Republican, of Williamsport, was born in Warrensville, Lycoming County, Pa., ÁAugust 26, 1875; educated in the public schools and the Lycoming County Normal School; taught in the public schools for two years; engaged in business in Hughesville in 1894 and still retains business interests there; in 1898 became interested in the development of Eagles Mere as a popular summer resort, and is president of the Eagles Mere Land Co. and Eagles Mere Boat Co.; is secretary-treasurer of the Eagles Mere Co., owning the Forest Inn and Eagles Mere Park; is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia and a trustee of Pennsylvania State College; appointed member of the public service commission of Pennsylvania in May, 1915, by Gov. M. G. Brumbaugh, but declined the appointment; has always taken an active interest in politics and served three terms (1904 to 1910) as member of assembly from Lycoming County; elected as a Republican in a strong Democratic district; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress by a plurality of 568 to succeed William B. Wilson, Democrat; reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress by 3,407 plurality; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by 5,923 majority; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by 6,127 majority; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, receiving 30,182 votes, to 10,802 for the Democratic candidate.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, and Sullivan (4 counties). Population (1920), 194,028.

I. CLINTON KLINE, Republican, was born at Mount Pleasant, near Sunbury, Pa.; his father was a teacher and farmer; was educated at Bloomsburg Normal, Bucknell Academy, and Lafayette College; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. at Lafayette; taught school five years, the last year being principal of first ward schools, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; read law with Hon. John B. Packer, of Sunbury, and practiced in that town since 1894; delivered many public addresses on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, at college commencements, etc.; in 1898 made stumping tour of Pennsylvania for his party; during the World War was chairman of home service committee of Red Cross, which made hundreds of visits into homes of soldiers; elected to the Sixtyseventh Congress November 2, 1920, having a plurality of 3,563 over his Democratic opponent; President Wilson's plurality in the same district in 1916 was about 4,000. SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, and Union (8 counties). Population (1920), 213,497.

BENJAMIN K. FOCHT, Republican, of Lewisburg, was born in New Bloomfield, Pa., the son of a Lutheran minister who was an orator and author of note; was educated at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania State College, and Susquehanna University; editor of the Saturday News, published at Lewisburg, since 18 years of age; is now president of the Saturday News Publishing Co.; served as an officer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; was given the degree of A. M. by Susquehanna University in 1906; member of various fraternal organizations; is married to Edith F., daughter of the late Henry G. Wolf, and has two children—one daughter, Ellen W., and a son, Brown; served three terms in the Pennsylvania Assembly and four years in the Pennsylvania State Senate; water-supply commission of Pennsylvania; is author of important legislation in Pennsylvania; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixtyfirst, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cumberland, Dauphin, and Lebanon (3 counties). Population (1920), 274,846.

AARON SHENK KREIDER, Republican, of Annville, was born in South Annville Township, Lebanon County, on June 26, 1863; received his education in the public schools, Lebanon Valley College, and Allentown Business College; married Elizabeth B. Horst on April 23, 1885, and has 10 children-7 boys and 3 girls; engaged actively in business on reaching his majority, establishing Lawn, on the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad, and engaged in the grain and coal business; is now actively engaged in the shoe-manufacturing business, operating plants at Annville, Palmyra, Elizabethtown, Middletown, and Lebanon, and is widely known in the shoe trade, having served as a member of the executive committee, as treasurer, and president of the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Association of the United States; is a trustee and president of the board of trustees of Lebanon Valley College; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, receiving 23,789 votes, to 13,159 for David L. Kauffman, Democrat; 6,378 for John H. Kreider, Washington; and 1,384 for J. Milton Ibach, Socialist; reelected to the Sixtyfifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bedford, Blair, and Cambria (3 counties). Population (1920), 364,450.

JOHN MARSHALL ROSE, Republican, of Johnstown, was born in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., and has always resided in that city. He attended the public schools of Johnstown, and was later employed in the mechanical department of the Cambria Iron Co. He is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, and has served one term in the Assembly of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the bar of his native county Married Fannie S. Slick, of Johnstown, and has one daughter, Mrs. Mary Rose Ayres, residing at Johnstown. Was elected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams and York (2 counties). Population (1920), 179,104.

EDWARD S. BROOKS, Republican, of York, Pa.; born there June 14, 1867; banker, manufacturer, and contractor; educated in public schools, York County Academy, and York Collegiate Institute; married to Miss Emma J. Eimerbrink, of York, Pa.; has one son, Sergt. Karl S. Brooks (who served in the War with Germany), and one daughter, Miss Mary, at home; elected three times to city council of York, Pa.; elected treasurer of York County, Pa., in 1902, being the only Republican that ever held that office; Republican State committeeman 1917 and 1918; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, defeating Hon. A. R. Brodbeck by 1,837 majority in a district normally Democratic by nearly 4,000; elected to Sixty-seventh Congress, defeating Charles A. Hawkins, who had the Democratic and Prohibition nominations, by 2,288 majority.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cameron, Center, Clearfield, and McKean (4 counties). Population (1920), 202,771.

EVAN J. JONES, Republican, of Bradford, Pa.; born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1872; a lawyer; married; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler and Westmoreland (2 counties). Population (1920), 350,838.

ADAM MARTIN WYANT, Republican, was born near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pa., September 15, 1869; attended Mount Pleasant Institute, Bucknell University, and University of Chicago; was graduated from the latter institution in 1895; was admitted to the Westmoreland County bar on the 5th day of May, 1902, and was associated with the late Edward E. Robbins until the time of the latter's death; after his admission to the bar he became interested in a number of business enterprises and has given his time exclusively to his profession and business interests; on December 1, 1910, he was married to Katharine Nelson Doty, and has one daughter and one son; was never a candidate for any public office until elected to the Sixtyseventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a majority of 8,007 over John H. Wilson, Democratic Representative in the Sixty-sixth Congress from this district.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fayette, Greene, and Somerset (3 counties). Population (1920), 301,020.

SAMUEL AUSTIN KENDALL, Republican, was born on a farm in Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa., November 1, 1859; he attended the public schools of his native township and was a student for some time at Valparaíso, Ind., and Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio; at the age of 17 he began teaching school and continued in that profession for 14 years, the last 5 years of which he was superintendent of the Jefferson, Iowa, public schools; at the end of his 5 years' school work at Jefferson, Iowa, he returned to Somerset County, Pa., where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber and the mining of coal; at the present time he is vice president of the Kendall Lumber Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa.; president of the Kendall Lumber Corporation, of Roseburg, Oreg.; treasurer of the Meyersdale Planing Mill, of Meyersdale, Pa.; vice president of the Citizens National Bank, of Meyersdale, Pa.; president of the Preston Railroad Co., which is a connection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Hutton, Md.; and president of the Alexander & Eastern Railway Co., which is a connection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. at Alexander, W. Va.; Mr. Kendall is a member of the Duquesne Club, of Pittsburgh, and is a prominent Mason, belonging to Tancred Commandery of Knights Templar and Syria Temple, at Pittsburgh; he has been a school director of Rockwood, Pa., and a member of the city council of Meyersdale, Pa., and served in the Legislature of Pennsylvania from Somerset County from 1899 to 1903; in politics he has always been a Republican

and in favor of high protective tariff; on September 22, 1883, he was married to Miss Minnie Edith Wiley, of Liscomb, Iowa; Grace Maeona, widow of the late Rev. H. B. Angus, of Philadelphia, Samuel Austin, jr., and Ensign John Wiley Kendall, naval aviator instructor for the Government, are the children of the union; Grant Van Nest Kendall, the third son, died August 13, 1913; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress over Hon. Bruce F. Sterling, Democrat, by 12,635 majority.

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaver, Lawrence, and Washington (3 counties). Population (1920), 386,158.

HENRY WILLSON TEMPLE, Republican, of Washington, Pa., was born at Belle Center, Ohio, March 31, 1864; was graduated (A. B.) from Geneva College 1883 and from the Covenanter Theological Seminary at Allegheny 1887; was pastor of churches at Baxter, Leechburg, and Washington, Pa.; April 14, 1892, married Miss Lucy Parr, of Leechburg, and has four sons and one daughter; became adjunct professor of political science in 1898, and professor of history and political science in 1905, in Washington and Jefferson College, where he remained until his election to the Sixty-third Congress. Member of Sixty-third and each succeeding Congress. TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford and Erie (2 countics). Population (1920), 214,203. MILTON W. SHREVE, Republican, of Erie, was born in Venango County, Pa.; received his preparatory education at Edinboro State Normal School; attended Allegheny College two years and Bucknell University two years; was graduated from the latter institution in 1884 with the degree of Ph. D., afterwards receiving the degree of A. M., and subsequently studied law and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States and other Federal courts; was elected district attorney of Erie County in 1899, serving three years; in 1906 was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives without any material opposition, the Democrats making no nomination against him; was reelected in 1908 and 1910, during the legislative session serving as chairman of the judiciary general committee, and in December, 1911, succeeded to the speakership left vacant by the death of Hon. John F. Cox, of Pittsburgh; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress; on August 3, 1917, President Wilson appointed Mr. Shreve a member of the district draft board for division No. 2, western district of Pennsylvania; he was actively engaged in the work of the board as its secretary during the period of the war; in November, 1918, he was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, and Pike (4 counties). Population (1920), 247,184.

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON KIRKPATRICK, Republican, of Easton, Pa.; born in Easton, Pa., October 2, 1885, son of William S. Kirkpatrick, former attorney general of Pennsylvania; educated in public schools, Lafayette College (A. B.), and University of Pennsylvania Law School; practiced law 1908 to present time; served in War with Germany as major and lieutenant colonel in Judge Advocate General's Department, and was member of board of review of courts-martial, United States Army; married May 17, 1913, to Mary Stewart Wells, and has two children-William S. and Miles; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, by a majority of 6,200 over George W. Geiser, jr., Democrat.

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson (4 counties). Population (1920), 254,752.

NATHAN L. STRONG, Republican; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by a plurality of 6,951 votes, reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress by a plurality of 9,111 votes, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress by a plurality of 20,495 votes. TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Elk, Forest, Mercer, Venango, and Warren (5 counties). Population (1920), 235,454.

HARRIS JACOB BIXLER, Republican, of Johnsonburg, Pa., was born at New Buffalo, Perry County, Pa., September 16, 1870; educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven State Normal School, and Potts Business College; taught school in country districts for four years, after which entered upon a business career; served his home city as president of council and president of board of education and as mayor; served county as sheriff and treasurer; now identified with banking and manufacturing interests; married Miss Jenette Pray and has one son, Alvin Bixler; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress November 2, 1920, over Gen. Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City, receiving 28,718 votes, to 20,676 for Hulings and 1,536 for Stoyer.