The youngest man in the United States Senate is Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana. He is a native of Ohio. He was born October 6, 1862, in Highland county, and was sent to the Senate at the age of thirty-six.

Beveridge's career has been one of hard application and indomitable pluck. The removal of his family from Ohio to Indiana was a consequence of serious reverses, and a life of privation and hardship began. While a boy his time was given up to two purposes: study that he might learn; work that he might study. Out of the farm and the logging-camp he wrung the necessary funds for his early education. He made his way

through the high school of the town in which he lived by entering the fall and winter terms late and quitting early each year, and by working nights and mornings.

He entered De Pauw University, became the steward of a college club, and in this way passed through his first year, at the end of which he began by merit to win for himself the series of prizes in scholarship, philosophy, science and oratory which, by the end of his college course, amounted to enough to pay two years of his expenses.

After graduation he entered the law office of Joseph E. McDonald, and the firm of McDonald & Butler offered him their managing clerkship at the end of the year. Beveridge's first case before a jury was in the United States court, with General Harrison and his firm on the other side. The case lasted many days, during which the day set for Mr. Beveridge's wedding to Miss Katherine Langsdale of Greencastle arrived, and Judge Woods adjourned court. Beveridge went to Greencastle, was married, returned that night to Indianapolis, and next morning was again in court to attend to his case.

When only twenty-two years of age he began his political career, during the Blaine campaign of 1884, addressing his first audience in a blacksmith shop, and on the second occasion speaking in a barn. It is said that he has made more speeches in Indiana, and devoted more time to his party, than any other man in the State.

The most conspicuous speech the young senator has yet made was that delivered in the Senate January 9, 1900, advocating the retention of the Philippines. Senator Beveridge spent the summer of 1899 in a journey to the newly-acquired archipelago and, studying the situation as carefully as possible, he was able to present his views of the islands and their people most eloquently and forcibly.

WILLIAM BOYD ALLISON

William Boyd Allison, of Dubuque, was born in Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829. His father was a farmer and the future Senator lived the life of the ordinary country boy, working on the farm three-fourths of the year and attending the district school in winter. His substantial education was acquired at Alleghany College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and at the Western Reserve College, in Hudson, Ohio. He studied law at Wooster, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He practiced law in Ashland, Ohio, and in 1857 moved to Dubuque, Iowa.

He at once became interested in Iowa politics. He had known Samuel J. Kirkwood in Ohio and naturally became an adherent to the man since known in Iowa as the War Governor. Mr. Allison was a delegate to the State Convention which nominated Mr. Kirkwood in 1859. In 1860 he was honored by being sent as a delegate to the National Republican Convention, the Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln issued his second call for troops, Governor Kirkwood placed Mr. Allison on the staff with the rank of colonel and gave him authority to raise regiments in Northwestern Iowa, and to equip them for service in the field. He raised in all four regiments.

Mr. Allison was elected to Congress in 1862 and served four terms, retiring in 1871. He first took his seat in the House on March 3, 1863 James G. Blaine and James A. Garfield took their seats in the same House for the first time. Mr. Allison was prominent on the Ways and Means Committee while he served in the House and declined a re-election in 1870. Two years later he was chosen to succeed James Harlan in the United States Senate, taking his seat March 4, 1873. He has been reelected four times since and his term of service of thirty years as a Senator will expire in 1903.

Mr. Allison's most conspicuous service has been in connection with financial legislation. For years he has been recognized as one of the highest authorities on finance and of late perhaps the strongest and most influential member of the Senate. Mr. Allison was twice tendered a seat in the Cabinet, first by President Garfield and next by President Harrison, each time declining the honor and remaining a Senator. On two occasions he has been a prominent candidate before the Republican National Convention for the Presidential nomination.