FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES

ALABAMA,

SENATORS.

JOHN T. MORGAN, Democrat, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when 9 years old, and where he has since resided; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential elector in 1860 for the State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. Rodes, he was elected major, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; was commissioned in 1862 as colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was appointed brigadier-general in 1863 and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to join his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was again appointed brigadier-general and assigned to an Alabama brigade which included his regiment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was chosen a Presidential elector for the State at large in 1876 and voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877; was reelected in 1882, in 1888, and again in 1894; was a member of the commission appointed to prepare a system of laws for the Hawaiian Islands. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS, Democrat, of Selma, was born in Limestone County, Ala., July 6, 1821; is the youngest child of John Pettus and Alice T. Pettus, who was a daughter of Capt. Anthony Winston, of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier; was educated at the common schools in Alabama and at Clinton College, in Smith County, Tenn.; studied law in the office of William Cooper, then the leader of the bar in north Alabama; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and commenced the practice of law at Gainesville, Ala., as the partner of Hon. Turner Reavis; in 1844 was elected solicitor for the seventh circuit; served as a lieutenant in the Mexican war; in 1849 resigned the office of solicitor and went, with a party of his neighbors, on horseback to California; was elected judge of the seventh circuit after his return to Alabama in 1855, but resigned that office in 1858, and removed to Dallas County, where he now resides; resumed the practice of law as a member of the firm of Pettus, Pegues & Dawson; in 1861 went into the Confederate army as major of the Twentieth Alabama Infantry, and soon afterwards was made lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; in October, 1863, was made a brigadier-general of infantry, and served till the close of the war, and was in many battles; after the war returned to his home and to the practice of law, which he has continued to this time; ever since he became a voter has been a member of the Democratic party; in November, 1896, was nominated by that party, and elected by the legislature of Alabama United States Senator for the term commencing March 4, 1897; after his nomination the opposition to his election was merely nominal; received the entire vote of his party, and more; never was, before, a candidate for any political office; has been a delegate to all of the Democratic national conventions, except the first and last, since the war, and when a delegate was chairman of the Alabama delegation. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

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REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties).

GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR, Democrat, of Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala., was born January 16, 1849, in Montgomery County, Ala.; was educated at the South Carolina University, Columbia, S. C.; is a lawyer, and was admitted to practice at Mobile, Ala., November, 1871; entered the army as a Confederate soldier at the age of 15 years, in November, 1864, being then a student at the academy in Columbia, S. C.; served a few weeks with the South Carolina State troops on the coast near Savannah, and then enlisted as a private in Company D, First Regiment South Carolina Cavalry, and served as a courier till the end of the war; left the South Carolina University at 18, having graduated in Latin, Greek, history, and chemistry; taught school for several years, and studied law at the same time; was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Alabama in 1878, and served one term as a member from Choctaw County; in 1880 was elected State solicitor for the First judicial circuit of Alabama, and was reelected in 1886; declined a third term; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress, receiving 5,986 votes, to 1,061 for Anthony M. Johnson, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties).

JESSE F. STALLINGS, Democrat, of Greenville, was born near the village of Manningham, Butler County, Ala., April 4, 1856; graduated from the University of Alabama in 1877; studied law at the Law School of the University of Alabama and in the office of the Hon. J. C. Richardson, of Greenville, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court in April, 1879; commenced the practice of law in Greenville, where he has since resided; was elected by the legislature of Alabama solicitor for the Second judicial circuit in November, 1886, for a term of six years; resigned the office of solicitor in September, 1892, to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention which was held in St. Louis in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 9,345 votes, to 1,610 for Frank Simmons, Republican, and 209 for J. A. Giddings, Prohibitionist.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lee, and Russell (8 counties).

HENRY DE LAMAR CLAYTON, Democrat, of Eufaula, was born in Barbour County, Ala., February 10, 1857; is a lawyer by profession; was elected to the Fiftyfifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,287 votes, to 262 scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties).

GASTON A. ROBBINS, Democrat, of Dallas County, was born September 26, 1859; his father, Capt. Julius A. Robbins, a member of the Selma, Ala., bar, was killed in the Confederate service in 1864; the family then removed to North Carolina, the native State of both his parents. The subject of this sketch was reared on the "Robbins farm," in Randolph County, N. C., attending Trinity College during the sessions and working on the farm in vacation; he entered the University of North Carolina in 1877, and graduated in 1879; studied law with Dick & Dillard, at Greensboro, N. C., and was admitted to practice law by the supreme court of North Carolina in 1880; returning immediately to Selma, Ala., he devoted himself to the practice of his chosen profession; was Presidential elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress, but was unseated on a contest in favor of his Republican opponent; and was reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,915 votes, to 5,685 for William F. Aldrich, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties).

WILLIS BREWER, Democrat, of Hayneville, is a native Alabamian; entered the military service of the Confederate States at the age of 18 years; has been a journalist, has practiced law, and has written books; is now a planter; in 1871 was county treasurer of Lowndes; was State auditor from 1876 to 1880; was State legislator from 1880 to 1882; State senator from 1882 to 1890; State legislator from 1890 to 1894; State senator from 1894 till he resigned in 1897; was elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1892, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,842 votes, to 2,504 for Douglas Smith, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker (8 counties). JOHN H. BANKHEAD, Democrat, of Fayette, was born in Moscow, Marion County (now Lamar), Ala., September 13, 1842; was self-educated; is a farmer; served four years in the Confederate army, being wounded three times; represented Marion County in the general assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; was a member of the State senate 1876-77, and of the house of representatives 1880-81; was warden of the Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1885; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fiftyfirst, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,009 votes, to 2,943 for Daniel N. Cooper, Republican, and 94 for William Turner, colored Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Franklin, Marshall, St. Clair, and Winston (8 counties).

JOHN LAWSON BURNETT, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., was born at Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January 20, 1854; was educated in the common schools of the county, at the Wesleyan Institute, Cave Springs, Ga., and Gaylesville High School, Gaylesville, Ala.; was elected to the lower house of the Alabama legislature in 1884, and to the State senate in 1886, and was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,035 votes, to 3,066 for Oliver Street, Populist, and 3,836 for Frank H. Lathrop, Republican.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). JOSEPH WHEELER, Democrat, of Wheeler, was born in Augusta, Ga., September 10, 1836; graduated at West Point, 1859; was lieutenant of cavalry and served in New Mexico; resigned in 1861; was lieutenant of artillery in the Confederate army; was successively promoted to the command of a regiment, brigade, division, and army corps, and in 1862 was assigned to the command of the army corps of cavalry of the Western Army, continuing in that position till the war closed; by joint resolution of the Confederate Congress received the thanks of that body for successful military operations, and for the defense of the city of Aiken received the thanks of the State of South Carolina; May 11, 1864, became the senior cavalry general of the Confederate armies; was appointed professor of philosophy, Louisiana State Seminary, in 1866, which he declined; was lawyer and planter; was appointed major-general of volunteers by President McKinley May 4, 1898, and was assigned to command of Cavalry Division, United States Army; on June 24, with 900 men, fought and defeated LieutenantGeneral Linares at Las Guasimas, the enemy having over 2,000 regular Spanish troops; at the battle of San Juan, July 1 and 2, was senior officer in immediate command on the field, and was senior member of commission which negotiated the surrender of Santiago and 23,000 Spanish soldiers; August 18 was assigned to command of United States forces at Montauk, Long Island, and on October 5 was assigned to the command of the Fourth Army Corps; August 31, 1899, in command of First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Corps, in the Philippines; was engaged with enemy at Santa Rita, September 9, and also on September 16, also in capture of Porac September 28, and was in the various engagements with the enemy at Angeles October 10 to 17 inclusive; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, 56-IST-2D ED- -2

Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving the unanimous vote of the district in a primary election for nomination and being unanimously chosen at the polls, 6,368 votes being cast for him.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Bibb, Blount, Hale, Jefferson, and Perry (5 counties).

OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rigby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; commenced the practice of law at Birmingham, Ala., September, 1884; was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the Ninth district in the campaign of 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,155 votes, to 160 for L. F. Schwartz, colored Republican, and 1,051 for John T. McIniry, Republican.

ARKANSAS.

SENATORS.

JAMES H. BERRY, Democrat, of Bentonville, was born in Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841; removed to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited education at a private school at Berryville, Ark.; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1866; entered the Confederate army in 1861 as second lieutenant, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry; lost a leg at the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862; was elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; was reelected in 1872; was elected speaker of the house at the extraordinary session of 1874; was president of the Democratic State convention in 1876; was elected judge of the circuit court in 1878; was elected governor in 1882; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was reelected in 1889 and 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

JAMES K. JONES, Democrat, of Washington, Hempstead County, was born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839; received a classical education; was a private soldier during the late unpleasantness " on the losing side; lived on his plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law; was elected to the State senate of Arkansas in 1873; was a member of the State senate when the constitutional convention of 1874 was called; was reelected under the new government, and in 1877 was elected president of the senate; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was reelected in 1890 and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, Randolph, Sharp, St. Francis, and Woodruff (15 counties).

PHILIP DODDRIDGE MCCULLOCH, Democrat, of Marianna, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 23, 1851; was removed by his parents to Trenton, Tenn., when 3 years of age, where he was reared; was educated at Andrew College of that place; admitted to the bar in August, 1872, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that time; removed to Marianna, Ark., in February, 1874, where he has since resided; was elected as the Democratic nominee to the office of prosecuting attorney of the First judicial district of the State in September, 1878; was renominated and elected three successive terms; at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again; was elected Democratic Presidential elector of the First Congressional district of the State in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposition, receiving 4,103 votes.