DIRECTORY

BIOGRAPHICAL.*

THE VICE PRESIDENT.

THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Democrat, of Indianapolis, Ind., Vice President of the United States, was born in North Manchester, Wabash County, Ind., March 14, 1854, the son of Dr. Daniel M. and Martha A. Patterson Marshall; was graduated from Wabash College in 1873; holds honorary degree of LL. D. from Wabash College, Notre Dame University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Maine, and honorary degree of J. D. from Villanova College; began the practice of law in Columbia City, Ind., on his twenty-first birthday, and continued without interruption the practice of law there until 1908, when he was elected governor of the State of Indiana; was married October 2, 1895, to Miss Lois I. Kimsey, of Angola, Ind. He was elected Vice President in 1912, and reelected in 1916.

ALABAMA.

(Population (1910), 2,138,093.)
SENATORS.

OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rugby School, Louisville, Ky., and the University of Virginia; was elected a Member of the House of Representatives to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fiftyninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and elected a Member of the United States Senate for term beginning March 4, 1915.

BRAXTON BRAGG COMER, Democrat, of Birmingham, Ala.; born at Spring Hill, Ala., November 7, 1848; educated in common schools of country, University of Alabama 1864-65 (when it was burned), University of Georgia 1867-68 (until health failed), and was graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., class of 1869; was B. S. and A. M. of Emory and Henry and LL. D. of Southern University, of Greensboro, Ala.; planter and cotton manufacturer; was county commissioner of Barbour County, Ala., 1874-1878; president of Railroad Commission of Alabama 1905-6; governor of Alabama 1907-1910, inclusive; lost wife March 6, 1920; was appointed to the Senate by the governor to fill that part of Senator Bankhead's term until his successor could be elected at the regular election in November.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington (6 counties). Population (1910), 211,856.

JOHN MCDUFFIE, Democrat, Monroeville, Ala., was born at River Ridge, Monroe County, Ala., September 25, 1883; reared on a cotton plantation; attended the Southern University, at Greensboro, Ala., for one session; graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, in 1904, with degree of B. Sc.; returned to the plantation and remained three years, entering the University of Alabama Law School in 1907 and graduating in 1908; in 1907 elected to Alabama Legislature from Monroe County; began practice of law in Monroeville, Ala., June 1, 1908; in 1910 elected solicitor for first judicial circuit of Alabama, and reelected without opposition in 1914, second term expiring January, 1919; on October 18, 1915, married Miss Cornelia Hixon, of Hixon, Ala., and they have one child, a girl, 3 years old; nominated in Democratic primary for the Sixty-sixth Congress, and had no opposition in the general election; captain and adjutant Second Infantry, Alabama National Guard, 1909 to January, 1915.

* Biographies are based on information furnished or authorized by the respective Senators and Congressmen.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike, and Wilcox (9 counties). Population (1910), 289,770.

S. HUBERT DENT, JR., Democrat, of Montgomery, was born at Eufaula, Ala., August 16, 1869; was graduated from the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., with the degree of A. B., in 1886, and in 1889 was graduated in law from the University of Virginia; his profession has always been that of attorney at law; was married to Miss Etta Tinsley, of Louisville, Ky., June 23, 1897; has one child, William Tinsley Dent; was appointed prosecuting attorney for Montgomery County, and went into office December 1, 1902; in 1904 was reelected for a term of six years; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress without opposition.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, and Russell (9 counties). Population (1910), 249,042.

HENRY BASCOM STEAGALL, Democrat, of Ozark, was born in Clopton, Dale County, Ala.; was educated in the common schools, with two years in the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School, Abbeville, Ala., and graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama; since graduation has been a practicing attorney; was county solicitor for a number of years; member of the legislature; State district prosecuting attorney for several years prior to nomination and election to Congress; member of State Democratic executive committee; delegate to party conventions, and a delegate to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore in 1912; was married December 27, 1900, to Miss Sallie Mae Thompson, of Tuskegee, Ala.; is a widower and has five children; was nominated for Congress June 29, 1914; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress without opposition, and nominated and elected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, Shelby, and Talladega (6 counties). Population (1910), 193,958.

FRED L. BLACKMON, Democrat, of Anniston, Ala., was born at Lime Branch, Polk County, Ga., on the 15th day of September, 1873. In 1883 he moved to Calhoun County, Ala. He was married December 31, 1908, and has two children, Fred L. Blackmon, jr., and Sara Bellenger Blackmon. Was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (9 counties). Population (1910), 235,615.

JAMES THOMAS HEFLIN, Democrat, of Lafayette, was born at Louina, Randolph County, Ala., April 9, 1869; was educated in the common schools of Randolph County, at the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and at the A. and M. College, Auburn, Ala.; studied law at Lafayette, Ala., under Judge N. D. Denson, and was admitted to the bar January 12, 1893; was married to Minnie Kate Schuessler, of Lafayette, Ala., December 18, 1895, and has one child living―J. Thomas Heflin, jr.; was elected mayor of Lafayette March 16, 1893, and reelected, holding this office two terms; was register in chancery two years, resigning in 1896 to accept the Democratic nomination from Chambers County to the legislature; was elected in 1896 and reelected to the legislature in 1898; was a member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1896 to 1902; was a delegate in the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1901; was elected secretary of state in November, 1902, for a term of four years; resigned that office May 1, 1904; was elected, without opposition, May 10, 1904, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Charles W. Thompson, deceased, in the Fifty-eighth Congress; also elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixtythird, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bibb, Greene, Hale, Perry, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa (6 counties). Population (1910), 180,871.

WILLIAM BACON OLIVER, Democrat, is a native of Eutaw, Ala., where he received his early education. He later attended the University of Alabama, where he received degrees from both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Law. He also attended the University of Virginia, and is a member of the honorary scholarship fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. In his early manhood he moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and entered the practice of law. From 1898-1909 he was solicitor for the sixth judicial circuit of Alabama. He resigned the office of solicitor in 1909 to

accept a post as dean of the law school of the University of Alabama, and resigned the deanship in 1913 to become a candidate for Congress. On his election to the Sixty-fourth Congress he retired from the firm of Oliver, Verner & Rice to devote his entire time to his congressional duties; reelected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixtysixth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Marshall, and St. Clair (7 counties). Population (1910), 186,641.

LILIUS BRATTON RAINEY, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah, County, Ala., was born at Dadeville, Ala., July 21, 1876; attended common schools of that county until 14 years of age; moved to Fort Payne, Dekalb County, Ala., where he attended public schools until he entered the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., in 1896; member of class of 1899; member of Phi Kappa Alpha; editor in chief of college annual; senior first lieutenant of first battalion of cadets; the following year he entered the University of Alabama Law School, finishing there with the class of 1902 (LL. D.); moved to Gadsden, opening a law office on July 1, 1902, where he continued in general practice until elected solicitor, assuming the duties of that office January 15, 1911; married to Miss Julia La Coste Smith, of Gadsden, on July 18, 1911; four children, one girl and three boys; he was elected captain in Alabama National Guard in 1903, serving three years, and reelected and commissioned, resigning the command in 1907; member of the Methodist Church, Shrine, Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World, B. P. O. E., and Odd Fellows; received Democratic nomination for Congress July 15, 1919; elected to Congress September 30, 1919.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). Population (1910), 218,342.

EDWARD B. ALMON, Democrat, of Tuscumbia, was born in Lawrence County, Ala., April 18, 1860; brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools of Lawrence County and the State Normal College, of Florence, Ala. In 1883 he received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Alabama, and has practiced law in Tuscumbia since 1885, except the time he was judge of the circuit court. In 1898 he was elected judge of the circuit court of the eleventh judicial circuit, and reelected in 1904 without opposition; was a presidential elector in 1896; has served in both branches of the Alabama Legislature, having been speaker of the house, and author of the bill which created the State highway commission in 1911; is a member of the Methodist Church, Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Woodmen of the World, and B. P. O. E.; was married in 1887 to Miss Luie Clopper, of Tuscumbia, and they have two children-Mrs. Lottie Almon Williams and Clopper Almon; was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jefferson. Population (1910), 226,476.

GEORGE HUDDLESTON, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1869; practiced law in Birmingham, Ala., from 1891 until 1911, when he retired; served as a private soldier in the Spanish War.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston (7 counties). Population (1910), 145,522.

WILLIAM B. BANKHEAD, Democrat, of Jasper, was born April 12, 1874, in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala.; attended country schools and graduated at the Úniversity of Alabama, A. B., 1893; Georgetown University Law School, LL.B., 1895; is a lawyer by profession; represented Madison County, Ala., in the legislature, 19001901; city attorney of Huntsville for four years; circuit solicitor fourteenth judicial circuit 1910-1914; defeated Capt. R. P. Hobson for Democratic nomination for Congress May 9, 1916, and was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, defeating N. H. Freeman, Republican, by 1,278 majority; defeated Horace Gibson for the Democratic nomination, and elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress without opposition at the general election.