FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES

ALABAMA,

SENATORS.

NT. MORGAN, Democrat, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when old, and where he has since resided; studied law, was admitted to the bar in d practiced until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential elector in 1860 State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate in 1861 from County to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined federate army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahaba Rifles, and when npany was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. he was elected major, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; was sioned in 1862 as colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was ed brigadier-general in 1863 and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was pointed brigadier-general and assigned to an Alabama brigade which included ment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was a Presidential elector for the State at large in 1876 and voted for Tilden and cks; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed George Goldthwaite, at; took his seat March 5, 1877; was reelected in 1882, in 1888, in 1894, and 1900; was a member of the commission appointed to prepare a system of the Hawaiian Islands. His term of service will expire March 3, 1907. UND WINSTON PETTUS, Democrat, of Selma, was born in Limestone Ala., July 6, 1821; is the youngest child of John Pettus and Alice T. Pettus, s a daughter of Capt. Anthony Winston, of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier; ucated at the common schools in Alabama and at Clinton College, in Smith , Tenn.; studied law in the office of William Cooper, then the leader of the orth Alabama; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and commenced the practice of Gainesville, Ala., as the partner of Hon. Turner Reavis; in 1844 was elected r for the seventh circuit; served as a lieutenant in the Mexican war; in 1849 d the office of solicitor and went, with a party of his neighbors, on horseback ornia; was elected judge of the seventh circuit after his return to Alabama but resigned that office in 1858, and removed to Dallas County, where he now resumed the practice of law as a member of the firm of Pettus, Pegues & ; in 1861 went into the Confederate army as major of the Twentieth Alabama y, and soon afterwards was made lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; in , 1863, was made a brigadier-general of infantry, and served till the close of -, and was in many battles; after the war returned to his home and to the e of law, which he has continued to this time; ever since he became a voter n a member of the Democratic party; in November, 1896, was nominated by rty, and elected by the legislature of Alabama United States Senator for the mmencing March 4, 1897; after his nomination the opposition to his election erely nominal; received the entire vote of his party, and more; never was, a candidate for any political office; has been a delegate to all of the Demonational conventions, except the first and last, since the war, and when a e was chairman of the Alabama delegation. His term of service will expire

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. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress. 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; is now and has been since 1888 the Alabama member of the Democratic national committee; has served one term in the Alabama legislature, being chairman of the judiciary committee; was a United States district attorney from May, 1893, to October, 1896; was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1888 and 1892; was elected to the fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,287 votes, to 262 scattering. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

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

WILLIAM F. ALDRICH, Republican, of Aldrich, was born at Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y., March 11, 1853; was educated in the public schools of his native village until 1865, when he removed with his father to New York City, in which city and vicinity he attended several schools, and was graduated from Warren's Military Academy, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., having taken a course in civil engineering; removed to Alabama in 1874 and engaged in mining and manufacturing and built up the town that now bears his name; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896, and has represented Alabama on the Republican Congressional committee for the past four years, and is a member of the Alabama State executive committee; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress by the combined vote of the Republican and Populists of the Fourth district, against Gaston A. Robbins, Democrat; the latter received the certificate of election from the governor on the face of the returns. Mr. Aldrich instituted a contest, and was seated by the House on Friday, March 13, 1896; was elected in November, 1896, to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, defeating Thomas S. Plowman, Democrat, who, however, received the

te of election. Mr. Aldrich instituted his second contest and was seated by se on Wednesday, February 9, 1898; in November, 1898, was elected to the th Congress as a Republican, opposing Gaston A. Robbins, Democrat, the ceiving the certificate, as he did in 1894. Mr. Aldrich instituted his third and was seated by the House on Thursday, March 8, 1900.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

¡.—Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, and Tallapoosa unties).

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

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SIXTH DISTRICT.

-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker (8 counties). ! H. BANKHEAD, Democrat, of Fayette, was born in Moscow, Marion now Lamar), Ala., September 13, 1842; was self-educated; is a farmer; served rs in the Confederate army, being wounded three times; represented Marion in the general assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; was a member of e senate 1876-77, and of the house of representatives 1880-81; was warden Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1885; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fiftyty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected ifty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,009 votes, to 2,943 for Daniel N. Cooper, Re1, and 94 for William Turner, colored Republican. Elected to the FiftyCongress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

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

LAWSON BURNETT, Democrat, of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., was Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January 20, 1854; was educated in the schools of the county, at the Wesleyan Institute, Cave Springs, Ga., and ille High School, Gaylesville, Ala.; was elected to the lower house of the à legislature in 1884, and to the State senate in 1886, and was elected to the th Congress, receiving 6,949 votes, to 5,032 for Oliver D. Street, Populist, 2 for Frank H. Lathrop, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

.—Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). IAM RICHARDSON, Democrat, of Huntsville, is a native of Limestone Ala.; entered the Confederate army as a private in 1861, and was promoted ptain; was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga; has been a memhe bar of Huntsville, Ala., since 1867; was judge of the court of probate ity court of Madison County, Ala., from 1875 to 1886; was Democratic elector State at large in 1888 for Cleveland; was a member of the Alabama general y from Limestone County in 1865-1867; was nominated by acclamation on I of July, 1900, for the unexpired term of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who resigned 20th of April, 1900, in the Fifty-sixth Congress, and for the Fifty-seventh s; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress at a special election ordered overnor of Alabama on the sixth of August, 1900, receiving 14,632 votes to · Col. Cutter Smith, of Florence, Ala., Republican. Elected to the FiftyCongress.

NINTH DISTRICT.

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

R W. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, of Birmingham, was born in Louisville, County, Ky., May 6, 1862; was educated at Rigby School, Louisville, Ky., commenced the practice of law at Birmingham Ala

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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. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

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 Con-. gresses; 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. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bradley, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Polk, Saline, Scott, and Sebastian (14 counties).

JOHN SEBASTIAN LITTLE, Democrat, of Greenwood, was born at Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Ark., March 15, 1853; was educated in the common schools and at Cane Hill College, Arkansas; was admitted to the bar in 1874; in 1877 was elected district attorney for the Twelfth circuit of Arkansas, composed of Sebastian, Scott, Crawford and Logan counties, and was reelected for four successive terms; was elected a representative to the legislature in 1884; in 1886 was elected circuit judge for a