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before his maturity, and is still in the banking and mercantile business; ook an active interest in politics, working for his friends and political party, r accepted any office until 1894, when he was elected to the State senate for 1894-95; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress to succeed Hon. Charles F. d reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,539 votes, to 141 for F. ›, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

.—Carroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Harris, Heard, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, roup (10 counties).

IAM CHARLES ADAMSON, Democrat, of Carrollton, was born at Bowdon, just 13, 1854; spent his youth alternately in working on the farm and in hauling d cotton between Atlanta and Bowdon; took the collegiate course at Bowdon graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1874, the degree of A. M. being confew years later by the same institution; read law in the office of the Hon. 1 W. Harris; was admitted to the bar October, 1876, and has lived at Carrollever since, practicing law in the circuit and supreme courts of the State Federal courts; was judge of the city court of Carrollton from 1885 to 1889, attorney for the city of Carrollton for a number of years; was Presidential n 1892; had never held nor sought any other office until elected to the Fiftygress; was renominated and reelected without opposition to the Fifty-sixth s, receiving 3,218 votes, 29 scattering. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Con

FIFTH DISTRICT.

5.-Campbell, Clayton, Dekalb, Douglas, Fulton, Newton, Rockdale, and Walton (8 ties).

NIDAS FELIX LIVINGSTON, Democrat, of Kings, was born in Newton Ga., April 3, 1832; is of Scotch-Irish descent; his grandfather emigrated to ntry from North Ireland, and served under General Washington during the ionary war; was educated in the common schools of the county; is a farmer by ion and has always lived on his farm; was a private soldier in the Confederate om August, 1861, to May, 1865; was for two terms a member of the house of tatives and one term a member of the State senate; was chairman of the comn agriculture in both the house and senate; was vice-president of the Georgia gricultural Society for eleven years and president of the same for four years; sident of the Georgia State Alliance for three years, but resigned when elected ress; has been prominent in all political struggles in his State for many years; cted to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, lected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without opposition, receiving 3,027 votes, ering. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

s.—Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Jones, Monroe, Pike, Spalding, and Upson (10 ities).

RLES LAFAYETTE BARTLETT, Democrat, of Macon, was born at Montiasper County, Ga., on January 31, 1853; removed from Monticello to Macon, 1875, and has resided in Macon since then; was educated in the schools at ello, the University of Georgia, and the University of Virginia; graduated at the sity of Georgia in August, 1870; studied law at the University of Virginia and nitted to the bar in August, 1872; was appointed solicitor-general (prosecuting y) for the Macon judicial court January 31, 1877, and served in that capacity anuary 31, 1881; was elected to the house of representatives of Georgia in d 1883, and again in 1884 and 1885, and to the State senate in 1889, from the y-second senatorial district; was elected judge of the superior court of the circuit January 1, 1893, and resigned that office May 1, 1894; was nominated Democrats as a candidate for Congress, and was elected to the Fifty-fourth and ifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, there being no ng candidate in the Democratic primary in June, nor in the election in ber, 1898, receiving 3,008 votes-all the votes cast, except 3. Elected to the eventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cobb, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield (13 counties).

JOHN W. MADDOX, Democrat, of Rome, was born on June 3, 1848, in Chattooga County, Ga.; received a common-school education; enlisted in the service of the Confederate States at the age of 15 and served as a private until the end of the war between the States; read law in Summerville, Ga.; was admitted to the bar at the September term, 1877, and practiced law there until 1886; was elected county commissioner in January, 1878; was elected to the State legislature in October, 1880, and reelected in 1882; was elected to represent the Forty-second senatorial district in 1884; was elected judge of the superior court, Rome circuit, in November, 1886, and reelected in November, 1890; resigned that office September 1, 1892, to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 5,296 votes, to 1,252 for S. B. Austin, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hart, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Oconee, Putnam, and Wilkes (12 counties).

WILLIAM MARCELLUS HOWARD, Democrat, of Lexington, was born at Berwick City, La., of Georgia parents, December 6, 1857; was graduated from the University of Georgia; began practice of law February, 18S0; was elected solicitorgeneral of the northern circuit of Georgia by the State legislature in 1884; was reelected to that office in 1888 and in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,399 votes, to 861 for J. N. Neese, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Banks, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Milton, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, and White (17 counties).

FARISH CARTER TATE, Democrat, of Jasper, was born at Jasper, Pickens County, Ga., November 20, 1856, where he now resides; was educated in the common schools and in the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega, Ga.; was admitted to the bar in 1880, since which time he has been in the active practice of the law; was a member of the general assembly of Georgia six years, during which time he was chairman of the judiciary committee, of the railroad committee, and was a member of the special committee to redistrict the State; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fiftyfourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 9,275 votes, to 3,456 for Jefferson P. Brooke, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Hancock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkinson (11 counties).

WILLIAM HENRY FLEMING, Democrat, of Augusta, was born at Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., on October 18, 1856; was brought up in the country a few miles from the city, and for a number of years after the war worked on the farm; was educated at Summerville Academy, Richmond (County) Academy, and the State University at Athens, Ga., from which institution he received the degrees of civil engineer and master of arts; was chosen private anniversarian of the Phi Kappa Society in 1873; was awarded junior debaters' medal in 1874; was awarded the college medal for the best essay and was chosen commencement orator for the Phi Kappa Society in 1875; in the military department of the college was appointed captain of the first company, and for two years held the battalion prize for the best drilled company; while in college earned a small salary for part of the time by acting as college postmaster, and afterwards was appointed a salaried tutor while an undergraduate; also received assistance from Alexander H. Stephens by a loan of money, which was afterwards repaid with interest; was elected superintendent of the public schools of Augusta and Richmond County, Ga., in January, 1877, and

In August, 1880; was admitted to the bar in November, 1880, having studied e office of Hon. John T. Shewmake, and has continued in regular practice s elected to the State legislature from Richmond County in 1888, 1890, and was chairman of the finance committee; again elected in 1894, and was f the house; in April, 1894, sustained a severe and almost fatal injury by a e face by a runaway horse; was elected president of the Georgia State Bar on in 1894, and at the annual meeting in 1895 delivered an address on the of the bar in relation to the state;" was chosen in 1895 grand commander ights Templar for the State of Georgia; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Conmajority of 2,914 votes, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without 1, receiving 2,290 votes. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

-Appling, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Dodge, Glynn, Irwin, on, Laurens, Lowndes, Montgomery, Pierce, Telfair, Ware, and Wayne (18 counties). AM GORDON BRANTLEY, Democrat, of Brunswick, was born at Blackerce County, Ga., on September 18, 1860, and lived there until his removal to k in 1889; was educated in common schools, with two years at University a; read law with ex-Congressman John C. Nicholls, and was admitted to the ober, 1881; represented Pierce County in Georgia house of representatives in represented Third senatorial district in Georgia senate in 1886-87; was olicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) of Brunswick circuit in 1888 for a our years, and reelected in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, cted to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,368 votes, to 3,886 for J. M. n, Republican-Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

IDAHO.

SENATORS.

GE LAIRD SHOUP, Republican, of Boise, was born at Kittanning, Armunty, Pa., June 15, 1836; was educated in the public schools of Freeport and x; moved with his father to Illinois in June, 1852; was engaged in farming x raising near Galesburg until 1858; removed to Colorado in 1859; was in mining and mercantile business until 1861; in September, 1861, enlisted n Backus's independent company of scouts, and was soon thereafter com1 second lieutenant; during the autumn and winter of 1861 was engaged ng along the base of the Rocky Mountains; was ordered to Fort Union, in the early part of 1862; was kept on scouting duty on the Canadian, Pecos, rivers until the spring of 1863, and during this time was promoted to a first cy; was then ordered to the Arkansas River; had been assigned in 1862 to nd Regiment Colorado Volunteer Infantry, but was retained on duty in the ervice; was assigned to the First Colorado Regiment of Cavalry in May, 1864 was elected to the constitutional convention to prepare a constitution roposed State of Colorado and obtained leave of absence for thirty days to a member of said convention; after performing this service he returned to ty in the Army; was commissioned colonel of the Third Colorado Cavalry nber, 1864, and was mustered out in Denver with the regiment at the expiterm of service; engaged in the mercantile business in Virginia City, Mont., and during the same year established a business at Salmon City, Idaho; 6 has been engaged in mining, stock raising, mercantile, and other business was a member of the Territorial legislature during the eighth and tenth was a delegate to the national Republican convention in 1880; was a meme Republican national committee from 1880 to 1884; was United States comfor Idaho at the World's Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, 384-85; was again placed on the Republican national committee in 1888, in 1892 and again in 1896; was appointed governor of Idaho Territory in 889, which position he held until elected governor of the State of Idaho, 1, 1890; was elected to the United States Senate December 18, 1890, and took December 29, 1890; was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire 1901.

HENRY HEITFELD, Populist, of Lewiston, was born in St. Louis, Mo., January 12, 1859; received his early education in the schools of that city; removed to Seneca, Kans., at the age of 11 years, where he continued to reside till the year 1882, in which year he emigrated to the State of Washington; located in Idaho in 1883, where he has been engaged in farming and stock raising since; was elected State senator in 1894 and reelected in 1896; was elected United States Senator, January 28, 1897; took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.

EDGAR WILSON, Silver Republican, of Boise City, was born in Armstrong County, Pa., February 25, 1861; attended Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, for three years and graduated in the law department of that institution in the class of 1884; went to Idaho the same year and located at Boise City, commencing the practice of law; was elected city attorney of Boise City in 1887, and district attorney in 1888; served as a member of the constitutional convention which framed the State constitution in 1889; was elected to the Fifty-fourth Cong ess as a Republican on a free-coinage platform; was nominated for justice of the supreme court of the State in 1896 by the Silver-Republican party, running several hundred votes ahead of the ticket, but was defeated by a fusion of the opposition; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, having been nominated by acclamation by the Silver Republicans and indorsed by the Democrats, receiving 17,693 votes, to 13,056 for W. B. Heyburn, Republican, 7,428 for James Gunn, Populist, and 914 for W. J. Boone, Prohibitionist.

ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.

SHELBY M. CULLOM, Republican, of Springfield, was born in Wayne County, Ky., November 22, 1829; his father removed to Tazewell County, Ill., the following year. He received an academic and university education; went to Springfield in the fall of 1853 to study law and has since resided there; immediately upon receiving license to practice was elected city attorney; continued to practice law until he took his seat in the House of Representatives in 1865; was a Presidential elector in 1856 on the Fillmore ticket; was elected a member of the house of representatives of the Illinois legislature in 1856, 1860, 1872, and 1874, and was elected speaker in 1861 and in 1873; was elected a Representative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Fortyfirst Congresses, serving from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871; was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Philadelphia in 1872, being chairman of the Illinois delegation, and placed General Grant in nomination; was a delegate to the national Republican convention in 1884 and chairman of the Illinois delegation; was elected governor of Illinois in 1876 and succeeded himself in 1880, serving from January 8, 1877, until February 5, 1883, when he resigned, having been elected to the United States Senate to succeed David Davis, Independent Democrat; took his seat December 4, 1883, and was reelected 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.

WILLIAM E. MASON, Republican, of Chicago, was born in Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., July 7, 1850; removed with his parents to Bentonsport, Iowa, in 1858; attended school at the Bentonsport Academy and Birmingham College; taught school from 1866 to 1870, the last two years at Des Moines, Iowa; entered the law office of Hon. Thomas F. Withrow, and was admitted to practice law in Des Moines; went to Chicago in 1873, and has practiced law there ever since; was elected to the general assembly in 1879, to the State senate in 1881; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate January 20, 1897, by a strict party vote, receiving 125 votes, to 78 votes for John P. Altgeld, Democrat. He took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Part of Cook; embracing the Third, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirtywards, and part of the Fourth Ward of the city of Chicago, with the townships of Bloom, en, Calumet, Orland, Rich, Thornton, and Worth.

SR. MANN, Republican, of Chicago, was born in 1856; educated in the hools; a graduate of the University of Illinois, and the Union College of hicago; member of the law firm of Mann & Miller; has been attorney for k and the South Park commissioners of Chicago; also a master in chancery; our years a member of the city council of Chicago; was elected to the Fiftyreelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 37,506 votes, to 20,424 n B. Organ, Democrat, 404 for James Hogan, People's Party, 414 for Theoeff, Prohibitionist, and 586 for B. Berlyn, Socialist Labor. Elected to the enth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Part of Cook; the Tenth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth wards of the city cago, and the towns of Cicero, Elk Grove, Hanover, Lamont, Leyden, Lyons, Maine, ood Park, Palos, Proviso, Riverside, and Schaumburg.

AM LORIMER, Republican, of Chicago, was born in Manchester, England, 1861, and is of Scotch parentage; came to this country with his parents when d and settled in Chicago in 1870; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fiftygresses; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 27,151 votes, to C. Porter Johnson, Democrat; 700 for C. O. Sherman, Populist; 421 for Herer, Socialist Labor; 407 for Thomas H. Conpropst, Prohibition, and 106 for Healy, Independent.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Part of Cook; that part of the Fourth Ward west of the center line of Wentworth avenue 1 of the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh wards of the city of Chicago. GE P. FOSTER, Democrat, of Chicago, was born in Dover, N. J., April 3, ne to Chicago when 7 years of age, where he attended the public schools, took a course of instruction at the old University of Chicago; graduated ion College of Law of Chicago in 1882; was admitted to the bar the same began the practice of law in Chicago; in 1891, on the recommendation of es of the circuit, superior, county, and probate courts of Cook County, he nated by Governor Joseph W. Fifer and confirmed by the State senate, and, firmation, was commissioned justice of the peace for the town of South Chiile acting as justice of the peace he also acted, under the appointments of Washburne, Harrison, sr., Hopkins, and Harrison, jr., as police magistrate incipal police court of the city of Chicago; was nominated Presidential 1 Democratic ticket in 1896, but resigned in order to permit a fusion between tic and People's parties; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving tes, to 15,659 for Hugh R. Belknap, Republican, 206 for James E. McGrath, Party, 65 for William Kellet, Prohibitionist, and 242 for Henry O. Dreiscialist Labor. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Part of Cook; the Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, and Nineteenth wards of the city of Chicago. AS CUSACK, Democrat, of Chicago, was born in Ireland, October 5, 1858; New York with his parents when 3 years of age; after the death of his at the age of 5 years, he moved to Chicago; attended private and public n Chicago and New York; learned the sign-painting trade, and started Avertising sign painting business, December, 1875, under the firm name of Cusack & Co., which business extends over the entire country; was a meme board of education from 1891 until 1898, and was vice-president during 5 of 1896, 1897, and 1898; served on Governor Altgeld's staff with the rank of -2D-IST ED- -3