ected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 21,296 votes, to 14,784 for David H. Fusionist, and 1,265 for T. P. Grout, Prohibitionist. Elected to the FiftyCongress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

.-Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Lesueur, McLeod, Meeker, Renville, Rice, Scott, and Sibley ounties).

PRESCOTT HEATWOLE, Republican, of Northfield, was born in Indiana, 22, 1856; is a printer; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, ected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 19,271 votes, to 13,183 for C. G. Democrat, and 1,446 for J. R. Lowe, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh

S.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

.-Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Ramsey, and Washington (5 counties).

DERICK CLEMENT STEVENS, Republican, of St. Paul, was born in Boston, anuary 1, 1861; educated in common schools of Rockland, Me.; graduated wdoin College, Brunswick, Me., in 1881; from law school of the State Uniof Iowa in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1884, and commenced practice aul; was elected to the State legislature of Minnesota in session of 1888-89 0–91; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth s, receiving 15,952 votes, to 11,602 for John W. Willis, Democrat, 779 for Carling, Socialist, 694 for N. S. Beardsley, Independent Populist, and 461 for Bray, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

-Hennepin.

EN FLETCHER, Republican, of Minneapolis, was born at Mount Vernon, ec County, Me.; was educated in public schools and Maine Wesleyan y, Kents Hill, Me.; in 1853 removed to Bangor, where he was employed as a mercantile and lumber company; in 1856 removed to Minneapolis, Minn., e has since resided, engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits, in the manufacture of lumber and flour; was elected to the State legislature in 1 reelected seven times; the last three terms served as speaker, having been ously elected the last term; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and th Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 18,736 o 12,986 for T. J. Caton, Democrat, 885 for

Harshfield, Socialist Labor, and 399 for can. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Way, Prohibitionist, 912
Blackburn, Independent

s.—Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, e, Millelacs, Morrison, Pine, St. Louis, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wadena, and Wright Counties).

E MORRIS, Republican, of Duluth, was born June 30, 1853, at Lynchburg, Va.; d at a private school and at William and Mary College and the Virginia Milistitute; graduated at the latter institution in 1872, and was at once appointed t professor of mathematics; in 1873 was appointed professor of mathematics exas Military Institute, and removed to Austin, Tex.; in 1876 was elected prof applied mathematics in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, near Bryan, in that State, where he remained for three years; studied law eaching in college, and was admitted to the bar at Lynchburg, Va., whither he urned, in 1880; in 1884 was nominated by the Republicans and ran for Congress Sixth district of Virginia against John W. Daniel, Democrat, and was defeated; removed from Lynchburg to Duluth, where he has resided since; in Feb1889, was elected municipal judge of the city of Duluth; in March, 1894, was by the city council of Duluth city attorney; in August, 1895, was appointed governor district judge of the Eleventh judicial district of Minnesota; in July, as unanimously nominated by the Republican Congressional convention for

Congress, accepted the nomination, and immediately sent to the governor his resignation of the office of judge, to take effect September 1, so that he might make the campaign; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 22,194 votes, to 21,731 for Charles A. Towne, Democrat-Populist, and 412 for Edward Kriz, Socialist Labor. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Becker, Bigstone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Ottertail, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and Wilkin (18 counties). FRANK MARION EDDY, Republican, of Glenwood, was born in Pleasant Grove, Minn., April 1, 1856, and is the first Representative of Minnesota who is a native of that State; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 20,409 votes, to 16,715 for Peter M. Ringdal, Fusionist; and 1,693 for E. E. Lobeck, Prohibitionist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

MISSISSIPPI.

SENATORS.

WILL VAN AMBERG SULLIVAN, Democrat, of Oxford, was born December 18, 1857, near Winona, Miss.; received his education near Sardis, in Panola County, at a country school, at the University of Mississippi, and at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; graduated from the latter institution in 1875; completed the two years' law course during his university period; began the practice of law in the fall of 1875 at Austin, in Tunica County, where he continued to reside till March, 1877, when he moved to Oxford, Miss., at which place he has continued in the practice of law since; has never been a candidate for any office; was a member of the Democratic national convention in 1892, and was by the national Democratic convention of 1896, at the request of the State of Mississippi, elected a member for Mississippi of the national Democratic executive committee, which position he now holds; was nominated for Congress, though not a candidate for the position, but a deadlock between the four aspirants having continued for several days, the nomination was tendered to and accepted by him; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; was appointed and sworn in as United States Senator from the State of Mississippi on May 30, 1898, as successor of Senator E. C. Walthall, deceased; elected by the legislature January, 1900, to fill out the term which expires March 3, 1901.

HERNANDO DE SOTO MONEY, Democrat, of Carrollton, was born August 26, 1839, in Holmes County, Miss.; was educated at the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss.; is a lawyer and planter; served in the Confederate army from the beginning of the war until September 26, 1864, when he was forced to retire from service by defective eyesight; was elected to the House of Representatives in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses; in January, 1896, was elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1899; was appointed to the Senate October 8, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. Z. George on August 14, 1897; elected by the legislature to fill out the unexpired term ending March 3, 1899; and reelected in 1899. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, and Tishomingo (8 counties).

JOHN M. ALLEN, Democrat, of Tupelo, was born in Tishomingo County, Miss., July 8, 1847; received a common-school education up to his enlistment as a private in the Confederate army, in which he served through the war; after the cessation of hostilities attended the law school at the Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated in law in the year 1870 at the University of Mississippi; commenced

tice of his profession at Tupelo, Lee County, Miss., in 1870; in 1875 was listrict attorney for the First judicial district of Mississippi; served a term years and retired from that office; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, t, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and usly reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 2,469 votes.

SECOND DISTRICT.

.—Benton, De Soto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, and Union inties).

IAS SPIGHT, Democrat, of Ripley, was born and reared on a farm in Tippah Miss., and has lived in that county all his life; attended the common and ools of the county, and in 1859 entered college at Purdy, Tenn., and at the end ear entered the La Grange (Tenn.) Synodical College, but the death of his n March, 1861, and the breaking out of the war compelled him to return ntered the Confederate army as a private, and became captain of his comfore he was 21 years old, being the youngest officer of that rank in the famous all Brigade," commanded by the late distinguished Senator from Missisarticipated in nearly all the battles fought by the Army of Tennessee, and erely wounded on the 22d of July, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga.; was in command of is left of his regiment (the Thirty-fourth Mississippi Infantry) in April, 1865, e surrendered with the army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, returned home to find all the property of his father's estate swept away as a f the war, and commenced teaching school and farming, and at the same dying law; was admitted to the bar and has practiced his profession since at is a member of the Baptist Church; represented his county in the Mississippi ire from 1874 to 1880, and in the latter year was district Presidential elector Hancock ticket; established the Southern Sentinel in 1879, which he continued and edit until 1884, when he was elected district attorney of the Third juditrict, composed of seven counties, which position he held until 1892, when ntarily retired; he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Con1 1894, but was defeated by Hon. J. C. Kyle, who was then serving his secm; was again a candidate in 1896, but was defeated in convention by a comn of the opposition on Hon. W. V. Sullivan, who was elected and afterwards ed United States Senator to succeed Senator Walthall, deceased; was elected unexpired term in the Fifty-fifth Congress, July 5, and reelected to the FiftyCongress, receiving 2,949 votes, to 167 for C. M. Hanie, Populist, and 58 for Cowry, Republican. Élected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Es.—Bolivar, Coahoma, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica, Warren, I Washington (10 counties).

MAS CLENDINEN CATCHINGS, Democrat, of Vicksburg, was born in Hinds , Miss., January 11, 1847; entered the University of Mississippi in September, nd, after passing through the freshman and part of the sophomore years, left to Dakland College, Mississippi, where he passed into the junior class in the spring ; entered the Confederate army early in 1861 and served throughout the war; enced the study of law in 1865, after the termination of the war; was admitted bar in May, 1866, and has since practiced law at Vicksburg; was elected to te senate of Mississippi in 1875 for a term of four years, but resigned on being ated in 1877 for attorney-general; was elected attorney-general of Mississippi vember, 1877, for a term of four years; was renominated by acclamation in t, 1881, and elected in the following November, resigning February 16, 1885; ected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fiftyand Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiv068 votes, to 373 for Č. J. Jones, colored Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

ES.-Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Kemper, Montgomery, Noxubee, ntotoc, Webster, Winston, and Yalobusha (13 counties).

DREW FULLER FOX, Democrat, of West Point, Clay County, was born April 19, in Pickens County, Ala.; studied law in the office of Gen. E. C. Walthall, at da, Miss., in 1876 and 1877; was admitted to the bar in 1877, and has since that

time been constantly engaged in the active practice of law in Mississippi; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1888; was elected State senator in 1891, which position he resigned to accept the office of United States attorney for the northern district of Mississippi, to which he was appointed June 27, 1893; resigned the latter office September 1, 1896, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,431 votes, to 1,020 for Raleigh Brewer, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Attala, Clarke, Holmes, Jasper, Lauderdale, Leake; Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Smith, Wayne, and Yazoo (12 counties).

JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Yazoo, was born July 30, 1854, at Memphis, Tenn.; his mother having died, his father, who was colonel of the Twentyseventh Tennessee Volunteers, Confederate States Army, being killed at Shiloh, and Memphis being threatened with capture by the Federal Army, his family removed to his mother's family homestead in Yazoo County, Miss.; received a fair education at private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky., the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University of Virginia, and the University of Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany; subsequently studied law under Professors Minor and Southall at the University of Virginia and in the office of Harris, McKisick & Turley in Memphis; in 1877 got license to practice in the courts of law and chancery of Shelby County, Tenn.; in December, 1878, removed to Yazoo City, Miss., where he engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter; was a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Cleveland and Stevenson; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,943 votes, to 142 for J. R. S. Pitts, Republican, and 20 for L. L. Caldwell, Independent. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Adams, Amite, Covington, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, and Wilkinson (14 counties).

FRANK ALEXANDER MCLAIN, Democrat, of Gloster, was born January 29, 1853, and reared on a farm in Amite County, Miss.; attended the common schools of the county and graduated in the A. B. course at the University of Mississippi in June, 1874; commenced the practice of law in Liberty, Miss., 1880; was elected to the State legislature in 1881 for a term of two years; was elected district attorney for his judicial district in 1883, in which capacity he served for three consecutive terms of four years each; was elected to the constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1890 as floater delegate from the counties of Amite and Pike; retired voluntarily from the office of district attorney January 1, 1896, and resumed his law practice at Gloster, Miss., where he now resides; was unanimously nominated by the executive committee, and elected, without opposition, receiving every vote cast, to fill out the unexpired term in the Fifty-fifth Congress of William Franklin Love, who died October 17, 1898, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,227 votes, to 1,390 for M. M. Evans, Democrat, 998 for N. C. Hathorn, Populist, and 327 for H. C. Turley, Republican. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Rankin, and Simpson (9 counties).

PATRICK HENRY, Democrat, of Brandon, was born in Madison County, Miss., February 12, 1843; entered Mississippi College, at Clinton; afterwards Madison College, at Sharon, and when the war commenced was at the Nashville (Tenn.) Military College; in the spring of 1861 enlisted in the Confederate service in the Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment; served through the war, and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865, as major of the Fourteenth (consolidated) Mississippi Regiment; returning home, farmed until 1873 in Hinds and Rankin counties, when he commenced the practice of law at Brandon; was a member of the legislature in 1878 and 1890, and delegate from the State at large to the constitutional convention in 1890; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,278 votes, to 156 for E. F. Brennan and 171 for J. B. Yellowby, Republicans.

MISSOURI.

SENATORS.

GE GRAHAM VEST, Democrat, of Sweet Springs, was born at Frankfort, ember 6, 1830; graduated at Centre College, Kentucky, in 1848, and in the tment of Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., in 1853; removed the r to Missouri and began the practice of law in the central part of that s a member of the Missouri house of representatives in 1860-61; was the United States Senate, in the place of James Shields, Democrat (who elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy, Demok his seat March 18, 1879; was reelected in 1885, 1890, and 1897. His term - will expire March 3, 1903.

CIS MARION COCKRELL, Democrat, of Warrensburg, was born in Johny, Mo., October 1, 1834; received his early education in the common schools inty; graduated from Chapel Hill College, Lafayette County, Mo., in July, died law and has pursued that profession, never having held any public e prior to his election to Congress; was elected to the Senate, to succeed rz, Independent Republican; took his seat March 4, 1875, and was reelected S. His term of service will expire March 3, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

-Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Marion, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, and Shelby unties).

S TIGHLMAN LLOYD, Democrat, of Shelbyville, was born at Canton, Lewis Mo., August 28, 1857; graduated from Christian University at Canton, Mo., in ght school for a few years thereafter; was admitted to the bar, and then pracprofession in Lewis County until 1885, when he located at his present home, has since resided; has held no office except that of prosecuting attorney unty from 1889 to 1893, until his election to Congress; was elected to the h Congress at a special election held June 1, 1897, to fill the vacancy occay the death of R. P. Giles, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, receiv8 votes, to 15,460 for A. N. Seaber, Republican, and 738 for John M. Landon, Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.

-Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Monroe, Randolph, and Sullivan (8 ies).

IAM W. RUCKER, Democrat, of Keytesville, was born February 1, 1855, ington, Va.; at the beginning of the war moved with his parents to West , in which State he attended the common schools; at the age of 18 he o Chariton County, Mo., and for two years engaged in teaching district during which time he continued the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 was elected prosecuting attorney of Chariton County, which office he three consecutive terms and until he was nominated for circuit judge of the judicial circuit; in 1892 was elected circuit judge for a term of six years, osition he held at the time he was nominated for Congress; was elected to y-sixth Congress, receiving 20,768 votes, to 15,627 for W. C. Irwin, Repubid 499 for Hugh Tudor, Populist. Elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.

.-Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Dekalb, Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Ray, and Worth ounties).

| DOUGHERTY, Democrat, of Liberty, was born in Platte County, Mo., y 25, 1857; a few months subsequently his parents removed to Liberty, Mo., as, practically, been his place of residence ever since; was educated in the chools and William Jewell College; studied law under Judge William H. of Indiana; was admitted to the bar in 1880; was elected city attorney of