OFFICIAL

CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.

Levi Parsons Morton was born at Shoreham, Vermont, May 16, 1824; received a public school and academic education; entered a country store at Enfield, Massachusetts, at fifteen years of age, and commenced his mercantile business at Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1843; removed to Boston in 1850, and to New York in 1854; engaged in banking business in 1863 in New York and London; was appointed by the President Honorary Commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1878; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, as a Republican, from the Eleventh Congressional District of New York, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Con gress. Was appointed Minister to France by President Garfield in March, 1881, and resigned his seat in Congress to accept the appointment. Was nominated for the Vice Presidency by the Republican Convention at Chicago in 1888, and was inaugurated as Vice President on the 4th of March, 1889.

ALABAMA.
SENATORS.

John T. Morgan, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tennessee, June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when nine years old and has since resided there; 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 afterward 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 rejoin 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 as a Democrat, to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877; was re-elected in 1882, and again in 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

James L. Pugh, of Eufaula, was born in Burke County, Georgia, December 12, 1820; received an academic education in Alabama and Georgia; came to Alabama when four years old, where he has since resided; was licensed to practice law in 1841, and was so employed when elected to the Senate; was Taylor Elector in 1848, Buchanan Elector in 1856, and State Elector for Tilden in 1876; was elected to Congress without opposition in 1859; retired from the Thirty-sixth Congress when Alabama ordained to secede from the Union; joined the Eufaula Rifles, in the First Alabama Regiment, as a private; was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861 and re-elected in 1863; after the war resumed the practice of the law;

was President of the State Convention of the Democratic party in 1874; was member of the Convention that framed the State Constitution of 1875; was elected to the Senate as a Democrat, to fill the balance of the term made vacant by the death of George S. Houston. Took his seat December 6, 1880, and was re-elected in 1884 and in 1890. His term of office will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington.

Richard H. Clarke, of Mobile, was born in Marengo County, Alabama, February 9, 1843; graduated from the University of Alabama in July, 1861; served in the Confederate Army as lieutenant in the First Battalion of Alabama Artillery; was admitted to the practice of the law in 1867; was State Solicitor (Prosecuting Attorney) for Marengo County from 1872 to 1876; was Prosecuting Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit from 1876 to 1877; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,070 votes, against 2,448 votes for F. H. Threatt, Republican, and 1,890 votes for A. J. Warner, Republican. SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Covington, Escambia, Montgomery, ana

Pike.

Hilary A. Herbert, of Montgomery, was born at Laurensville, South Carolina, when a child his father removed to Greenville, Butler County, Alabama; was educated at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia; studied law and was admitted to the bar; entered the Confederate service as Captain; was promoted to the Colonelcy of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers; was disabled at the battle of the Wilderness May 6, 1864; continued the practice of law at Greenville, Alabama, until 1872, when he removed to Montgomery, where he has since practiced; was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-Second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,611 votes, against 2,681 votes for S. A. Pilley, Independent.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lee, and Russell.

William C. Oates, of Abbeville, was born in Pike (now Bullock) County, Alabama, November 30, 1835; is self-educated; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and became a successful lawyer and business man; entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company G, Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, in July, 1861; was appointed Colonel in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States May 1, 1863, and was assigned to the command of his old regiment; the Forty-eighth Alabama Regiment was also subsequently placed under his command; was wounded four times slightly and twice severely, losing his right arm in front of Richmond August 16, 1864, in the twenty-seventh battle he was engaged in; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in New York in 1868 which nominated Seymour for the Presidency; was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means at the sessions of 1870-'71 and 1871-'72; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1872; was later in the same year nominated for Congress in the Montgomery district and defeated by the Republican candidate; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1875 and Chairman of its Judiciary Committee; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,268 votes, against 930 votes for J. R. Treadwell, Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Perry, and Wilcox.

Louis W. Turpin, of New Berne, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, February 22, 1849; removed to Perry County, Alabama, in 1858; is self-educated; is a farmer; was Tax Assessor of Hale County seven years; served as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Perry County six years, and was ex-officio member of the District Executive Committee; was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1882, and received 31 votes out of a possible 50, but was defeated by the two-thirds rule and a dark horse; received the certificate of election to the Fifty-first Congress, but was unseated by contest; was elected to the Fifty second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,595 votes against 3,899 votes for G. T. McCall, Independent Republican, and 4,931 votes for J. V. McDuffie, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Macon, and Tallapoosa. James E. Cobb, of Tuskegee, was born in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia, October 5, 1835; received his early education at the town schools; was graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, in June, 1856; after being admitted to the practice of the law removed to Texas in 1857; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as Lieutenant in Company F, Fifth Texas Regiment, with which command he served in the Army of Northern Virginia until he was made prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg; after his release, at the close of the war, he located at Tuskegee and practiced law until 1874; at the general election of that year he was chosen one of the Circuit Judges of the State; was re-elected in 1880 and again in 1886; he was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected without opposition to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,548 votes.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston.

John H. Bankhead, of Fayette Court-House, was born in Moscow, Marion County (now Lamar), Alabama, 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 1855, '66, and '67; 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 and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,182 votes, against 462 votes for W. H. Davidson, Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Cullman, De Kalb, Etowah, Marshall, Randolph, St. Clair, Shelby, and Talladega.

William Henry Forney, of Jacksonville, was born at Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 9, 1823; received a classical education, graduating at the University of Alabama in 1844; served in the war with Mexico as a First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and has practiced ever since; was elected by the Legislature of Alabama a Trustee of the University of Alabama, and served 1851-'60; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Alabama 1859-'60; entered the Confederate Army at the commencement of hostilities in 1861 as Captain, and was successively promoted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brigadier-General; surrendered at Appomattox Court-House; was a member of the State Senate of Alabama 1865-'66, serving until the State was reconstructed; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Fortysixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,054 votes, against 6,060 votes for W. O. Butler, Independent, and 862 votes for A. J. Logan, Republican.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Colbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan.

Joseph Wheeler, of Wheeler, was born in Augusta, Georgia, 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 elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,821 votes, against 12,076 votes for R. W. Austin.

ARKANSAS.

SENATORS.

James K. Jones, of Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas, was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, 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 1ST ED 52-2

Arkansas in 1873; was a member of the State Senate when the Constitutional Convention of 1874 was called; was re-elected under the new government, and in 1877 was elected President of the Senate; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was re-elected in 1890, and took his seat March 4, 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

James H. Berry, of Bentonville, was born in Jackson County, Alabama, May 15, 1841; removed to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited education at a private school at Berryville, Arkansas; 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, Mississippi, 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, as a Democrat, to succeed Hon. A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was re-elected in 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, Randolph, St. Francis, and Sharp. William Henderson Cate, of Jonesborough, was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, November 11, 1839; was brought up and educated in East Tennessee; graduated in the class of 1857 from the University at Knoxville; was engaged in teaching in the South and West for some time; was in the Southern Army; settled at Jonesborough in 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1866; was elected to the Legislature of 1871 and 1873, including the extra session of 1874; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the second circuit in 1878; was appointed judge of the second circuit in March, 1884; was elected to the same position without opposition in September, 1884; has been interested in planting; organized the Bank of Jonesborough in 1887; received certificate of election to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; his seat was contested by Mr. Featherston, Independent Union Labor, who was seated March 5, 1890, and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,437 votes, against 14,834 votes for L. P. Featherston, Union Labor candidate.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—Arkansas, Cleburne, Conway, Cleveland, Faulkner, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, Monroe, Pope, Prairie, Stone, Van Buren, White, and Woodruff.

Clifton R. Breckinridge, of Pine Bluff, was born at Lexington, Kentucky, November 22, 1846; received a common-school education; served in the Confederate Army as a private soldier, and at the close of the war was a midshipman on duty below Richmond, Virginia; was a clerk in a commercial house for two years; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Virginia, three years; became a cotton planter in Arkansas in 1870, and was engaged in planting and in the commission business for thirteen years; was an Alderman of his town one term; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress from the State at large, was elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fiftyfirst Congress as a Democrat; but was unseated by action of the House, and the seat declared vacant; was nominated for the second session of the Fifty-first Congress, and elected, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,816 votes, against 19,941 votes for Jason P. Langley, Union Labor and Alliance endorsed by Republicans.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Drew, Hempstead, Hot Springs, Howard, La Fayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, Polk, Sevier, and Union.

Thomas Chipman McRae, of Prescott, was born at Mount Holly, Union County, Arkansas, December 21, 1851; received a limited education at the private schools at Shady Grove, Columbia County, Mount Holly, Union County, and Falcon, Nevada County, Arkansas; received a full course of instruction at Soulé Business College, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1870; graduated in law at the Washington and Lee University, Virginia, in class of 1871-'72; was admitted to practice in State Circuit Courts in Rosston, Nevada County, Arkansas, January 8, 1873, in the Arkansas Supreme Court January 27, 1876, and in the United States Supreme Court January 4,1886; was a member of the State Legislature of Arkansas in 1877, in which year the county seat was changed, and he moved from Rosston to Prescott, where he has since

practiced his profession; was a member of the town council of the incorporated town of Prescott in 1879; was a Presidential Elector for Hancock and English in 1880; was Chairman of the Democratic State Convention in 1884; was Delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress, September 7, 1885, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of J. K. Jones to the United States Senate; was re-elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receivng 13,111 votes, against 287 votes for W. M. White.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Sebastian, Scott, and Yell.

William Leake Terry, of Pulaski, was born in Anson County, North Carolina, September 27, 1850; when seven years of age removed with his parents to Tippah County, Mississippi, and thence to Arkansas in 1861; received his preparatory education at Bingham's Military Academy, North Carolina, and was admitted to Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1869, and graduated in June, 1872; studied law under Dodge & Johnson, attorneys, of Little Rock, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1873; served in the State troops under Governor Baxter in the Brooks-Baxter troubles, and was second officer in command of Hallie Rifles in the fight at Palarm, in May, 1874; was elected to City Council in April, 1877; was elected to the State Senate in September, 1878, and was elected President of Senate at close of session in March, 1879; served eight terms as City Attorney of Little Rock; was elected to Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,670 votes, against 7,488 votes for E. M. Harrison, Republican, and 2 votes scattering.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy, and Washington.

Samuel W. Peel, of Bentonville, was born in Independence County, Arkansas, September 13, 1832; received a common-school education; was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Carroll County, Arkansas, in 1858, and again in 1860; entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a private, and was elected Major of the Third Arkansas Infantry (State troops); reentered the Confederate service in 1862 as a private, and was elected Colonel of the Fourth Regiment Arkansas Infantry; at the close of the war he commenced the practice of law in the State courts; was appointed Prosecuting Attorney of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas in 1873; upon the adoption of the new constitution in 1874 was elected to the same place; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,734 votes, against 206 votes scattering.

CALIFORNIA.

SENATORS.

Leland Stanford, of San Francisco, was born in Albany County, New York, March 9, 1824; received an academical education; entered the law office of Wheaton, Doolittle & Hadley, at Albany, in 1846, and after three years' study was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the State of New York; removed to Port Washington, in the northern part of the State of Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for four years; a fire in the spring of 1852 destroying his law library and other property, he went to California, where he became associated in business with his brothers, three of whom had preceded him to the Pacific Coast; he was at first in business at Michigan Bluffs, and in 1856 removed to Sacramento to engage in mercantile pursuits on a large scale; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860; was elected Governor of California, and served from December, 1861, to December, 1863; as President of the Central Pacific Railroad Company he superintended its construction over the mountains, building 530 miles of it in 293 days; he is interested in other railroads on the Pacific Slope, in agriculture, and in manufactures. He was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, in the place of J. T. Farley, Democrat, in 1884, and re-elected in 1890; took his seat March 4, 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

Charles N. Felton, of San Francisco, though a native of the State of New York, has been a continuous resident of California from youth; was Assistant Treasurer of the United States and Treasurer of the Mint at San Francisco for six years; served three sessions in the Legislature of California; represented the Fifth Congressional District of California in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; was elected United States Senator by the Legislature of California, March 19, 1891, as a Republican, to succeed George Hearst, deceased. term of service will expire March 3, 1893.

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