REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Colusa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Plumas Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tehama, and Trinity.

Thomas J. Geary, of Santa Rosa, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, 1854; removed with his parents to California in April, 1863; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1877, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession since; was elected District Attorney of Sonoma County in 1882, and served two years; and was elected as a Democrat and American to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. De Haven, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat and American, receiving 19,334 votes, against 19,153 votes for John A. Barham, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Merced, Nevada, Placer, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tuolumne, and Yuba.

Anthony Caminetti, of Jackson, was born July 30, 1854, in Jackson, Amador County, California; was educated in the public schools of his native county, at the Grammar School, San Francisco, and the University of California; after leaving school was a clerk in a country store for five years; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1877; engaged in practice of his profession in Jackson, California, where he has been thus engaged since; was elected District Attorney of Amador County in 1877 for two years, re-elected in 1879 for three years; was elected to the State Assembly in 1883, declined renomination, and was elected to the State Senate in 1886; has been engaged in practical fruit culture for fourteen years; in 1880 was Democratic alternate elector for the Second Congressional District; in 1888 was Democratic elector, and polled the highest vote cast for any elector in the State on Democratic ticket; is the first native of California after it became a State elected to Congress; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,644 votes, against 18,485 votes for G. G. Blanchard, Republican, 912 votes for J. S. Witherell, and 2 votes scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sacramento, Solano, and Yolo.

Samuel Greeley Hilborn, of Oakland, was born in Minot, Androscoggin County (then Cumberland), December 9, 1834; was educated in the common schools, Hebron Academy, and Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, and Tuft's College, Massachusetts, from which latter institution he graduated in 1859; taught school in Oakgrove Academy, Falmouth, Maine; read law in the office of Fessenden & Butler, Portland, Maine; was admitted to the bar in 1861, and immediately went to California; located in Vallejo, Salino County, and engaged in the practice of the law; served in the State Senate from 1875 to 1879; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1879; was appointed United States district attorney for the district of California in 1883, and removed to San Francisco, where he resided while filling the office; changed his residence to Oakland in 1887, continuing the law business under the firm name of Hilborn & Hall in San Francisco; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Joseph McKenna, appointed United States Circuit Judge, receiving votes, against votes for Warren B. English, Demovotes for J. L. Lyons, People's party, and votes for L. B. Scranton, Pro

crat,

hibitionist.

NOTE. Mr. Hilborn was also elected to the Fifty-third Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS OF CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.-29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, and 41st.

John Tyler Cutting, of San Francisco, was born in Westport, Essex County, New York, September 7, 1844; from 1855 to 1860 he resided in Wisconsin and Illinois and was educated in the latter State; enlisted in Taylor's Chicago Battery at the breaking out of the civil war and served until July 20, 1862; was discharged for disability, the result of service in the field; re-enlisted January 4, 1864, in the Chicago Mercantile Battery, in which he served until the expiration of the war; removed to California in 1877 and established a wholesale fruit and commission business under the title of The John T. Cutting & Company; in 1880 he took an active interest in politics in San Francisco, and for two years held the position of Chairman of the Republican County Committee of that city; later he identified himself with State and national politics; was for nine years connected with the National Guard of California, holding the commissions of Lieutenant, Major, and Colonel, and Brigadier-General commanding the Second Brigade; retired February, 1891, with the rank of Brigadier-General; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,196 votes, against 12,091 votes for Robert Ferrell, Democrat, 1,492 votes for Thomas V. Cator, Reform Democrat, and 59 votes scattering,

FIFTH DISTRICT.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES.—39th, 40th, 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz.

Eugene Francis Loud, of San Francisco, was born in the town of Abington, Massachusetts, March 12, 1847; at the age of thirteen went to sea and to California; in 1862 enlisted in California Cavalry Battalion, which formed a part of Second Massachusetts Cavalry; was with the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley until the close of the war; returned to California and studied law; was in the customs service; followed mercantile business; was member of California Legislature in 1884; was Cashier of city and county of San Francisco; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,871 votes, against 19,899 votes for Thomas J. Clunie, Democrat, 574 votes for E. F. Howe, Prohibitionist, and 85 scattering.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alpine, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, Monterey, Orange, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura.

William Wallace Bowers, of San Diego, was born in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, October 20, 1834; attended common school until fourteen years of age; removed to Wisconsin in 1852; enlisted as a private in Company I, First Wisconsin Cavalry, February 22, 1862; was discharged from the service as second sergeant, February 22, 1865; served as post wagonmaster at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, until the close of the war; removed to San Diego in 1869; in 1873 was elected member of the California Legislature; in 1874 was appointed Collector of Customs for the San Diego District and held the office for eight years; in 1886 was elected State Senator for four years, and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 33,522 votes, against 28,904 votes for W. J. Curtis, Democrat, 3,130 votes for O. R. Dougherty, Prohibitionist, and 914 votes scattering.

COLORADO.

SENATORS.

Henry M. Teller, of Central City, was born in Allegany County, New York, May 23, 1830; studied law, was admitted to the bar in New York, and has since practiced; removed to Illinois in 1858, and from there to Colorado in 1861; never held office until he was elected to the United States Senate (on the admission of Colorado as a State), and took his seat December 4, 1876; was re-elected December 11, 1876, and served until April 17, 1882, when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Arthur, and served until March 3, 1885; was again elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Nathaniel P. Hill, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was re-elected in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

Edward Oliver Wolcott, of Denver, was born in Long Meadow, Massachusetts, March 26, 1848; served for a few months as private in the One hundred and fiftieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers in 1864; entered Yale College in 1866, but did not graduate; graduated from Harvard Law School in 1871, and removed to Colorado; is a lawyer; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Thomas M. Bowen, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

REPRESENTATIVE.

STATE AT LARGE.

COUNTIES.--Arapahoe, Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Delia, Dolores, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jefferson, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lake, La Plata, Larimer, Las Animas, Logan, Mesa, Montezuma, Morgan, Montrose, Otero, Ouray, Park, Pitkin, Phillips, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Rio Blanco, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Summit, Washington, Weld, Yuma.

Hosea Townsend, of Silver Cliff, was born in Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, June 16, 1840; after preparation entered Western Reserve College, Ohio, in 1860; left school to enter the Army, and enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry in 1861; was promoted to Lieutenant, and resigned in 1863 on account of disability; was admitted to the bar at Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced the practice of law in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1865; was elected to the Legislature of that State in 1869 as a Republican, and served one term; removed to Colorado in 1879; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 43,118 votes, against 34,736 votes for T. J. O'Donnell, Democrat, 5,207 votes for J. D. Burr, Prohibitionist, and 1,054 votes for George Richardson, Union Labor candidate.

CONNECTICUT.

SENATORS.

Joseph R. Hawley, of Hartford, was born at Stewartsville, Richmond County, North Carolina, October 31, 1826; graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1847; was admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Connecticut, where he has since resided; practiced law six and a half years; became editor of the Hartford Evening Press February, 1857, which was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he is editor, in 1867; enlisted in the Union Army as a Lieutenant April 15, 1861; became Brigadier and Brevet Major General; was mustered out January 15, 1866; was elected Governor of Connecticut April, 1866; was a Delegate to the Free Soil National Convention of 1852, Presidential Elector in 1868, President of the Republican National Convention of 1868, and Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1872, '76, and '80; was President of the United States Centennial Commission from its organization, in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the Centennial Exhibition; is a member of the Connecticut Historical Society and a Trustee of Hamilton College; received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hamilton College and Yale University; was elected in November, 1872, a Representative in the Forty-second Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of J. L. Strong; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, and was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress; was elected to the United States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed William W. Eaton, Democrat; took his seat March 4, 1881, and was re-elected in 1887. His term of service will expire March 3, 1893.

Orville H. Platt, of Meriden, was born at Washington, Connecticut, July 19, 1827; received an academic education; studied law at Litchfield; was admitted to the bar in 1849, and has since practiced law at Meriden; was Clerk of the State Senate of Connecticut in 1855 and 1856; was Secretary of State of Connecticut in 1857; was a member of the State Senate in 1861 and 1862; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1864 and 1869, serving the last year as Speaker; was elected to the United States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed William H. Barnum, Democrat (who had been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Orris S. Ferry, Republican); took his seat March 18, 1879; was re-elected in 1885 and in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hartford and Tolland, including the cities of Hartford and New Britain, ana Rockville.

Lewis Sperry, of South Windsor (post-office address, Hartford), was born at East Windsor Hill, town of South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, January 23, 1848; attended district school; prepared for college at Monson Academy, Monson, Massachusetts; graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1873; on graduating from college entered the law office of Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde, Hartford; was admitted to the bar in March, 1875; opened an office in Hartford, where he has ever since practiced law; was elected to represent his native town in the Legislature in 1876; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,195 votes, against 15,503 votes for William E. Simonds, Republican, 818 votes for Samuel B. Forbes, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Middlesex and New Haven, including the city of New Haven.

Washington F. Willcox, of Chester, was born in Killingworth, Connecticut; was prepared for college at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven; graduated from the Yale Law School in 1862; was admitted to the bar the same year in Middlesex County, and opened a law office in Deep River, at which place he has continued the practice of the law since; was elected a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1862 and '63; was elected to the State Senate in 1875 and '76, serving as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee during two terms; was appointed State Attorney in 1875, and held that office continuously for eight years; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 23,367 votes, against 19,836 votes for J. M. Hubbard, Republican, 969 votes for C. M. Whittemore, Prohibitionist, and 16 votes scattering.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-New London and Windham, including the cities of New London and Norwich.

Charles Addison Russell, of Killingly, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, March 2, 1852; received a public-school and collegiate education, graduating from Yale College in the

class of 1873; was Aid-de-Camp (Colonel) on Governor Bigelow's staff, 1881,-'82; was a member of the House, General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1883; was Secretary of State of Connecticut, 1885-'86; is engaged in the woolen business; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty second Congress, as a Republican, receiving 10,541 votes, against 9,549 votes for D. A. Wells, Democrat, 695 votes for H. J. Crocker, Prohibitionist, and 2 votes scattering.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fairfield and Litchfield.

Robert E. De Forest, of Bridgeport, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, February 20, 1845; was brought up on a farm; was educated in Guilford Academy and Yale College, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1867; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868; located in the city of Bridgeport, where he has since practiced his profession; in 1872 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the city of Bridgeport; in 1874 was elected by the Legislature of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County, which position he held for three years; in 1878 was elected Mayor of Bridgeport; in 1880 was elected to the Legislature; in 1882 was elected to the State Senate; was Corporation Counsel for the city of Bridgeport; was elected Mayor in 1889, and reelected in 1890; and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,540 votes, against 12,542 votes for Frederick Miles, Republican, 437 votes for L. D. Baldwin, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering.

DELAWARE.

SENATORS.

George Gray, of New Castle, was born at New Castle, Delaware, May 4, 1840; he graduated at Princeton College when nineteen years old, receiving the degree of A. B., and in 1862 the degree of A. M.; in 1889 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by his alma mater; after studying law with his father, Andrew C. Gray, he spent a year in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to practice in 1863; he was appointed Attorney-General of the State of Delaware in 1879 by Governor Hall, and re-appointed Attorney-General in 1884 by Governor Stockley; he was a Delegate to the National Democratic Conventions at St. Louis in 1876, at Cincinnati in 1880, and at Chicago in 1884; was elected to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of State; was re-elected in 1887, and took his seat March 4, 1887. His term of service will expire March 3, 1893.

Anthony Higgins, of Wilmington, was born in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, October 1, 1840; attended Newark Academy and Delaware College, and graduated with the degree of A. B. from Yale in 1861; Yale conferred upon him the degree LL. D. in 1891; studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1864; in September, 1864, was appointed Deputy Attorney General; was United States Attorney for Delaware from May, 1869, until 1876; was Chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1868; received the votes of the Republican members of the Legislature for the United States Senate in 1881; was Republican candidate for Congress in 1884, and was elected to the United States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed Eli Saulsbury, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

REPRESENTATIVE.

STATE AT LARGE.

COUNTIES.-Kent, New Castle, and Sussex.

John Williams Causey, of Milford, was born in Milford, Kent County, Delaware, September 19, 1841; was educated in the schools of his native town, Albany Academy, New York, and Pennsylvania Agricultural College; is engaged in farming and fruit growing; was elected to the State Senate for 1875-'77; was delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1884; was appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the District of Delaware by President Cleveland; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,848 votes, against 17,180 votes for Henry P. Cannon, Republican, and 257 votes for Daniel M. Green, Prohibitionist.

FLORIDA

SENATORS.

Samuel Pasco, of Monticello, was born in London, England; when quite young removed with his father first to Prince Edward Island, thence to Massachusetts; was prepared for college at the High School in Charlestown, and graduated at Harvard in 1858; in January, 1859, he went to Florida to take charge of the Waukeenah Academy, in Jefferson County, where he has ever since resided; in July, 1861, entered the Confederate Army as a private; at the close of the war became Clerk of the Circuit Court of his county; was admitted to the bar in 1868; in 1872 became a member of the Democratic State Committee, and from 1876 to 1888 was its Chairman; has represented Florida on the Democratic National Committee since 1880; in 1880 was elected a Presidential Elector at Large; in 1885 was President of the Constitutional Convention of his State; in 1887, while Speaker of the State House of Representatives, he was elected to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, to succeed Charles W. Jones. His term of service will expire March 3, 1893.

Wilkinson Call, of Jacksonville, was born at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, January 9, 1834; is by profession a lawyer; was elected to the United States Senate after the war, but was not allowed to take his seat; was elected to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, in the place of Simon B. Conover, Republican, took his seat March 18, 1879, and was re-elected in 1885, and in 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Calhoun, Citrus, De Soto, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Hernando, Hillsborough Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, La Fayette, Lee, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Manatee, Monroe, Pasco Polk, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington.

Stephen Russell Mallory, of Pensacola, was born November 2, 1848; entered Confederate Army in Virginia in the fall of 1864; in the spring of 1865 was appointed midshipman in Confederate Navy; entered Georgetown College, District of Columbia, November, 1865, and graduated in June, 1869; taught a class at Georgetown College until July, 1871; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1872; removed to Pensacola, Florida, in 1874, and began practice of law; was elected to lower house of the Legislature in 1876; was elected to the Senate in 1880, and was re-elected in 1884; was elected to Fiftysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,467 votes, against 3,312 votes for Harrison Reed, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Alachua, Baker, Brevard, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Hamilton, Lake, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, St. John's, Sumter, Suwannee, and Volusia.

Robert Bullock, of Ocala, was born in Greenville City, North Carolina, December 8, 1828; received a common-school education; taught school until twenty years of age; was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court at twenty-one years of age, and held the office three terms, of two years each; is married, and has a family of thirteen children; was commissioned in 1856 by the Governor as Captain to raise a mounted company of volunteers; was mustered into the United States service for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and served eighteen months, until the cessation of hostilities; commenced the study of law in 1859, and was admitted to the bar; entered upon the practice of the law in 1861; in 1862 went into the war as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Regiment Florida Volunteers, and remained until the close of the war; was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1864; was severely wounded near Murfreesborough, Tennessee, during Hood's advance; was elected Judge of Probate during Johnson's reconstruction, and was appointed Judge of County Criminal Courts by the Governor; was deposed by second reconstruction, when he resumed the practice of the law; was Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in 1872, and was defeated; in 1873 was Democratic caucus nominee for United States Senator, and lacked one vote of election; withdrew from the contest in favor of ex-Senator Jones, now of Detroit, Michigan, who was elected; was a Tilden Elector in 1876; was elected to the Legislature in 1879; was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, which office he held when elected to the Fifty-first Congress; was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,623 votes, against 11,733 votes for Stripling, Republican.