GEORGIA.

SENATORS.

Alfred Holt Colquitt, of Atlanta, was born in Walton County, Georgia, April 20, 1824; graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in the class of 1844; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845; served as a staff officer, with the rank of Major, during the Mexican war; was elected and served as a member of the Thirty-third Congress; was a member of the Georgia Legislature in 1859; was a Presidential Elector for the State at large on the Breckinridge ticket in 1860; was a member of the Secession Convention of the State of Georgia; entered the Confederate service as Captain; was subsequently chosen Colonel of the Sixth Georgia Infantry; served as a Brigadier-General, and was commissioned as a Major-General; was elected Governor of the State of Georgia in 1876 for four years, and was re-elected under a new constitution for two years; at the expiration of his term as Governor he was elected to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, for the full term commencing March 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

John B. Gordon, of Atlanta, was born in Upson County, Georgia, February 6, 1832; was educated at the University of Georgia; read law and was admitted to the bar; at the beginning of the war entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Infantry, and occupied the positions of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier-General, and Major-General, respectively; commanded the Second Army Corps; commanded one wing of General Lee's army at Appomattox Court-House; was wounded in battle eight times; was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1868; was a member of the National Democratic Convention in 1868 and in 1872; was elected Presidential Elector for the State at Large in 1868 and in 1872; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1872, and took his seat March 4, 1873; was re-elected in 1879; was elected Governor in 1886, and re-elected in 1888; was elected United States Senator in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Appling, Bryan, Bullock, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Effing. ham, Emanuel, Glynn, Liberty, McIntosh, Pierce, Scriven, Tatnall, Ware, and Wayne. Rufus E. Lester, of Savannah, was born in the County of Burke, in the State of Georgia, December 12, 1837; graduated at Mercer University, Georgia, 1857; admitted to the bar in Savannah and commenced the practice of law in 1859; entered the military service of the Confederate States in 1861; remained in the service till the end of the war; resumed the practice of law at the close of the war; was State Senator from the First Senatorial District of Georgia 1870-'79; was President of the Senate during the last three years of service; was Mayor of Savannah from January, 1883, to January, 1889, and was elected to the Fifty-first and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,905 votes, against 3,271 votes for Doyle, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Lowndes, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Terreli, Thomas, and Worth.

Henry G. Turner, of Quitman, was born in North Carolina March 20, 1839; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,361 votes, against 948 votes for C. S. Mattison, Independent and Alliance.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Coffee, Dodge, Dooley, Houston, Irwin, Laurens, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pulaski, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Telfair, Webster, and Wilcox.

Charles Frederick Crisp, of Americus, was born on the 29th of January, 1845, in Sheffield, England, where his parents had gone on a visit; was brought by them to this country the year of his birth; received a common-school education in Savannah and Macon, Georgia; entered the Confederate Army in May, 1861; was a Lieutenant in Company K, Tenth Virginia Infantry, and served with that regiment until the 12th of May, 1864, when he became a prisoner of war; upon his release from Fort Delaware, in June, 1865, he joined his parents at Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia; read law in Americus, and was admitted to the bar there in 1866; began the practice of law in Ellaville, Georgia; in 1872 was appointed Solicitor General of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit, and was re-appointed in 1873 for a term of four years; located in Americus in 1873; in June, 1877, was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of the same circuit; in 1878 was elected by the General Assembly to the same office; in 1880 was re-elected Judge

for a term of four years; resigned that office in September, 1882, to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress; was Permanent President of the Democratic Convention which assembled in Atlanta in April, 1883, to nominate a candidate for Governor; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,038 votes, against 1,248 votes for Peter O. Gibson, Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Coweta, Chattahoochee, Carroll, Harris, Heard, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee Talbot, Taylor, and Troup.

Charles L. Moses, of Turin, was born in Coweta County, Georgia, May 2, 1856; attended the country schools of his native county, and graduated at Mercer University in the class of 1876; became a farmer and teacher; was for several years principal of the Newnan Male Seminary; since 1886 has devoted his time exclusively to agricultural interests, and is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. Was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,480 votes, against 3,360 votes for W. H. Johnson, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Campbell, Clayton, De Kalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton.

Leonidas F. Livingston, of Atlanta, was born in Newton County, Georgia, April 3, 1832; is of Scotch-Irish descent; was educated in the common schools of the county; is a farmer by occupation and has always lived on his farm; was a private soldier in the Confederate Army from August, 1861, to May, 1865; was two terms a member of the House of Representatives and one term a member of the State Senate; was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture in both the House and Senate; was Vice President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society for eleven years, and President of the same for four years; he is now President of the Georgia State Alliance; has been prominent in all political struggles in his State for many years; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,688 votes, against 3,608 votes for Will Haight, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES. Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Pike, Twiggs, Upson, and Wilkinson.

James H. Blount, of Macon, was born in Georgia September 12, 1837; was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat, receiving 2,860 votes. No opposition.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

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

Robert William Everett, of Fish, Polk County, was born near the village of Hayneville, Houston County, Georgi, March 3, 1839; received his preparatory education in the village school; entered Mercer University September, 1856, from which institution he was graduated in July, 1859; upon leaving school located in Polk County, his present home, and engaged in teaching school; entered the Confederate Army as a sergeant in General N. B. Forrest's Escort Squadron, and served until the close of the war; served two years as Commissioner of Revenue; served twelve years on the Board of Education, the last four as President of the Board; served four years, from 1882 to 1885, as a member of the General Assembly of Georgia; was Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture the last two years; is engaged in farming; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,031 votes, against 8,460 votes for William H. Felton, Independent, and 638 votes for Z. B. Hargrove, Republican.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Hart, Madison, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Oconee, Putnam, and Wilkes.

Thomas G. Lawson, of Eatonton, was born in Putnam County, Georgia, a little over fifty years ago; was educated in the common schools and at Mercer University; was elected to the Legislature in 1861, and re-elected in 1863 and 1865; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1877; was elected by the General Assembly in 1878 Judge of the Superior Courts of the Ocmulgee Circuit, and re-elected without opposition in 1882; in 1886 retired from the bench to his farm; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, without opposition, and received all the votes cast, 3,405.

NINTH DISTRICT.

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

Thomas Elisha Winn, of Gwinnett County, Ga., was born in Clark County, that State, May 21, 1839; was bred to the farm and pursuits of husbandry; received an academic education in the schools about his home, after which his father, Maj. R. D. Winn, sent him to Emory and Henry College, Virginia, where he finished his course of studies in 1860; read law and was admitted to practice in the courts of Georgia; was elected Solicitor of the County Court of Milton County; entered the Confederate Army as First Lieutenant in 1861; was soon promoted to Captain, afterwards Major, and finally Lieutenant-Colonel, Twenty-fourth Georgia Regiment, serving with Lee's Army until the surrender; began farming in 1868, which pursuit he still follows; was County School Commissioner of Public Schools of Gwinnett County from 1876 to August 16, 1890, when he resigned the office; was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Legislature in 1886; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as an Alliance man and Democrat, receiving 10,315 votes, against 4,087 votes for Pickett, Independent, and 3,133 votes for Zion A. Darnell, Republican.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.—Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Washington.

Thomas E. Watson, of Thomson, was born in Columbia County, Georgia, September 5, 1856; received a common-school education, and was then sent to Mercer University, Macon, Georgia; at the end of the sophomore year left college for lack of funds; taught school two years; read law for a few weeks under Judge W. R. McLaws, of Augusta, Georgia, and was admitted to the bar; commenced the practice of the profession at Thomson, Georgia, his old home, November, 1876; was a member of the Georgia Legislature, 1882-'83; was Democratic Elector for the State at large in 1888; besides the practice of law has been, and still is, largely interested in farming; was elected to Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,456 votes, against 597 votes for Anthony E. Williams, Republican.

IDAHO.

SENATORS.

George L. Shoup, of Salmon City, was born in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1836; was educated in the public schools of Freeport and Slate Lick; moved with his father to Illinois in June, 1852; was engaged in farming and stock raising near Galesburg until 1858; removed to Colorado in 1859; was engaged in mining and mercantile business until 1861; in September, 1861, enlisted in Captain Backus's independent company of scouts, and was soon thereafter commissioned Second Lieutenant; during the autumn and winter of 1861 was engaged in scouting along the base of the Rocky Mountains; was ordered to Fort Union, New Mexico, in the early part of 1862; was kept on scouting duty on the Canadian, Pecos, and Red Rivers until the spring of 1863, and during this time was promoted to a First Lieutenancy; was then ordered to the Arkansas River; had been assigned in 1862 to the Second Colorado Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, but was retained on duty in the cavalry service; was assigned to the First Colorado Regiment of Cavalry in May, 1863; in 1864 was elected to the Constitutional Convention to prepare a constitution for the proposed State of Colorado, and obtained a leave of absence for thirty days to serve as a member of said Convention; after performing this service he returned to active duty in the Army; was commissioned Colonel of the Third Colorado Cavalry in September, 1864, and was mustered out in Denver with the regiment at the expiration of term of service; engaged in the mercantile business in Virginia City, Montana, in 1866, and during the same year established a business at Salmon City, Idaho; since 1866 has been engaged in mining, stock raising, mercantile, and other business in Idaho; was a member of the Territorial Legislature during the eighth and tenth sessions; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1880; was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880 until 1884; was United States Commissioner for Idaho at the World's Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1884-'85; was again placed on the Republican National Committee in 1888; was appointed Governor of Idaho Territory March, 1889, which position he held until elected Governor of the State of Idaho, October 1, 1890; and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, December 18, 1890, and took his seat December 29, 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

Fred. T. Dubois, of Blackfoot, was born in Crawford County, Illinois, May 29, 1851; received a public-school and collegiate education, graduating from Yale College in the class of 1872; was Secretary of the Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois in

1875-'76; went to Idaho Territory, and engaged in business, in 1880; was United States Marshal of Idaho from August 25, 1882, till September 1, 1886; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fitty-first Congresses as a Republican; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, December 18, 1890. Took his seat March 4, 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVE.

AT LARGE.

Willis Sweet, of Moscow, was born at Alburgh Springs, Vermont, January 1, 1856; was educated in the common schools and attended the Nebraska State University three years; learned the printer's trade at Lincoln, Nebraska; located at Moscow, Idaho, in September, 1881, where he engaged in the practice of law; was appointed United States Attorney for Idaho in May, 1888; was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho November 25, 1889, which position he held until the admission of Idaho into the Union; was elected to the unexpired term of the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,138 votes, against 8,026 votes for Alexander E. Mayhew, Democrat.

ILLINOIS.

SENATORS.

Shelby M. Cullom, of Springfield, was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, November 22, 1829; his father removed to Tazewell County, Illinois, 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, '60, '72, and '74, and was elected Speaker in 1861 and in 1873; was elected a Representative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first 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, as a Republican, to succeed David Davis, Independent Democrat. He took his seat December 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

John McAuley Palmer, of Springfield, was born in Scott County, Kentucky, September 13, 1817; removed with his father to Madison County, Illinois, in 1831; attended the common schools in Kentucky and Illinois, and entered Alton (now Shurtleff) College in 1835, where he remained a year, paying his expenses, which were very small, by his labor; in 1838 taught school and studied law; in December, 1839, was admitted to the bar; in 1843 was elected Probate Judge of Macoupin County; in 1847 was elected a member of the Convention to amend the State Constitution; in 1848 he was re-elected Probate Judge; and in November of the same year, 1848, was elected County Judge, an office created by the new Constitution, which office he held until 1852, when he was elected to the State Senate to fill a vacancy; opposed resolution proposed in the Senate approving the repeal of the "Missouri compromise" as proposed by what was called the "Nebraska bill;" in 1854 the counties composing his Senatorial district adopted resolutions approving the Nebraska bill, and he declined a renomination for Senator, but became an Independent candidate, leading the anti-Nebraska Democrats, and was elected at the session of the Legislature in 1855; the Nebraska Democrats nominated General James Shields; the anti-Nebraska Democrats, Lyman Trumbull, and the opposition nominatede Abraham Lincoln for United States Senator. Mr. Trumbull was elected. In 1856, the slav ry controversy having become intense, he found himself separated from the Democratic party; he resigned his seat in the Senate upon that ground, and was a Delegate to the Republican State Convention, and was made its President; was Delegate to the Convention in 1856 in Philadelphia, which nominated John C. Fremont; favored the nomination of Lincoln as a candidate for Senator by the Republican State Convention in 1858, and supported him during the canvass; in 1859 was a candidate for Congress; the John Brown raid into Virginia occurred during the canvass, and in consequence he was beaten over 4,000 votes; in 1860 was one of the Electors at large on the Republican ticket, and was elected; in 1861 was a member of the Peace Conference at Washington; on the 9th of May, 1861, was elected Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry; marched under Fremont to Springfield, Missouri, in October; was promoted to Brigadier-General of Volunteers in November, 1861; in March and April, 1862, commanded a division under General Pope in

the operations against New Madrid and Island No. 10, and later took part in the operations against Corinth; in August and September, 1862, marched to Nashville; took part in the battle of Murfreesboro in December, 1862, and January, 1863, and was promoted to MajorGeneral of Volunteers; took part in the operations against the Confederate Army commanded by General Bragg on its retreat via Tullahoma to Chattanooga; commanded a division in the battle of Chickamauga; was promoted to the command of the Fourteenth Army Corps in October, 1863; took part in the operations around Chattanooga, including the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in November, 1863; in 1864 commanded the Fourteenth Corps on the Atlanta campaign, and was relieved at his own request August 4, 1864; commanded the Military Department of Kentucky from February, 1865, to May 1, 1866; resignation accepted September 1, 1866; removed to Springfield in 1867; was elected Governor of Illinois in 1868; supported Horace Greeley in 1872 and Samuel J. Tilden in 1876; was one of the Democratic visitors to Louisiana after the Presidential election in 1876; was nominated as a candidate for United States Senator by the Democratic members of the Legislature in January, 1877, and was afterwards twice nominated for the same office and defeated; was Delegate at-large to National Democratic Convention in 1884; in 1888 was nominated by the Democratic State Convention a candidate for Governor and was defeated; in 1890 was nominated by the Democrats of the State a candidate for Senator; carried the State by 30,000 plurality; 101 Democratic members of the Legislature were elected who voted for him 153 ballots; on the 154th ballot the Independents united with the Democrats, and he was elected United States Senator. His term will expire March 3, 1897.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTY.-The first four wards of the city of Chicago, with the townships of Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Hyde Park, Lake, Lemont, Lyons, Orland, Rich, Riverside, Thornton, Worth, in Cook County.

Abner Taylor, of Chicago, was born in Maine; has been in active business all his life, as contractor, builder, and merchant; the only office he ever held was that of member of the State Legislature for one term (Thirty-fourth); was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1884, and was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Republican, receiving 22, 235 votes, against 21,796 votes for W. G. Ewing, Democrat, and 483 votes for Isaac H. Pedrick, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTY.—Part of Cook; the 5th, 6th, and 7th wards of the city of Chicago, and that part of the 8th ward south of the center of Polk street and the center of Macalaster Place. Lawrence Edward McGann, of Chicago, was born February 2, 1852, in Ireland; his father died in 1854; emigrated to the United States with his mother in 1855, and settled in Milford, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools; removed to Chicago in 1865, and there worked at the boot and shoe trade until 1879; was employed as clerk in the service of the city until 1885; was appointed superintendent of streets January 1, 1885, and resigned May, 1891; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,383 votes, against 10,633 votes for John G. Schaar, Republican, and 767 votes for William Bentley, Prohibitionist.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTY.-Part of Cook; part of the 9th, 10th, 15th, and 19th wards, and all of the 11th 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, and 18th wards in the city of Chicago, west side.

Allan Cathcart Durborow, Jr., of Chicago, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1857; removed with his parents at the age of five to Williamsport, Indiana, where he received his early education; entered the preparatory department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in the fall of 1872; graduated from the University of Indiana at Bloomington, in 1877; after two years' residence in Indianapolis he moved to Chicago, where he has since been engaged in business; has always been active in local politics, but never held office until elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 21,069 votes, against 17,933 votes for William E. Mason, Republican, and 263 votes for J. L. Whitlock, Prohibitionist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTY.-Cook County; part of the 15th and the 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th wards of the city of Chicago, and the towns of Barrington, Cicero, Elk Grove, Evanston, Hanover, Jefferson, Lakeview, Leyden, Maine, Niles, New Trier, Norwood Park, Northfield, Palatine, Proviso, Schaumburg, and Wheeling, in Cook County.

Walter C. Newberry, of Chicago, was born in Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York, December 23, 1835; received an academic education; served during the war in volunteer