armies of the United States as private, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brigadier General by brevet; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,835 votes, against 19,173 votes for George E. Adams, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Boone, De Kalb, Kane, Lake, and McHenry.

Albert J. Hopkins, of Aurora, was born in De Kalb County, Illinois, August 15, 1846; graduated at Hillsdale College, Michigan, in June, 1870; studied law and commenced practice at Aurora, Illinois; was State's Attorney of Kane County from 1872 to 1876; was a member of the Republican State Central Committee from 1878 to 1880; was Presidential Elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket in 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress, receiving 15,845 votes, against 9,664 votes for Jacob Haish, Democrat, and 1,036 votes for Frederick F. Farmiloe, Prohibitionist, and I vote scattering.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago.

Robert Roberts Hitt, of Mount Morris, was born at Urbana, Ohio, January 16, 1834; removed to Ogle County, Illinois, in 1837; was educated at Rock River Seminary (now Mount Morris College) and at Asbury University; was First Secretary of Paris Legation, and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim from December, 1874, until March, 1881; was Assistant Secretary of State in 1881; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress November 7, 1882, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. R. M. A. Hawk; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican, and was re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress, receiving 14,028 votes, against 13,517 votes for Andrew Ashton, Democrat and Farmers' Alliance.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bureau, Henry, Lee, Putnam, and Whitesides.

Thomas J. Henderson, of Princeton, was born at Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, November 29, 1824; removed to Illinois at the age of eleven; received an academic education; was reared upon a farm; was elected Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court of Stark County, Illinois, in 1847, and served until 1849; was elected Clerk of the County Court of Stark County, and served from 1849 until 1853; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and has since practiced his profession; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1855 and 56, and of the State Senate in 1857, '58, '59, and '60; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Colonel of the One hundred and twelfth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, served until the close of the war, and was brevetted Brigadier-General in January, 1865; was elected a Presidential Elector for the State at large on the Republican ticket in 1868; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress, receiving 12,946 votes, against 10,374 votes for John W. Blee, Democrat, and 740 votes for D. E. Holmes, Prohibitionist, and 2 votes scattering.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Du Page, Grundy, Kendall, La Salle, and Will.

Lewis Steward, of Plano, was born in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1824; received a common-school education; read law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced; removed with his parents in 1838 to Kendall County, Illinois, where he has since resided; has been engaged in farming and manufacturing; was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1876 against Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, Republican candidate, and received, in round numbers, 273,000 votes, against 279,000 votes cast for Mr. Cullom; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,496 votes, against 16,794 votes for Charles A. Hill, Republican, and 1,118 votes for Charles T. Farrell, Prohibitionist, and 5 votes scattering.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Marshall, and Woodford.

Herman W. Snow, of Sheldon, was born in La Porte County, Indiana, July 3, 1836; was brought up in Kentucky until he was thirteenyears old; worked on a farm five years; educated himself entirely; taught school several years; was admitted to the bar; enlisted as a private in the One hundred and thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served in Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky, and rose to the rank of Captain; after expiration of enlistment re-enlisted in the One hundred and fifty-first Illinois Infantry, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; served in most of the Southern States, and was Provost-Marshal-General of Georgia on Major-General

Steedman's staff; was with his regiment when Brigadier-General Wofford surrendered 10,400 Confederate troops to Steedman at Kingston, Georgia; at the expiration of service resumed teaching in the Chicago High School for three years; was elected to the Illinois Legislature; traveled extensively in the United States; is a good Latin, Greek, and French scholar; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,427 votes, against 14,480 votes for Lewis E. Payson, Republican, and 793 votes for O. W. Stewart, Prohibitionist, and 93 votes scattering.

TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Fulton, Knox, Peoria, and Stark.

Philip Sidney Post, of Galesburgh, was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, March 19, 1833; received a classical education, graduating at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1855; entered the Poughkeepsie Law School; was admitted to the bar ir. Illinois in 1856; entered the Union Army in 1861 as Second Lieutenant Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry; was appointed Adjutant July 21, 1861; was promoted to Major January 1, 1862; was severely wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7, 1862, was promoted to Colonel March 19, 1862; was assigned to the command of the First Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, October 1, 1862; was transferred to the command of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, August, 1864. and commanded the division at the battle of Lovejoy's Station; was desperately wounded by a grape-shot at the battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864; was promoted on the same day Brigadier-General by brevet; was in command of Western Texas in 1865, headquarters at San Antonio; was appointed Consul to Vienna in 1866; was promoted Consul-General for Austria-Hungary 1874; resigned in 1879; was member at large of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee from 1882 to 1886; was Commander Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,194 votes, against 15,576 votes for George A. Wilson, Democrat, 465 votes for Marvin S. Carr, Prohibitionist, 107 votes for Joseph S. Barnum, Farmers' Alliance, and 3 votes scattering.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Schuyler, and Warren. Benjamin T. Cable, of Rock Island, was born in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, August 11, 1853; removed with his father's family to Rock Island, his present home, in September, 1856; was educated in the public schools of Rock Island and the University of Michigan, graduating from the latter institution in June, 1876; has been engaged in ranching and manufacturing; was elected to the Fifty second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,334 votes, against 17,461 votes for W. H. Gest, Republican, 730 votes for S. T. Shelton, Prohibitionist, and 13 votes scattering.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Pike, and Scott.

Scott Wike, of Pittsfield, was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1834; removed with his parents to Quincy, Illinois, in 1838, and to Pike County in 1844; was educated at Lombard University, Galesburgh, graduating therefrom in 1857; studied law with Judge O. C. Skinner at Quincy, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; graduated from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1859, and commenced the practice of law the same year at Pittsfield, where he has since resided; was twice elected to the Legislature of Illinois, and served from 1863 to 1867; was a member of the Forty-fourth Congress; was elected to to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,805 votes, against 13,336 votes for Milton McClure, Republican, 922 votes for John W. Bush, Prohibitionist, 748 for Thomas Barton, Farmers' Allance, and I vote scattering.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Christian, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, and Tazewell.

William M. Springer, of Springfield, was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, 1836; removed to Illinois with his parents in 1848; graduated at the Indiana State University, Bloomington, in 1858; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; was Secretary of the State Constitutional Convention of Illinois in 1862; was a member of the State Legislature of Illinois in 1871-'72; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,951 votes, against 15,916 votes for Jesse Hannon, Republican, 1,656 votes for Robert H. Patton, Prohibitionist, and 3 votes scattering.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-De Witt, Logan, Macon, McLean, and Piatt.

Owen Scott, of Bloomington, Illinois, was born in Jackson Township, Effingham County, Illinois, July 6, 1848; was brought up on a farm and received a common-school education; became a teacher in the public schools; was elected Superintendent of Schools for Effingham County, and served in that capacity eight years; was admitted to the bar by the Illinois Supreme Court, January 10, 1874, and practiced law for ten years, leaving this to engage in newspaper work; published the Effingham Democrat, leaving it to become proprietor and manager of the Bloomington Daily and Weekly Bulletin; also publishes monthly the Illinois Freemason; was elected City Attorney and Mayor of Effingham; was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,670 votes, against 15,448 votes for Jonathan H. Rowell, Republican, 1,533 votes for W. C. Outten, Prohibitionist, and 6 votes scattering.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, and Vermillion.

Samuel T. Busey, of Urbana, was born in Greencastle, Putman County, Indiana, November, 16, 1835; removed with his parents the following spring to his present home; resided on a farm, and was educated at the public schools in Urbana; was engaged in merchandising from 1857 to 1859 inclusive; studied law; attended commercial college and law lectures 1859-'60; returned to merchandising for two years; was First Sergeant and First Lieutenant of the Urbana Zouaves 1861-'62; was town collector 1862; was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the recruiting service by Governor Yates in June, 1862, and helped to organize the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry; was elected Captain Company B of that regiment August 7, 1862; was elected Lieutenant-Colonel August 12, 1862, and commissioned August 16 by Governor Yates; was promoted to the Colonelcy of the same regiment May, 1863; was mustered out of the service August 6, 1865, at Chicago, Illinois, with the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General; received the last commission on recommendation of MajorGeneral C. C. Andrews for leading the assault on Fort Blakeley, Alabama, 1865; ran for Representative for Legislature on Democratic ticket, 1866, and for Trustee of the State University, 1888, and was defeated; was Mayor and President of the Board of Education of Urbana, 1880-'89; organized Busey's Bank in 1867, and conducted its business twenty-one years; has traveled extensively in nearly every State and Territory in the Union; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,010 votes, against 18,428 votes for Joseph G. Cannon, Republican, 652 votes for John S. Sergent, Prohibitionist, and 160 votes for Jesse Harper, Union Labor, and 7 votes scattering.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, and Wayne.

George W. Fithian, of Newton, was born on a farm near the village of Willow Hill, Illinois, July 4, 1854; was educated in the common schools; learned the printer's trade at Mount Carmel, Illinois, which business he followed until he was admitted to the bar, in 1875; is married; was elected State's Attorney of Jasper County in 1876, and was re-elected in 1880; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,473 votes, against 15,957 votes for John D. Reeder, Alliance and Republican, and 350 votes for W. H. Hughes, Prohibitionist, and I vote scattering.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Effingham, Fayette, Macoupin, Montgomery, Moultrie, and Shelby.

Edward Lane, of Hillsboro, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 1842; removed to Illinois in May, 1858; received an academic education; afterwards read law, and was licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois in February, 1865, and has since practiced his profession; was elected Judge in November, 1869, and served one term; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,700 votes, against 9,761 votes for Fletcher H. Chapman, Republican, 4,845 votes for E. Roessler, Farmers' Alliance, 997 votes for Jasper L. Douthit, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bond, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair, and Washington.

William S. Forman, of Nashville, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, January 20, 1847; removed with his father to the county in which he now lives in 1851 and has resided there since; is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the State Senate, Thirty-fourth and Thirty

fifth General Assemblies; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,279 votes, against 14,529 votes for Cicero J. Lindley, Republican, and 653 votes for James P. Courtney, Prohibitionist.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clinton, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Marion, Saline, and White.

James R. Williams, of Carmi, was born in White County, Illinois, December 27, 1850; was graduated from the Indiana State University, Bloomington, in 1875, and from the Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1876; has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Carmi since the latter year; was Master in Chancery from 1880 to 1882, and County Judge of White County from 1882 to 1886; was nominee for Elector on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, as a Democrat, at a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. R. W. Townshend, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress, receiving 17,410 votes, against 12,613 votes for George W. Pillow, Republican, 831 votes for John H. Wilson, Prohibitionist, and 22 votes scattering.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Alexander, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Union, and Williamson.

George W. Smith, of Murphysborough, was born in Putnam County, Ohio, August 18, 1846; was raised on a farm in Wayne County, Illinois, to which his father removed in 1850; learned the trade of blacksmithing; attended the common schools; graduated from the Literary Department of McKendree College, at Lebanon, Illinois, in 1868; read law in Fairfield, Illinois; after which he entered the Law Department of the University at Bloomington, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1870; was admitted to the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Illinois the same year, since which time he has resided in Murphysborough in the active practice of his profession; in 1880 he was the Republican Elector for his Congressional District (then the Eighteenth), and cast the vote of the district for Garfield and Arthur; is married; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,580 votes, against 16,273 votes for W. S. Morris, Democrat, 685 votes for Edward A. Davis, Prohibitionist, 945 votes for L. L. Lawrence, Farmers' Alliance, and 2 votes scattering.

INDIANA.

SENATORS.

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees, of Terre Haute, was born September 26, 1827, in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, and in his early infancy was carried by his parents to their pioneer home in the Wabash Valley of Indiana; was graduated from the Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw University) in 1849; studied law and commenced the practice of that profession in 1851; was appointed United States District Attorney for Indiana in 1858, and held that office until he entered Congress in 1861; was elected to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirtyninth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses; was defeated for the Forty-third Congress by reason of the nomination of Horace Greeley as the Democratic candidate for President; was appointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver P. Morton, and took his seat November 12, 1877; was immediately assigned to the Committee on Finance as his leading committee, and has been a member of that committee to the present time. Soon after entering the Senate he addressed that body in favor of free coinage of silver and the preservation of the greenback currency as full legal-tender money. In this speech he laid down the principles on which as a direct issue the State of Indiana was carried by the Democratic party the following year (1878) by over 30,000 majority in the election of members of the Legislature; this Legislature returned him to the Senate by 23 majority on joint ballot over Benjamin Harrison, now President of the United States; was re-elected in January, 1885, by a majority of 46 over Albert G. Porter, and was re-elected in January, 1891, by a majority of 69 on joint ballot over Alvin P. Hovey. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

David Turpie, of Indianapolis, studied law and was admitted to practice at Logansport, Indiana, in 1849; was appointed by Governor Wright, whom he succeeded in the Senate, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1854, and was Judge of the Circuit Court in 1856, both of which offices he resigned; in 1853, and also in 1858, he was a member of the Legislature of Indiana; in 1863 was elected a Senator in Congress for the unexpired term of Jesse D. Bright, and immediately succeeding Joseph A. Wright, who served by appointment of the Governor;

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was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Indiana, and served as Speaker of that body, 1874-75; in 1878 was appointed one of the three Commissioners to revise the laws of Indiana, serving as such three years; in August, 1886, was appointed United States District Attorney for the State of Indiana, and served as such until March 3, 1887; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, February 2, 1887, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was a Delegate at Large to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis in June, 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1893.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick.

William F. Parrett, of Evansville, was born on a farm near Blairsville, Posey County, Indiana, August 10, 1825; was raised on the farm, attending school in winter and working on the farm in summer; completed a partial course at Asbury (now De Pauw) University, at Greencastle; received early business training in the old Branch Bank in Evansville; began the study of law under the late Governor Baker, at Evansville, in 1847, and was admitted to the bar after examination; remained in Boonville until 1852, when he removed to Oregon, where he practiced law for two years and a half, when he returned to Evansville, and entered the law firm of Lockhart, Parrett & Denby; in 1855 he removed to Boonville and opened a law office; in 1856 was Democratic Presidential Elector for the First District and cast the electoral vote of Indiana for Buchanan; in 1858 was elected to the Legislature and served during the general and special session; in 1859 was appointed by Governor Willard Judge of the Fifteenth Circuit, to which position he was elected for six years at the election following his appointment; after his election he returned to Evansville, where he has since resided; in 1865 he was re-elected for a term of six years; before the expiration of the second term he resigned, and formed a law partnership with General James M. Shackelford, now United States Judge, Indian Territory, and subsequently formed a partnership with Luke Wood; in 1873 was appointed Judge of the First Circuit by Governor Hendricks, and was elected to the same position, and twice re-elected, 1879 and '84, resigning the office in December, 1888; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,730 votes, against 16,875 votes for James S. Wright, Republican, 572 votes for William M. Land, Prohibitionist, and 34 votes imperfect.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, and Crawford.

John L. Bretz, of Jasper, was born near Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana, September 21, 1852; farmed until 23 years of age; was educated in common country schools and Huntingburg High School; taught school three years; read law under Hon. W. A. Traylor, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1880; located in Jasper the same year; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1884; was re-elected in 1886 and 1888; was elected to the Fifty-Second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,697 votes, against 11,996 votes for William H. Darnell, Republican, 4,649 votes for Sampson Cox, Farmer and Labor candidate, and 369 votes for Anderson F. Fox, Prohibition candidate.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington.

Jason Brevoort Brown, of Seymour, was born in Dillsborough, Indiana, February 26, 1839; was educated in the common schools, except a short course at the Wilmington Academy in Dearborn County, Indiana; earned his own living when a boy, and therefore had little opportunity to acquire an education; studied law at Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1858, '59, and was admitted to the bar in 1860, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1866; located in Jackson County, Indiana, in 1860, where he has since resided in the practice of his profession; has taken part as a public speaker in all of the political campaigns in his State since 1862; was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives from Jackson County in 1862, and was re-elected in 1864; was elected to the State Senate in 1870 from the counties of Jackson and Brown, and was re-elected in 1880 from the counties of Jackson and Jennings; is married; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,369 votes, against 12,430 votes for William J. Dunham, Republican, and 319 votes for Moses G. Poindexter, Prohibitionist.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, and Union.

William S. Holman, of Aurora, was born at a pioneer homestead called Veraestau, in Dearborn County, Indiana, September 6, 1822; received a common-school education, and