Charleston, 2 years; is engaged in the mercantile business; married to Miss Elizabeth Wicker, of Richmond, Va., in 1913, and they have two daughters; during the World War he commanded the First Battalion of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry, Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, with the rank of major; member of the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Baptist Church, Rotary Club, National Council Boy Scouts of America, and business committee of the National Association of Retail Clothiers; director of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce; a trustee of the Greenville Woman's College; has served as post commander and department commander of the American Legion, and as district governor of Rotary International; is a deacon in his church and was for 14 years superintendent of the Sunday school; was elected to Congress in his first offer for political office; elected on November 3, 1936, to the Seventy-fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. McSwain, and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and York (7 counties). Population (1930), 235,093.

JAMES PRIOLEAU RICHARDS, Democrat, of Lancaster, S. C.; born at Liberty Hill, Kershaw County, S. C., August 31, 1894, the son of Norman Smith Richards and Phoebe Gibbes Richards; worked on a farm and attended county schools of Kershaw County until 17 years of age; attended Clemson College; graduate of the University of South Carolina; began the practice of law in Lancaster, S. C., September 1921 and has practiced there since that date; elected judge of probate of Lancaster County in 1922, and reelected in 1926 and 1930; while serving third term was elected to the Seventy-third Congress; defeated two opponents for renomination to Seventy-fourth Congress by vote of 32,613 to 9,926 for both opponents; reelected in general election; nominated for Seventyfifth Congress, without opposition, and reelected; volunteered as private at Camp Styx, S. C., in 1917, a few days after war was declared, and served throughout war in this country and France with Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Infantry, Thirtieth Division, as private, corporal, and sergeant, and was commissioned as Reserve second lieutenant in February 1919, being discharged March 31, 1919; married on November 4, 1925, to Katharine Hawthorne Wylie, of Lancaster County, and they have two children-Richard Evans, born January 18, 1927, and Norman Smith, born October 6, 1932; member of the Masons, American Legion, and Junior Order United American Mechanics, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and other fraternal organizations.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg (9 counties). Population (1930), 307,166.

ALLARD H. GASQUE, Democrat, of Florence, S. C., was born in Marion (now Florence) County, S. C., March 8, 1873, the eldest son of Wesley and Martha W. (Kirton) Gasque; attended country schools 3 to 4 months each year and worked on farm during the remainder of the year until 18 years of age; worked on farm and taught in country schools until 23 years old; entered University of South Carolina at that age, graduating in 1901 with A. B. degree; taught 1 year as principal in Waverly Graded School, Columbia, S. C.; elected superintendent of education of Florence County, 1902, and served continuously for 20 years, resigning that office after being elected to Congress; served as president of State Teachers Association, and also of State County Superintendents Association; for 8 years a member State Democratic executive committee; 4 years county chairman Democratic Party; 10 years city chairman Democratic executive committee; Knight Templar, thirty-second degree Mason, and Shriner; member Junior Order United American Mechanics, Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias; honorary member United Spanish War Veterans; Kiwanian; member Baptist Church; married in 1908 to Miss Bessie M. Hawley, of Richland County, S. C., to which union have been added four children, Elizabeth, Doris, John Allard, and Thomas Nelson; defeated three opponents in primary election and was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress in general election without opposition; reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress without opposition; reelected to the Seventieth Congress without opposition; defeated two opponents in primary for renomination to Seventy-first Congress by a vote of 21,800 to 7,400 for both opponents; reelected in general election without opposition; reelected to the Seventysecond Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress; chairman, Committee on Pensions.

SOUTH DAKOTA

(Population (1930), 692,849)

SENATORS

WILLIAM JOHN BULOW, Democrat, of Beresford, S. Dak.; born January 13, 1869, in Clermont County, Ohio; graduated from the University of Michigan in 1893 with degree of LL. B.; engaged in the practice of law at Beresford; elected to the State senate; served as county judge in Union County and as city attorney and mayor at Beresford; elected Governor in 1926, and reelected in 1928; elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 1930; reelected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1936; term expires in 1943.

HERBERT E. HITCHCOCK, Democrat, of Mitchell, S. Dak.; born in Maquoketa, Iowa, on August 22, 1867; attended high schools at Anamosa, Iowa, and San Jose, Calif., a business college at Davenport, Iowa, the State College at Ames, Iowa, and took a law course at the College of Law in Chicago; moved to Mitchell, S. Dak., in 1884 and was admitted to the South Dakota bar on examination in 1896; practiced law for 40 years at Mitchell, where he was a member of the firm of Hitchcock & Sickel; was president of the Mitchell School Board 10 years, 1924-34; served as State's attorney 4 years, 1902-6, and as State senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929; has been active in Democratic State politics for many years, serving as State chairman for 4 years, and as party secretary and executive committeeman; appointed to the United States Senate on December 29, 1936, by Gov. Tom Berry to fill the unexpired term of Peter Norbeck ending January 3, 1939.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, McPherson, Marshall, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Sully, Turner, Union, Walworth, and Yankton (44 counties). Population (1930), 524,769. FRED H. HILDEBRANDT, Democrat, of Watertown, S. Dak.; elected a representative in the South Dakota Legislature and served during 1922-23; chairman of the South Dakota Game and Fish Commission, 1927-31; was elected as a Representative to the Seventy-third Congress, 1932; reelected Seventyfourth Congress, 1934; reelected Seventy-fifth Congress, 1936; married; baptized and confirmed in the German Lutheran Church; member of the Masonic fraternity.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Armstrong, Bennett, Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Gregory, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Lyman, Meade, Mellette, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon, Stanley, Todd, Tripp, Washabaugh, Washington, and Ziebach (25 counties). Population (1930), 168,080.

FRANCIS H. CASE, Republican, of Custer, S. Dak.; born in Everly, Iowa, December 9, 1896, son of Rev. and Mrs. Herbert L. Case; came with his parents to Sturgis, S. Dak., in 1909; graduated from Hot Springs High School in 1914, the Dakota Wesleyan University in 1918, with B. A. degree, and the Northwestern University in 1920, with M. A. degree; newspaper editor and publisher; member of State regents of education, 1931-33; during the World War served in the United States Marine Corps; married to Myrle Graves, of Mitchell, S. Dak., in 1926, and they have one child-Jane Marie, aged 3 years; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving 34,812 votes, to 32,549 for the Democratic incumbent.

TENNESSEE

(Population (1930), 2,616,556)
SENATORS

KENNETH MCKELLAR, Democrat, of Memphis; born in Richmond, Dallas County, Ala.; B. A., M. A., LL. B., and LL. D. (honorary), 1918, University of Alabama, by Tusculum College, and by John Randolph Neal College of Law, Knoxville; D. C. L., Lincoln Memorial University; lawyer; bachelor; Presbyterian; thirty-second degree Mason; Shriner; Odd Fellow; and a member of

the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; Presidential elector, 1904; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1908; elected, November 9, 1911, to the Sixty-second Congress; reelected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses; nominated as a Democratic candidate for United States Senator in a Statewide primary on November 20, 1915, by a plurality of 3,000, and December 15, 1915, by a majority of 21,727 votes in the run-off; elected to the United States Senate on November 7, 1916, by a majority of 25,498, and took his seat March 5, 1917; elected as delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920; renominated for United States Senate by a majority of 55,065 and reelected by a majority of 80,323 for the term expiring March 3, 1929; renominated for a third term in the Senate by a majority of 55,828, and reelected by a majority of 55,070 for the term expiring in 1935; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1932; elected national committeeman for Tennessee February 23, 1933; renominated and reelected to the United States Senate in 1934 for the term expiring January 3, 1941.

GEORGE LEONARD BERRY, Democrat, of Pressmen's Home, Tenn., was born September 12, 1882, son of Thomas Jefferson and Cornelia Berry; married Marie Margaret Gehres, August 6, 1908; served in the American Expeditionary Forces in World War with rank of major; appointed to the United States Senate on May 6, 1937, to fill the unexpired term of Nathan Lynn Bachman; president, International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, and a farmer.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington (14 counties). Population (1930), 333,746.

B[RAZILLA] CARROLL REECE, Republican, Johnson City; born December 22, 1889; reared on farm; member of bar; educated in Watauga Academy, Carson and Newman College, New York University, and University of London; LL. D., Cumberland University; married Louise Despard Goff, 1923; daughter, Louise Despard Goff Reece, born 1928; assistant secretary and instructor in New York University, 1916-17; director of the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance of New York University and instructor in economics (day division), 1919-20; enlisted May 1917 and served in the American Expeditionary Forces October 1917 to July 1919 with the Twenty-sixth Division, which was at the front 210 days; commanded Third Battalion, One Hundred and Second Regiment Infantry; decorated with Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and Croix de Guerre with palm, and cited for bravery by Marshal Petain, Generals Pershing, Edwards, Hale, and Colonel Lewis; member, Delta Sigma Pi and following clubs-Chevy Chase, Metropolitan, Lotos (N. Y.), Franklin (Tenn.), Johnson City Country (Tenn.); elected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixtyeighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, and Union (11 counties). Population (1930), 368, 172.

J. WILL TAYLOR, Republican, of Knoxville, Tenn.; elected to the Sixtysixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses; Republican national committeeman for Tennessee.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White (12 counties). Population (1930), 295,760.

SAM D. McREYNOLDS, Democrat, of Chattanooga; son of Isaac S. and Addie McReynolds; born on a farm in Bledsoe County, Tenn., near Pikeville; lawyer by profession; served on the bench for nearly 20 years; was married on March 9, 1910, to Mary C. Davenport, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Davenport, of Chattanooga, and they have one child, a daughter, Margaret (now Mrs. Darrell St. Claire); was nominated for Congress by the Democrats in the August 1922 primary; was elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses; American delegate to the International Monetary and Economic Conference, London, June 1933.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bedford, Clay, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, De Kalb, Fentress, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, and Wilson (18 counties). Population (1930), 292,638.

JOHN RIDLEY MITCHELL, Democrat, of Cookeville, was born September 26, 1877, on a farm in Overton County, Tenn.; is a resident of Putnam County; was graduated from Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1896, and from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1904; is a lawyer by profession; was Presidential elector, Fourth District of Tennessee, in 1904, served as member of State Democratic executive committee for 4 years; private secretary to Hon. C. E. Snodgrass, Member of Congress, from 1899 to 1903; assistant attorney general, fifth circuit, 1908 to 1918, when nominated and was elected without opposition as attorney general for fifth circuit of Tennessee, and served until May 1, 1925, when appointed judge of the fifth circuit; nominated and elected judge in 1926 for 8 years, serving until March 1, 1931; unmarried; nominated by the Democratic Party in August 1930 for Congress and elected to the Seventy-second Congress in November 1930 without opposition; renominated on August 4, 1932, by the Democratic Party, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress; renominated on August 2, 1934, by the Democratic Party, and reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; renominated on August 6, 1936, by the Democratic Party, and reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Davidson, Macon, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart, Sumner, and Trousdale (7 counties). Population (1930), 343,328.

RICHARD MERRILL ATKINSON, Democrat, of Nashville, Tenn.; born in Nashville, Tenn., February 6, 1894; B. S. degree from Vanderbilt University; LL. B. degree from Cumberland University; served as attorney general of the tenth judicial circuit of Tennessee from September 1, 1926, to September 1, 1934; member of Forty-seventh Company, United States Marines, Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, France; entered service on June 30, 1917, discharged on August 29, 1919; married November 18, 1929; former member, Smoky Mountain Park Board; was elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936. Residence: Hillsboro Road, Nashville, Tenn.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne, and Williamson (12 counties). Population (1930), 194,915. CLARENCE W. TURNER, Democrat, of Waverly, Humphreys County, Tenn., was born and reared on a farm near Clydeton, Tenn.; attended public schools of Humphreys County and preparatory school at Edgwood, Dickson County, Tenn.; B. S. degree, National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio; B. A. and LL. B. degrees, Northern Indiana Normal College, Valparaiso, Ind.; member of Masonic lodge and of the Presbyterian Church; owner and editor of Waverly Sentinel for several years; chairman of Democratic executive committee of Humphreys County for 15 years; elected to State Senate of Tennessee, 1900, 1909, and 1911; married Mrs. Nell Rust Cowen, December 18, 1919; delegate to Democratic National Conventions at San Francisco in 1920 and at Chicago in 1932; served as mayor and as city attorney of Waverly, Tenn.; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress on November 7, 1922, to fill unexpired term of Hon. L. P. Padgett, deceased; elected county judge of Humphreys County, October 1920, and resigned January 1933, having been elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin,
Henderson, Henry, McNairy, and Madison (11 counties). Population (1930), 240,422.
HERRON PEARSON, Democrat, of Jackson, Tenn., was born in Taylor,
Tex., July 31, 1890; attended the public schools and was graduated from the
Jackson High School in 1906; received A. B. degree from Union University,
Jackson, Tenn., in 1910 and B. L. degree from Cumberland University Law
School at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1912; engaged in the private practice of law at
Jackson, Tenn., since July 1912; served as municipal judge of the city of Jack-
son, Tenn., in 1915; Presidential elector for the Eighth Congressional District in
1912; married Evelyn Pearcy, of Jackson, in 1915; elected to the Seventy-fourth
Congress on November 6, 1934, and to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion,
Tipton, and Weakley (9 counties). Population (1930), 241,093.

JERE COOPER, Democrat, of Dyersburg, was born July 20, 1893, in Dyer County, Tenn.; son of Joseph W. and Viola May Cooper; educated in public schools of Dyersburg and Cumberland University, graduating with the degree of

LL. B.; engaged in the active practice of law in Dyersburg since 1915, except 2 years while in the Army, serving as city attorney for 8 years; enlisted in Second Tennessee Infantry, National Guard, in May 1917, and on July 23, 1917, was commissioned first lieutenant; on October 24, 1917, was transferred with company to Company K, One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry, Thirtieth Division, and served with this regiment throughout period of World War, going through all its engagements in France and Belgium; on July 9, 1918, promoted to captain; discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919, after serving practically a year with the American Expeditionary Forces; returned to Dyersburg and resumed the practice of law; elected State commander of American Legion of Tennessee in 1921, and national executive committeeman of American Legion in 1922; unmarried; Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Maccabee, Kappa Sigma; member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church; elected to the Seventy-first Congress; renominated and reelected to the Seventy-second Congress without opposition; reelected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Shelby. Population (1930), 306,482.

WALTER CHANDLER, Democrat, of Memphis; born October 5, 1887, at Jackson, Tenn.; educated at Memphis public schools and University of Tennessee, LL. B. 1909; attorney at law; assistant district attorney general, 1916; member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1917 and the Tennessee Senate in 1921; city attorney of Memphis, 1928-34; president of the Tennessee Bar Association, 1928; member of the general council, American Bar Association, 1931-35; captain One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery, Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces; combat service in Toul sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne battle, Troyon sector, and Woevre offensive; married Dorothy Wyeth, of Washington, D. C., and they have two children, John Wyeth and Lucia Mary; elected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses; member of the Judiciary Committee.

TEXAS

(Population (1930), 5,824,715)
SENATORS

MORRIS SHEPPARD, Democrat, of Texarkana; dean of Congress by virtue of having a longer continuous service than that of any other living Member; born at Wheatville, Morris County, Tex., May 28, 1875; was graduated from the University of Texas, academic department, 1895, law department, 1897, and from Yale Law School, 1898; LL. D. (honorary), Southern Methodist University; began the practice of law at Pittsburg, Tex., in 1898, and located at Texarkana in 1899, where he continued to follow his profession; elected October 11, 1902, to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill out the unexpired term of his father, the Hon. John L. Sheppard, deceased; elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses; married Miss Lucile Sanderson, of Texarkana, December 1, 1909; nominated for United States Senator from Texas at the Democratic primaries on July 27, 1912, to succeed Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey, who was not a candidate for return to the Senate, and elected by the legislature January 29, 1913, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Senator Bailey, whose term would have expired March 3, 1913; and was also elected on the same day for the full term beginning March 4, 1913; reelected in 1918, 1924, 1930, and 1936; present term of service expires January 3, 1943.

TOM CONNALLY, Democrat, of Marlin, Falls County, son of Jones and Mary E. Connally; born in McLennan County, Tex., August 19, 1877; A. B., LL. D., Baylor University; LL. B., University of Texas; enlisted man, Second Regiment Texas Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War; member of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth Texas Legislatures; prosecuting attorney of Falls County, 1906-10; married Miss Louise Clarkson, 1904; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses; elected United States Senator for the term beginning March 4, 1929; reelected in 1934 for 6 years; captain and adjutant, Twenty-second Infantry Brigade, Eleventh Division, United States Army, 1918.