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ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Ward 4, precincts 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13 to 15; wards 5 to 9 and 14 to 17; ward 19, precincts 1 to 4 and 11 to 19; ward 20, precincts 14 to 23; ward 22, precincts 1 to 4; wards 23 and 25; ward 26, precincts 1 to 4, 8 to 15, and 21 to 23. Population (1930), 341,538.

THOMAS C. HENNINGS, JR., Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo., was born in St. Louis, Mo., June 25, 1903, son of former Circuit Judge Thomas C. and Sarah Poullain Wilson Hennings; attended the public schools, St. Louis; was graduated from Cornell University with A. B. degree in 1924; completed a law course at Washington University in 1926, where he was instructor in English and varsity track coach; was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in St. Louis; appointed in 1929 assistant circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis, in charge of courtroom trials in felony cases, and served until December 1934; appointed colonel on Governor Park's staff in 1932; member of the survey commission of the Missouri Association for Criminal Justice; director of the Cornell Alumni Corporation and former president of the Cornell Club of St. Louis; director of the American Red Cross; lecturer on criminal jurisprudence at Benton College of Law; director of Big Brother Organization; member of the American, Missouri State, and St. Louis Bar Associations; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934, by a majority of 14,546; reelected to Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, with a majority of 34,794, defeating L. C. Dyer, Republican, on both occasions.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-ST. LOUIS COUNTY. CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Wards 10 to 13, and 24; ward 28, precincts 1 to 9 and 22 to 31. Population (1930), 425,481.

CHARLES ARTHUR ANDERSON, Democrat, of Lemay, Mo.; born in St. Louis, Mo., September 26, 1899; graduate of the Ashland public school, the St. Charles Military Academy in 1916, and the St. Louis University law school in 1924, with degree of LL. B.; served two terms as prosecuting attorney of St. Louis County, January 1, 1933, to January 1, 1937; during the World War served 2 years with the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Field Artillery, 19 months' overseas duty, Thirty-fifth Missouri Division; married and has five children; member of the Missouri Athletic Club of St. Louis, the American Legion, Forty and Eight, and the Elks; honorary member of Carondelet Lions, the Inner Circle of Business Men of St. Louis, and Grand and Gravois Business Men's Association; member of the Professional Baseball Players' Fraternity, the Oakville Farmer's Club, the Farm Bureau, the Missouri State and St. Louis Bar Associations, and the Army-Navy Club of Washington; president of Missouri Crime Prevention Bureau, 1935-36; president of Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys' Association, 1934-35; nominated for St. Louis award as outstanding citizen in 1935, and again in 1936; elected prosecuting attorney of St. Louis County in 1932 by 7,200 votes over Harry Castlen, Republican incumbent; reelected in 1934 by 10,238 votes over Robert Denny, Republican; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, by a majority of 29,038 over Harry P. Rosecan, Republican, and former prosecuting attorney of St. Louis City; resides at Ringer and Forder Roads, St. Louis County, Lemay, Mo.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Wards 1 to 3; ward 4, precincts 1 to 3, 6 to 8, 10, and 12; ward 18; ward 19, precincts 5 to 10; ward 20, precincts 1 to 13; ward 21; ward 22, precincts 5 to 35; ward 26, precincts 5 to 7, 16 to 20, and 24 to 26; ward 27; ward 28, precincts 10 to 21. Population (1930) 266,534. JOHN J. COCHRAN, Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo.; born August 11, 1880; lawyer; secretary to Hon. William L. Igoe and Hon. Harry B. Hawes, who represented St. Louis in Congress for 14 years; secretary to the late Senator William J. Stone, being with the Senator at the time of his death; during the period of his service with Senator Stone was also secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate; married; elected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventyfirst, and Seventy-second Congresses; candidate at large for nomination and election to Seventy-third Congress; in primary with 56 Democratic candidates, received next to highest number of votes polled for any candidate; in election reelected receiving 1,013,824 votes, leading Democratic candidates; candidate for United States Senate, primary August 7, 1934; defeated by Harry Truman, the vote being Truman 276,850, Cochran 236,105, J. L. Milligan 147,614, G. L. Cleveland 7,651; received the largest vote ever given a Democratic candidate for the Senate who was not nominated; following the primary the candidate for

Congress in the Thirteenth District, Joseph A. Lennon, withdrew and Cochran was unanimously nominated by the congressional committee to fill the vacancy; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress by a majority of 28,723; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress by a majority of 46,139; delegate at large to Democratic National Convention, 1928; district delegate, 1932; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments; chairman, Select House Committee on Government Organization.

MONTANA

(Population (1930), 537,606)

SENATORS

BURTON KENDALL WHEELER, Democrat, of Butte, was born at Hudson, Mass., February 27, 1882; educated in the public schools; graduated from the University of Michigan; entered the practice of law at Butte in 1905; married Lulu M. White in 1907; has six children; elected to the State legislature in 1910; served 5 years as United States district attorney; elected United States Senator in 1922; reelected in 1928 and 1934.

JAMES E. MURRAY, Democrat, of Butte, Mont.; born on a farm near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 1876; graduated St. Jerome's College, Berlin, Canada, 1895; New York University Law School, New York, LL. B. 1900, LL. M. 1901; admitted to Montana bar, 1901; served as county attorney of Silver Bow County, Mont., 1906-8; chairman of State advisory board, Montana, P. W. A., 1933; married Miss Viola E. Horgan, of Memphis, Tenn., June 1905; has six sons, James A., William D., Edward E., Howard A., Charles A., and John S.; elected to United States Senate on November 6, 1934, to fill out the unexpired term of the late Thomas J. Walsh; reelected November 3, 1936, for the term ending in 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaverhead, Broadwater, Deerlodge, Flathead, Gallatin, Granite, Jefferson, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Madison, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli, Sanders, and Silver Bow (17 counties). Population (1930), 211,918.

JERRY J. O'CONNELL, Democrat, of Butte, Mont., was born in that city on June 14, 1909; graduated from Carroll College (formerly Mount St. Charles College), Helena, Mont., in 1931, then attended Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.; represented Silver Bow County in the Montana State House of Representatives, 1931-34; serving the first term when only 21 years of age; elected to the Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners in 1934, and to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, receiving 54,484 votes, and H. L. Hart, Republican, receiving 30,333 votes; married, January 2, 1937, Miss Mazie Elizabeth Richardson, of Great Falls, Mont.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, McCone, Meagher, Musselshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Pondera, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, and Yellowstone (39 counties), and part of Yellowstone National Park. Population (1930), 325,688.

JAMES FRANCIS O'CONNOR, Democrat, of Livingston, Mont.; born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa; attended public schools and normal school in Iowa; graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1904 with LL. B. degree; profession: farmer, lawyer, and stockman, and has had considerable experience in the banking business; served as district judge of the sixth judicial district of Montana in 1912; member of the State house of representatives, 1917-18, and served as speaker during the same term; special counsel for the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., in 1918; married and has two children; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, receiving approximately 78,000 votes, and T. S. Stockdahl, Republican, receiving about 40,000 votes.

NEBRASKA

(Population (1930), 1,377,963)

SENATORS

GEORGE W. NORRIS, Independent Republican, of McCook, Nebr., was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861, and his early life was spent on the farm where he was born; his father died when he was a small child, his only brother was killed in the Civil War, and his mother was left in straitened circumstances; was compelled to work out among the neighboring farmers by the day and month during the summer and attended district school during the winter; afterward taught school and earned the money to defray expenses for a higher education; attended Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and Valparaiso University; studied law while teaching and afterward finished the law course in law school; was admitted to the bar in 1883; removed to Nebraska in 1885; was three times prosecuting attorney, twice by appointment and once by election, refusing a second nomination for the position; was elected district judge of fourteenth district in 1895 and reelected to the same position in 1899, which position he held when nominated for Congress; was elected to the Fiftyeighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses; was elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1913; reelected in 1918, in 1924, in 1930, and in 1936; his present term will expire in 1943.

EDWARD RAYMOND BURKE, Democrat, of Omaha, Nebr., was born at Running Water, S. Dak., November 28, 1880; educated in the public schools; received A. B. degree from Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., in 1906, and LL. B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1911; lawyer; during the World War served as second lieutenant in the Air Service; married Henrietta Flinn and they have two daughters-Beatrice and Barbara; elected to the Seventy-third Congress; elected United States Senator for the term beginning January 3, 1935.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Cass, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson, Saunders, and Seward (11 counties). Population (1930), 269,428.

HENRY CARL LUCKEY, Democrat, of Lincoln, Nebr.; born in East St. Louis, Ill.; reared on a Nebraska farm; attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Nebraska with the degrees of M. A., B. A., and LL. B.; postgraduate work in Columbia University, New York City; married; engaged in farming and as realtor and builder; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Douglas, Sarpy, and Washington (3 counties). Population (1930), 255,479.

CHARLES F. MCLAUGHLIN, Democrat, of Omaha, Nebr.; born at Lincoln, Nebr., June 19, 1887; A. B., 1908, University of Nebraska; LL. B., 1910, Columbia University; practiced law at Omaha, since 1910, except 2 years, 1917-19 spent in the United States Army; captain, Field Artillery, later major, Field Artillery Reserves; married in 1920, to Margaret Bruce; children-Edward Bruce and Mary Elizabeth; special master in chancery Federal court, 1916-18; delegate to Nebraska State constitutional convention 1919-20; president Omaha Bar Association, 1932-33; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress with majority of 10,158 votes, and to the Seventy-fifth Congress with majority 28,307 votes.

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THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Greeley, Holt, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Nance, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Thurston, Wayne, and Wheeler (22 counties). Population (1930), 291,595.

KARL STEFAN, Republican, of Norfolk, Nebr.; born in Bohemia-Austria, March 1, 1884; attended the Omaha (Nebr.) public schools; newspaper writer, world traveler, radio news commentator; married to Ida Rosenbaum at Omaha, Nebr., on January 30, 1907, and they have two children-Ida Mae Stefan Askren and Dr. Karl Franklin Stéfan; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress by 83,587 against 31,967 votes for his Democratic opponent; member of Committee on Insular Affairs, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Committee on Education, Committee on Patents, and Committee on Roads.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Chase, Clay, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Jefferson, Kearney, Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Polk, Redwillow, Saline, Thayer, Webster, and York (25 counties). Population (1930), 290,318. CHARLES G. BINDERUP, Democrat, of Minden, Nebr., was born at Horsens, Denmark; came to America when 6 months of age; parents homesteading in Adams County, Nebr., in 1873; self-educated; engaged in creamery, mercantile, and agricultural pursuits; married Elena Westengaard, of Minden, Nebr., and they have three children; always interested in political economy; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving a very substantial majority in each election.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Chey, enne, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Garden, Garfield, Grant, Hooker, Howard, Keith, Keyapaha, Kimball, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Morrill, Rock, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Thomas, and Valley (32 counties). Population (1930), 271,143.

HARRY BUFFINGTON COFFEE, Democrat, of Chadron, Nebr.; born in Sioux County, Nebr., March 16, 1890; attended the Chadron public schools, and graduated with an A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1913; for the last 20 years has been president of the Coffee Cattle Co., Inc., with extensive ranch holdings in northwest Nebraska; owns and operates several farms and built up a successful real estate and insurance business in Chadron; never held public office previously; served as a second lieutenant in the Air Service during the World War; married Katharine Newbranch Douglas, of Omaha, in 1935; Mason, Elk, Rotarian, Alpha Tau Omega, and a member of the American Legion; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving 62,714 votes; Cullen Wright, Republican, receiving 36,396 votes; and Frank Brown, Union, receiving 7,912 votes.

NEVADA

(Population (1930), 91,058)
SENATORS

KEY PITTMAN, Democrat, of Tonopah, Nev.; born in Vicksburg, Miss., September 19, 1872; son of William Buckner Pittman and Catherine (Key) Pittman; married to Mimosa Gates in 1900; educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn.; LL. D., Southwestern Presbyterian University and George Washington University; commenced practice of law at Seattle, Wash., in 1892; was in the Northwest Territory and Alaska from 1897 until the fall of 1901; was one of the committee that formulated the "consent" form of government for Nome; was first prosecuting attorney at Nome, Alaska; went to Tonopah, Nev., in January 1902; never ran for any office except that of United States Senator; elected 1912 for unexpired term of 4 years; reelected 1916, 1922, 1928, and November 6, 1934, to serve until 1941; secretary Senate Democratic caucus 1913 to 1917; Democratic conference nominee for President pro tempore of the Senate for the Sixty-sixth, Sixtyseventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-second Congresses; secretary committee on platform and resolutions of Democratic National Convention of 1924; chairman committee on platform and resolutions of Democratic National Convention of 1928; selected by convention to officially notify Gov. Alfred E. Smith of his nomination as candidate of the Democratic Party for President of the United States; elected President pro tempore of the Senate, and chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, March 9, 1933; appointed by the President of the United States as a delegate to the Monetary and Economic Conference held in London on June 12, 1933.

PATRICK A. (PAT) MCCARRAN, Democrat, born Reno, Nev., August 8, 1876; lawyer; educated public schools of Reno; University of Nevada (M. A.); member Nevada Legislature, 1903; represented Nevada in irrigation congress, 1903; district attorney, Nye County, Nev., 1906-8; associate justice, 1913-16, and chief justice, 1917-18, Supreme Court of Nevada; member of Nevada State Library Commission, member Nevada Board of Pardons, 1913-18; member Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners, 1913-18; president Nevada State Bar Association, 1920-21; chairman Nevada State Board of Bar Examiners, 1931-32; member bar of California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Supreme Court of United States; vice president American Bar Association, 1922-23; author of many legal opinions, leading cases on water, mining, corporation, domestic relations, criminal law, and civil procedure under the code (Nevada Reports, 35 to 42); married, August 1903, Martha Harriet Weeks; five children; elected to United States Senate November 8, 1932; legal residence, Reno, Nev.

REPRESENTATIVE

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 91,058.

JAMES GRAVES SCRUGHAM, Democrat, of Reno, Nev., was born at Lexington, Ky., graduated from the University of Kentucky, receiving bachelor and master degrees in engineering; Governor of Nevada, 1923-27; publisher of the Nevada State Journal, 1927-32; served as State engineer, 1919-23; commissioned major, United States Army, 1917; promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel in 1918; one of the incorporators of the American Legion, 1919; commander of the Nevada Department, American Legion, 1919, and national vice commander, 1920-21; commanding_officer, Five Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment Coast Artillery, Organized Reserves, United States Army; married; two children; elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

(Population (1930), 465,293)
SENATORS

FRED H. BROWN, Democrat, of Somersworth, N. H.; born at Ossipee, N. H., April 12, 1879; attorney at law; mayor of Somersworth, 1914-22; United States attorney for the district of New Hampshire, 1914-22; Governor of the State of New Hampshire, 1923-25; member of New Hampshire Public Service Commission, 1925-33; married; on November 8, 1932, was elected to the United States Senate by a vote of 98,766 to 96,649 for George H. Moses, Republican.

HENRY STYLES BRIDGES, Republican, of East Concord, N. H.; born in West Pembroke, Maine, September 9, 1898; was graduated from the University of Maine in 1918; received M. A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1935, and LL. D. degrees from the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire in 1935; member of the extension staff of the University of New Hampshire, 1921-22; secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation, 1922-23; former director and secretary of the New Hampshire Investment Co.; formerly secretary and treasurer of the Farm Bureau Automobile Insurance Co.; at present serving as trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank and as treasurer of the Putnam Agricultural Foundation; lieutenant in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army; member of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission, 193035; served as Governor of New Hampshire, 1935-37; chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican National Convention, 1936; member National Forest Reservation Commission; married Sally Clement and they have three sons Henry Styles, David Clement, and John Fisher Bridges; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1936, for the term ending January 3, 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Belknap, Carroll, Rockingham, and Strafford. HILLSBORO COUNTY: City of Manchester; towns of Bedford, Goffstown, Merrimack, Hudson, Litchfield, and Pelham. MERRIMACK COUNTY: Towns of Allenstown, Canterbury, Chichester, Epsom, Hooksett, Loudon, Northfield, Pembroke, and Pittsfield. Population (1930), 228,493.

ARTHUR BYRON JENKS, Republican, of Manchester, N. H.; retired shoe manufacturer; president of the Manchester Morris Plan Bank; married, and has two sons; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

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