of the Mint, 1912; delegate to Republican National Convention in 1928; trustee University of Vermont, since 1914; president Vermont Bar Association, 1923; married, 1901, Mildred Mary Lucas; children-Warren Robinson Austin, Jr., and Edward Lucas Austin; elected to the United States Senate on March 31, 1931, to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Frank L. Greene ending in 1935; reelected to the United States Senate November 6, 1934, for the 6-year term beginning January 3, 1935. ERNEST WILLARD GIBSON, Republican, of Brattleboro, Vt.; son of William L. and Saville Stowell Gibson; was born in Londonderry, Vt.; educated in the common schools, Black River Academy, and Norwich University; lawyer; served as deputy clerk United States courts; in both branches of Vermont Legislature and president pro tempore of the senate; judge of municipal court; State's attorney; secretary civil and military affairs; enlisted in the Vermont National Guard in 1899; retired in 1908 with rank of colonel; returned to the service in 1915 as captain of Infantry, and served during the Mexican border trouble and 2 years during the World War; was overseas; colonel of the One Hundred and Seventy-second_Regiment, Infantry, from 1921 to 1923; married November 25, 1896, to Grace Fullerton Hadley, deceased; three children, Ernest W. Jr., secretary of the Vermont State Senate; Preston F., judge of municipal court; and Miss Doris, hostess; religious preference, Episcopalian; elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, and Seventy-third Congresses; appointed to the United States Senate by Gov. Stanley C. Wilson on November 21, 1933, and elected to the unexpired term of Senator Dale, January 16, 1934. REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 359,611. CHARLES ALBERT PLUMLEY, Republican, of Northfield; born in Northfield, Vt., April 14, 1875, son of Frank Plumley, who represented the Second Congressional District in the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses, and Lavinia Fletcher Plumley; educated in the Northfield graded and high schools, 1892; graduated from Norwich University in 1896, A. B.; A. M. in course; honorary LL. D., Middlebury College and Norwich University; principal of Northfield graded and high schools, 1896-1900; admitted to the Vermont bar in 1903; member of the law firm of Plumley and Plumley; assistant secretary Vermont Senate in 1894; assistant clerk and clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1900-1910; member and speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1912-15; commissioner of taxes of Vermont, 1912-19; president of Norwich University, 1920-34; secretary, French-Venezuelan Mixed Commission; captain Vermont National Guard; colonel Officers' Reserve Corps; married Emilie A. Stevens, August 22, 1900, and they have three children-Allan R., Evelyn S. (Mrs. Ernest M. Adams), and Fletcher D. P.; elected to the Seventythird Congress at a special election held on January 16, 1934, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Ernest W. Gibson; reelected to the Seventyfourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses; member, Committee on Appropriations. VIRGINIA CARTER GLASS, Democrat, of Lynchburg, was born in that city; educated in private and public schools and in the newspaper business; owns the morning and afternoon papers of that city; member of the Virginia Senate, 1899-1903, and the Virginia constitutional convention, 1901-2; 8 years member of board of visitors of University of Virginia; has honorary LL. D. degree of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, William and Mary, Wesleyan, Tufts, Columbia, and Hamilton; is a member of Phi Beta Kappa of William and Mary; was elected to the Fifty-seventh and all succeeding Congresses, including the Sixty-sixth; resigned seat in Congress, December 16, 1918, to accept appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in President Wilson's Cabinet; resigned as Secretary of the Treas ury on February 2, 1920, to qualify as Senator from Virginia by appointment of the Governor; elected to Senate November 2, 1920, for balance of term expiring March 3, 1925; reelected on November 4, 1924, for full term expiring March 3, 1931, and on November 4, 1930, for the term ending in 1937, and again on November 3, 1936, for the term ending in 1943, each time practically without opposition at the primary or the general election; declined tender of Secretaryship of Treasury in Cabinet of President Roosevelt in 1933. HARRY FLOOD BYRD, Democrat, of Berryville, Va.; entered business at age of 15 as newspaper publisher, farmer, and apple grower; in 1915 elected to Senate of Virginia, in which he served until he was elected Governor of the Commonwealth for the term 1926-30; appointed to the United States Senate by Gov. John Garland Pollard on March 4, 1933; elected on November 7, 1933, for the unexpired term of Claude A. Swanson, resigned, and reelected for the full term on November 6, 1934. REPRESENTATIVES FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Accomac, Caroline, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Warwick, Westmoreland, and York. CITIES: Fredericksburg, Hampton, and Newport News. Popula tion (1930), 239,757. SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, Democrat, of Newport News, Va., was born May 4, 1872, in Gloucester County, Va.; lawyer; member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, southern order, and of Phi Beta Kappa society; was elected to Sixtyfifth Congress for unexpired term, and reelected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventythird, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses; married Miss Mary Putzel, of Newport News, Va. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Norfolk, Southampton, and Princess Anne. CITIES: Norfolk, Portsmouth, South Norfolk, and Suffolk. Population (1930), 302,715. NORMAN R. HAMILTON, Democrat, of Portsmouth, Va., where he was born November 13, 1877; educated in the public schools; came up in the newspaper world from news carrier and reporter to publisher; upon its founding solicited the first subscribers of the newspaper of which he is now the owner-the Portsmouth Star; was a Presidential elector on the Wilson and Marshall ticket in 1912; for 20 years a member of the Democratic State conventions in Virginia; collector of customs of Virginia 1914-22; as Federal neutrality enforcement officer, prior to entrance of the United States in the World War, interned at Newport News, Va., the German raiders Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm and the German prize ship Appam; chairman (by appointment of Secretaries of Treasury, War, and Navy) of the Port War Board of Hampton Roads, 1916-18; delegate to the Democratic national conventions at New York in 1924, at Houston in 1928, and at Chicago in 1932; appointed in 1933 receiver at Washington of five District of Columbia insolvent banks and resigned in June 1936 to become a candidate for Congress; served for 6 years as trustee of the Virginia State teachers colleges at Farmville, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, and East Radford; member of the Norfolk Virginia Club, Portsmouth Country Club, Town Club of Norfolk, and University Club of Washington, D. C.; nominated in Democratic primary on August 4, 1936, and elected on November 3, 1936, to the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving 29,269 votes, to 3,287 votes for Gerould M. Rumble, Republican, and 448 votes for Alexander Wright, Communist. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Charles City, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King William, and New Kent. CITIES: Richmond and Williamsburg. Population (1930), 281,064. DAVE E. SATTERFIELD, JR., Democrat, of Richmond; was born in Richmond, Va., September 11, 1894; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Richmond Law School in 1917; served as commissioned officer in the Naval Flying Corps during the World War; was admitted to the bar in 1916, and commenced practice the same year; served as commonwealth attorney for the city of Richmond, 1922-33; resigned to return to private practice of law; member Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Baptist Church; married; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 2, 1937, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew J. Montague. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Surry, and Sussex. CITIES: Hopewell and Petersburg. Population (1930), 242,204. PATRICK HENRY DREWRY, Democrat, of Petersburg; member of the State senate from 1912 to 1920; elected without opposition, April 27, 1920, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Walter Allen Watson, deceased, in the Sixty-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventyfifth Congresses. FIFTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Carroll, Charlotte, Franklin, Grayson, Halifax, Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania, and Wythe. CITIES: Danville and Martinsville. Population (1930), 271,794. THOMAS G. BURCH, Democrat, of Martinsville, Henry County, Va.; banker; educated in public schools of county; member State board of agriculture, 191013; member board of visitors, State normal school at Radford, Va., 1913-15; United States marshal, western district of Virginia, 1914–21; member of board of visitors, the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, 1922–31; member of commission to simplify and reorganize State government, 1927; member of the State transportation and public-utility advisory commission, 1929; member of State board of education, 1930 and 1931; elected to the Seventy-second Congress, November 4, 1930; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, November 8, 1932, to the Seventy-fourth Congress, November 6, 1934, and to the Seventy-fifth Congress, November 3, 1936. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alleghany, Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, Craig, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke. CITIES: Clifton Forge, Lynchburg, Radford, and Roanoke. Population (1930), 280,708. CLIFTON ALEXANDER WOODRUM, Democrat, of Roanoke, was born at Roanoke, April 27, 1887; son of Robert H. and Anna T. Woodrum; educated in the public schools of Roanoke; studied law at Washington and Lee University, and was licensed to practice, June 19, 1908; located in Roanoke, and in 1917 was elected Commonwealth attorney; served in this capacity until August 1919, when he was unanimously chosen to occupy the bench of the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, where he presided until April 10, 1922, when he resigned and entered the race for the Sixty-eighth Congress against Democratic incumbent; was elected to Sixty-eighth Congress, reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses without opposition; reelected from the State at large to the Seventy-third Congress and from the Sixth District to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses; was married in 1905 to Miss Lena Hancock, of Bedford County; has two children-Clifton A., Jr., and Martha Anne; member of Green Memorial Methodist Church, of Roanoke; thirty-third degree Mason; past potentate Kazin Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; and member of various other fraternal orders. SEVENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Clarke, Frederick, Highland, Nelson, Page, Rappahannock, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren. CITIES: Buena Vista, Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Winchester. Population (1930), 242,778. A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, Democrat, of Lexington, Va., was educated in the public schools of Lynchburg and Rockymount, Va.; B. A. and LL. B., University of Richmond; admitted to the bar in 1908; member of State senate for 6 years, 1916-22; Commonwealth's attorney for Rockbridge County for 6 years, 1922-28; chairman of commission of game and inland fisheries for 6 years, 1926-32; during the World War served in the United States Army from August 1917 to June 1919; married Gladys C. Willis, and they have two sons-A. Willis Robertson, Jr., and Marion Gordon Robertson; elected as a Representative at Large from Virginia to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934, and to the Seventyfifth Congress on November 3, 1936. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Albemarle, Arlington, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, King George, Loudoun, Louisa, Madison, Orange, Prince William, and Stafford. CITIES: Alexandria and Charlottesville. Population (1930), 256,511. HOWARD WORTH SMITH, Democrat, of Alexandria; born at Broad Run, Va., February 2, 1883; graduated from Bethel Military Academy in 1901; B. L. University of Virginia in 1903; admitted to the bar in 1904, and practiced law until 1922, when accepted appointment as judge of the corporation court of Alexandria; resigned this position in 1928 to accept appointment as judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit of Virginia; resigned as judge in 1930 to run for Congress; Commonwealth's attorney of Alexandria from 1918 until he resigned to accept appointment on the bench in 1922; during World War served as assistant general counsel to Alien Property Custodian; is president of the Alexandria National Bank; trustee and vice president of National Florence Crittenton Mission; engaged in farming and dairying; is married and has two children— Howard Worth Smith, Jr., and Violett Adelaide Smith; member of the Episcopal Church; belongs to the fraternal orders of Elks, Masons, and Odd Fellows; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress as a Member at Large from the State of Virginia; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Giles, Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, and Wise. CITY: Bristol. Population (1930), 304,320. JOHN W. FLANNAGAN, JR., Democrat, of Bristol, was born on a farm in Louisa County, Va., February 20, 1885; educated at the public schools in Louisa County and at Washington and Lee University; was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1907 with LL. B. degree; elected Commonwealth's attorney for Buchanan County, Va., in 1916; married Frances D. Pruner of Mendota, Washington County, Va., in 1910, and they have 3 children-2 boys and 1 girl; has law office at Clintwood, Va., where he spends a part of his time and where he still maintains his residence; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected from the State at large to the Seventy-third Congress and to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses from the Ninth Congressional District. WASHINGTON (Population (1930), 1,563,396) HOMER TRUETT BONE, Democrat, of Tacoma, Wash., was born in Franklin, Ind., January 25, 1883; became a practicing attorney in 1911; elected to the State Legislature of Washington, 1923; elected United States Senator, 1932. LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH, Democrat, of Neppel, Wash.; born at Superior, Wis., September 20, 1894; attended the grade school there and the grade and high schools in Spokane, Wash., where the family moved in 1902; graduated from the University of Washington in 1917 and entered the United States Army; in 1919 began the practice of law in Seattle; elected State commander of the American Legion in 1922; appointed a member of the board of regents of the University of Washington in 1933 and elected president of that board; married Anne J. Duffy, December 30, 1935; elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 1934, for the term ending January 3, 1941. REPRESENTATIVES FIRST DISTRICT.-KITSAP COUNTY. KING COUNTY: City of Seattle. Population (1930), 396,359. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Democrat, of Seattle, Wash., was born in Moorhead, Minn., April 12, 1905; moved to Seattle and entered the University of Washington, graduating from the law school in 1929, entering the practice of law in that year; served as special prosecuting attorney of King County in 1932; elected to the Washington State Legislature and served in the regular session of 1933 and the special session in the winter of 1933; was appointed assistant United States district attorney shortly after the end of the special session of the legislature and was elected prosecuting attorney of King County in November 1934, taking office in January 1935; member of the Elks, Eagles, and Moose lodges; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, receiving 103,709 votes, and Fred. J. Wettrick, Republican, receiving 58,665 votes. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clallam, Island, Jefferson, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom. KING COUNTY: Precincts of Avondale, Bothell 1 and 2, Broadview, Foy, Greenwood, Haller Lake, Hollywood, Juanita, Kenmore, Lake City, Lake Forest, Maple Leaf, Meadow Point, Morningside, North Park, North Trunk, Oak Lake, Ravenna, Richmond, Woodinville, and Woodland. Population (1930), 236,238. MONRAD C. WALLGREN, Democrat, of Everett, Wash., was born in Des Moines, Iowa, April 17, 1891; moved, with his parents, to Galveston, Tex., in 1894, and to Everett, Wash., in 1901; attended the Everett public schools, business college, and graduated from the Washington State School of Optometry in 1914; married Miss Mabel C. Liberty, in Everett, September 8, 1914; World War veteran; commissioned at the Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., served with Sixty-third Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps, and later as instructor in heavy field artillery at coast defenses of Puget Sound; was honorably discharged March 19, 1919; has been actively engaged in the retail jewelry and optical business for 25 years in the State of Washington; served as president of the Washington State Retail Jewelers' Association in 1921-22; affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Knights Templars, Order of Vasa S. F. A., Elks, Rotary, Eagles, American Legion, Forty and Eight, and Veterans of Foreign Wars; on his first political venture was elected to the Seventy-third Congress, winning by a plurality of 18,200 votes, being the first Democratic Representative to be elected from the Second Congressional District of Washington; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses by an overwhelming majority. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Skamania, Thurston, and Wahkiakum (9 counties). Population (1930), 235,372. MARTIN F. SMITH, Democrat, of Hoquiam, Wash.; born in Chicago, Ill., May 28, 1891; lawyer; member of the American Bar Association for the past 19 years; member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court; married on May 28, 1929, to Margaret Genevieve Manty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Manty, of Hamilton, Mont., and they have two children-Margaret Louise, aged 7 years, and Marian Eleanor, 6 years old; served as municipal judge of Hoquiam, 1914-17; member of Hoquiam City Council, 1926-28; mayor of Hoquiam, 192830; member of Elks, Kiwanis, Eagles, Grange, Moose, Red Men, Runeberg, Vasa, American Legion, and Forty and Eight, and honorary member John D. Roberts Camp, No. 7, United Spanish War Veterans, Aberdeen, Wash.; director, National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1935-38; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, being the first Democrat elected as a Representative from the Third Washington District and receiving a majority of 10,316 votes; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress, receiving a majority of 27,137 votes; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving a majority of 41,442 votes; member of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Grant. Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima (12 counties). Population (1930), 209,433. KNUTE HILL, Democrat, of Prosser, Wash., was born on a farm near Creston, Ill.; graduated from Red Wing (Minn.) Seminary and received an LL. B. degree from the law department of Wisconsin University; has resided in Prosser, Wash., since 1911; practiced law, farmed, taught school, and lectured since graduation from college; is a Progressive Democrat; a member of the Masonic fraternity, Eastern Star, and the Grange; served as lecturer of the Washington State Grange, 1922-23 and 1931-32; was a Democratic representative to the State legislature from Benton County in 1926, and reelected with increased majorities in 1928 and 1930; on November 8, 1932, was elected a Representative to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected on November 6, 1934, to the Seventy-fourth Congress, and was reelected on November 3, 1936, to the Seventy-fifth Congress, by an increased majority. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, and Stevens (8 counties). Population (1930), 250,064. CHARLES H. LEAVY, Democrat, of Veradale, Wash., was born on a farm near York, Pa., February 16, 1884; educated in the common schools of Missouri, the Warrensburg (Mo.) Normal School, the Bellingham (Wash.) Normal School, and the Kansas City (Mo.) School of Law; taught 3 years in the public schools of Missouri and 6 years in the State of Washington; was elected prosecuting attorney of Pend Oreille County, Wash., in 1914; reelected in 1916 and served until 1918; appointed by President Wilson as special assistant United States |