TWELFTH DISTRICT.-MARION COUNTY: Townships of Decatur, Pike, Washington, and Wayne, and that part of Center Township northeast of ward 6 of the city of Indianapolis. City of Indianapolis, wards 3 to 8, 11 to 15, and 19 to 21. Population (1930), 257,233.

LOUIS LUDLOW, Democrat, of Indianapolis; born on a farm in Fayette County, Ind., June 24, 1873; when 18 years of age went to Indianapolis to get work on a newspaper; first employed as reporter on Indianapolis Sun; in 1896, when a reporter on the Indianapolis Sentinel, married Katherine Huber, society editor of the same newspaper, and they have four children-Margery, Blanche, Virginia, and Louis; Washington correspondent of Indianapolis newspapers from 1901 to 1913 and for Columbus Dispatch since 1913; author of "From Cornfield to Press Gallery", an autobiography; "In the Heart of Hoosierland", a story of the Indiana pioneers; "Senator Solomon Spiffledink", a satire on political bunkum; "America Go Bust", an exposé of governmental bureaucracy; and "Hell or Heaven", a treatise on peace and war proposing a method of war prevention; Methodist; member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sigma Delta Chi (national newspaper fraternity) and Society of the Indiana Pioneers; also member and former, president of National Press Club; elected to Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Seventyfifth Congress; he was the first newspaper correspondent to go directly from the Press Gallery to a seat in Congress.

IOWA

(Population (1930) 2,470,939)
SENATORS

GUY MARK GILLETTE, Democrat, of Cherokee, Iowa; admitted to the bar in 1900; served as prosecuting attorney of Cherokee County, 1907-9; member of the State senate, 1912-16; served as sergeant in the Spanish-American War and as captain of Infantry during the World War; since World War, engaged in farming; married; has one son 8 years old; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress, having a majority of 26,000 votes, and served until his resignation on November 3, 1936, having been elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1936, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Louis Murphy, for the term ending January 3, 1939.

CLYDE LAVERNE HERRING, Democrat, of Des Moines, Iowa; born in Jackson, Mich., May 3, 1879; son of James Gwynn and Stella Mae (Addison) H.; educated in the public schools; married Emma_Pearl Spinney, of Mobile, Ala., February 7, 1901; children, LaVerne Barlow, Lawrence Winthrop, and Clyde Edsel; rancher, Colorado, 1902-6; moved to Massena, Iowa, in 1906; farmer, 1906-8; in automobile business, Atlantic, Iowa, 1908-10; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1910; president of Herring Motor Co., Herring-Wissler Co.; director of Greater Des Moines Committee; Congregationalist; Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in 1920, and for United States Senate in 1922; member of the Democratic National Committee of Iowa; elected Governor of Iowa for 1933-35 term; reelected for 1935-37 term; elected to the United States Senate on Novem ber 3, 1936, for the term ending January 3, 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Van Buren, and Washington (11 counties). Population (1930), 251,084.

EDWARD CLAYTON EICHER, Democrat, of Washington, Iowa, was born on a farm near Noble, Washington County, Iowa; graduate University of Chicago; lawyer; member of Iowa, Illinois, and Supreme Court of the United States bars; member of Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity; married on August 19, 1908, to Hazel Mount; member of Governor's commission to take Iowa soldiers' vote, 1928; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1932; elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to each succeeding Congress; member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

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SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn, and Scott (6 counties). Population (1930), 302,946.

WILLIAM SEBASTIAN JACOBSEN, Democrat, of Clinton, Iowa, was born in that city on January 15, 1887 (son of Bernhard M. Jacobsen, a Member of Congress from 1931 to 1936); married to Mad Madsen, of Clinton, in 1915; wife died in 1920; has two sons--B. M. Jacobsen, 2d, aged 19, and Maenard W. Jacobsen, aged 16; attended the Clinton schools and the Normal College of American Gymnastic Union, Indianapolis, Ind.; started working as a timekeeper and shipping clerk; physical director of Turner Society and of Y. M. C. A.; manager of department store and part owner with his father from 1915 to 1927; present occupation, secretary, treasurer, and manager of the Clinton Thrift Co.; also manager of his father's business property and farm interests; member of the Clinton Turner Society, Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite Consistory, Shrine, and Rotary Club; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, receiving 70,923 votes; Charles Penningroth, Republican, 55,255; George Koob, Union, 4,440; and Archie Carter, Farmer-Labor, 3,079.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Franklin, Grundy, Hardin, Marshall, Tama, and Wright (10 counties). Population (1930), 256,052.

JOHN W. GWYNNE, Republican, of Waterloo, Iowa; born in Iowa County, Iowa, October 20, 1889; received degree of B. A. in 1912 and LL. B. in 1914, from the State University of Iowa; judge of the municipal court of city of Waterloo for 6 years; prosecuting attorney of Black Hawk County for 6 years; served in the World War with the Eighty-eighth Division; married and has two children; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; reelected to the Seventyfifth Congress on November 3, 1936.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allamakee, Buchanan, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Worth (12 counties). Population (1930), 240,282.

FRED BIERMANN, Democrat, of Decorah, Iowa, was born March 20, 1884, at Rochester, Minn.; graduated from the Decorah High School in 1901; attended the University of Minnesota for 3 years; graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1905; attended Valder's Business College in Decorah in 1906 and Harvard Law School 1907-8; homesteaded in North Dakota; editor and publisher of the Decorah Journal, 1908-31; married Miss Adel Rygg, January 25, 1930; during the World War was a volunteer in the United States Army and served from May 1917, until June 1919; of this period 10 months was spent overseas as first lieutenant in the Eighty-eighth Division; postmaster at Decorah, 1913-23; elected park commissioner of Decorah in 1923, in which capacity he is still serving; for about 20 years was chairman of the Democratic central committee of Winneshiek County, and for 8 years was a member of the Democratic State central committee; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston in 1928; temporary chairman Democratic State convention April 3, 1936; elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventyfifth Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Union, Wapello, and Wayne (14 counties). Population (1930), 271,679.

LLOYD THURSTON, Republican, of Osceola; born in Clarke County, Iowa, March 27, 1880; served in Spanish-American, Philippine, and World Wars; married; graduate of State University of Iowa, 1902; county attorney Clarke County 4 years; State senator 4 years; elected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventyfirst, and Seventy-second Congresses from the old Eighth Congressional District; elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses from the Fifth Congressional District.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Dallas, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1930), 287,229.

CASSIUS C. DOWELL, Republican, of Des Moines; born near Summerset, Warren County, Iowa; attended the public schools, the Baptist College, Des Moines, Iowa, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, was graduated from the liberal arts department, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, in 1886, and from the law department of Drake University in 1887, receiving the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the bar in 1888 at Des Moines, Iowa, and practiced law in Des Moines until elected to Congress in 1915; was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, 1894-98, and was elected speaker pro tempore of the house; served in the State senate, 1902-12; member of Loyal Order of Moose, Modern Woodmen of America, Maccabees, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Masons, Grotto, Consistory, Mystic Shrine, Delta Theta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and the University Church of Christ; married Miss Belle I. Riddle, of Des Moines, Iowa; elected as a Representative to the Sixty-fourth Congress and to each succeeding Congress, including the Seventy-third; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby, and Taylor (13 counties). Population (1930), 274,168.

OTHA D. WEARIN, Democrat, of Hastings, Iowa; born on a farm near Hastings on January 10, 1903; attended country school; graduated from Tabor Academy in 1920, and received B. A. degree from Grinnell College in 1924; married Lola Brazelton, 1931; prior to and since 1924 has been associated with his father in farm work; elected treasurer of Wearin rural school district in 1926; always been active in farm organizations; delegate to Iowa State Democratic conventions of 1924, 1926, 1928, and 1930; assistant secretary of Iowa Democratic convention, 1928; temporary chairman, keynoter, and permanent chairman of Iowa State Democratic judicial convention, 1930; elected to Iowa State Legislature in 1928 and reelected in 1930; assistant floor leader of minority party in forty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa; appointed by Governor of Iowa as a delegate to the International Mid-West Aeronautics Convention in Minneapolis, 1930; alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1932; trustee of reestablished Tabor College; while abroad in 1927 studied farm production and did research work in the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome; author of An Iowa Farmer Abroad, 1928; History of Tabor College, 1931; editor of weekly syndicate, An Iowa Farmer in Foreign Fields, and coeditor of weekly syndicate, New Roads in Old Mexico; staff contributor to Wallace's Farmer; member of Iowa State Historical Society, Valley Forge Historical Society, Grinnell Alumnae, and farm organizations; elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventyfifth Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster, and Winnebago (14 counties). Popu lation (1930), 278,701.

FRED C. GILCHRIST, Republican, of Laurens, Iowa; educated in common schools and at Iowa State Teachers College; superintendent town schools; county superintendent; law course, State university; lawyer; president school board; member lower house in legislature and of State senate; Member Seventysecond, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses; married; three children.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux, and Woodbury (13 counties). Population (1930), 308,798. VINCENT F. HARRINGTON, Democrat, of Sioux City, Iowa; born in Sioux City, Iowa, May 16, 1903; son of T. F. and Maria Harrington; educated in the Sioux City schools and Trinity College, and was graduated from Notre Dame University in June 1925 with B. A. degree; instructor in history and economics, and athletic director, University of Portland, Portland, Oreg., 1926-27; vice president and general manager, Continental_Mortgage Co., Sioux City, Iowa, since 1927; served in three sessions of the Iowa State Senate, 1932-36; nominated for Lieutenant Governor of Iowa on Democratic ticket in June 1936 primary; withdrew in August to accept convention nomination for Congress from the Ninth District to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Representative Guy M. Gillette, who had received convention nomination for United States Senate, succeeding Hon. Louis Murphy, deceased; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, by plurality of 11,000 votes; married Catherine O'Connor, of Homer, Nebr., in 1929, and they have two daughters-Patricia Ann, aged 3, and Catherine Tim, aged 6.

KANSAS

(Population (1930), 1,880,999)

SENATORS

ARTHUR CAPPER, Republican, of Topeka, was born in Garnett, Anderson County, Kans., July 14, 1865; received his education in the common schools and high school of Garnett; learned the printing trade on the Garnett Journal; went to Topeka in 1884 and secured work as typesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital, of which he is now owner and publisher; later became a reporter on this paper and then city editor; in 1891 went to New York and was a reporter on the New York Tribune, and in 1892 was in Washington as special correspondent; in 1893 started in business for himself by purchasing the North Topeka Mail, a weekly paper, which he afterward combined with the Kansas Breeze; a few years later he purchased the Topeka Daily Capital and other publications; was president of board of regents, Kansas State Agricultural College, from 1910 to 1913; was elected Governor of Kansas in 1914 and again in 1916; elected United States Senator at the general election November 5, 1918; reelected November 4, 1924; reelected November 4, 1930; reelected November 3, 1936; married Florence Crawford (deceased), daughter of former Gov. Samuel J. Crawford.

GEORGE MCGILL, Democrat, of Wichita, Kans., was born February 12, 1879, in Lucas County, Iowa, and taken by his parents to Kansas in 1884; educated in the common schools and the Central Normal College of Great Bend, Kans.; studied law, and on June 2, 1902, was admitted to the bar at Great Bend, Kans.; practiced law in Wichita since June 1904; deputy county attorney of Sedgwick County from 1907 to 1911, and county attorney from 1911 to 1915; temporary chairman of the Kansas State Democratic Convention in 1924; a delegate at large from Kansas to the Democratic National Convention in 1928; on November 4, 1930, was elected to the United States Senate for the unexpired term ending March 3, 1933, caused by the resignation of Charles Curtis; on November 8, 1932, was reelected to the full 6-year term beginning March 4, 1933.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Marshall, Nemaha, Shawnee, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1930), 273,849. WILLIAM PURNELL LAMBERTSON, Republican, farmer, Fairview, Brown County, Kans.; born there March 23, 1880; son of Civil War veteran and Kansas pioneer; married, 1908, Floy Thompson, Republic, Kans.; four children; member of Kansas House of Representatives, four terms; speaker pro tempore and speaker; 4 years in Kansas Senate; on State board of administration; Member of Seventy-first and succeeding Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte (9 counties). Population (1930), 307,466.

ULYSSES SAMUEL GUYER, Republican, Victory Highway, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kans.; born in Lee County, Ill.; son of Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Lewis) Guyer; attended Lane University, Lecompton, Kans., Western College, Toledo, Iowa, Kansas University Law School, and Kansas City School of Law; degrees from Western College, Coe College, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Kansas City School of Law; married Della Alforetta Daugherty, of Yankton, S. Dak., January 15, 1919; principal of St. John High School and superintendent of schools at St. John, Kans., 1897-1901; admitted to bar at Kansas City, Kans., 1902; elected judge of city court, 1907-9; elected mayor of Kansas City, Kans., 1909-10; member American Bar Association; Scottish Rite Mason; practiced law in Kansas City, Kans., since 1902; elected to Sixty-eighth Congress to fill unexpired term of the late Hon. E. C. Little, November 4, 1924; reelected to the Seventieth Congress November 2, 1926, to the Seventy-first Congress November 6, 1928, to the Seventy-second Congress November 4, 1930, 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; committees: Judiciary, Claims, Elections-ranking Republican on each. Home address: Box 125, Kansas City, Kans. Washington address: Suite 201, House Office Building. Residence: George Washington Inn.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, and Wilson (9 counties). Population (1930), 265,319.

EDWARD W. PATTERSON, Democrat, of Pittsburg, Kans.; born October 4, 1895; served with American Expeditionary Forces in France; graduate of law school of the University of Kansas, 1922; married Miss Leah Kennedy, of Coffeyville, Kans., 1921; two children-Patricia and James; since 1922 engaged in practice of law at Pittsburg, Kans.; elected prosecuting attorney of Crawford County, Kans., 1926; elected to Seventy-fourth Congress, November 6, 1934; reelected to Seventy-fifth Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chase, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee, and Woodson (14 counties). Population (1930), 229,108.

EDWARD H. REES, Republican, of Lyon County, Kans.; born on a farm in Lyon County, Kans., June 3, 1886; was a student at the Kansas State Teachers College, of Emporia, Kans.; was admitted to the practice of law in 1915; is married and has one child; member of the Kansas House of Representatives, 1927-33, being majority floor leader, 1931-33; served in the State senate, 1933–35; served as chairman of the Kansas Judiciary Committee, 1935-37; member of the Kansas Judicial Council, 1933-37; is engaged in the general practice of law at Emporia, Kans.; also operates a farm and interested in agriculture; member of the various Masonic bodies, the American Legion, and the Farm Bureau and Grange; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Sedgwick, and Sumner (5 counties). Population (1930), 246,902.

JOHN M. HOUSTON, Democrat, of Newton, Kans.; born on a farm near Formosa, Kans., September 15, 1890; attended grade school in Wichita, Kans., high school in St. Johns Military School, Salina, Kans., business college, Wichita, Kans., and Fairmount University, Wichita, Kans.; engaged in the retail lumber business in Newton, Kans., for past 15 years; served two terms as mayor of Newton; served as director and president of Newton Chamber of Commerce; served two terms as director of Kansas State Chamber of Commerce; served as president of Kansas Lumbermen's Association, Kansas State Elks Association, and Newton Lions Club; served as commander of Wayne G. Austin Post, No. 2, American Legion, Newton, Kans.; served as chairman of Harvey County F. E. R. Committee for 2 years; elected secretary of the Democratic Štate central committee, Topeka, Kans., 1934; enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, June 1917, served as honor guard for President Wilson for 8 weeks, later in charge of marine guard in State, War, and Navy Building; in officers' camp at Quantico, Va., when armistice was signed; discharged in May 1919; married Charlotte Stellhorn, of St. Louis, Mo., May 28, 1920, and they have two children-Patricia Mary Jane, born March 19, 1922, and Robert Allan, born November 15, 1925; life member Wichita Consistory No. 2, Scottish Rite Masons; life member Midian Temple Shrine, Wichita, Kans.; elected a Member of the Seventy-fourth Congress, majority 18,099; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, majority 20,845.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Saline, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace (26 counties). Population (1930), 275,301.

FRANK CARLSON, Republican, of Concordia, Kans.; born January 23, 1893, at Concordia, Kans.; attended rural schools, Concordia High School, Concordia Normal and Business College, and Kansas State College; World War veteran; member of Kansas Legislature, 1929 and 1931 sessions; chairman of Republican State committee in 1932; married, has two children; elected to the Seventyfourth Congress on November 6, 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936.

SEVENTH_DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harper, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Lane, Meade, Morton, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Scott, Seward, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, and Wichita (32 counties). Population (1930), 283,054.

CLIFFORD R. HOPE, Republican, of Garden City, Kans.; born at Birmingham, Iowa, June 9, 1893; has been a resident of Finney County, Kans., since 1906; attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebr.; graduate of