SIXTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana (12 parishes). Population (1930), 294,138.

JOHN KELLER GRIFFITH, Democrat, of Slidell, La.; physician; born in Port Hudson, East Baton Rouge Parish, La., on October 16, 1882; educated in the public schools at Port Hudson, later attending the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., for 4 years; was graduated from the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1907; married Vivian Comfort, of Slidell, La., and they have two children-Keller and Carolyn; never offered for public office until the Democratic primary held on January 21, 1936, when he was elected as the Democratic nominee for the Seventy-fifth Congress, receiving 40,890 votes, defeating Hon. J. Y. Sanders, Jr., incumbent in office, who received 28,614 votes, and E. M. Whitman, who received 1,646 votes; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress without opposition on November 3, 1936.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.—PARISHES: Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, and St. Landry (8 parishes). Population (1930), 222,495.

RENÉ L. DEROUEN, Democrat, of Ville Platte, La., was born near Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish (then St. Landry), of the marriage of Fabius DeRouen and Alma De Baillon; educated in the public and private schools of St. Landry, St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La., and graduated at Holy Cross College, New Orleans, La.; married to Miss Christina Currie, and has four childrenMrs. V. L. Dupuis, Louis R. DeRouen, Mrs. Albert Tate, and Alvin F. DeRouen; businessman, interested in general merchandising, banking, and farming; represented Evangeline Parish in the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1921; never before a candidate for any political office; elected to Seventieth Congress, and reelected to Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses without opposition.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-PARISHES: Avoyelles, Grant, La Salle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon, and Winn (8 parishes). Population (1930), 225, 158.

A. LEONARD ALLEN, Democrat, of Winnfield, La., was born in a log cabin near Winnfield, La., January 5, 1891; son of Asa L. Allen and Sophronia Perkins Allen; reared on a small hill farm and received his early education in rural schools; graduated from the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., receiving A. B. degree in 1914; taught in rural schools; principal of the Georgetown High School, 1914-15, and the Verda High School, 1915-17; superintendent of Winn Parish schools, 1917-22; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1922, and has practiced his profession since at Winnfield; married Miss Lottie Mae Thompson in 1915, and they have two sons-Harwell Leonard Allen and Lyndon_Blaine Allen; was nominated for Congress in the primary of 1936 in the Eighth District by a majority of 12,237 votes, being opposed by Grundy Cooper, of Rapides Parish, and C. E. Laborde, of Avoyelles Parish; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress without opposition on November 3, 1936.

MAINE

(Population (1930), 797,423)
SENATORS

FREDERICK HALE, Republican, of Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, was born at Detroit, Mich., October 7, 1874; prepared for college at Lawrenceville and Groton Schools, and graduated from Harvard in 1896; received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin College in 1931; admitted to the bar in 1899; served in the Maine Legislature in 1905; elected to the United States Senate in September 1916 to succeed Senator Charles F. Johnson. He was reelected in 1922, 1928, and 1934. His term of office will expire in 1941.

WALLACE HUMPHREY WHITE, JR., Republican, was born at Lewiston, Maine, August 6, 1877; was educated in the public schools of that city and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1899; was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1902 and of Maine in 1903; was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fifth Congress and to each succeeding Congress up to and including the Seventy-first; in September 1930 was elected United States Senator from Maine for the term 1931-37, and reelected in September 1936; was appointed by President Coolidge as a delegate of the United States to the Pan American Electrical Communications Conference in Mexico City in 1924, and by the Secretary of State as a United States delegate to the International Telegraph Conference in Paris in 1925, and as an unofficial observer of the United States at the International Juridical Conference on Wireless Telegraphy, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927, later being elected a member of this committee and president of the American section; was appointed by the President as a United States delegate to the International Radio Telegraphic Conference in Washington, D. C., in 1927, and as chairman of the United States delegation to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, held in London, England, in 1929, and by the Secretary of State as chairman of the United States delegation to the meeting of the International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications, held at Copenhagen in 1931; is a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin College; received the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1928.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cumberland, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and York (4 counties). Population (1930), 265,989.

JAMES CHURCHILL OLIVER, Republican, of South Portland, Maine; born in South Portland, Maine, August 6, 1895; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1917, with the degree of bachelor of arts; is engaged in the general insurance business in Portland and in the State of Maine; member of the board of aldermen of South Portland, 1932-33; during the World War enlisted in the United States Army as a private, serving from July 1917 to June 1919, when he was discharged as a major of Infantry; married, and has one son-J. Scott Oliver; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on September 14, 1936, receiving 60,512 votes, and Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat, received 44,032 votes.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Somerset, and Waldo (7 counties). Population (1930), 264,434.

CLYDE H. SMITH, Republican, of Skowhegan, Maine; born on a farm in Harmony, Somerset County, Maine, June 9, 1876; attended the rural schools and the Hartland Academy; moved to Hartland, Maine, in 1891; is engaged in the automobile business; married Margaret Chase in 1930; served as superintendent of schools of Hartland, 1903-6; member of the board of selectmen of Hartland, 1904-7; sheriff of Somerset County, 1905-9; served in the State house of representatives, 1899-1903; moved to Skowhegan, Maine, in 1905; member of the board of selectmen of Skowhegan, 1914-27 and 1928-32; again a member of the State house of representatives, 1919-23; served in the State senate, 1923-29; chairman of the State highway commission, 1928-32; chairman of the board of directors for locating and building the State reformatory for women in 1917; member of the Governor's council from fourth district, 1933-37; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on September 14, 1936.

THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1930), 267,000.

RALPH O. BREWSTER, Republican, of Dexter, Maine; born at Dexter, Maine, February 22, 1888; educated in the Dexter schools; graduated from Dexter High School, 1905, Bowdoin College, 1909, and Harvard Law School, 1913; principal of the Castine High School, 1910; admitted to the Maine bar in 1913; member of Portland school committee, 1915-23; representative to Maine Legislature, 1917-18; renominated, but resigned to enter military service; private, second lieutenant, captain, and regimental adjutant, Third Infantry, Maine National Guard; private, Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor; representative to Maine Legislature, 1921-22; senator 1923-24; Governor of Maine 1925-29; chairman governors' conference 1926-27; married Dorothy Foss, of Portland, Maine, April 20, 1915; son, Charles F. Brewster, born May 8, 1916; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on September 10, 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on September 14, 1936.

MARYLAND

(Population (1930), 1,631,526)

SENATORS

MILLARD E. TYDINGS, Democrat, Havre de Grace, Md.; born at Havre de Grace, April 6, 1890; married; attorney at law; graduated from University of Maryland in mechanical engineering; studied law at University of Maryland; admitted to bar 1913; served in World War from April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919; promoted through ranks from enlisted man to lieutenant colonel; cited by Generals Pershing, Morton, and Upton; awarded Distinguished Service Medal and Distinguished Service Cross; speaker of Maryland House of Delegates; State senator, Maryland; elected to Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses; elected to United States Senate 1926; reelected 1932.

GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE, Democrat, of Baltimore; lawyer; born at Lloyds, Md., August 22, 1877; son of John Anthony LeCompte and Sophie E. (Travers) Radcliffe; graduated from Cambridge (Md.) Seminary in 1893; A. B., Johns Hopkins, 1897, Ph. D., 1900; LL. B., University of Maryland, 1903; LL. D., Washington College, 1934; married Mary McKim Marriott on June 6, 1906, and they have one son- -George Marriott Radcliffe, born June 9, 1919; principal of Cambridge Seminary, 1900-1901; teacher, Baltimore City College, 1901-2; admitted to Maryland bar in 1903; attorney for American Bonding Co., 1903–4, second vice president, 1906-14, and president, 1914-30-now director; first vice president, director, and member of executive committee of Fidelity & Deposit Co.; director of Fidelity Trust Co.; director of Baltimore Trust Corporation; director of Title Guarantee & Trust Co.; member of Baltimore board, Liquor License Commission, 1916-19; secretary of state of Maryland, 1919-20; regional adviser 1933-34, region no. 10, Public Works Administration, for States of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and District of Columbia; member Maryland State Council of Defense, World War; special commissioner to organize war-work records of Maryland; vicepresident of Maryland Historical Society; chairman of Maryland Democratic Campaign Committee, 1932 and 1936; author: Governor Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War, 1902; elected to United States Senate on November 6, 1934, receiving 264,279 votes, Joseph I. France, Republican, receiving 197,643 votes. Home, 12 Edgevale Road, Roland Park, Baltimore; office, Fidelity Building,

Baltimore.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Annes, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester (9 counties). Population (1930), 193,658.

THOMAS ALAN GOLDSBOROUGH, Democrat, of Denton, Caroline County, Md.; born September 16, 1877, at Greensboro, Caroline County, Md.; A. B., Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1899; LL. B., University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., 1901; LL. D., Washington College, Maryland, 1935; lawyer; State's attorney for Caroline County, 1904-8; elected to the Sixtyseventh Congress and reelected to each succeeding Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baltimore, Carroll, and Harford. CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 15 and 16; ward 25, precincts 1 to 10; wards 26 to 28. Population (1930), 461,419.

WILLIAM PURINGTON COLE, JR., Democrat, of Towson, also Glenarm, R. F. D., Baltimore County, Md.; resides on dairy farm at Mount Vista, Glenarm post office, Baltimore County, Md.; born in Towson, Md., May 11, 1889; graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Md., 1907; graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now University of Maryland) in civil engineering in 1910; studied law at the University of Maryland, passing State bar in 1912; admitted to practice same year; entered Fort Myer Training Camp, Fort Myer, Va., in August 1917, where he received first lieutenant commission and then assigned to the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment of Infantry, Seventyninth Division, Camp Meade, Md.; embarked for overseas duty on July 8, 1918, returned after 11 months' foreign service and discharged with the rank of captain of Infantry; member of the Baltimore County, State of Maryland, and American Bar Associations; member of the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland, which is also the State board of agriculture; married in June 1918 to Edith May Moore, and they have one child-William Purington Cole, 3d; elected to the Seventieth, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 1 to 8; ward 18, precincts 8 to 12; ward 22. Population (1930), 203,929.

VINCENT L. PALMISANO, Democrat, of Baltimore, was born at Termini Immerse, Italy, June 13, 1883, the son of Cosimo and Anna Marie (Sansone) Palmisano, migrated to America with parents; settled in Baltimore in 1887; educated in parochial schools; at age of 11, employed in box factory; stonemason's helper at age of 15; in real-estate business at age of 21; took up study of law and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1909; actively interested in East Baltimore politics; elected to Maryland House of Delegates, 1914; elected to the first branch of the City Council of Baltimore, 1915; reelected, 1919; elected member of the Democratic State central committee of Baltimore City, 1923; appointed by Hon. Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, as one of the police examiners for Baltimore City, 1925; married, December 1919, to Mary Fermes Pessaro, who was born in Baltimore; elected to the Seventieth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventyfifth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.—CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 9 to 14, and 17; ward 18, precincts 1 to 3; wards 19 and 20. Population (1930), 259,467.

AMBROSE JEROME KENNEDY, Democrat, of Baltimore, Md.; born in Baltimore, January 6, 1893; educated at St. John's Parochial School, Calvert Hall College, and Polytechnic Institute; engaged in the brokerage and insurance business; married on August 9, 1910, to Mary E., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dailey; member of the Baltimore City Council in 1922; reelected in 1923 for a 4-year term; elected to the State senate in 1926; was delegate to the Democratic National Convention held at Houston, Tex., in 1928; appointed parole commissioner of the State of Maryland in 1929 and served until his election to Congress; was also delegate to Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, Ill., in 1932; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 8, 1932, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. Charles Linthicum, and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected on November 6, 1934, to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected on November 3, 1936, to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Prince Georges, and St. Marys (6 counties). CITY OF BALTIMORE: Ward 18, precincts 4 to 7, 13, and 14; wards 21, 23, and 24; ward 25, precincts 11 to 17. Population (1930), 244,519.

STEPHEN WARFIELD GAMBRILL, Democrat, of Howard County; born near Savage, Howard County, Md., October 2, 1873; educated at Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, and a graduate of the law school of the Columbian University of Washington, D. C., now known as the George Washington University; admitted to the bar in 1897; has practiced law in the city of Baltimore since 1908; a member of the Maryland State Legislature in the sessions of 1920 and 1922; a member of the Maryland State Senate in the session of 1924; elected to the United States House of Representatives, November 4, 1924, to fill vacancy in the Sixty-eighth Congress, and also elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1930), 268,534.

DAVID JOHN LEWIS, Democrat, of Cumberland, Md., was born on May 1, 1869, in Center County, Pa., near Osceola Mills, the son of Richard Lloyd and Catherine (Watkins) Lewis; at the age of 9 years went to work in a coal mine and was employed there until 23 years old; while working in coal mine learned to read in Sunday school and studied law under Benjamin A. Richmond, Esq., and Latin under the Rev. John W. Nott, of Mount Savage, Md.; was admitted to the bar in 1892, and practiced at Cumberland; on December 19, 1893, married Florida M. Bohn, of Cumberland; elected a member of the Maryland Senate and served from 1902 to 1904; Democratic nominee for the Sixty-first Congress in 1908; was elected to Congress and served from 1911 to 1917, representing the Sixth Maryland District; defeated for United States Senator in 1916; appointed a member of the United States Tariff Commission by President Wilson in 1917 and served to 1925; member of the Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., the Society for Psychical Research, of England, and the fraternal orders of Eagles and Elks; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 4, 1930; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932, the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934, and the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936 by a majority of 12,681 votes.

MASSACHUSETTS

(Population (1930), 4,249,614)

SENATORS

DAVID IGNATIUS WALSH, Democrat, of Fitchburg, Mass., was born in Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., on November 11, 1872; attended the public schools of Clinton, Mass.; Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., A. B., 1893, LL. D., 1913; Boston University School of Law, LL. B., 1897; from several universities, LL. D.; lawyer; elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1900, and reelected, 1901; Lieutenant Governor, 1913; Governor, 1914, and reelected 1915 (yearly terms); delegate at large to the Democratic national conventions, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936; delegate at large to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-18; elected as the first Democrat since before the Civil War to the United States Senate, November 5, 1918, to succeed the Honorable John W. Weeks, his Republican opponent; was defeated for reelection to the United States Senate, November 7, 1924, receiving 547,600 votes to 566,188 for his Republican opponent; elected to the United States Senate, November 2, 1926, to succeed William M. Butler, appointed to fill the unexpired term of Henry Cabot Lodge, by more than 55,000 plurality; reelected, November 6, 1928, by 124,492 plurality; reelected November 6, 1934, by 316,084 plurality; his term of office expires in 1941.

HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., Republican, of Beverly, Mass.; born in Nahant, Mass., July 5, 1902, grandson of the late United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and nephew of the late Congressman Augustus P. Gardner; graduate of Harvard College; married Emily Sears, of Beverly, in 1926, and is the father of two boys; staff reporter, Boston Evening Transcript, Massachusetts Statehouse, 1924-25; correspondent and editor for the New York Herald Tribune, 1925-31; member, House and Senate Press Galleries; member of National Press Club; elected representative to General Court of Massachusetts, 1932 and 1934; elected United States Senator on November 3, 1936, for the term ending January 3, 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Berkshire and Franklin. HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of Holyoke and Westfield; towns of Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, and Tolland. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Towns of Belchertown, Chesterfield, Cummington, Enfield, Goshen, Greenwich, Huntington, Middlefield, Pelham, Plainfield, Prescott, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington. WORCESTER COUNTY: Towns of Athol and Royalston. Population (1930), 274,703.

ALLEN TOWNER TREADWAY, Republican, of Stockbridge; Amherst College, LL. D., 1934; active member, supreme council, thirty-third degree Scottish Rite, northern masonic jurisdiction; granger; Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1904; Massachusetts Senate, 1908-11; president of senate, 1909–11, inclusive; elected to the Sixty-third and succeeding Congresses, including the Seventy-fifth; ranking member of Ways and Means Committee, member of Library Committee, House of Representatives; member of Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

SECOND DISTRICT.-HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of Chicopee and Springfield; towns of Agawam, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Longmeadow, Ludlow, West Springfield, and Wilbraham. НАМРSHIRE COUNTY: City of Northampton; towns of Amherst, Easthampton, Granby, Hadley, Hatfield, and South Hadley. Population (1930), 292,066.

CHARLES RUSSELL CLASON, Republican, of Springfield, Mass.; born in Gardiner, Maine, September 3, 1890; educated in the public schools of Gardiner, Maine; was graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1911, with B. A. degree; from Georgetown University Law School in 1914, with LL. B. degree; and from Oxford University in 1917, with degree of B. A. in jurisprudence; attorney at law; instructor in law at Northeastern University, Springfield, Mass.; connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Department of Education, Washington, D. C., 1913-14; assistant district attorney, western district of Massachusetts, 1922-26; district attorney, western district of Massachusetts, 1927-30; member of the commission for relief in Belgium, 1914-15; enlisted in the United States Army in 1918; decorated by King Albert of Belgium, May 18, 1919, with Medaille du Roi Albert; member of the Springfield Post, 21, American Legion; married to Emma M. Pattillo, of Truro, Nova Scotia, on August 4, 1928; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936.