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SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan. HILLSBORO COUNTY: City of Nashua; towns of Amherst, Antrim, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hillsboro, Hollis, Lyndeboro, Mason, Milford, Mount Vernon, New Boston, New Ipswich, Peterboro, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton, and Windsor. MERRIMACK COUNTY: Cities of Concord and Franklin; towns of Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Danbury, Dunbarton, Henniker, Hill, Hopkinton, Newbury, New London, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, Webster, and Wilmot. Population (1930), 236,800.

CHARLES WILLIAM TOBEY, Republican, of Temple, N. H., was born at Roxbury, Mass.; attended public schools and Roxbury Latin School; received honorary degrees of master of arts from Dartmouth College and doctor of laws from University of New Hampshire; business experience has been in insurance, agriculture, banking, and manufacturing; married, and has four children; member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1915-16, 1919-20, and 1923-24, and served as speaker, 1919-20; member of the State senate, 1925-26, and served as president, 1925-26; Governor of New Hampshire, 1929-30; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

NEW JERSEY

(Population (1930), 4,041,334)
SENATORS

ARTHUR HARRY MOORE, Democrat, of Jersey City, N. J.; born in Jersey City, N. J., July 3, 1879; educated in the public schools, Cooper Union, and received bachelor of law degree from New Jersey Law School; honorary degrees: LL. D., Rutgers University; LL. D., Seton Hall College; LL. D., New Jersey Law School; LL. D., John Marshall College of Law; M. A., Hahnemann Medical College; master of commercial science, Rider College; lawyer; secretary to mayor of Jersey City, 1908-11; city tax collector, 1911-13; city commissioner, 1913-25; married; twice elected Governor of New Jersey; elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 1934, for the term ending January 3, 1941, receiving 785,971 votes; Hamilton F. Kean, Republican, receiving 554,483 votes; John S. Martin, Socialist, receiving 9,721 votes.

WILLIAM H. SMATHERS, Democrat, of Margate, N. J.; born on a farm near Waynesville, N. C., January 7, 1891; was graduated from the law school of the University of North Carolina when 19 years of age; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Atlantic City, N. J.; appointed judge of the common pleas court of Atlantic County in 1922; reappointed in 1923 and 1928 and served until 1933; member of the State supreme court commission, 1923 to date; appointed a special master in chancery in 1924; appointed first assistant attorney general of New Jersey in 1934 and served until 1936; elected a member of the State senate in 1935 and served until sworn into the United States Senate; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1936, for the term ending January 3, 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Camden, Gloucester, and Salem (3 counties). Population (1930), 359,948.

CHARLES A. WOLVERTON, Republican, of Camden (Merchantville), N. J.; born October 24, 1880, at Camden, N. J., his parents being Charles S. Wolverton and Martha Wolverton; educated in the public schools of Camden, graduating from Camden High School June 24, 1897; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, graduating June 13, 1900, with the degree of LL. B.; admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey at the November term, 1901; married June 25, 1907, to Sara May Donnell, M. D., daughter of John Knox Donnell and Anna Donnell; there is one child, Donnell Knox Wolverton; in 1903 revised and compiled the ordinances of the city of Camden; 1904 to 1906 was assistant city solicitor of Camden; 1906 to 1913 was assistant prosecutor of Camden County; from 1913 to 1914, special assistant attorney general of New Jersey; from 1915 to 1918, member of New Jersey House of Assembly from Camden County; in 1918 was speaker of the New Jersey House of Assembly; 1917 to 1919, a Federal food administrator; in 1920, alternate delegate at large, Republican National Convention at Chicago; 1918 to 1923, prosecutor of the pleas of Camden County; member Republican congressional campaign committee; elected to the Seventieth Congress in November 1926; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland (3 counties). Population (1930), 224,204.

ELMER H. WENE, Democrat, of Vineland, N. J.; owns and operates a baby chick hatchery; born on a farm near Pittstown, in Hunterdon County, N. J., May 1, 1892, son of Emanuel S. and the late Mary J. Wene, nee Kiley; educated in the public schools of the county; completed a special course in agriculture at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J.; lectured on the poultry industry in many of the leading agricultural colleges in the United States; served on the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, 1925-34, and served as president, 1929-34; president of the International Baby Chick Association in 1933; president of Cumberland County Board of Agriculture, 1922-36; member of the board of directors of the Newcomb Hospital in Vineland, 1935-36; president of VinelandLandis Township Chamber of Commerce, 1935-36; president of Vineland Rotary in 1932; a Mason, an Elk, a member of the Grange, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; active in every Democratic campaign since becoming a voter; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936, over the Republican incumbent, carrying two of the three counties.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Monmouth and Ocean. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of New Brunswick and South Amboy; boroughs of Helmetta, Jamesburg, Milltown, Sayreville, South River, and Spotswood; townships of Cranbury, East Brunswick, Madison, Monroe, Plainsboro, North Brunswick, and South Brunswick. Population (1930), 266,337.

WILLIAM H. SUTPHIN, Democrat, of Matawan, N. J., was born at Browntown, Middlesex County, N. J., on August 30, 1887, the son of the late James Taylor Sutphin and Charlotte Brown; has resided at Matawan since early childhood, where he attended the Matawan public schools; married Miss Catharine Bonner, and they have two children-Susan and William Taylor; elected to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Burlington and Mercer (2 counties) Population (1930), 280,684.

D. LANE POWERS, Republican, Trenton, N. J.; born Philadelphia, Pa., July 29, 1896; educated public schools, Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pa., degree of C. E., 1915, B. M. S., 1921, M. S., 1935; married 1918 to Edna May Thropp, of Trenton, N. J., has one daughter, Elane, born 1923; president Edwell Corporation, Trenton, N. J.; enlisted private April 1917, discharged first lieutenant April 1919; served three terms New Jersey State Legislature, 1927-30; elected to Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Morris and Somerset. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Perth Amboy; boroughs of Carteret, Dunellen, Highland Park, Metuchen, Middlesex, and South Plainfield; townships of Piscataway, Raritan, and Woodbridge. Population (1930), 301,726.

CHARLES AUBREY EATON, Republican, of North Plainfield, Somerset County; elected to Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Seventieth, Seventyfirst, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-UNION COUNTY. Population (1930), 305,209.

DONALD H. McLEAN, Republican, of Elizabeth, N. J.; born at Paterson, N. J., March 18, 1884; educated in the public schools and privately; married Edna H. Righter, November 1909; two sons-Donald H. McLean, Jr., and Edward Righter McLean; lawyer, member of the firm of Whittemore and McLean; appointed page in United States Senate by Vice President Garret A. Hobart, December 1897; private secretary to United States Senator John Kean, of New Jersey, from 1902 to 1911; LL. B., George Washington University, 1906; admitted to practice in District of Columbia, New Jersey (counselor), and United States Supreme Court; special master in chancery of New Jersey; assistant prosecutor of the pleas of Union County, N. J., 1918-23; chairman, Union County Republican committee and secretary, Republican State committee; elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren. BERGEN COUNTY: Cities of Garfield and Hackensack; boroughs of Allendale, East Paterson, Emerson, Fairlawn, Franklin Lakes, Glen Rock, Hillsdale, Hohokus, Lodi, Maywood, Midland Park, Montvale, Oakland, Oradell, Paramus, Park Ridge, Ramsey, Riverside, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick, Westwood, Woodcliff Lake; townships of Hohokus, Lodi, Ridgewood, Rivervale, Rochelle Park, Saddle River, Washington, and Wyckoff. PASSAIC COUNTY: Borough of Ringwood and township of West Milford. Population (1930), 259,379.

J. PARNELL THOMAS, Republican, of Allendale, N. J.; born in Jersey City, N. J., January 16, 1895; resident of Allendale, N. J., since 1900; graduate of Allendale public school and Ridgewood High School; attended the University of Pennsylvania; during the World War enlisted in the United States Army immediately after declaration of war; saw active service at front line; honorably discharged as captain; head of bond department of Paine-Webber & Co., New York City, since 1924; served as director of Allendale Building & Loan Association and trustee of public library; elected a member of the borough council of Allendale in 1925; elected mayor of Allendale in 1926 and reelected in 1928; elected to the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1935 and reelected in 1936; married to Miss Amelia Wilson Stiles, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., on January 21, 1921, and they have two sons-J. Parnell Thomas, Jr., and Stiles Thomas; elected to the Seventyfifth Congress by an approximate plurality of 4,000 votes over H. P. J. Hoffman, Democratic opponent.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-PASSAIC COUNTY: Cities of Clifton, Passaic, and Paterson; boroughs of Bloomingdale, Haledon, Hawthorne, North Haledon, Pompton Lakes, Prospect Park, Totowa, Wanaque, and West Paterson; townships of Little Falls and Wayne. Population (1930), 299,190.

GEORGE N. SEGER, Republican, of Passaic; born in New York City; moved to Passaic, 1899; mayor, 1911-19; director of finance, 1919-23; president, New Jersey State League of Municipalities, 1912-14; elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventyfourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

NINTH DISTRICT.-BERGEN COUNTY: City of Englewood, boroughs of Alpine, Bergenfield, Bogota, Carlstadt, Cliffside Park, Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Dumont, East Rutherford, Edgewater, Englewood Cliffs, Fairview, Fort Lee, Harrington Park, Hasbrouck Heights, Haworth, Leonia, Little Ferry, Moonachie, New Milford, North Arlington, Northvale. Norwood, Old Tappan, Palisades Park, Ridgefield, Rockleigh, Rutherford, Tenafly, Teterboro, Wallington, and Wood Ridge; townships of Lyndhurst, Overpeck, and Teaneck. HUDSON COUNTY: Town of Guttenberg and township of North Bergen. Population (1930), 267,663.

EDWARD A. KENNEY, Democrat, of Cliffside Park, Bergen County, N. J., born in Clinton, Mass., son of Thomas H. and Elizabeth Gertrude (Moriarty) Kenney; graduate of Clinton High School; attended Williams College, graduating with degree of A. B.; studied law at New York University, receiving degree of LL. B.; admitted to the bar of the State of New York, as attorney and counselor, in 1908, and began the practice of law in New York City; married Elizabeth Jane Linkletter, of Dorchester, Mass., in 1910; admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey, as attorney, in 1917, and extended the practice of his profession to New Jersey; member of legal advisory draft board in 1917; admitted as counselor at law of New Jersey in 1920; judge of recorder's court, of Cliffside Park, 1919-23; attorney for Cliffside Park Board of Education, 1921-23; chairman, Housing Commission of Cliffside Park, 1922-23; is a practicing lawyer with offices in New York City and Hackensack, N. J.; member of Elks, Red Men, Delta Chi fraternity, and various bar associations and organizations; elected to the Seventy-third Congress and reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

TENTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: City of Newark, wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 15; borough of Glen Ridge; towns of Belleville, Bloomfield, and Nutley. HUDSON COUNTY: Borough of East Newark; towns of Harrison and Kearny. Population (1930), 295,297.

FRED A. HARTLEY, JR., Republican, of Kearny, N. J.; born February 22, 1903, at Harrison, N. J., the son of Fred A. Hartley and Frances Hartley; educated in the public schools of Kearny and Rutgers University; married Hazel Lorraine Roemer; there are three children-Henry Allen, Frances Lorraine, and Fred Jack; was appointed on the Library Commission of Kearny in 1923; elected municipal commissioner in 1924; chairman of Republican county committee in 1925; reelected commissioner in 1926; served as fire and police commissioner during two terms; elected to Seventy-first Congress; reelected to Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: City of Newark, wards 3, 6, 7, 13, and 14; cities of East Orange, Orange; town of West Orange; village of South Orange. Population (1930), 292,284. EDWARD L. O'NEILL, Democrat, of Newark, N. J.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: City of Newark, wards 9, 10, 12, and 16; boroughs of Caldwell, Essex Fells, North Caldwell, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell; towns of Irvington, Montclair; townships of Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Livingston, Maplewood, and Milburn. Population (1930), 304,935. FRANK W. TOWEY, JR., Democrat, of Caldwell, N. J.; born in Jersey City, N. J., November 5, 1895; graduate of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., degree of A. B., 1916, and Fordham Law School, degree of LL. B., 1919; lawyer; during the World War served as a lieutenant in the United States Infantry; married; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-HUDSON COUNTY: City of Bayonne; city of Jersey City, wards 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Population (1930), 289,795.

MARY TERESA NORTON, Democrat; born, educated, married, and always lived in Jersey City, N. J.; elected vice chairman of the State Democratic committee in 1921, served continuously until 1932, when she was elected chairman; in 1923 was the first woman of the Democratic Party to be elected freeholder in Hudson County and in State; in 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936 elected delegate at large to the Democratic national conventions; in 1924 elected to the House of Representatives; reelected to each succeeding Congress, including the Seventyfifth; received the first degree of doctor of laws ever conferred by St. Elizabeth's College, the oldest women's college in New Jersey, in recognition of service in welfare and government; Mrs. Norton is the first woman to be elected to Congress from the Democratic Party; the first to be appointed chairman of a congressional committee, the important Committee on the District of Columbia, and now chairman of Committee on Labor; the first woman chairman of a State committee; and introduced the first resolution in Congress to repeal the eighteenth amendment.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-HUDSON COUNTY: City of Hoboken; city of Jersey City, wards 2, 3, 10, 11, and 12; city of Union City; towns of Secaucus and West New York; township of Weehawken. Population (1930), 294,683.

EDWARD J. HART, lawyer, Democrat, of Jersey City.

NEW MEXICO

(Population (1930), 423,317)
SENATORS

CARL A. HATCH, Democrat, of Clovis, N. Mex.; born at Kirwin, Phillips County, Kans., November 27, 1889; served as assistant attorney general of New Mexico, 1917 and 1918; appointed collector of internal revenue for the district of New Mexico, 1919; appointed district judge of the ninth judicial district of the State of New Mexico, January 1, 1923; elected to same office 1924 for 6-year term, resigned as district judge to reenter practice of law, October 1, 1929; chairman of Democratic State central committee 1930; Presidential elector for New Mexico in 1932; appointed to the United States Senate by Gov. A. W. Hockenhull, October 10, 1933, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Hon. Sam G. Bratton; elected to fill out the unexpired term in November, 1934; reelected Senator November 3, 1936; married; two children.

DENNIS CHAVEZ, Democrat, of Albuquerque, N. Mex.; born at Los Chavez, Valencia County, N. Mex., April 8, 1888; attended public schools of Albuquerque; graduate of law school, Georgetown University, 1920, with LL. B. degree; married Imelda Espinosa, November 9, 1911; has three children; served as clerk of the United States Senate, 1918-19; member of New Mexico Legislature; practiced law at Albuquerque; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress; appointed to the United States Senate by Gov. Clyde Tingley on May 11, 1935; elected November 3, 1936.

REPRESENTATIVE

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 423,317.

JOHN J. DEMPSEY, Democrat, of Santa Fe, N. Mex., was born at Whitehaven, Pa., June 22, 1879; formerly vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; independent oil operator; president, United States Asphalt Corporation; appointed State N. R. A. director in 1933; also served as head of New Mexico housing campaign; president, board of regents, University of New Mexico; married; three children; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to Seventy-fifth Congress.

NEW YORK

(Population (1930), 12,588,066)
SENATORS

ROYAL S. COPELAND, Democrat, of New York City, was born at Dexter, Mich., November 7, 1868; graduated from the Dexter High School; attended the Michigan State Normal College; graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of doctor of medicine; has degree of master of arts from Lawrence University; doctor of laws from Syracuse and Oglethorpe Universities; doctor of science from Temple University; is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; served as health commissioner of New York City from 1918 until he entered the Senate; is married and has one son, Royal S. Copeland, Jr.; was elected to the United States Senate, November 7, 1922; reelected, November 6, 1928, and November 6, 1934.

ROBERT F. WAGNER, Democrat, of New York City; born June 8, 1877; Nastatten, Province Hessen Nassau, Germany; grammar school, high school, graduate of the College of the City of New York, and of New York Law School; widower; lawyer; member of New York Assembly from 1905 to 1908, inclusive; member of New York Senate from 1909 to 1918; chairman of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission, 1911; Lieutenant Governor, 1914; 8 years Democratic leader in New York Senate; justice of supreme court from 1919 until October 1926; assigned to the appellate division, first department, of the supreme court, 1924-26; resigned to become candidate for United States Senator; elected for the term expiring March 3, 1933; reelected for the term expiring in 1939; chairman of the National Labor Board, 1933–34.

REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 12,588,066.

MATTHEW J. MERRITT, Democrat, of Malba, Long Island, County of Queens, New York; elected Representative at Large to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

CAROLINE O'DAY_(Mrs. Daniel O'Day), Democrat, of Rye, Westchester County, N. Y.; born in Perry, Houston County, Ga.; educated in private schools and was graduated from Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga.; national committeewoman for New York State, 1932; commissioner, State board of social welfare, appointed May 1923; associate chairman, New York Democratic State Committee, 1921-36; widow; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress as a Representative at Large on November 6, 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

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