TEXAS.

SENATORS.

Richard Coke, of Waco, was born at Williamsburg, Virginia, March 13, 1829; was educated at William and Mary College; studied law, was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age, and has since practiced constantly when not in the public service; removed in 1850 to Waco, McLennan County, Texas, where he has since resided; served in the Confederate army as private and afterward as Captain; was appointed District Judge in June, 1866; was nominated by the Democratic party for Judge of the State Supreme Court in 1866, and elected, and after having occupied the position one year was removed by General Sheridan as "an impediment to reconstruction;" returned to the practice of law the latter part of 1867; was elected Governor of Texas in December, 1873, by a majority of 50,000, and was re-elected in February, 1876, by a majority of 102,000, resigning December 1, 1877, after having been elected the previous April to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed Morgan C. Hamilton, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883 and again in 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

Roger Q. Mills, of Corsicana, was born in Todd County, Kentucky, March 30, 1832; removed to Texas in 1849; is a lawyer; was a member of the Texas Legislature in 1859 and 1860; was Colonel of the Tenth Texas Regiment; was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1873, and served continuously until he resigned to accept the position of United States Senator, to which he was elected March 23, 1892, to succeed Hon. Horace Chilton, who had been appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John H. Reagan till the meeting of the Legislature; took his seat March 30, 1892; was re-elected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Freestone, Grimes, Harris, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Trinity, Walker, and Wailer-8 counties; population, 102,827.

Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on the 18th of May, 1842; graduated at Randolph-Macon College and at the University of Virginia; enlisted as a private soldier in the Twenty-first Virginia Regiment; served in the Valley under Stonewall Jackson, and surrendered at Appomattox, at which time he was in command of of Company E, Fourteenth Virginia Regiment; emigrated to Texas, October, 1866; engaged in the practice of law; was a member of the Texas Legislature in 1880; was chairman of the Democratic Convention of Texas in 1888; was nominated by the Democrats (without opposition) of the First Congressional District, was elected by a plurality of 8,481 votes to the Fiftythird Congress; is the senior member of one of the most prominent law firms in Texas.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, and Tyler-19 counties; population, 210,238.

Sam Bronson Cooper, of Woodville, was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, May 30, 1850; removed with his parents to Texas the same year and located in Woodville, Tyler County, where he has resided since; his father died in 1853; his education was received at the common school of the town; at sixteen years of age began clerking in a general store; in 1871 read law in the office of Nicks & Hobby; in January, 1872, obtained license to practice law and became a partner in the firm of Nicks, Hobby & Cooper; was married in 1873; in 1876 was elected County Attorney of Tyler County; was re-elected in 1878; in 1880 was elected to the State Senate from the First Senatorial District; was re-elected in 1882, and at the close of the session of the Eighteenth Legislature was elected President pro tempore of the Senate; in 1885 was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue of the First District of Texas by President Cleveland; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,854 votes, against 10,371 votes for Hon. T. A. Wilson, Populist, and 1,508 votes for Averill, Republican.

THIRD DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Frio, Henderson, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood-10 counties; population, 133,188.

Constantine Buckley Kilgore, of Wills Point, was born in Newnan, Georgia, February 20, 1835; removed with his parents to Rusk County, Texas, in 1846; received a common-school and academic education; served in the Confederate Army as private, Orderly Sergeant, First

Lieutenant, and Captain in the Tenth Texas Regiment; in 1862 was made the Adjutant-General of Ector's Brigade, Army of the Tennessee; was wounded at Chickamauga; was captured and confined as a prisoner in Fort Delaware during the year 1864; was admitted to the bar after the war, and has been practicing law since that time; was elected Justice of the Peace in Rusk County in 1869; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1875; was a Presidential Elector in 1880 on the Hancock and English ticket; was elected to the State Senate in 1884 for four years; was chosen President of that body in 1885 for two years; resigned his position in the Senate when nominated for Congress in 1886; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,335 votes, against 12,177 votes for Perdue, People's party.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River, ana Titus -10 counties; population, 170,001.

David B. Culberson, of Jefferson, was born in Troup County, Georgia, September 29, 1830; was educated at Brownwood, La Grange, Georgia; studied law under Chief Justice Chilton, of Alabama; removed to Texas in 1856, and was elected a member of the Legislature of that State in 1859; entered the Confederate Army as a private, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the Eighteenth Texas Infantry; was assigned to duty in 1864 as Adjutant-General, with the rank of Colonel, of the State of Texas; was elected to the State Legislature in 1864; was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,521 votes, against 4,709 votes for Hurley, Republican, 10,371 votes for Clark, People's, and 7 votes for Grant, Independent.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Collin, Cook, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, and Montague-6 counties; population 199,477.

Joseph W. Bailey, of Gainesville, was born in Copiah County, Mississippi, October 6, 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1883; served as a District elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884; removed to Texas in 1885 and located at his present home; served as Elector, for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-second and re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 24,983 votes, against 4,563 votes for Grant, Republican, and 170 votes for Bell, People's.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bosque, Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Kaufman, and Navarro-7 counties; popuiation, 210,907.

Jo Abbott, of Hillsboro, was born near Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, January 15, 1840; began his education in the public schools of that State; went with his father and family to Texas in the fall of 1853, and entered the private school of Dr. Frank Yoakum, and afterward that of Professor Allison; served in the Twelfth Texas Cavalry, Confederate Army, as First Lieutenant; studied law and was admitted to the bar in October, 1866; was elected to the State Legislature in 1869 and served one term; was appointed by Governor Roberts Judge of the Twenty-eighth Judicial District in February, 1879; was elected to the same position in November, 1880, and served four years; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fiftysecond Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 29,913 votes, against 17,078 votes for Kerby, People's party.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Bell, Brazos, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, and Robinson—7 counties; population, 182,894.

George C. Pendleton, of Belton, was born in Coffee County, Tennessee, April 23, 1845; attended country schools in Warren County, Tennessee, and was for a few months a student at Hannah High School, in the same county; afterwards attended the Waxahachie Academy, in Ellis County, Texas, to which State his father, Edmund Pendleton, removed in 1857; after arriving at manhood he became first a drummer or commercial traveler, afterwards a merchant, and is now a farmer and dealer in real estate; is married; was in the Confederate service as private in Fount's Company, Burford's Regiment, Parson's Brigade, Texas Cavalry; was a member of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Texas Legislatures and Speaker of the Twentieth; was elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1890; was elected to the Fifty third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,718 votes, against 15,493 votes for I. N. Barber, Republican.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Brown, Coleman, Coryell, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Lampasas, Mills, Parker, Runnels, Somerville, and Tarrant-13 counties; population, 174,048.

Charles K. Bell, of Fort Worth, was born at Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 18, 1853; removed to Texas in 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1874; was elected District Attorney, State Senator, and District Judge, serving four years in each position; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,997 votes, against 2,009 votes for Drake, Republican, and 12,937 votes for Jones, People's.

NINTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Burnet, Burleson, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hayes, Lee, Travis, Washington, and Williamson-9 counties; population, 175,149.

Joseph D. Sayers, of Bastrop, was born at Grenada, Mississippi, September 23, 1841; removed with his father to Bastrop, Texas, in 1851; entered the Confederate Army early in 1861 and served continuously until April, 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and became a partner of Hon. George W. Jones; served as a member of the State Senate in the session of 1873; was Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee during the years 1875'78; was Lieutenant-Governor of Texas in 1879 and 1880; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,763 votes, against 12,384 votes for Horner, People's party TENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Chambers, Fayette, Fort Bend, Gonzales, Galveston, Lavaca, and Matagorda-10 counties; population, 166,668.

Walter Gresham, of Galveston, was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, July 22, 1841; completed his education at the University of Virginia; served as a private in the Confederate Army; is by profession a lawyer; settled in Galveston in 1867 and commenced the practice of the law in that city; in 1872 was elected district attorney for the judicial district in which Galveston is located; was elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second legislatures of Texas; and was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,017 votes, against 9,452 votes for Yosenthal, Republican, and 4,229 votes for Metzer, People's party.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Cameron, Calhoun, De Witt, Dimmit, Duval, Encinal, Frio, Guadalupe, Goliad, Hidalgo, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Uvalde, Victoria, Webb, Wharton, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavalla-29 counties; population, 189,958.

William H. Crain, of Cuero, was born at Galveston, Texas, November 25, 1848; graduated at St. Francis Xavier's College, New York City, July 1, 1867, and received the degree of A. M. several years afterwards; studied law in the office of Stockdale & Proctor, Indianola, and was admitted to practice in February, 1871; has practiced law since that time; was elected as the Democratic candidate for District Attorney of the Twenty-third Judicial District of Texas in November, 1872; was elected a State Senator on the Democratic ticket in February, 1876; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,247 votes, against 8,055 votes for Brewster, Republican, and 5,765 votes for Terrell, People's.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.--Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brewster, Buchel, Comal, Concho, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Foley, Gillespie, Irion, Jeff Davis, Kerr, Kendall, Kimble, Kinney, Llano, Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, Medina, Menard, Midland, Pecos, Presidio, San Saba, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Tom Green, Upton, and Val Verde-37 counties; population, 136,088.

Thomas M. Paschal, of Castroville, was born at Alexandria, Louisiana, December 15, 1845; removed with his parents to Texas in the spring of 1846, locating at San Antonio; was sent to Danville, Kentucky, to Center College, April 4, 1861; graduated in class of 1866; returned to San Antonio that year and entered the law office of his father and uncle, J. A. & J. W. Paschal; was admitted to practice law in 1867; was appointed City Attorney of San Antonio in 1867; was appointed United States Commissioner same year for West District of Texas; Judge of Criminal District for San Antonio in 1868 and resigned same year; moved to Castroville in 1870, and was appointed same year to the office of District Attorney 24th District; moved to Brackett, King County, in 1873, and practiced law till 1875, when elected Judge 24th Judicial District, to which position he was re-elected in 1880 and 1884; in 1876 was appointed by Governor Coke Extradition Agent between the United States and Mexico, 2D ED 53-1—8

and was reappointed by Governor Roberts in 1880; in 1875 returned to Castroville and was elected Judge of the 38th Judicial District in 1888; is interested in agricultural pursuits; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,930 votes, against 7,290 votes for Terrill, Republican, and 6,574 votes for McMinn, People's.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Carson, Castro, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Eastland, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Garza, Gray, Greer, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Howard, Hutchinson, Jack, Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mitchell, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Palo Pinto, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Reeves, Roberts, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman, Stephens, Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Throckmorton, Ward, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Winkler, Wise, Yoakum, and Young-80 counties; population, 190,080.

Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell, of Anson, Jones County, was born in Johnson County, Missouri, May 7, 1832; attended common schools and, a short while, Chapel Hill College; went to California during gold excitement in 1849 and returned to Missouri in 1853, where he married; engaged in farming and read law prior to the civil war; entered the Confederate Army and served through the war; after the war settled in Grayson County, Texas, where he engaged in farming and practiced law until 1882, when he removed to Jones County, and in 1885 was appointed District Judge by Governor Ireland, to which position he was elected in 1886 and re-elected in 1890; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 21,921 votes, against 1,629 votes for A. C. Malloy, Republican, and 9,815 votes for W. J. Maltby, Populist.

VERMONT.

SENATORS.

Justin Smith Morrill, of Strafford, was born at Strafford, Vermont, April 14, 1810; received a common-school and academic education; was a merchant, and afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits; was a Representative in the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirtyseventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Union Republican, to succeed Luke P. Poland, Union Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1867; was re-elected in 1872, in 1878, in 1884, and in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897.

Redfield Proctor, of Proctor, was born at Cavendish, Vermont, June 1, 1831; graduated at Dartmouth College and at the Albany Law School; served as Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the Third Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, on the staff of Major-General William F. (Baldy) Smith, and was Major of the Fifth and Colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Regiments; was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1867, '68, and '88; was a member of the State Senate and President pro tempore of that body in 1874 and 1875; was Lieutenant-Governor from 1876 to 1878, and Governor from 1878 to 1880; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1884 and '88, and Secretary of War from March, 1889, to November, 1891; was appointed by Governor Page, November 2, 1891, to fill, until the election of his successor, the vacancy caused by the resignation of George F. Edmunds; was elected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, and Rutland-7 counties; population, 169,940.

H. Henry Powers, of Morrisville, was born at Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, May 29, 1835; was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1855; was admitted to the bar in 1858; was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont in 1858; was Prosecuting Attorney of Lamoille County in 1861-'62; was member of Council of Censors of Vermont in 1869; was member of the Constitutional Convention of the State in 1870; was member State Senate in 1872-'73; was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1874; was Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont from December, 1874, to December, 1890; was elected to the Fifty-second and re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,427 votes, against 9,396 votes for McGettrick, Democrat, and 646 votes for Whittemore, Prohibitionist.

SECOND DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans, Washington, Windham, and Windsor—7 counties; population, 162,482.

William W. Grout, of Barton, was born of American parents at Compton, Province of Quebec, May 24, 1836; received an academic education and graduated at Poughkeepsie Law School in 1857; was admitted to the bar in December of same year; practiced law and was State's Attorney for Orleans County, 1865-'66; served as Lieutenant-Colonel of Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers in the Union Army; was made Brigadier-General of Vermont militia at time of St. Albans raid in 1864; was a member of Vermont House of Representatives in 1868, '69, '70, and '74, and of the Senate in 1876, and President pro tempore of that body; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses and was re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,568 votes, against 8,649 votes for Smith, Democrat, and 635 votes for Houghton, Prohibitionist.

VIRGINIA.

SENATORS.

John Warwick Daniel, of Lynchburg, was born in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia, September 5, 1842; was educated at Lynchburg College and at Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School; served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia throughout the war, and became Adjutant-General on General Early's staff; studied law in the University of Virginia during session of 1865 and '66, and has practiced ever since; is author of "Daniel on Attachments" and "Daniel on Negotiable Instruments;" served in the Virginia House of Delegates, sessions 1869-'70 and 1871-'72, and in the State Senate from 1875 to '81; was an Elector at Large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; was member of the National Democratic Conventions of 1880 and '88; was defeated for Governor in 1881 by W. E. Cameron, Readjuster; was a member of the Forty-ninth Congress; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed William Mahone, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was re-elected by unanimous vote December, 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.

Eppa Hunton, of Warrenton, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, September 23, 1823; his early education was limited; studied and practiced law; was Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Prince William from 1849 to '62; was elected to the State Convention of Virginia which assembled at Richmond in February, 1861; served through its first session and then entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the Eighth Virginia Infantry; was promoted after the battle of Gettysburg, and served through the residue of the war as Brigadier-General, succeeding Brigadier-General Garnett; was captured at Sailors Creek, April 6, 1865, and was released from Fort Warren in July, 1865; was elected to the Forty third, Forty-fourth, Fortyfifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; in the Forty fourth Congress he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and the committee to frame a law to settle the disputed Presidential election of 1876; was elected by the House of Representatives as a member of the Electoral Commission, and was one of the minority of seven of that famous court; in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses he was a member of the House Committee on the District of Columbia, and Chairman of that committee in the Forty-sixth Congress; was active in the adoption of the present government of the District of Columbia; was appointed by the Governor, May 28, 1892, to fill the vacancy till his successor shall be elected by the Legislature, caused by the death of Hon. J. S. Barbour, and took his seat June 1, 1892.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

COUNTIES.-Accomack, Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Matthews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, Spottsylvania, Westmoreland, and the city of Fredericksburg—population, 187,010.

William Atkinson Jones, of Warsaw, was born in Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia, March 21, 1849; in the winter of 1864-'65 entered the Virginia Military Institute, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving, as occasion required, with the cadets in the defense of that city; after the close of the war studied at Coleman's school, in Fredericksburg, until October, 1868, when he entered the Academic Department of the University of Virginia, from which institution he graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1870; was admitted to the bar in July, 1870, and has continued to practice law ever since, although also engaged in farming operations; was for several years Commonwealth's Attorney for his