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the Seventy-sixth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member, American Society Civil Engineers, Society Automotive Engineers, Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, and honorary member, Institute of Navigation.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-LOS ANGELES COUNTY: Assembly district 41. County of San Bernardino. Population (1940), 194,199.

HARRY R. SHEPPARD, Democrat, of Yucaipa, Calif.; born in Mobile, Ala., January 10, 1885; educated in common schools and university; studied law 3 years; entered transportation department of the Santa Fe Railroad; active committee member of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; thence engaged in copper business in Alaska; traveled in three continents in behalf of business interests; married to Miss Kay Olson, May 24, 1933; developed King's Beverage and King's Laboratories Corporations and served as president and general manager of the latter interests until 1934, at which time he retired from active business; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Imperial, Orange, and Riverside (3 counties). Population (1940), 296,024.

JOHN PHILLIPS, Republican, of Banning, Calif.; born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 1887; attended the public schools and Haverford (Pa.) College, holding teaching fellowship; during the First World War served in the United States Army, 1917-19; has lived in California since 1924; served in the California Assembly and Senate from 1932 until his resignation to represent the Twentysecond District in Congress; married; three children; member of the Triangle Society, University and Cosmos Clubs (Washington), San Francisco Press Club, National Press Club (Washington), Adventurers Club, Masonic fraternity, B. P. O. E., Commonwealth Club (San Francisco), American Legion, D. A. V., Regular Veterans Association, Kiwanis Club; Presbyterian; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTY: San Diego. Population (1940), 289,348.

CHARLES KIMBALL FLETCHER, Republican, of San Diego, Calif.; born in San Diego, Calif., December 15, 1902; the third of 10 children of Senator and Mrs. Ed Fletcher; educated in public schools of San Diego; Congregational Church; Stanford University graduate, A. B. degree; Phi Delta Theta fraternity; Pembroke College and Oxford University; married Jeannette Toberman November 27, 1926, and they have two sons, Charles K. Fletcher, Jr., and Peter T. Fletcher, and a daughter, Dale Fletcher; after early training in financial, real estate, and building business, he organized and is now president of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of San Diego; past president, California Savings and Loan League, Masonic Fraternity, University Club, San Diego Club, San Diego Yacht Club, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Kiwanis, Navy League, Toastmasters International, San Diego Realty Board, director of Goodwill Industries, Native Sons of the Golden West, Sons of the American Revolution, past commander of AMVETS of World War II, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Reserve Officers Naval Service, Reserve Officers Association, Military Order World Wars; lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve, World War II, European and Pacific Areas; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

COLORADO
(Population (1940), 1,123,296)

SENATORS

EDWIN CARL JOHNSON, Democrat; born in Scandia, Kans., January 1, 1884; raised on a cattle ranch in western Nebraska; homesteaded in northwestern Colorado; operated Farmers' Cooperative Milling Elevator and produce business, a farmers' cooperative, for 10 years at Craig, Colo.; served four terms in the Colorado House of Representatives, one term as Lieutenant Governor, and

two terms as Governor; married to Fern Armitage, Kenesaw, Nebr., in 1907, and they have one daughter-Mrs. Janet Grace Howsam, of La Jara, Colo., and one adopted daughter, Mrs. Henry Arrance, of Denver, Colo.; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1936; reelected on November 3, 1942, for the term ending January 3, 1949.

EUGENE DONALD MILLIKIN, Republican, of Denver, Colo.; born at Hamilton, Ohio, February 12, 1891; son of Dr. Samuel H. and Mary Millikin; graduated from Law School of University of Colorado in 1913; executive secretary to Gov. George A. Carlson, Colorado, 1915-17; enlisted as a private in Colorado National Guard in 1917; served in United States with Thirty-fourth Division and in France with Forty-second, Sixth, and Seventh Divisions and Fourth Corps, and with Army of Occupation in Germany with Sixth Division; was commissioned captain and major of Infantry and lieutenant colonel of Engineers; graduated from General Staff College at Langres, France; received Pershing citation for distinguished and meritorious service; associate in law and business of the late United States Senator Karl C. Schuyler from 1919 to latter's death in 1933; married Mrs. Delia Alsena Schuyler on January 30, 1935; no children; appointed United States Senator December 20, 1941, by Gov. Ralph L. Carr, Colorado; elected November 3, 1942, to complete term of the late Senator Alva B. Adams expiring January 3, 1945; reelected November 7, 1944, for 6-year term.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER. Population (1940), 322,412.

JOHN ALBERT CARROLL, Democrat, of Denver, Colo.; born in Denver, Colo., July 30, 1901; LL. B. degree; lawyer; assistant United States District Attorney, 1933-34; District Attorney of Denver, 1937-41; regional attorney, O. P. A. (Rocky Mountain area), 1942-43; served in World War I at Corregidor, Philippine Islands, and in World War II in Africa, Italy, Corsica, and France; married to Dorothy R. Doyle; one daughter, Diane Ruth, age 16; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson, Kit Carson, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, and Yuma (19 counties). Population (1940), 319,067.

WILLIAM S. HILL, Republican, of Fort Collins, Colo.; born in Kelly, Kans., January 20, 1886; attended Kansas State Normal and Colorado State College of Agriculture; homesteaded in eastern Colorado; superintendent, Cache la Poudre Consolidated School of Larimer County, Colo., 1919; from 1919 to 1923 was associated with Colorado Agricultural College as county agriculturist, specializing in boys' and girls' 4-H Club work; secretary, Colorado State Farm Bureau, 1923; twice elected to Colorado State Legislature, 1924-26; manager, Standard Mercantile Co., Fort Collins, Colo., since 1927; private secretary, 1939, to Governor Carr, of Colorado; married in 1907 to Rachel Trower; two children-Alden T. Hill, attorney, of Fort Collins, Colo., and Mrs. Marjorie Hunter, of Fort Collins, Colo.; Presbyterian, Elk, I. Ó. O. F., Rotarian; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Con

gresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Mineral, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Saguache, and Teller (19 counties). Population (1940), 308,970.

J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Republican, of Trinidad, Colo., where he was born on August 17, 1897, son of Thomas Beaseman and Esther Rebecca Chenoweth, who were pioneer settlers in southern Colorado from Maryland; educated in Trinidad public schools and graduated from Trinidad High School in 1915; attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1915-16; worked for the Colorado & Southern Railroad, Continental Oil Co., and Colorado Supply Co., wholesale grocers, in Trinidad; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Colorado in 1925; began practice of law in Trinidad in 1926; served as assistant district attorney for third judicial district from 1929 to 1933, appointed county judge of Las Animas County, Colo., in 1933; elected in 1934 and reelected in 1936; serving until January 1941; was only Republican elected in Las Animas County in elections of 1934 and 1936; elected chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Colorado in 1937 and continued until entering race for Congress; married Ruth Ollevia Crews in 1919 and has five children-William, Wanda, Jack, James,

and Ruth Anne; member of board of trustees of Colorado Woman's College, Denver; member of board of governors of Colorado Bar Association, 1939-41; Baptist, Rotarian, Mason, Eagle; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942, to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Archuleta, Chaffee, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Jackson, Lake, La Plata, Mesa, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, Park, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, San Juan, San Miguel, and Summit (24 counties). Population (1940), 172,847. ROBERT FAY ROCKWELL, Republican, of Paonia, Colo., was born in Cortland, N. Y., February 11, 1886, the son of L. W. and Elizabeth Rockwell; educated in public schools of New York, the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and Princeton University; married Aileen Miller, June 24, 1908 (deceased); children, Wilson Miller and Robert Fay; cattle raising and ranching, Colorado, since 1907; member Colorado House of Representatives, 1916-20, Colorado Senate, 1920-24, 1938-40, 1940 to December 9, 1941; Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, 1922–24; Republican candidate for Governor, 1930; member Seventy-seventh Congress (1941-43), Fourth Colorado District; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member State Board of Agriculture, 1932-40, 1940-48; Mason (Knight Templar and thirty-second degree); Episcopalian; club, Rotary.

CONNECTICUT

(Population (1940), 1,709,242)
SENATORS

BRIEN MCMAHON, Democrat, of Norwalk, Conn., was born in Norwalk, Conn., on October 6, 1903; attended the Norwalk public and high schools; was graduated from Fordham University with B. A. degree in 1924 and from the law school of Yale University with LL. B. degree in 1927; judge, City Court of Norwalk, 1933; served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1933-35; served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 1935 to 1939 and was in charge of the Department of Justice Criminal Division; married Miss Rosemary Turner in February 1940, and they have one daughter, Patricia, age 7; elected United States Senator November 7, 1944, for the term ending January 3, 1951; author, McMahon Act for the Control of Atomic Energy.

RAYMOND EARL BALDWIN, Republican, of Stratford, Conn.; born in Rye, N. Y., August 31, 1893, the son of Lucian E. and Sarah Tyler Baldwin; attended the Central Grammar School; graduated from Middletown High School in 1912 and from Wesleyan University in 1916; entered Yale University in 1916 but left school when war was declared and enlisted as a seaman in the United States Navy; assigned to Officers' Training School, was commissioned an ensign at Annapolis in February 1918 and assigned to a destroyer, the U. S. S. Talbot; engaged in trans-Atlantic escort duty and in antisubmarine warfare off the Irish Coast in the English Channel and in the Bay of Biscay; promoted to lieutenant junior grade in September 1918 and following Armistice served in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas, his ship was assigned to Trieste and Fiume when trouble broke out after the Armistice; resigned from the Navy and returned to Yale University Law School in August 1919, and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1921; following graduation entered law office of Phillip Pond in New Haven and practiced law there until July 1, 1924, when he became associated with Pullman & Comley in Bridgeport; married Edith Lindholm, of Middletown, on June 29, 1922, and they have three sons-Lucian, 23, Raymond, Jr., 20, who served overseas in the Navy, and Tyler, 18; prosecutor of Stratford Town Court 1927-30; was made partner in the Pullman & Comley firm in 1928; judge of the Town Court of Stratford 1931-33; member of the General Assembly of 1931 and 1933, and served as house chairman of the Judiciary Committee and majority leader in 1933; private practice of law 1933-38; elected Governor of Connecticut in 1938; defeated for reelection in 1940; again elected Governor in 1942 and 1944; received honorary degree of LL. D. from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1939, and from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1940; Episcopalian; thirty-second degree Mason; Shriner; member of Delta Tau Delta, Elks, Loyal Order of Moose, Eagles, Redmen, Grange, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Forty and Eight; American, Connecticut, and Bridgeport Bar Associations, American Judicature Society, Graduates' Club of New Haven, and the University

Club of Bridgeport; trustee of Wesleyan University, Kent School, and of Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Mass.; director of the Russell Manufacturing Co., of Middletown, Conn., Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co., of Middletown, the Bridgeport Hospital, The Connecticut Mutual Insurance Co.; member of the board of directors of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co., and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co.; Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; First National Bank & Trust Co., of Bridgeport, Conn.; served as chairman of the New England Governors' Conference; Executive Committee Governors' Conference; elected to the United States Senate on November 5, 1946, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis Maloney in the term ending January 3, 1947, and on the same day was elected for the full term ending January 3, 1953.

REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1940), 1,709,242.

ANTONI NICHOLAS SADLAK, Republican, of Rockville, Conn.; born at Rockville June 13, 1908; was graduated from St. Joseph's Parochial School, George Sykes Manual Training and High School, both at Rockville, and was graduated with an LL. B. degree from Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, D. C., after completing the prelegal courses at Georgetown College; former assistant secretary-treasurer of the Hartford Production Credit Association at Hartford, Conn., and former special inspector, Special Inspections Division, United States Department of Justice, serving from July 1941 through December 1942; executive secretary to Congressman-at-Large B. J. Monkiewicz of Connecticut during Seventy-sixth and Seventy-eighth Congresses, resigning in March 1944 to accept commission in United States Naval Reserve; following indoctrination at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., and graduation from School of Naval Communications at Harvard, was assigned as communications watch officer and top secret officer on staff of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of Seventh Fleet; duty afloat and ashore in New Guinea, the Philippines, and China; from July 1, 1946, to September 15, 1946, was an educational supervisor, Connecticut Department of Education; married on May 30, 1939, to Alfreda Janina Zalewska; they have two children, Antoni, Jr., age 6, and Alita, born April 1, 1947; elected to Eightieth Congress with plurality of 100,100.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Hartford. Population (1940), 450,189.

WILLIAM J. MILLER, Republican, of Wethersfield, Conn., was born in North Andover, Mass., March 12, 1899, the son of James B. and Katherine S. Miller; attended the public schools of that town and Lawrence, Mass.; enlisted as a private, September 1917, in the Aviation Section, United States Army, Signal Corps; served in France from November 1917 to April 1919; received flying training in France, qualifying as a military aviator; commissioned as a second lieutenant, Air Service (flying status); injured in airplane crash in 1918 and as a result both legs were later amputated; past department commander and past national executive committeeman, American Legion, Department of Connecticut; member, Wethersfield Rotary Club, Wethersfield Country Club, and American Legion; married Marguerite M. Parrish, of New London, Conn.; served as a member of the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; elected to Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Middlesex, New London, Tolland, and Windham (4 counties). Population (1940), 269,312.

HORACE SEELY-BROWN, JR., Republican, of Pomfret Center, Conn.; born in Kensington, Md., May 12, 1908; graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1929 with B. S. degree; school teacher; farmer; served in World War II as Air Operations Officer, Carrier Aircraft Service Unit No. 2, 1943-46; married; three children; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

THIRD DISTRICT.-NEW HAVEN COUNTY: Towns of Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Wallingford, West Haven, and Woodridge. Population (1940), 323,756.

ELLSWORTH B. FOOTE, Republican, of North Branford, Conn.; born January 12, 1898, at North Branford, Conn.; education: Yale Business College, New Haven, 1916; LL. B., Georgetown University Law School, 1923; lawyer; special assistant to the Attorney General in the War Transaction Section of the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., February 1925 to July 1926; Judge of Probate, North Branford District, 1938-46: corporation counsel, town of North

Branford, 1924-46; Chairman of the Board of Finance, Town of North Branford, 1934-46; acting Judge of Probate, New Haven Probate Court, November 1944 to July 1945; attorney for the County of New Haven, 1942-46; practicing attorney before all courts in Connecticut since 1924, and before the Supreme Court of the United States since 1929; captain in Governor's Foot Guard and former member of Troop A Cavalry, Connecticut National Guard; married to Ruth Magill, descendant of the founder of McGill University; four children-Robert, Roberta, Richard, and Anne Marie; member of the Congregational Church, New Haven County Bar Association, American Bar Association, New Haven Choral Club, and of the Totoket Grange P. of H.; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Fairfield. Population (1940), 418,384.

JOHN DAVIS LODGE, Republican, of Westport, Conn.; born in Washington, D. C., October 20, 1903; graduate of Harvard College, Ecole de Droit, Paris, France, and Harvard Law School; member of bar and practiced law for several years and subsequently employed by motion-picture companies; during World War II served 31⁄2 years active duty with the Navy of which more than 20 months was spent overseas; public relations officer for Admiral H. K. Hewitt for the Sicilian operation; naval historian for the Salerno operation, and also landed in southern France; throughout overseas duty was liaison officer between French and American fleets; decorated with the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor and with the Croix de Guerre with Palm by General de Gaulle; member of the August Matthias Post, American Legion, and Joseph J. Clinton Post No. 399, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Westport, Conn.; married; two children; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-LITCHFIELD COUNTY, NEW HAVEN COUNTY: Towns of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Waterbury, and Wolcott. Population (1940), 247,601.

JAMES THOMAS PATTERSON, Republican, of Naugatuck, Conn.; born in Naugatuck, Conn., October 20, 1908; educated in Naugatuck grammar and high school; Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N. Y., 1929; Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., 1933; University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., 1934; and National University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1939; captain of Naugatuck High School football team in 1927; coached football at Miami University, 1933-34; during summer vacations worked for the State of Connecticut Highway Department as a laborer, 1924-33; in millroom of United States Rubber Co., Naugatuck, Conn., winter of 1934; United States Department of Labor, Washington, D. C., 1934–37; Social Security Board, 1937-38; United States Treasury Department, Law Enforcement Division, 1938-40; married to former Jeanne Kinsman, of Washington, D. C.; two children-Jim, Jr., and Ann Hayden, entered active duty with United States Marine Corps September 14, 1941; graduated from Officers Candidate School, School of Applied Tactics, and Marine Corps Motor School and assigned to Third Division as executive officer of a tank company; promoted to captain and took command of a tank company in Fourth Division; transferred to O. S. S. because of background as treasury agent; in spring of 1943 assigned to Glassford Mission, French West Africa, as intelligence officer; later served with airborne intelligence in European Theater, and participated in landings on D-day; after several months in France, transferred to East and saw service in India, Burma, and China; in June 1945, transferred to the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for the prosecution of Axis criminals; honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps July 17, 1946, with rank of major; member of American Legion, V. F. W., D. A. V., Marine Corps League, Elks, Delta Theta Phi; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

DELAWARE

(Population (1940), 266,505)
SENATORS

CLAYTON DOUGLASS BUCK, Republican, of Wilmington, Del.; born March 21, 1890, in New Castle County, Del., at Buena Vista, the family estate inherited from John M. Clayton, three times United States Senator, co-author of

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