Alabama; married Miss Ocllo Gunn, of Thomasville, Clarke County, Ala., and they have five children; during the World War was official in shipbuilding companies which built 52 percent of all ships built on the Gulf coast prior to Armistice; was president of the Loyalty League of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; is a thirty-second degree Mason, Shriner, Elk, W. O. W., Moose, Ó. E. S.; a member of the Methodist Church; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress at a special election held on July 30, 1935, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John McDuffie; reelected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventyseventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Lowndes, Montgomery, and Pike (9 counties). Population (1940), 356,553. GEORGE MCINVALE GRANT, Democrat, of Troy, Ala., was born in Louisville, Ala., July 11, 1897; attended the academic department of the University of Alabama and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1922; is a lawyer by profession; served as county solicitor of Pike County, 1927-37, and as chairman of the Pike County Democratic executive committee, 1927-37; member of the State Democratic executive committee, 1935-38; World War veteran; served as State commander of the American Legion in 1929, and as national secretary of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in 1922; president, Dixie Amateur Baseball League, 1935; Alabama-Florida Baseball League 1936-38; and Alabama Society in Washington, 1944-45; member, Kiwanis, Woodmen of the World, Masons, and Shrine; married Miss Matalie Carter, December 5, 1938, and has one son, George McInvale, Jr., and one daughter, Alicia Gail; nominated in special Democratic primary on March 11, 1938, and elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress at a special election on June 14, 1938, to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Lister Hill, resigned; reelected to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon, and Russell (10 counties). Population (1940), 303,837. GEORGE WILLIAM ANDREWS, Democrat, of Union Springs, Ala.; born in Clayton, Ala., December 12, 1906; attended the academic department of the University of Alabama and was graduated with LL. B. degree in 1928; is a lawyer by profession; served as circuit solicitor for the third judicial circuit of the State of Alabama (Barbour, Bullock, Russell, and Dale Counties) from 1931 to 1943; at time of election to Congress was serving as lieutenant (junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, at Pearl Harbor, and had been in the United States Naval Reserve 14 months; was released from active duty by the Navy Department to serve in Congress; married Elizabeth Bullock, of Geneva, Ala., November 25, 1936; one daughter, Jane Meredith, one son, George W., 3d; fraternities, Sigma Nu, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Delta Phi (legal); elected to the Seventyeighth Congress on March 14, 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B. Steagall, serving on Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, Roads Committee, and Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congress, serving on Appropriations Committee, and Independent Offices, District of Columbia and Navy Subcommittee. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Autauga, Calhoun, Clay, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, St. Clair, and Talladega (8 counties). Population (1940), 283,622. SAM HOBBS, Democrat, of Selma, Ala.; born at Selma, October 5, 1887; attended the public school, Callaway's preparatory school, Marion Military Institute, Vanderbilt University, and University of Alabama, graduating from Callaway's, M. M. I. and University of Alabama; fraternities, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Masonic, and Shrine; lawyer; member, Dallas County, Alabama State, and American Bar Associations, and American Judicature Society; married Sarah Ellen Greene, of Birmingham, Ala.; children: Sam Earle, Rosa Miller, and Truman; appointed judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1921, elected in 1923 for a term of 6 years, and resigned to resume law practice in 1926; chairman of Muscle Shoals Commission, 1931; chairman Alabama N. R. A. Committee, 1933; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; Committee service: Post Office and Post Roads 1935, Judiciary since; elected March 6, 1936, by the House of Representatives, one of the managers on the part of the House for the impeachment trial of Halsted L. Ritter, then judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and served as one of such managers in that trial before the Senate of the United States; reelected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventysixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chambers, Cherokee, Cleburne, De Kalb, Etowah, Marshall, Randolph, and Tallapoosa (8 counties). Population (1940), 294,539. ALBERT RAINS, Democrat, of Gadsden, Ala.; was born in De Kalb County, Ala., March 11, 1902; attended the public schools of De Kalb County, Snead Seminary, Boaz, Ala., State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Ala., and the University of Alabama; is a lawyer by profession; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, being a member of the firm of Rains & Rains; was deputy solicitor for Etowah County, Ala., 1930-35; city attorney for the city of Gadsden, 1935-44; member of the house of representatives of the Alabama Legislature from Etowah County, 1942-44; married Miss Allison Blair of Centre, Cherokee County, Ala., on December 29, 1939; elected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bibb, Chilton, Greene, Hale, Perry, Shelby, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa (8 counties). Population (1940), 251,757. PETE JARMAN, Democrat, of Livingston, Ala., born in Greensboro, Ala., October 31, 1892; graduated from the University of Alabama, A. B. degree, 1913; chief clerk in probate office of Sumter County, 1913-17; assistant examiner of accounts of the State of Alabama, 1919–30; Secretary of State, 1931-35; member of the State Democratic executive committee, 1927-31, second and first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry during the World War, slightly wounded on the western front; inspector general of Alabama National Guard, with rank of major, 1922-24; division inspector of the Thirty-first Infantry Division, with rank of lieutenant colonel, 1924 to 1940; commander of the Alabama Department of the American Legion, 1927–28; married Miss Beryl Bricken on February 25, 1930; member of the Methodist Church, Masons, Woodmen of the World, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of World War, Purple Heart, Disabled American Veterans, Forty and Eight, Tuscaloosa Riding Club, and honorary member Kiwanis; president, Alabama Society in Washington, 1941-42; president, Jefferson Islands Club; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress, designated chairman of Standing Committee on Memorials immediately; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress, became chairman of the House Committee on Printing and vice chairman of Joint Committee on Printing and member of Foreign Affairs Committee; reelected to succeeding Congresses. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston (9 counties). Population (1940), 285, 138. CARTER MANASCO, Democrat, of Jasper, Ala., was born in Townley, Ala., January 3, 1902; attended public schools there and Howard College, Birmingham, Ala., for 2 years; was graduated from the University of Alabama Law School in 1927; began the active practice of law in Jasper, Ala., immediately after graduation; elected to the Alabama House of Representatives from Walker County in 1930 for a 4-year term; secretary to Speaker William B. Bankhead from June 1933 until his death September 15, 1940; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on June 24, 1941, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Walter W. Bankhead; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; married to Miss Mae Emma Guyton, Jasper, Ala.; Baptist and Mason. EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and Morgan (7 counties). Population (1940), 300,112. ROBERT E. JONES, JR., Democrat of Scottsboro, Ala., where he was born June 12, 1912; attended public schools of Scottsboro; graduated from the University of Alabama with LL. B. degree on January 7, 1937, and admitted to the bar in Alabama January 20, 1937; member of Methodist Church, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kappa Alpha fraternity; married Christine Francis April 9, 1938, and they have one son, Robert E. Jones 3d; engaged in the general practice of law as a firm member Brewton & Jones; elected judge of Jackson County Court July 1940; entered Navy December 1943, and served Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operation as gunnery officer; reelected in absentia judge of Jackson County Court, May 1945; discharged from service February 1946; elected on January 28, 1947, to Eightieth Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy created by John J. Sparkman's election to the United States Senate. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Jefferson. Population (1940), 459,930. LAURIE CALVIN BATTLE, Democrat, of Birmingham, Ala., was born in Wilsonville, Ala., May 10, 1912; was graduated from Deshler High School, Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1930; Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Ala., A. B., majoring in psychology, 1934; attended Vanderbilt University and Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn., specializing in social work and sociology, 1935; received M. A. degree in sociology from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1939, and completed 1 year in residence on Ph. D.; attended University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., department of political science, fall, 1946; driver-salesman, assistant to personnel and claims director, National Dairies; laborer, district clerk, Southern Natural Gas Co.; Alabama National Guard, Company M, 1933-34; entered Army of the United States as private 1942, attended Officers Candidate School, discharged from Army Air Corps as major 1946; served in Pacific theater; member of the Methodist Church; member of Lions Club, Eagles, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Reserve Officers Association, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars; fraternities: Kappa Phi Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Alpha, Phi Gamma Mu; married Miss Janis Hunt, of Brockport, N. Y., on December 3, 1945; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946. ARIZONA (Population (1940), 499,261) SENATORS CARL HAYDEN, Democrat, Phoenix; born Hayden's Ferry (now Tempe), Ariz., October 2, 1877; educated in public schools of Tempe, Normal School of Arizona, and Stanford University; delegate Democratic National Convention 1904; elected treasurer Maricopa County 1904, sheriff 1906, reelected 1908; appointed major of Infantry, United States National Army, October 4, 1918; married; elected to Sixty-second and succeeding Congresses through Sixty-ninth; elected to United States Senate 1926; reelected 1932, 1938, and 1944. ERNEST W. MCFARLAND, Democrat, of Florence, Ariz., was born on a farm near Earlsboro, Okla., October 9, 1894, the son of W. T. and Keziah McFarland, early settlers of the Pottawatomie strip in Oklahoma; received early education in Oklahoma, attending the Earlsboro and Seminole High Schools; graduated from the East Central State Teachers College, Ada, Okla., and taught a country school in Seminole County for 1 year, earning money to attend the University of Oklahoma, from which he received his B. A. degree; schooling was interrupted by the World War; after his discharge from service in the spring of 1919, worked for a short time in the Valley National Bank, Phoenix, and then went to Stanford University, where he received his juris doctor degree in law and master's degree in political science; admitted to the bar in 1920 and shortly thereafter began his practice of law in Casa Grande, Ariz.; served as assistant attorney general of Arizona for 2 years, as county attorney of Pinal County, Ariz., for 6 years, and for 6 years as judge of the Superior Court of Pinal County, Ariz., having tried cases in every county in the State of Arizona, during private practice of law, represented the San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District and has made an extensive study of irrigation problems and water law; during the time he was on the bench he tried many important water cases involving most of the water rights of Arizona; his wife is Edna Eveland McFarland and he has one daughter, Jewell, 18 years old; elected to the United States Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 for the term ending January 3, 1953. REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE.-Population (1940), 499,261. RICHARD FIELDING HARLESS, Democrat, of Phoenix, Ariz.; born in Kelsey, Tex., August 6, 1905, the son of William C. and Mary Pennington Harless; came to Arizona at the age of 12; received an A. B. degree from University of Arizona in 1928; taught school for 2 years before entering the University of Arizona Law College, from which he received the juris doctor degree in 1933; immediately entered private practice of law in Phoenix; appointed assistant city attorney of Phoenix in 1935; appointed assistant attorney general of Arizona in 1936; elected county attorney of Maricopa County in 1938; reelected county attorney in 1940; father of two sons; wife deceased; elected November 3, 1942, as United States Representative in the Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses. JOHN ROBERT MURDOCK, Democrat, of Tempe, Ariz.; born near Lewistown, Lewis County, Mo., April 20, 1885; educated in the common schools of Missouri; A. B. degree from the State Teachers College at Kirksville, Mo., in 1912, M. A. degree from the University of Iowa in 1925, did graduate work at the University of California in 1929; for 22 years an instructor in the three institutions of higher learning in Arizona; author of textbooks on history and government used in the public schools of Arizona; 3 years dean of the Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe; married to Myrtle Cheney in 1906; father of three children— Rachael Murdock Ellis, Scottsdale, Ariz., Lt. David N. Murdock, killed in action in Sicily, August 11, 1943, Lt. Col. John B. Murdock, Sixty-seventh Fighter Wing, Eighth Air Force; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress November 3, 1936; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress November 5, 1940; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress November 7, 1944; and to the Eightieth Congress November 5, 1946. ARKANSAS (Population (1940), 1,949,387) SENATORS JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Democrat, of Camden, Ark.; born at Sheridan, Grant County, Ark., February 25, 1896; first lieutenant of A. S. S. C. during the First World War; lawyer; prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial district of Arkansas, 1926-30; member of Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses from the Sixth Congressional District of Arkansas; elected United States Senator November 3, 1942, for the term beginning January 3, 1943. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Democrat, of Fayetteville, Ark.; born in Sumner, Mo., April 9, 1905; moved with his parents, Jay and Roberta Waugh Fulbright, to Fayetteville, Ark., in February 1906; was graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1925; Rhodes scholar, Oxford University, England, receiving B. A. and M. A. degrees in 1928; and was graduated from George Washington University in 1934 with LL. B. degree; attorney, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 1934-35; instructor in law, George Washington University and University of Arkansas, 1935-39; married Miss Elizabeth K. Williams in 1932; two children, Roberta and Elizabeth; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; elected to the United States Senate November 7, 1944, for the term ending January 3, 1951. REPRESENTATIVES FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis, and Woodruff (11 counties). Population (1940), 423,152. EZEKIEL CANDLER GATHINGS, Democrat, of West Memphis, Crittenden County, Ark.; born in Prairie, Monroe County, Miss., November 10, 1903; parents, Melville W. Gathings (deceased) and Virgie Garner Gathings; attended Earle (Ark.) High School and University of Alabama; was graduated from the University of Arkansas with LL. B. degree in 1929; married Miss Tolise Kirkpatrick on April 6, 1939, and they have two children, one daughter, Tolise Kirkpatrick Gathings, born April 22, 1940, and one son, Joseph Royston Gathings 2d, born March 26, 1945; lawyer by profession; member of the State senate, 1935-39; member of the Baptist Church; Mason and Shriner, Order of the Eastern Star, Rotary Club, and Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Alpha Delta, and Blue Key fraternities; elected to the Seventy-sixth and succeeding Congresses. SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Billingsley, of Kensett, May 27, 1934, and they have two daughters-Martha Sue and Rebecca Ann; lawyer; admitted to practice law before Supreme Court of Arkansas in November 1933, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1939; served as county and probate judge of White County, Ark., 1934 to 1938, inclusive; Methodist; thirty-second degree Mason; elected to Seventy-sixth and succeeding Congresses. THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll. Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Van Buren, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1940), 177,476. JAMES WILLIAM TRIMBLE, Democrat, of Berryville, Ark.; born near Osage, Carroll County, Ark., February 3, 1894; attended the common schools in native county and was graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1917; lawyer; prosecuting attorney; circuit judge; married Miss Ruth Maples, of Berryville, Ark., on February 14, 1922; two children (twins), a daughter, Martha Carol (deceased), and James Kerry, a lieutenant in the United States Army; Mason, Methodist, Legionnaire; elected to the Seventy-ninth Congress November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress. FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, and Sevier (11 counties). Population (1940), 242,165. FADJO CRAVENS, Democrat, of Fort Smith, Ark., where he was born February 15, 1899; educated in public schools of Fort Smith, University of Arkansas, University of Pittsburgh, and Washington and Lee University; lawyer; married Elizabeth Echols, of Fort Smith; two children, Fadjo, Jr., and Katherine Elizabeth Cravens; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress at a special election on September 12, 1939, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Ben Cravens; reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member, Judiciary Committee. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Yell (8 counties). Population (1940), 293,023. BROOKS HAYS, Democrat, of Little Rock, Ark.; born in London, Ark., August 9, 1898, son of Steele and Sallie Butler Hays; attended Russellville, Ark., public schools; received A. B. degree, University of Arkansas, 1919; LL. B. degree, George Washington University, 1922; honorary degree of doctor of laws, College of the Ozarks, 1945, and Salem College, 1946; served in the United States Army September to December 1918; married Marian Prather, of Fort Smith, Ark., February 2, 1922; they have two children, Mrs. William E. Bell, Little Rock, Ark., and a son, Marion Steele; assistant attorney general of Arkansas, 1925-27; Democratic national committeeman for Arkansas, 1932-39; held administrative and legal positions in the Department of Agriculture, 1936-42; president of the Arkansas Conference of Social Work, 1932-34; member of board of trustees of George Peabody College, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Alpha, and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities, the American Legion, and Lions Club (district governor, 1926-27); Baptist; Mason (KCCH); elected November 3, 1942, to Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, and Saline (12 counties). Population (1940), 303,301. W. F. NORRELL, Democrat, of Monticello, Ark.; born August 29, 1896, at Milo, Ark.; educated in public schools, A. & M. College, College of the Ozarks (LL. D. honorary); licensed and practicing attorney in Supreme Court of Arkansas and United States Supreme Court; member of bar associations; ex-soldier of World War No. 1, charter member of Joe S. Harris Post No. 2, American Legion, Department of Arkansas; member First Baptist Church (Deacon), Monticello, Ark.; member, F. & A. M., Council, Eastern Star (past Worthy Grand Patron of Arkansas), R. A. M. Chapter No. 115, Monticello, thirty-second degree Mason, Consistory of Little Rock; and Lions Club; elected to State senate of Arkansas in 1931, reelected in 1935, serving 8 successive years; elected president of State senate from 1933 to 1937, during which time served on several occasions as acting Governor; married Catherine Dorris in 1924 and they have one child, a daughter, Judy Norrell; elected to Seventy-sixth and each succeeding Congress. SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, |