and Harvard Law School; lawyer; served in the U. S. Army October 10 to December 12, 1918; secretary, trustees of Deerfield Academy; trustee, Greenfield Savings Bank; selectman, Deerfield, Mass., 1932–35; president, Massachusetts Selectmen's Association, 1935-38; district attorney, northwestern district, 1939, and reelected in 1942; married; elected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of Chicopee and Springfield; towns of Agawam, Brimfield, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Holland, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Monson, Waies, West Springfield, and Wilbraham. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: City of Northampton; towns of Amherst, Easthampton, Granby, Hadley, Hatfield, and South Hadley. Population (1940), 299,109. CHARLES RUSSELL CLASON, Republican, of Springfield, Mass.; born in Gardiner, Maine, September 3, 1890; was graduated from Bates College in 1911; from Georgetown University Law School in 1914; and from Oxford University in 1917; attorney at law; district attorney, western district of Massachusetts, 192730; World War veteran; married to Emma M. Pattillo, of Truro, Nova Scotia; elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress and reelected to the Seventy-sixth, Seventyseventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-HAMPDEN COUNTY: Town of Palmer. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Town of Ware. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Marlborough; towns of Hudson, Maynard, Shirley, and Stow. WORCES TER COUNTY: Cities of Fitchburg, Gardner, and Leominster; towns of Ashburnham, Barre, Black. stone, Bolton, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Hardwick, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Lunenburg, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, Northbridge, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Brookfield, Westminster, and Winchendon. Population (1940), 296,281.

PHILIP JOSEPH PHILBIN, Democrat, of Clinton, Mass.; born in Clinton, Mass., May 29, 1898; educated at Clinton public and high schools, Harvard College, A. B. course, class of 1920, and Columbia University Law School, class of 1924, LL. B. degree; practicing attorney, businessman, and farmer; former secretary, campaign manager, and personal representative for United States Senator David I. Walsh; former special counsel, United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor; former referee, United States Department of Labor; former member, advisory board, Massachusetts Unemployment Compensation Commission; present chairman of Town of Clinton Finance Committee; president of Clinton Chamber of Commerce; married Miss Lillan Sundberg; two children, Mary Ellen Bamby and Ann Blenda; veteran of First World War; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress; reelected to the Eightieth Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Waltham; towns of Ashland, Framingham, Hopkinton, Sudbury, Wayland, and Weston. WORCESTER COUNTY: City of Worcester; towns of Auburn, Berlin, Boylston, Grafton, Holden, Northborough, Shrewsbury, Southborough, Sterling, Westborough, and West Boylston. Population (1940), 313,605.

HAROLD D. DONOHUE, Democrat, of Worcester, Mass.; born in Worcester, Mass., June 18, 1901; attended the schools of that city; was graduated from the Northeastern University School of Law in 1925; was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in February 1926 and practiced law in the city of Worcester since; entered the United States Navy in December 1942 and was separated from the service in December 1945 with the rank of lieutenant commander; single; served in the Worcester city government for a period of 10 years; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Town of Andover. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of Lowell and Woburn; towns of Acton, Arlington, Ashby, Ayer, Bedford, Belmont, Billerica, Boxborough, Burling. ton, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsboro, Watertown, Westford, Wilmington, and Winchester. Population (1940), 336,642.

EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Republican, of Lowell; born, Saco, Maine, 1881; graduate Rogers Hall School, Lowell, and Madame Julien's School, Paris, France; received honorary M. A. degrees from Tufts College and Bates College; honorary LL. D. from Washington College of Law; president of the board of trustees of Rogers Hall School, Lowell; member of Women's Overseas League and American Legion Auxiliary; served overseas, 1917; with American Red Cross in care of the disabled, 1918-22; appointed personal representative in care of disabled veterans by President Harding, 1922; reappointed by President Coolidge, 1923, and by President Hoover, March 28, 1929; Presidential elector, 1924; elected to Congress June 30, 1925, to fill vacancy caused by death of husband, the late Representative John Jacob Rogers; reelected to the Seventieth and all succeeding Congresses; including the Eightieth, by large majorities.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Cities of Salem, Beverly, Gloucester, Haverhill, Newburyport, and the City of Lynn, wards 2 and 3; towns of Amesbury, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Newbury, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, and West Newbury. Population (1940), 281,875.

GEORGE JOSEPH BATES, Republican, of Salem, Mass., was born in that city on February 25, 1891; married; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (7 years), 1918-24; served as mayor of Salem (14 years), 1924-37; elected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: City of Lawrence, city of Lynn, wards 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and city of Peabody; towns of Middleton, Nahant, and North Andover. SUFFOLK COUNTY: Cities of Chelsea and Revere and town of Winthrop. Population (1940), 278,636.

THOMAS J. LANE, Democrat, of Lawrence; born in Lawrence, Mass., July 6, 1898; attorney at law; attended the public schools of Lawrence, Mass.; graduated from Suffolk Law School with LL. B. degree in 1925; admitted to practice of law in Massachusetts in 1926 and the United States District Court in 1927; World War veteran; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1927 to 1938; member of Massachusetts Senate from 1939 until his resignation to become a member of the Seventy-seventh Congress; elected to the Seventyseventh Congress at a special election held on December 30, 1941, to fill, for the unexpired term, the seat left vacant by the death of Lawrence J. Connery; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Towns of Lynnfield and Saugus. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Cities of Everett, Malden, Medford, and Melrose, city of Somerville, wards 4, 5, 6, and 7; towns of North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Population (1940), 307,374.

ANGIER LOUIS GOODWIN, Republican, of Melrose, Mass.; born in Fairfield, Maine, January 30, 1881; Colby College, A. B., 1902, Harvard Law School, 1905; admitted to Maine bar in 1905 and to Massachusetts bar in 1906; practiced law with office in Boston since 1906; married Eleanor Hardy Stone, of Bangor, Maine, in 1905 and has three children-Roger L., Mary E. (Mrs. Robert De Witt Culver), and Barbara L.; during First World War served in Massachusetts State Guard and as member of legal advisory board to aid draft registrants; served as trustee of Melrose public library; member of planning board and chairman of board of appeal; 8 years a member of the Melrose Board of Aldermen and president of the board in 1920; mayor of Melrose in 1921 and reelected in 1922; member of Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1925 to 1928; member Massachusetts State Senate from 1929 to 1941 and president of the senate in 1941; chairman Massachusetts Commission on Participation in New York World's Fair; appointed by Gov. Leverett Saltonstall as chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Administration and Finance in December 1941, and resigned in May 1942, to become candidate for Congress; thirty-second degree Mason, member of Shrine, Eastern Star, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Grange, and Zeta Psi fraternity; member of Boston City Club, and University Club of Washington; Unitarian; elected to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses; reelected to the Eightieth Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket. BRISTOL COUNTY: City of Fall River, ward 6, and city of New Bedford; towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Westport. NORFOLK COUNTY: Town of Cohasset. PLYMOUTH COUNTY: Towns of Abington, Bridgewater, Carver, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Lakeville, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, Wareham, West Bridgewater, and Whitman. Population (1940), 311,840. DONALD W. NICHOLSON, Republican, Wareham, Mass.; elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1925; served in the Massachusetts Senate 1926-47; unanimously elected president of the Massachusetts Senate in 1946, resigning the office when elected to the Eightieth Congress November 18, 1947, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Charles L. Gifford; married; one son and one daughter, both veterans of World War II.

TENTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Newton. NORFOLK COUNTY: Town of Brookline, SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Boston, wards 4, 5, 10, 12, 19, 20, and 21. Population (1940), 346,623. CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER, Republican, of Boston, Mass.; born in Paris, France, March 28, 1895, of American parents; was graduated from Harvard University, cum laude, in 1915; attaché of the American Embassy in

Berlin, Germany, in 1916, and for 2 months was in charge of the American Legation in Brussels, Belgium; in the Department of State at Washington, D. C., 1917 and 1919; in 1918 was assistant commissioner and secretary of special diplomatic mission to draw up prisoner-of-war agreement with Germany and secretary of American Peace Commission; executive secretary, European Relief Council, 1920; personal assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, 1921–24; editor of the Independent, 1924–28; associate editor and vice president of the Sportsman, 1927-37; visiting lecturer on Government, Harvard University, 1929-30; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1931-43, serving as speaker 1939-43; president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, 1937-41; overseer of Harvard University, 1940-44; trustee of many philanthropic and charitable organizations; deputy director, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C., from December 1941 to June 1942; married Mary Caroline Pratt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1917; four children, Christian A., Jr., Dr. Frederic P., Mrs. Joseph Seronde, Jr., and Miles; elected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventyninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Cambridge and city of Somerville, wards 1, 2, and 3. SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Boston, wards 1, 2, 3, and 22. Population (1940), 328,051. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, Democrat, of Boston, Mass.; born in Brookline, Mass., May 29, 1917; Harvard University, 1940, B. S. cum laude; London School of Economics; joined Navy in September 1941; served in P. T. boats in Pacific; retired in April 1945; received Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart; correspondent, International News Service, covering San Francisco Conference, British election of 1945, and Potsdam meeting, 1945; unmarried; author of Why England Slept; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Boston, wards 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Population (1940), 329,294.

JOHN W. McCORMACK, Democrat, of Dorchester; born in South Boston; lawyer; educated in the Boston public schools; admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1913 and the United States district court in 1915; married to M. Harriet Joyce of South Boston; member of the constitutional convention, 1917-18; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1920, 1921, and 1922, and the Massachusetts Senate 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926, the last 2 years as Democratic leader; Member Seventieth Congress, filling unexpired term of the late James A. Gallivan; Member Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Congresses; majority leader; reelected to the Eightieth Congress, minority whip; World War I veteran; awarded honorary degrees of LL. D. by Boston University, Boston, Mass., March 13, 1942; LL. D. by Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., May 5, 1942; LL. D. by Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., June 13, 1945; member of Knights of Columbus.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-NORFOLK COUNTY: City of Quincy; towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Needham, Norwood, Randolph, Westwood, and Weymouth. PLYMOUTH COUNTY: City of Brockton. SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Boston, ward 18. Population (1940), 306,750. RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Republican, of Milton; born in Boston, April 25, 1891; educated at Harvard (Á. B. 1912, LL. B. 1916); married Florence Joyes Booth of Louisville, Ky., April 30, 1931; children, Ann Joyes, Mary Dixwell, and Jane Booth; assistant private secretary to Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, 1913; lawyer; served in France during World War as captain, Battery E, and commanding officer, First Battalion, Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, Seventy-sixth Division; office of Secretary of the Treasury as legal adviser to Assistant Secretary in charge of foreign loans and railway payments, and secretary of World War Foreign Debt Commission, 1922-24; assistant to agent general for reparation payments, Berlin, 1924-27; Paris representative and general counsel for organizations created under Dawes plan, 1927-28; member of American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, American Legion, "40 and 8", Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order World War, Military Order Foreign Wars; elected November 6, 1928, to the Seventieth Congress for the unexpired term of the late Hon. Louis A. Frothingham; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventyfourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventyninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-BRISTOL COUNTY: City of Attleboro, city of Fall River, wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9, and city of Taunton; towns of Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, and Swansea. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Towns of Holliston, Natick, and Sherborn. NORFOLK COUNTY: Towns of Bellingham, Dover, Foxborough, Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Norfolk, Plainville, Sharon, Stoughton, Walpole, Wellesley, and Wrentham. WORCESTER COUNTY: Towns of Hopedale and Mendon. Population (1940), 302,182.

JOSEPH WILLIAM MARTIN, JR., Republican, of North Attleboro, Mass.; born November 3, 1884; educated in the public schools of North Attleboro; honorary degrees: LL. D. from Tufts College, Medford, Mass.; LL. D., Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pa.; D. C. L., Boston University, Boston, Mass.; M. S. B. A., Bryant College, Providence, R. I.; publisher of Evening Chronicle, North Attleboro and Franklin Sentinel, Franklin, Mass.; member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1912-14; member, Massachusetts State Senate, 1914-17; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1916; chairman, Massachusetts Street Railway Investigating Committee, 1917; chairman, Massachusetts Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, 1917; Harding-Coolidge Presidential elector, 1920; executive secretary, Republican State committee, 1922-25; delegate at large to Republican National Convention at Cleveland in 1936; chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1938; permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1940; member of Republican National Committee, 1936 to 1940; elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, July 1940; resigned chairmanship in November 1942; delegate at large to Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1944 and served as permanent chairman; in 1924, elected Member of the Sixty-ninth and to each succeeding Congress, including the Eightieth; elected Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress; elected Speaker on January 3, 1947.

MICHIGAN

(Population (1940), 5,256,106)
SENATORS

ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Republican, of Grand Rapids, was born in that city on March 22, 1884, the son of Aaron and Alpha (Hendrick); educated in the common schools, later studying law in the University of Michigan; has an honorary M. A. and LL. D. from his alma mater and an honorary LL. D. from Hope College, Alma College, and Syracuse University; also honorary D. C. L. from Union College, New York, and Albion College; editor and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald until appointment to the United States Senate; author of several books dealing with Alexander Hamilton; in 1912 a member of the Grand Rapids Charter Commission; in 1913 chairman of the Michigan commission which put Zachariah Chandler's statue in the Washington Capitol; in 1916 and in 1928 was chairman of the Michigan Republican State convention; from 1912 to 1918 member of the Republican State central committee of Michigan; married Hazel H. Whitaker, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; his three children are Arthur, Jr., Barbara, and Elizabeth; appointed to the United States Senate March 31, 1928; elected on November 6, 1928, for the short term and for the long term ending in 1935; reelected for the terms ending in 1941, 1947, and 1953; Republican nominee for President pro tempore of the Senate, 1932, 1936, 1941, 1943, 1945; elected President pro tempore on January 3, 1947; United States delegate to United Nations Organization meeting at San Francisco, 1945; United States delegate to first General Assembly of the United Nations, London, 1946, and to the Second General Assembly in New York, 1946; United States delegate to Council of Foreign Ministers, Paris, 1946, and to Paris Peace Conference, 1946; United States delegate to Pan-American Treaty Conference at Rio de Janeiro, 1947; given Collier award for Distinguished Congressional Service, 1946.

HOMER FERGUSON, Republican, of Detroit, Mich.; born in Harrison City, Pa., February 25, 1889; attended the University of Pittsburgh and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1913 with LL. B. degree; lawyer; appointed circuit judge of the Circuit Court for Wayne County, Mich., in 1929, elected in 1930, and reelected in 1935 and 1941; married Myrtle Jones in 1913; one daughter, Mrs. Charles R. Beltz; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1942, for the term ending January 3, 1949.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF DETROIT: Wards 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15, and city of Hamtramck. Population (1940), 352,977.

GEORGE G. SADOWSKI, Democrat, of Detroit, Mich., was born in Detroit, March 12, 1903, the son of Charles and Ludwika Sadowski; attended the Ferry School at Detroit, Mich., and the Foley (Ala.) High School, graduating from Northeastern High School at Detroit in 1920, and from the law college of the University of Detroit, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1924; married Eleanor Leppek and they have four children-Caroline, Eleanor, George, and Ludwika; law, real estate, insurance; State senator, 1931-32; member of Detroit Democratic Club, Wayne County Democratic Committee, Michigan Bar Association, Detroit Bar Association, Polish National Alliance, Polish Falcons, University of Detroit Alumni Association, Chene Business Association, Sunnybrook Golf Club; elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-eighth, Seventyninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw (4 counties). Popula tion (1940), 285,648.

EARL CORY MICHENER, Republican, of Adrian, Mich.; educated in public schools of Adrian, the University of Michigan, and the law department of Columbian University; admitted to the bar in 1903; served throughout the SpanishAmerican War; elected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixtyninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, and Kalamazoo (5 counties). Pop. ulation (1940), 283,352.

PAUL W. SHAFER, Republican, Bronson, Mich.; elected to Seventy-fifth and succeeding Congresses."

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph, and Van Buren (6 counties). Population (1940), 242,339.

CLARE E. HOFFMAN, Republican, Allegan, Mich.; born Vicksburg, Pa., September 10, 1875; public schools; Northwestern University Law School; married; elected Seventy-fourth Congress, November 6, 1934; reelected November 3, 1936, with a plurality of 5,276; reelected November 8, 1938, with a plurality of 15,367; reelected November 5, 1940, with a plurality of 25,224; reelected November 3, 1942, with a plurality of 23,588, which was 69 percent of the vote cast, highest previous plurality being 61 percent; reelected November 7, 1944, with a plurality of 30,479; reelected November 5, 1946, with a plurality of 37,284, which was 73 percent of the vote cast.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Kent and Ottawa (2 counties). Population (1940), 305,998.

BARTEL J. JONKMAN, Republican, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; born in that city April 28, 1884, the son of John B. and Sarah (Holwerda) Jonkman; educated in the common schools; married Anna Vanden Bosch, September 28, 1904, and they have three children-Cecilia, Gwendolyn, and Esther; graduated from the University of Michigan in 1914, with degree of LL. B.; prosecuting attorney of Kent County, Mich., four terms, 1929-36; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress at a special election held February 19, 1940; 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; reelected to the Eightieth Congress November 5, 1946.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Genesee, Ingham, and Livingston (3 counties). Population (1940), 379,423.

WILLIAM W. BLACKNEY, Republican, of Flint, Mich.; born at Clio, Genesee County, Mich.; educated in the public schools of Genesee County; attended school at Big Rapids, Mich., and Olivet College, Olivet, Mich.; was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1912, since which time he has practiced law in Genesee County; he was assistant prosecuting attorney from 1913 to 1917; member of the board of education, Flint, for 10 years; has been instructor of the factory night school at Flint for 14 years; married to Cassie F. Miller, December 28, 1904, and they have three children-Shirley Mae