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NINTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties at Decatur Street, to Knickerbocker Avenue, to Jefferson Avenue, to Wilson Avenue, to Halsey Street, to Central Avenue, to Hancock Street, to Bushwick Avenue, to Weirfield Street, to Broadway, to Hancock Street, to Saratoga Avenue, to Broadway, to Stuyvesant Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Patchen Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Buffalo Avenue, to Herkimer Street, to Howard Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Saratoga Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Radde Place, to Herkimer Street, to Rockaway Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Sackman Street, to East New York Avenue, to Watkins Street, to Sutter Avenue, to Christopher Avenue, to Livonia Avenue, to Watkins Street, to Lott Avenue, to Stone Avenue, to Hegeman Avenue (Linden Boulevard), to Bank Street, to East One Hundred and Seventh Street, to Avenue D, to East One Hundred and Fourth Street, to Farragut Road, to East One Hundred and Third Street, to Flatlands Avenue, to Hinsdale Street, to waters of Fresh Creek Basin, to the waters of Jamaica Bay, thence through the waters of Jamaica Bay to Kings and Queens County line, and thence along Kings and Queens County line to Decatur Street, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 301,308.

EUGENE J. KEOGH, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; graduate of New York University and Fordham University Law School; lawyer; member of the New York State Assembly, twentieth district, Kings County, in 1936; elected to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

TENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the corners of Greene and Marcy Avenues, thence along Greene Avenue, to Lewis Avenue, to Lafayette Avenue, to Stuyvesant Avenue, to Macon Street, to Lewis Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Utica Avenue, to East New York Avenue, to East Ninety-sixth Street, to Avenue A, to East Eighty-eighth Street, to Avenue B, to East Eighty-ninth Street, to Ditmas Avenue, to Ralph Avenue, to Flatlands Avenue, to Avenue M, to East Thirty-fifth Street, to Avenue K, to East Twenty-sixth Street, to Avenue I, to Nostrand Avenue, to Avenue H, to Amersfort Place, to Germania Place, to Kenilworth Place, to Avenue G, (Glenwood Road), to Amersfort Place, to Farragut Road, to Flatbush Avenue, to Clarendon Road, to East Twenty-third Street, to Cortelyou Road, to Bedford Avenue, to Clarendon Road, to Nostrand Avenue, to Beverly Road, to East Twenty-eighth Street, to Tilden Avenue, to Rogers Avenue, to Church Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to Maple Street, to New York Avenue, to Lincoln Road, to Nostrand Avenue, to Lefferts Avenue, to New York Avenue, to Lincoln Place, to Rogers Avenue, to Grant Square, to Bedford Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Marcy Avenue, to Greene Avenue, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 289,816.

ANDREW L. SOMERS, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of Classon Avenue and Greene Avenue, thence along Greene Avenue, to Marcy Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Bedford Avenue, to Grand Square, to Rogers Avenue, to Lincoln Place, to New York Avenue, to Lefferts Avenue, to Nostrand Avenue, to Lincoln Road, to New York Avenue, to Maple Street, to Nostrand Avenue, to Church Avenue, to Rogers Avenue, to Tilden Avenue, to East Twentyeighth Street, to Beverly Road, to Nostrand Avenue, to Clarendon Road, to Bedford Avenue, to Cortelyou Road, to East Twenty-third Street, to Clarendon Road, to Flatbush Avenue, to Farragut Road, to Amersfort Place, to Avenue G (Glenwood Road), to Kenilworth Place, to Germania Place, to Amersfort Place, to Avenue H, to Nostrand Avenue, to Avenue I, to East Eighteenth Street, to Avenue J, to East Fourth Street, to Avenue I, to McDonald Avenue, to Eighteenth Avenue, to East Second Street, to Avenue F, to Dahill Road, to Forty-third Street, to Seventeenth Avenue, to Dahill Road, to Fortieth Street, to Fourteenth Avenue, to Thirty-ninth Street, to Fort Hamilton Parkway, to East Fourth Street, to Caton Avenue, to East Fifth Street, to Fort Hamilton Parkway, to Prospect Avenue, to Vanderbilt Street, to Eighteenth Street, to Seeley Street, to Prospect Avenue, to Sixth Avenue, to Thirteenth Street, to Fourth Avenue, to Ninth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to First Street, to Eighth Avenue, to Carroll Street, to Prospect Park West, to and around southern end of Grand Army Plaza, to Eastern Parkway, to Classon Avenue, to Greene Avenue, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 289,720.

JAMES J. HEFFERNAN, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; born in Brooklyn, N. Y.; his forefathers were among the Irish pioneers who settled in lower Manhattan and South Brooklyn before the War of 1812; educated in private and public schools; was graduated from Bryant Stratton College, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; awarded the degree of architect by the University of the State of New York; married and has one daughter; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1938; member of the New York and Brooklyn Societies of Architects; Council of Registered Architects; Montauk Club; Brooklyn Council, No. 60, Knights of Columbus; Old Timers of the K. of C.; Emerald Society; South Brooklyn Board of Trade; Society of Old Brooklynites; Police Athletic League; Steneck Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Colonel Jacob Ruppert Post, Army and Navy Veterans; State committeeman and executive member of the Twelfth Assembly District Regular Democratic Organization; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at Congress Street and East River to Columbia Street, to Warrent Street, to Clinton Street, to Pacific Street, to Court Street, to Pacific Street, to Boerum Place, to Bergen Street, to Fourth Avenue, to St. Marks Place, to Fifth Avenue, to Fifth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to Ninth Street, to Fourth Avenue, to Thirteenth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to Prospect Avenue, to Seeley Street, to Eighteenth Street, to Vanderbilt Street, to Prospect Avenue, to Fort Hamilton Parkway, to East Fifth Street, to Caton Avenue, to East Fourth Street, to Fort Hamilton Parkway, to Fifty-second Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Fifty-third Street, to Thirteenth Avenue, to Fifty-eighth Street, to New Utrecht Avenue, to Sixty-third Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Seventy-second Street, to Tenth Avenue, to Seventy-third Street, to Seventh Avenue, to Bay Ridge Avenue, to Sixth Avenue, to Sixty-fifth Street, to Second Avenue, to Wakeman Place, to Colonial Road, to Sixty-eighth Street, to Shore Road, to Bay Ridge Avenue, to waters of Upper Bay; thence through waters of Upper Bay, Buttermilk Channel and East River to Congress Street, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 308,991.

JOHN J. ROONEY, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; was born in the district which he now represents and in which his family has lived for over 80 years, on November 29, 1903; son of James and Ellen Fitzsimons Rooney; education: St. Paul's Parochial School, St. Francis Preparatory and College, Fordham University School of Law, class of 1925; practicing attorney; served as assistant district attorney in Brooklyn under appointment of District Attorney William O'Dwyer from January 1, 1940, to June 5, 1944; married Helen M. Hughes of Brooklyn and has two sons, John James, Jr., and Edward Patrick, and a daughter, Mary Ann; member, Brooklyn Bar Association, Catholic Lawyers Guild, District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, Lawyers Club of Brooklyn, and Brooklyn-Manhattan Trial Counsel Club; past exalted ruler of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 22, B. P. O. Elks; past New York State vice president of Ancient Order of Hibernians in America; past president, St. Patrick Society of Brooklyn; life member, Columbus Council No. 126, Knights of Columbus; member of Committee on Appropriations; official observer Bikini Atom Bomb Test; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress at a special election held on June 6, 1944, to fill, for the unexpired term, the seat left vacant by the death of Thomas H. Cullen; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at waters of the Upper Bay and Bay Ridge Avenue, to Shore Road, to Sixty-eighth Street, to Colonial Road, to Wakeman Place, to Second Avenue, to Sixty-fifth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to Bay Ridge Avenue, to Seventh Avenue, to Seventy-third Street, to Tenth Avenue, to Seventy-second Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Sixty-third Street, to New Utrecht Avenue, to Fifty-eighth Street, to Thirteenth Avenue, to Fifty-third Street, to Twelfth Avenue, to Fifty-second Street, to Fort Hamilton Parkway, to Thirty-ninth Street, to Fourteenth Avenue, to Fortieth Street, to Dahill Road, to Seventeenth Avenue, to Forty-third Street, to Dahill Road, to Avenue F, to East Second Street, to Eighteenth Avenue, to McDonald Avenue, to Avenue I, to East Fourth Street, to Avenue J, to Ocean Parkway, to Avenue N, to Sixtieth Street, to Twenty-third Avenue, to Sixty-first Street, to Bay Parkway, to Eightieth Street, to Twentieth Avenue, to Eighty-sixth Street, to Bay Eleventh Street, to Bath Avenue, to Sixteenth Avenue, to waters of Gravesend Bay; thence through waters of Gravesend Bay and Upper Bay, to Bay Ridge Avenue, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 299,278.

DONALD L. O'TOOLE, Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born in that borough on August 1, 1902; was graduated from St. James Academy and Fordham University; lawyer with offices in the Empire State Building.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at Gravesend Bay and Sixteenth Avenue, thence along Sixteenth Avenue to Bath Avenue, to Bay Eleventh Street, to Eighty-sixth Street, to Twentieth Avenue, to Eightieth Street, to Bay Parkway, to Sixty-first Street, to Twenty-third Avenue, to Sixtieth Street, to Avenue N, to Ocean Parkway, to Avenue J, to East Eighteenth Street, to Avenue I, to East Twenty-sixth Street, to Avenue K, to East Thirty-fifth Street, to Avenue M, to Flatlands Avenue, to Flatbush Avenue, to Avenue P, to Hendrickson Street, to Quentin Road, to Nostrand Avenue, to Quentin Road, to East Twenty-ninth Street, to Avenue R, to East Twenty-seventh Street, to Avenue T, to East Twenty-third Street, to Avenue U, to East Twenty-second Street, to Avenue V, to Coney Island Avenue, to Ocean View Avenue, to Ocean Parkway, to waters of Atlantic Ocean, thence through waters of Atlantic Ocean and Gravesend Bay to Sixteenth Avenue, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 300,998.

ABRAHAM J. MULTER, Democrat, of New York; born in Manhattan, New York City, on December 24, 1900; resides at 1397 East Twenty-first Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., with his wife, Bertha L., and two children, Robert K., 21 years of age, now at Cornell University, School of Chemical Engineering, and Howard C., 18 years of age, now at Cornell University School of Mechanical Engineering; graduated from P. S. 80 in Coney Island, N. Y., Boys' High School of Brooklyn; attended evening classes at City College of New York before entering Brooklyn Law School where he received degrees of LL. B. and LL. M.; from 1911 to 1930 resided in the Sixteenth Assembly District and then moved to the Second Assembly District (the Second and Sixteenth Assembly Districts together constitute the Congressional District); while at law school, was president of Marshal Society and praetor of Alpha Chapter of Iota Theta Law Fraternity and after graduation

its national praetor; admitted to practice in the State and Federal courts including the United States Supreme Court and before many Federal Departments; is presently a trustee of Temple Beth Emeth, a member of the advisory board of East Midwood Jewish Center, life member of Hebrew Institute of Long Island, a member of many fraternal and civic associations including Zionist Organization of America, Midwood Lodge of B'nai Brith, Jewish Chatauqua Society, Brooklyn Lodge B. P. O. Elks, L. O. O. Moose, Boy Scouts of America, Flatbush Boys Club, Police Athletic League, Men's League of Brooklyn, Irving Robinson Benevolent Society, Lawyers Club and Executive Committee of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, American Jewish Congress, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary; director of the Willow Brook Golf Club and of the Nottingham Civic Association; served as judge advocate of the United States Coast Guard League; has been president of Parent-Teachers Association of P. S. 193, Men's Club of Temple Beth Emeth, C. I. Y. M. H. A. and a delegate to the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods and the Metropolitan Conference of Temple Brotherhoods; during World War II served without compensation in the United States Coast Guard Reserve; as chairman of the Civil Service Committee of the Kings Highway Democratic Club of the Second Assembly District, organized and conducted a civil service school where residents of the community, without charge, were prepared for prospective examinations; later became secretary of the club and for the last 5 years has served as its president; served as vice chairman of the Kings County Democratic Law Committee and of the New York State Democratic Law Committee; is a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association's Committee on State Legislation, was chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the National Lawyers Guild and a member of the Municipal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association; is a member of the Federal Bar Association of Washington, D. C., the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and the New York Law Institute; served without compensation for 10 years as a special assistant attorney general in election matters; served as counsel to the Democratic leader of the State Assembly and as counsel to many State, city, and Federal legislative committees and as special counsel to the Mayor of the city of New York, Hon. William O'Dwyer; was member of the firm of Rayfiel & Multer, until Congressman Rayfiel resigned to assume his duties as judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; now senior member of the law firm of Multer, Nova & Seymour of 120 Broadway, New York City; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 4, 1947.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-KINGS COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at corner of Macon Street and Lewis Avenue, thence along Macon Street, to Stuyvesant Avenue, to McDonough Street, to Patchen Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Buffalo Avenue, to Herkimer Street, to Howard Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Saratoga Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Radde Place, to Herkimer Street, to Rockaway Avenue, to Atlantic Avenue, to Sackman Street, to East New York Avenue, to Watkins Street, to Sutter Avenue, to Christopher Avenue, to Livonia Avenue, to Watkins Street, to Lott Avenue, to Stone Avenue, to Hegeman Avenue (Linden Boulevard), to Bank Street, to East One Hundred and Seventh Street, to Avenue D, to East One Hundred and Fourth Street, to Farragut Road, to East One Hundred and Third Street, to Flatlands Avenue, to Hinsdale Street, to Fresh Creek Basin, to the waters of Jamaica Bay, thence through the waters of Jamaica Bay to the boundary line of Kings and Queens Counties, thence along said boundary line to waters of Atlantic Ocean, to Ocean Parkway, to Ocean View Avenue, to Coney Island Avenue, to Avenue V, to East Twenty-second Street, to Avenue U, to East Twenty-third Street, to A venue T, to East Twenty-seventh Street, to Avenue R, to East Twenty-ninth Street, to Quentin Road, to Nostrand Avenue, to Quentin Road, to Hendrickson Street, to A venue P, to Flatbush Avenue, to Flatlands Avenue, to Ralph Avenue, to Ditmas Avenue, to East Eighty-ninth Street, to Avenue B, to East Eighty-eighth Street, to Avenue A, to East Ninety-sixth Street, to East New York Avenue, to Utica Avenue, to Fulton Street, to Lewis Avenue, to Macon Street, the place of beginning. Population (1940), 303,538.

EMANUEL CELLER; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 6, 1888; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Boys' High School of Brooklyn, in 1906, from Columbia College, New York City, in 1910, and from the Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1912; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, November 7, 1922; reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventyfirst, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses; member of the House Committee on the Judiciary; married and has two daughtersJudith S., attending college, and Jane B., married to Lt. Sydney B. Wertheimer, of the United States Navy; home address is 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Washington address, the Mayflower.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-RICHMOND COUNTY. NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the East River and Whitehall Street, to State Street, to Broadway, to Great Jones Street (West Third Street), to West Broadway, to Washington Square South, to Thompson Street, to West Third Street, to Sixth Avenue, to West Fourth Street, to Barrow Street, to Bleecker Street, to West Eleventh Street, to Hudson Street, to West Twelfth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Fourteenth Street, to Seventh Avenue, to West Twenty-sixth Street, to Hudson River, through the waters of Hudson River to the place of beginning, including Ellis Island, Governors Island, Bedloe Island. Population (1940), 257,879.

ELLSWORTH B. BUCK, Republican, of Staten Island, N. Y.; born July 3, 1892, in Chicago, Ill., son of Orlando J. and Lillian (Brewer) Buck; attended the public schools in Chicago; graduated from Dartmouth College, B. S., in 1914; honorary M. A., 1939; honorary LL. D., Wagner College, 1942; chairman of board, L. A. Dreyfus Co., Staten Island; vice president, Thunder Mountain Ranch Co., Crivitz, Wis.; director, Malayan Guttas, Ltd., Singapore, Straits Settlements; enlisted as seaman, second class, United States Naval Reserve, July 1917; commissioned and assigned as instructor in meteorology, Naval Aviation Ground School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 1918; in charge of meteorological instruments, United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C., August to December 1918; chairman, Code Authority under N. R. A., 1934–35; member of Board of Education of the City of New York 1935-39 and 1940-44, vice president 1938-39 and 1940-42, president 1942-44; former trustee, Staten Island Hospital, Staten Island Academy, Staten Isiand Savings Bank, American Museum of Natural History; former director, Staten Island Community Chest, Staten Island Council of Boy Scouts of America, Staten Island National Bank & Trust Co.; director and treasurer, Staten Island Zoological Society; member of Delta Tau Delta, B. P. O. E., and American Legion; clubs: New York Yacht, India House, Richmond County Country, Richmond County Yacht; married Constance Tyler, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; one daughter, Nancy; elected to the Seventyeighth Congress from old Eleventh Congressional District at special election June 6, 1944; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress November 7, 1944, from new Sixteenth Congressional District; reelected to Eightieth Congress.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the East River and East Fortieth Street, to Third Avenue, to Bowery, to Great Jones Street, to West Third Street, to West Broadway, to Washington Square South, to Thompson Street, to West Third Street, to Sixth Avenue, to West Fourth Street, to Barrow Street, to Bleecker Street, to West Eleventh Street, to Hudson Street, to West Twelfth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Fourteenth Street, to Seventh Avenue, to West Twenty-ninth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Thirty-first Street, to Seventh Avenue, to West Thirty-fourth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Fifty-fourth Street, to Ninth Avenue, to Columbus Avenue, to Broadway, to West Seventieth Street, to Columbus Avenue, to West Ninety-seventh Street, to Central Park West, to Cathedral Parkway (West One Hun dred and Tenth Street), to Fifth Avenue, to East One Hundredth Street, to Park Avenue, to East Ninety-seventh Street, to Lexington Avenue, to East Eighty-ninth Street, to Third Avenue, to East Eighty-fifth Street, to Lexington Avenue, to East Eightieth Street, to Second Avenue, to East Seventysecond Street, to Third Avenue, to East Sixty-eighth Street, to Second Avenue, to East Sixty-first Street, to Third Avenue, to East Fifty-ninth Street, to East River, through the waters of East River to the place of beginning. Population (1940), 298,995.

FREDERIC RENÉ COUDERT, JR., Republican, of New York City; born in New York City, May 7, 1898, son of Frederic René and Alice T. (Wilmerding) Coudert; Columbia University, A. B. 1918, LL.B 1922; awarded Kent Scholarship for proficiency in the study of law; Columbia University medal for distinguished public service, 1941; admitted to New York State bar; admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1927; member of the law firm of Coudert Bros. of New York City; married; three children; assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1924-25; Republican candidate for district attorney of New York County, 1929; chairman, New York Lawyers_Committee_against Jones Act (Prohibition Law), 1929; delegate to New York Republican State Convention, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942, and 1946; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1936, 1940, and 1944; State Senate, Seventeenth (now Twentieth) District, Manhattan, 1939-46; chairman, Rapp-Coudert Joint Legislative Subcommittee to investigate public education in city of New York, 1940-44; member of the association of the bar of the city of New York, the New York County Lawyers Association, New York State Bar Association, Nassau County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association: veteran, World War I, 1917-19, Sixty-ninth Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard, later Twenty-seventh Division, One Hundred and Fifth Infantry Regiment in France until end of war; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the East River and East Fifty-ninth Street, to Third Avenue, to East Sixty-first Street, to Second Avenue, to East Sixty-eighth Street, to Third Avenue, to East Seventy-second street, to Second Avenue, to East Eightieth Street, to Lexington Avenue, to East Eighty-fifth Street, to Third Avenue, to East Eighty-ninth Street, to Lexington Avenue, to East Ninety-seventh Street, to Park Avenue, to East One Hundredth Street, to Fifth Avenue, to East One Hundred and Nineteenth Street, to Third Avenue, to the Harlem River, through the waters of Harlem River and East River to the place of beginning, together with Welfare Island, Wards Island, Sunken Meadow, and Randalls Island. Population (1940), 297,743.

VITO MARCANTONIO, American Labor, of New York City; born in New York City, December 10, 1902; lawyer; elected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventysixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; New York City address, 1484 First Avenue.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the East River and Whitehall Street to State Street, to Broadway, to Great Jones Street, to Bowery, to Third Avenue, to East Fortieth Street, to the East River, through the waters of East River to the place of beginning. Population (1940), 315,639.

ARTHUR G. KLEIN, Democrat, of New York City, was born in New York City, N. Y., in the Fourteenth Congressional District (now the Nineteenth Congressional District), August 8, 1904; attended the public schools and Washington Square College; received the degree of bachelor of laws from New York University Law School in 1926; was admitted to the bar of the State of New York in 1927; was subsequently admitted to practice in the United States courts, including the United States Supreme Court; was an attorney on the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the period from April 4, 1935, to July 8, 1941; now actively engaged in the practice of law in the above-mentioned courts, as senior member of the firm of Klein, Wikler & Gottlieb, 50 Broad Street, New York City; married; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress at a special election held on July 29, 1941; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to the Seventyninth Congress on February 19, 1946, at a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Dickstein; reelected to the Eightieth Congress.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the Hudson River and West Twenty-sixth Street, to Seventh Avenue, to West Twenty-ninth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Thirty-first Street, to Seventh Avenue, to West Thirty-fourth Street, to Eighth Avenue, to West Fifty-fourth Street, to Ninth Avenue, to Columbus Avenue, to Broadway, to West Seventieth Street, to Columbus Avenue, to West Ninety-seventh Street, to Central Park West, to Cathedral Parkway (West One Hundred and Tenth Street), to Columbus Avenue, to Morningside Avenue West (Morningside Drive), to West One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, to Broadway, to West One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, to the Hudson River, through the waters of the Hudson River to the place of beginning. Population (1940), 302,984.

SOL BLOOM, Democrat, of New York City; born in Pekin, Ill., March 9, 1870; real estate and construction business; former chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, now ranking minority member; director, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission; Director General of the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission; honorary member of Veterans of Foreign Wars; member and director of many clubs and institutions: thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, Elks, Moose, Red Men, and I. O. B. B.; has one daughter, Vera Bloom; elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Eightieth Congress; member of the American delegation to the following international conferences: Bermuda Conference, San Francisco Conference, London Conference, Atlantic City UNRRA Conference, Inter-American Conference on Peace and Security at Rio de Janeiro, and elected chairman of the United Nations Committee on UNRRA, General Assembly of the United Nations, New York City; signer of the United Nations Charter.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-NEW YORK COUNTY: That portion within and bounded by a line beginning at the Hudson River and West One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, to Broadway, to West One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, to Morningside Avenue West (Morningside Drive), to West One Hundred and Twenty-second Street, to Amsterdam Avenue, to West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street, to St. Nicholas Terrace, to West One Hundred and Fortieth Street, to Amsterdam Avenue, to West One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street extended, to the Harlem River, to the boundary line between New York and Bronx Counties and along said boundary line to the Hudson River, thence through the waters of the Hudson River to the place of beginning. Population (1940), 302,531. JACOB K. JAVITS, Republican, of New York City; born on the lower East Side of New York City, May 18, 1904; attended public school No. 20; moved to Brook

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