in United States Marine Corps, World War I; State Regent of Education 1931-33; elected to Congress in 1936 with 51.6 percent of votes cast; reelected in 1938 with 61.4 percent; in 1940 with 66.1 percent; in 1942 with 71. 8 percent; in 1944 with 69 percent; in 1946 with 73.6 percent. Legislation: Case-Wheeler Water Conservation Act, 1937 and 1940; Renegotiation of Excess War Profits, 1942; United Nations Invitation to United States, 1945; "Case Bill"-Labor Relations (vetoed), 1946; member, Committee on Appropriations.

TENNESSEE

(Population (1940), 2,915,841)
SENATORS

KENNETH MCKELLAR, Democrat, of Memphis; born in Richmond, Dallas County, Ala.; moved to Tennessee in 1892 after graduating in law at the University of Alabama; B. A., M. A., LL. B., and LL. D. (honorary), 1918, University of Alabama and Tusculum College, D. C. L., Lincoln Memorial University; lawyer; bachelor; Presbyterian; thirty-second degree Mason; Shriner; Odd Fellow; and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; Presidential elector, 1904; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1908; elected, November 9, 1911, to the Sixty-second Congress; reelected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses; nominated as a Democratic candidate for United States Senator in a State-wide primary on November 20, 1915, and in the run-off December 15, 1915; elected to the United States Senate on November 7, 1916, by a majority of 25,498, and took his seat March 5, 1917; elected as delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920; renominated for United States Senate by a majority of 55,065 and reelected by a majority of 80,323 for the term expiring March 3, 1929; renominated for a third term in the Senate by a majority of 55,828, and reelected by a majority of 55,070 for the term expiring in 1935; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; elected national committeeman for Tennessee, February 23, 1933; renominated and reelected to the United States Senate in 1934 for the term expiring January 3, 1941; renominated and reelected again for the term expiring January 3, 1947; was nominated by 72,822 majority and elected by 72,547 majority in 1946; unanimously elected President pro tempore on January 6, 1945; on the death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945, the Vice President having assumed the duties of the office of President of the United States, as President pro tempore he assumed the Vice President's duties as presiding officer of the Senate; author of the book, Tennessee Senators, published in August 1942; renominated and reelected to the United States Senate in 1946 for the term expiring in 1953; is the only senator ever to be elected to a sixth term by the people; some of the principal accomplishments in House and Senate are: (1) Roads was sworn in on December 4, 1911, and introduced a bill for "Federal Aid to Roads" on December 16, 1911, 12 days thereafter, and made a speech thereon on April 27, 1912; some 28 Congressmen had introduced similar bills; Speaker Champ Clark appointed a committee of eight to report a bill that all could agree upon; Judge Saunders of Virginia and he (McKellar) were the most active men on this committee and finally got a bill that passed the House and Senate and became the law; Senator John H. Bankhead Sr., piloted the bill through the Senate on June 29, 1916, and it was signed by the President on July 11, 1916; (2) a free bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, which bill became the law in the last days of the 1912 session. (Record, vol. 48, p. 9715); it did not cost the United States or Tennessee a cent; (3) a bill appropriating more than 5 million dollars for a second automobile and traffic bridge at Memphis, now nearly complete; (4) creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the building of the various dams of that Authority, many of them being built over the protest and opposition of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority; (5) bill creating the air-mail service between Washington, D. C., and New York; and then between New York and San Francisco which established the air-mail service (Record, vol. 90, p. A3943); (6) work for woman's suffrage in the Congress and personally helping secure the approval of the Constitutional amendment by the Tennessee Legislature as the thirty-sixth and final State to ratify, by four votes majority; (7) as acting chairman and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, appropriation of funds for the greatest war ever fought, 1941-45, nearly 400 billions of dollars; (8) uniform work on rivers and harbors and National Government parks; (9) uniform support of all

farm legislation; (10) uniform support of all veterans' legislation; (11) uniform support of all legislation for the betterment of labor and, out of hundreds of bills passed, his position has never been questioned except on two bills; (12) uniform support of all progressive postal legislation, including post offices built throughout the country-72 being built in Tennessee at a cost of $12,469,337.00; (13) uniform support of all progressive civil-service legislation, serving on both the Post Office and Civil Service committees; (14) uniformly opposed communism and other isms of like kind; (15) uniform support of all education legislation and all appropriations therefor; (16) uniform support of all pension legislation and appropriations therefor; (17), Atomic Energy-in 1942 Secretary Stimson sent for him as acting chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and got him to agree to appropriate about 2 billions of dollars in various items looking to the discovery of atomic energy; built the principal plant in Tennessee; the war with Germany closed before the atomic bomb was perfected but it was perfected in time to win the Japanese war; (18) unanimously elected President pro tempore of the Senate on January 6, 1945, and as such officer attended Cabinet meetings; (19) elected each time by a vote of all the people of Tennessee.

TOM STEWART, Democrat, of Winchester, Tenn.; born in Dunlap, Tenn., January 11, 1892, son of Chancellor T. L. Stewart and Mary Fricks Stewart; educated at Pryor Institute, Emory College, and Cumberland University; Delta Tau Delta College Fraternity; member of Methodist Church; Mason; married Helen Turner, daughter of Dr. M. Turner and Mary Cook Turner, of Jasper, Tenn., December 19, 1914; five children, Tom M. Stewart, Winchester, Tenn., Mrs. Jno. W. Dunn, Arlington, Va., Mrs. Charles S. Coffey, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., Lawrence F. Stewart, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., Paul Turner Stewart, Milligan College, Tenn.; lawyer; served as assistant attorney general, eighteenth circuit; appointed attorney general for the Eighteenth Circuit of Tennessee by Gov. Austin Peay in 1923 to succeed Gen. Ben McKenzie, resigned; elected to remainder of term in August 1924; reelected in 1926 and in 1934; delegate to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1940 and 1944; elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1938, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Nathan L. Bachman; assumed duties of Senator on January 16, 1939; reelected on November 3, 1942, for the term ending January 3, 1949.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington (14 counties). Population (1940), 385,747.

DAYTON E. PHILLIPS, Republican, of Elizabethton, Tenn.; born at Shell Creek, Tenn., March 29, 1910; reared on a farm; graduated from Cloudland High School; attended Milligan College, University of Tennessee, and received LL. B. degree from National University Law School; taught school in Carter County, 1931-32; engaged in the practice of law at Elizabethton, Tenn.; served as Carter County attorney 1938-42; elected District Attorney General, First Judicial Circuit of Tennessee in 1942; Mason and member of the Modern Woodmen of America; member of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars; member of the Tennessee Bar Association; attends Baptist Church; not married; during World War II served in the Army from 1942 to 1945, having served in the European Theater of Operations; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946; member, Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott, and Union (9 counties). Population (1940), 365,090.

JOHN JENNINGS, JR., Republican, of Knoxville, Tenn.; born in Jacksboro, Campbell County, Tenn., June 6, 1880, son of John and Julia Jennings; educated in common schools of Campbell County, Tenn., and American Temperance University, Harriman, Tenn.; was graduated from Ú. S. Grant University, Athens, Tenn., with B. S. degree in 1906; served as county superintendent of public instruction, Campbell County, 1903-4; admitted to the bar in 1903; county attorney of Campbell County, 1911-18; special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1912-13, land title division, national forests; elected judge of the second chancery division of Tennessee (11 counties) in 1918 for a term of 8 years, resigned July 1, 1923, to reenter practice of law in Knoxville; member of law firm

of Jennings, O'Neil & Jarvis; married Miss Pearnie E. Hamby, and they have three daughters-Ethel J. Coykendall, Katherine J. Van Powell, and Helen; delegate to the Republican National Convention from the Second Congressional District of Tennessee in 1912, and from the State at large in 1936; elected to the Seventysixth Congress at a special election held on December 30, 1939, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Will Taylor, receiving 16,908 votes to his Democratic opponent's 11,191 votes; reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member of Judiciary Committee; home address: 3339 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tenn.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White (14 counties). Population (1940), 386,176.

ESTES KEFAUVER, Democrat, of Chattanooga; son of Robert Cooke and Phedonia Estes Kefauver; born near Madisonville, in Monroe County, Tenn., July 26, 1903; educated in the public schools of Monroe County; received A. B. degree at University of Tennessee in 1924 and LL. B. degree at Yale University in 1927; practiced law at Chattanooga since 1927; member of the firm of Kefauver & Duggan; married to Miss Nancy Patterson Pigott, of Glasgow, Scotland; daughter, Eleanor, age 6, son, David, age 2; served as commissioner of finance and taxation, State of Tennessee, for 4 months in 1939; member of the First Baptist Church of Chattanooga, the Rotary and the Mountain City Clubs, the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and the American and the State Bar Associations; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member, Committee on the Judiciary and Select Committee on Small Business, coauthor of book "20th Century Congress."

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clay, Cumberland, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, and Trousdale (12 counties). Population (1940), 206,116. ALBERT ARNOLD GORE, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn., born in Granville, Tenn., December 26, 1907; B. S., LL. B.; married Miss Pauline LaFon, 1937; one daughter; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Giles, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, Rutherford, and Wilson (11 counties). Population (1940), 225,918.

JOSEPH LANDON EVINS, Democrat, of Smithville, Tenn.; born in De Kalb County, Tenn., October 24, 1910, the son of James Edgar and Myrtie Goodson Evins; attended the public schools of DeKalb County, Tenn.; graduated Vanderbilt University, A. B. degree, 1933; Cumberland University School of Law, LL. B. degree, 1934; postgraduate study of law George Washington University 1938-40; admitted to practice before all courts of Tennessee and the United States Supreme Court; engaged in general practice of law in Tennessee; attorney Federal Trade Commission 1935-38; assistant secretary, Federal Trade Commission 1938-40; earned commission in Army Reserve Corps and served in Army 4 years, 1942-46; entered on active duty, staff of the Judge Advocate General, War Department, March 1942, promoted first lieutenant, May 1942, promoted captain, December 1942, promoted major, June 1944, served overseas 2 years, Headquarters European Theater of Operations, England and France 1944-46; chairman, DeKalb County Democratic Executive Committee; received Democratic nomination as State senator, Twelfth Senatorial District, comprising DeKalb, Rutherford, and Cannon Counties, while serving overseas, but declined to accept the nomination during continuance of the war; married the former Ann Smartt, daughter of Judge and Mrs. R. W. Smartt, McMinnville, Tenn.; two daughters, Joanna and Jane, ages 8 and 7; member of Tennessee and American Bar Associations, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Reserve Officers Association; thirty-second degree Scottish-Rite Mason; Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Phi fraternities; Church of Christ; won Democratic nomination to represent people of Fifth Tennessee District in Eightieth Congress, August 1, 1946, receiving 23,956 as against 17,368 votes for incumbent opponent; elected to the Eightieth Congress without opposition on November 5, 1946; member, Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-DAVIDSON COUNTY. Population (1940), 257,267.

JAMES PERCY PRIEST, Democrat, of Nashville; born at Carters Creek, Tenn., April 1, 1900, the son of Harriet Hastings and George Madison Priest; attended the public schools in Maury County, Tenn., and Central High School, Columbia, Tenn.; attended State Teachers College at Murfreesboro, Tenn., George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; taught school in Tennessee from 1920 until May 1926; member of editorial staff of the Nashville Tennesseean from May 1926 until September 1940; Baptist, a Mason, and a member of the Civitan Club, National Press Club, and Elks Club; married Miss Mildred Webster Noland on February 14, 1947; was elected November 5, 1940, to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member of Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Montgomery, Perry, Stewart, Wayne, and Williamson (13 counties). Population (1940), 231,592.

WIRT COURTNEY, Democrat; born at Franklin, September 7, 1889, graduate of Battle Ground Academy, Franklin; academic and legal education; Vanderbilt University; taught ancient and modern languages in local preparatory schools while in university; special course in international law, Faculté de Droit, Sorbonne, Paris, France; enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Seventeenth Infantry September 1917, discharged as a first lieutenant after 14 months in France; practiced law, Franklin, Tenn., 1911-32; successively city attorney, city judge, and county attorney; adjutant general of Tennessee, 1932, and commissioned brigadier general, National Guard; circuit judge and chancellor, seventeenth judicial circuit of Tennessee, 1933-39; senior warden emeritus, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Franklin; Shriner; Elk; member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress, and each succeeding Congress; member, Committee on Foreign Affairs; married Currey Taylor, daughter of Judge Lytton Taylor, Nashville, 1919; four children, Mrs. A. A. Klieforth, Wirt, Jr., Richard, and Robin.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, McNairy, and Madison (11 counties). Population (1940), 250,693.

TOM MURRAY, Democrat, of Jackson, Tenn., was born in Jackson, Tenn., on August 1, 1894; graduated from Jackson High School, Union University (B. A. degree) and Cumberland University (LL. B. degree); taught in high school 2 years; served in the United States Army in World War I and was a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; after discharge from the Army in 1919, began the practice of law in Jackson, Tenn.; elected district attorney general for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee in 1922 and served until September 1933; resigned as district attorney to become associated with the office of the Solicitor of the Post Office Department in Washington; served with the Post Office Department until May 31, 1942; chairman of Democratic Executive Committee of Madison County, Tenn., from 1924 to 1933; former member of State Democratic Executive Committee of Tennessee; delegate to Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936; served as commander of the John A. Deaver Post of the American Legion at Jackson and as vice commander of the Legion for the State of Tennessee; member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; single; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Tipton, and Weakley (9 counties). Population (1940), 248,992.

JERE COOPER, Democrat, of Dyersburg, was born July 20, 1893, in Dyer County, Tenn., son of Joseph W. and Viola May Cooper; educated in public schools of Dyersburg and Cumberland University, graduating with the degree of LL. B.; engaged in the active practice of law in Dyersburg since 1915, except 2 years while in the Army, serving as city attorney for 8 years; enlisted in Second Tennessee Infantry, National Guard, in May 1917, and on July 23, 1917, was commissioned first lieutenant; on October 24, 1917, was transferred with company to Company K, One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry, Thirtieth Division,

and served with this regiment throughout period of World War, going through all its engagements in France and Belgium; on July 9, 1918, promoted to captain; discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919, after serving practically a year with the American Expeditionary Forces; returned to Dyersburg and resumed the practice of law; elected State commander of American Legion of Tennessee in 1921, and national executive committeeman of American Legion in 1922; unmarried; Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Maccabee, Kappa Sigma; member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church; elected to the Seventy-first Congress; renominated and reelected to the Seventy-second Congress without opposition; reelected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventyseventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

TENTH DISTRICT.-SHELBY COUNTY. Population (1940), 358,250.

CLIFFORD DAVIS, Democrat, of Memphis, Tenn.; born November 18, 1897, at Hazlehurst, Miss., son of the late Odom A. and Jessie Davis; educated in Memphis public schools; received LL. B. degree from the University of Mississippi; attorney at law; city judge of Memphis, 1923-27; vice mayor and commissioner of public safety of Memphis, 1928-40; Baptist, Mason, Shriner; married Miss Carolyn Leigh, of Memphis, and they have three children-Clifford, Jr., Barbara Leigh, and Ray; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress in a special election, February 15, 1940, reelected to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member, Committee on Public Works.

TEXAS

(Population (1940), 6,414,824)
SENATORS

TOM CONNALLY, Democrat, of Marlin, Falls County, son of Jones and Mary E. Connally; born in McLennan County, Tex.; A. B., LL. D. (honorary), Baylor University; LL. B., University of Texas; LL. D., Howard Payne College; enlisted man, Second Regiment Texas Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War; captain and adjutant, Twenty-second Infantry Brigade, Eleventh Division, United States Army, 1918; member of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth Texas Legislatures; prosecuting attorney of Falls County, 1906-10; married Miss Louise Clarkson, 1904 (deceased); one son-Ben Connally, lawyer, Houston, Tex., lieutenant colonel, Army Air Forces, World War II; married Mrs. Lucile Sanderson Sheppard April 25, 1942; grand chancellor of Texas Knights of Pythias, 1913-14; thirty-third degree Mason; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1920, and delegate at large in 1932, 1936, and 1940; chairman, Texas delegation, 1936; permanent chairman, Texas Democratic State convention, 1938; special congressional advisor to the United States delegation to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, 1945; member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945; Representative of the United States to the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at London, 1946; advisor to the Secretary of State at the Paris meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1946; Representative of the United States to the second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at New York, 1946; served as a delegate to the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 15, 1947, to September 2, 1947; served in House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth through Seventieth Congresses; elected United States Senator for the term beginning March 4, 1929; reelected in 1934, 1940, and 1946; committees: Foreign Relations, and Finance.

W. LEE O'DANIEL, Democrat, Fort Worth, Tex.; born March 11, 1890, at Malta, Ohio, son of William A. and Alice Ann (Thompson) O'Daniel; reared on large cattle ranch near Arlington, Kans.; educated in public grade and high schools, Arlington, Kans., and business college, Hutchinson, Kans.; married Miss Merle Estella Butcher, Granada, Colo.; three children-Pat, Mike, and Molly; Mason and Shriner; member Christian Church; also elder National City Christian Church, Washington, D. C.; engaged in flour milling and grain business, 1909 to 1938; although never before a candidate for public office, was petitioned to run for