FIFTH DISTRICT.-MILWAUKEE COUNTY: City of Milwaukee, wards 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 26, towns of Granville and Milwaukee, and villages of Fox Point, River Hills, Shorewood, and Whitefish Bay. Population (1940), 391,467.

CHARLES J. KERSTEN, Republican, of Milwaukee, Wis., born May 26, 1902, in Chicago, Ill., son of Charles H. Kersten and Nora Gillespie Kersten; graduate of Marquette University College of Law, Milwaukee, Wis., LL. B.; practicing lawyer in Milwaukee, Wis., since 1928; first assistant district attorney of Milwaukee County, 1937-43; spent year of travel and study in Europe and Near East, 1925-26; married Miss Mary Edith McKinnon, of Antigo, Wis.; one daughter, Mary Callista, and four sons, Edmund Campion, George Patrick, Kenan John, and Kevin; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946. SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Calumet, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington, and Winnebago (6 counties). Population (1940), 284,114.

FRANK BATEMAN KEEFE, Republican, of Oshkosh, Wis.; born in Winneconne, Wis., September 23, 1887; graduate of State teachers college; LL. B., University of Michigan; attorney at law; served as prosecuting attorney of Winnebago County, Wis., three terms; married Miss Mildred V. Steele, of Ripon, Wis.; two daughters and one son, Mrs. Charles Nolan, Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. Edwin Rosten, Madison, Wis., and Bateman F. Keefe, Oshkosh, Wis.; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventyseventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.—COUNTIES: Adams, Green Lake, Langlade, Marathon, Marquette, Portage, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Wood (10 counties). Population (1940), 295,305.

REID F. MURRAY, Republican, of Ogdensburg, Wis.; born in Ogdensburg, Wis., October 16, 1887; graduate of College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 1916; professor of animal husbandry, agriculture extension of the University of Wisconsin, 1922-27; county agent, Winnebago County; agricultural agent, Northern Pacific Railway Co., 3 years; agricultural agent, First National Bank of Oshkosh, 3 years; married Lyla Hermanson; two sons, Reid, Jr., and Hyde; one daughter, Kittie Ann; elected to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Brown, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Oconto, and Outagamie (9 counties). Population (1940), 329,815.

JOHN W. BYRNES, Republican, of Green Bay, Wis.; born in Green Bay, Wis., June 12, 1913, and has resided there all his life; graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received a B. A. degree in 1936 and a degree of LL. B. in 1938; since then has been engaged in the practice of law in Green Bay; has also been employed by the banking department of Wisconsin as a special deputy commissioner of banking, but resigned from this position upon his election as a State senator in 1940; served one term in the Wisconsin State Senate, where he was majority floor leader and chairman of the judiciary committee during the 1943 legislative session; married Miss Barbara Preston, of Upper Montclair, N. J., on February 15, 1947; home address, 425 South Monroe Avenue, Green Bay, Wis.; office address, 414 East Walnut Street, Green Bay, Wis.; elected to the Seventyninth Congress on November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946; member of Committee on Ways and Means.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Pepin, Pierce, St. Croix, and Trempealeau (11 counties). Population (1940), 294,618.

MERLIN HULL, Republican, of Black River Falls, Wis.; lawyer; publisher of the Banner-Journal; served as district attorney; served in Wisconsin Assembly from 1909 to 1915; speaker of assembly in 1913; secretary of state for Wisconsin from 1917 to 1921; elected to the Seventy-first Congress from the Seventh District in 1928; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Ninth District in 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936, to the Seventy-sixth Congress in 1938, to the Seventy-seventh Congress in 1940, to the Seventy-eighth Congress in 1942, to the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944, to the Eightieth Congress in 1946, receiving 70,527 votes.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Polk, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor, Vilas, and Washburn (14 counties). Population (1940), 263,088. ALVIN EDWARD O'KONSKI, Republican, of Mercer, Wis.; born on a farm near Kewaunee, Kewaunee County, Wis., May 26, 1904; was graduated from State Teachers College, Oshkosh, Wis., in 1927 with bachelor of education degree and from the University of Wisconsin in 1932 with master of philosophy degree; also took graduate work at the University of Iowa; professor of speech at Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oreg., 1928-31; and at the University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., 1936-38; superintendent of schools at Pulaski, Wis., 1933-35; dean of a junior college at Coleraine, Minn., in 1936; educator, journalist, and lecturer, editor and publisher of the Montreal River Miner at Hurley, Wis., since 1940; winner of national and international honors in speech contests; president of World Bill of Rights Association 1945; married to Miss Veronica Hemming, of Janesville, Wis.; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942, and reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses; awarded title of "the most distinguished American for 1945" by foreign language press, honoring him for fight on behalf of smaller nations; president of American Anti-Communist Organization, Inc., 1947; owner and manager radio station WLIN at Merrill, Wis., 1947.

WYOMING

(Population (1940), 250,742)
SENATORS

JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY, Democrat, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; born in Chelsea, Mass., November 5, 1884; LL. B., Georgetown University, 1920; LL. D., Columbia University, New York, 1938; LL. D., Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., June 1941; Lit. D., De Paul University, Chicago, June 12, 1946; LL. D., University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., June 1947; engaged in the newspaper business in Boulder, Colo., December 1908; married Agnes V. O'Leary, June 11, 1913; city editor, Cheyenne State Leader, 1916; member of Conference on Uniform State Laws, 1925-26; First Assistant Postmaster General, March 6 to December 31, 1933; appointed by Gov. Leslie A. Miller, on December 18, 1933, to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Hon. John B. Kendrick; elected November 6, 1934, to both the unexpired term ending January 3, 1935, and the full term ending January 3, 1941; reelected November 5, 1940; reelected November 5, 1946.

EDWARD VIVIAN ROBERTSON, Republican, of Cody, Park County, Wyo.; born in Cardiff, Wales, of Scotch parentage, on May 27, 1881; served in Third Battalion, Welsh Regiment, in Boer War, 1899-1902; immigrated to the United States; settled in Park County, Wyo., in 1912; married Mabel C. Laird; in the livestock business, raising both cattle and sheep; Republican national committeeman from Wyoming, 1935-37; member and vice president of Wyoming Stockgrowers Association, 1934-35; member of American National Livestock Association, Wyoming Farm Bureau, Wyoming Woolgrowers Association, and National Woolgrowers Association; life member of Buffalo Bill Museum Association; life trustee of Cody General Hospital; thirty-third degree Mason; elected to United States Senate in 1942 for the term ending January 3, 1949.

REPRESENTATIVE

AT LARGE.-Population (1940), 250,742.

FRANK A. BARRETT, Republican, of Lusk, Wyo.; born in Omaha, Nebr., November 10, 1892; graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., A. B. 1913 and LL. B. 1916; member of Delta Theta Phi, legal fraternity; served in Army, World War I; engaged in the practice of law at Lusk, Wyo.; county attorney of Niobrara County, Wyo., 1923-32; member of the Wyoming State Senate, 1933-35; member of the board of trustees, University of Wyoming, 1939-43; married Miss Alice C. Donoghue, May 21, 1919, and they have three children,

Frank, Jr., James E., and Marialyce; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

ALASKA

(Population (1940), 72,524)
DELEGATE

E. L. (BOB) BARTLETT, Democrat, of Juneau, Alaska.

HAWAII

(Population (1940), 423,330)
DELEGATE

JOSEPH RIDER FARRINGTON, Republican, of Honolulu, T. H.; born, Washington, D. C., October 15, 1897; educated, Punahou Academy, Honolulu, T. H., and University of Wisconsin; second lieutenant of field artillery, World War I; married Mary Elizabeth Pruett, 1920; children, Beverly, John; newspaper reporter, Washington correspondent, managing editor, publisher successively in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., Honolulu, T. H., 1919 to present; elected Senate, Territory of Hawaii, 1934, reelected 1938; elected Delegate to Congress from Hawaii, 1942; reelected 1944, reelected 1946.

PUERTO RICO

(Population (1940), 1,869,255)

RESIDENT COMMISSIONER

ANTONIO FERNŐS-ISERN, Popular Democrat, of San Juan, P. R., was born in San Lorenzo, P. R., May 10, 1895; appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico on September 11, 1946, as Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States in the vacancy created on the appointment of the Hon. Jesús T. Piñero, former Commissioner, as Governor of Puerto Rico; confirmed by the Insular Senate on October 2, 1946; married Tula Delgado in 1920; no children; attended elementary and high school in Puerto Rico and the Bloomsburg (Pennsylvania) State Normal School, Medical Preparatory course; graduate of University of Maryland, College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of Medicine; practiced medicine, 1916 to 1918, in Caguas, P. R.; health officer of the city of San Juan and Chief, Bureau of Transmissible Diseases, Insular Department of Health, 1919; Assistant Commissioner of Health of Puerto Rico, 1920-21; director of School Hygiene, city of San Juan, 1922; Assistant Commissioner of Health of Puerto Rico, 1923-31; United States Delegate to the Fifth Pan American Child Congress held at Havana, Cuba, December 1927; chairman, Puerto Rico Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1930; chairman Insular Board of Health of Puerto Rico, 1930-31; chairman, Child Welfare Board of Puerto Rico, 1926-31; Commissioner of Health of Puerto Rico, 1931-33; former professor of Public Health School of Tropical Medicine of Puerto Rico; private practice of medicine 1933-42; vice chairman First Puerto Rico Child Welfare Congress, 1941; chairman, Puerto Rico Housing Authority, 1941 to 1945; director, Civilian Defense Metropolitan Area, 1942; Executive Director, Puerto Rico Food and Supply Commission, 1942; Commissioner of Health of Puerto Rico, 1942-46; Delegate for Puerto Rico to the First Session of the West Indian Conference held at Barbados in 1944 and to the Second Session of the West Indian Conference held at St. Thomas in 1946 under the auspices of the Caribbean Commission; acting Governor of Puerto Rico at various times from 1943 to 1946; honorary chairman, Puerto Rico Chapter, American Red Cross; honorary life member, American Social Hygiene Association; vice president American Public Health Association.

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