MISSISSIPPI

(Population (1940), 2,183,796)

SENATORS

JAMES OLIVER EASTLAND, Democrat, of Doddsville, Miss.; born in Doddsville, Miss., November 28, 1904; Methodist; attended the University of Mississippi, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Alabama; moved to Forest, Miss., in 1905 and was reared in Scott County, Miss.; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1927, and commenced practice in Forest, Miss.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives from Scott County, Miss., 1928-32; married Elizabeth Coleman in 1932; three daughters, Nell, Ann, and Sue, and one son, Woods Eugene; moved to Sunflower County, Miss., in 1934; appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Pat Harrison, and served from June 30, 1941, to September 28, 1941, when a duly elected successor qualified; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1942, for the term beginning January 3, 1943.

JOHN CORNELIUS STENNIS, Democrat, of De Kalb, Miss., was born in Kemper County, Miss., August 3, 1901, the son of Hampton Howell and Cornelia (Adams) Stennis; attended the county schools and graduated from Kemper County Agricultural High School, Scooba, 1919; B. S. degree, Mississippi State College, 1923; LL. B. degree, University of Virginia Law School, 1928; member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta (legal), and Alpha Chi Rho fraternities; Presbyterian, Mason, Lion, member of Farm Bureau, Mississippi and American Bar Associations; president, State 4-H Club Advisory Council; elected Mississippi House of Representatives from Kemper County, 1928-32; elected district prosecuting attorney, Sixteenth Judicial District, 1931 and 1935; appointed circuit judge, Sixteenth Judicial District, 1937 and elected 1938, 1942, 1946; elected United States Senator November 4, 1947, to fill unexpired term of the late T. G. Bilbo; sworn in November 17, 1947; married Coy Hines of New Albany, Miss., December 24, 1929; two children, John Hampton and Margaret Jane.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alcorn, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, and Tishomingo (10 counties). Population (1940), 263,367.

JOHN ELLIOTT RANKIN, Democrat, of Tupelo, Miss.; dean of the Mississippi delegation in the House; former chairman of the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation; was born in Itawamba County, Miss., on March 29, 1882, son of Thomas B. and Modeste Rutledge Rankin; was educated in the common schools, the high school, and the University of Mississippi, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in 1910; entered the practice of law at West Point, Miss., in June 1910 and moved to Tupelo, Miss., in November of that year, where he has practiced his profession since that time, during which period he served 4 years as prosecuting attorney; an ex-soldier of the World War; member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Masonic fraternity, and several other orders; was married on October 1, 1919, to Miss Annie Laurie Burrous, of West Point, Miss.; they have one child, a daughter, Annie Laurie; was nominated in the Democratic primaries of 1920 and elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress at the general election on November 2; renominated and reelected to the Sixtyeighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1940; has been one of the leaders in the House for the administration's power policies, and was coauthor with Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, of the bill to create the Tennessee Valley Authority, which contained section 12 of the present T. V. A. Act, giving to the Tennessee Valley Authority the right to build transmission lines, to distribute power, and to build additional dams on the Tennessee River; successfully led the fight in the House to force the acceptance of that main provision of the bill in lieu of a bill which had been passed by the House; succeeded in getting every county in his district connected up with the T. V. A. and supplied with electric energy from the T. V. A. at the "yardstick" rates, serving thousands of farm homes with cheap electricity; chairman of the public power bloc in the House and has led the fight for rural electrification; has adopted as his slogan, "Let's electrify every farm home in America at rates the people can afford to pay"; author of the amendment to raise

the base pay of the men in the armed forces to $50 a month; author of the amendment to the Rules of the House creating the permanent Committee on UnAmerican Activities.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, De Soto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Union, and Yalobusha (10 counties). Population (1940), 231,701.

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Democrat, of Charleston, Miss.; born at Cascilla, Miss., April 18, 1910; married to Miss Rebecca Thompson, of Saltillo, Miss., June 20, 1940; one child, James Lloyd, born March 5, 1942; member Presbyterian Church, Masonic order, Rotarian, Phi Alpha Delta (legal fraternity), and Beta Theta Pi; educated in the public schools of Cascilla and Charleston, Miss.; attended both literary and law departments of the University of Mississippi, being admitted to the bar in 1932 with the highest average of 39 admitted at that time and has since practiced law at Charleston, Miss.; served 1 year as school principal, 1930-31; elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1931 and served one session; elected district attorney of the seventeenth district of Mississippi in 1933 at the age of 23; reelected district attorney in 1935 and again in 1939 without opposition; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress at a special election held on November 4, 1941, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Wall Doxey; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bolivar, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica, and Washington (11 counties). Population (1940), 435,530. WILLIAM MADISON WHITTINGTON, Democrat, of Greenwood, Miss.; born at Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss., May 4, 1878; graduated from Mississippi College in 1898 and in law from the University of Mississippi in 1899; moved to Greenwood, Leflore County, Miss., January 1, 1904; lawyer and cotton grower; married July 20, 1910, to Anna Ward Aven; has three children, all over 21 years of age-Mary Bailey (married to Kenneth Davenport), William Madison, Jr., and Charles Aven; State senator; elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress and reelected to each succeeding Congress, including the Eightieth.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Pontotoc, Webster, and Winston (10 counties). Population (1940), 201,316. THOMAS GERSTLE ABERNETHY, Democrat, of Okolona, Miss.; born in Eupora, Webster County, Miss., May 16, 1903, the son of Thomas Franklin and Minnie Jinkins Abernethy; educated in the public schools of Eupora, Miss., the University of Alabama, Cumberland University (LL. B. 1924), and the University of Mississippi; admitted to bar in July 1924 and entered practice of law at Eupora, Miss., 1925; served as mayor of town of Eupora, 1927-29; moved to Okolona, Miss., in July 1929, where he has continued his practice; elected district attorney of the Third Judicial District of Mississippi, 1935, and reelected without opposition, 1939; Methodist, Mason, Shriner, and Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; married July 5, 1936, to Miss Alice Margaret Lamb, of State College, Miss.; two daughters, Margaret Gail and Alice Kay, and one son, Thomas Gerstle, Jr.; elected November 3, 1942, to the Seventy-eighth Congress, reelected November 7, 1944, to the Seventy-ninth Congress, and reelected November 5, 1946, to the Eightieth Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Simpson, and Smith (10 counties). Population (1940), 261,466.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WINSTEAD, Democrat, of Philadelphia, Miss.; born in Neshoba County, Miss., January 6, 1904; educated in the public schools of Neshoba and Newton Counties, Miss.; attended Clarke Memorial College, Newton, Miss.; received B. S. degree from Mississippi Southern College at Hattiesburg, Miss., and did work on M. A. degree at University of Alabama; farmer and educator; married Miss Etna B. Johnson, April 26, 1933; one son, William Arthur (Bill) Winstead, Jr., born December 19, 1943; member of Baptist Church, Masonic fraternity, and Order of the Eastern Star; elected superintendent of education of Neshoba County in 1935 and reelected in 1939; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress without opposition; reelected to the Eightieth Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Stone, and Wayne (16 counties). Population (1940), 319,635.

WILLIAM MEYERS COLMER, Democrat, of Pascagoula, Miss.; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Walthall, Warren, Wilkinson, and Yazoo (15 counties). Population (1940), 470,781.

JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Raymond, Miss.; born on December 4, 1918, in Raymond, Miss., the son of G. K. and Maude Williams; educated in the public schools of Hinds County, Miss., Hinds Junior College, Raymond, Miss., the University of Mississippi, and the Jackson Mississippi School of Law; admitted to the bar of the State of Mississippi on April 4, 1940, and practiced law in his home town of Raymond until November 5, 1941, at which time he enlisted in the United States Army as an aviation cadet; commissioned as pilot, United States Army Air Corps, July 3, 1942; only survivor of a crew of five men involved in an airplane accident in South America in March 1943, while piloting an army aircraft; retired from active duty with the United States Army at Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., April 29, 1944; served as prosecuting attorney of Hinds County, Miss., from May 20, 1944, to October 1, 1946; married former Elizabeth Ann Wells, private, WAC, of Raymond, Miss., October 12, 1944; member of Raymond Baptist Church, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, and AMVETS; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

MISSOURI

(Population (1940), 3,784,664)
SENATORS

FORREST C. DONNELL, Republican; residence, 55 Joy Avenue, Webster Groves, Mo.; born August 20, 1884, at Quitman, Mo.; was graduated from Maryville (Mo.) High School, 1900; University of Missouri, A. B. degree 1904, LL. B. degree 1907; Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., LL. D. degree (honorary), 1941; lawyer; served as city attorney of Webster Groves, Mo., and, beginning February 26, 1941, as Governor of Missouri; married January 29, 1913, to Hilda Hays; two children, Mrs. Boyd Rogers, of Webster Groves, Mo., and John Lanier Donnell, of St. Louis, Mo.; elected United States Senator on November 7, 1944, for the term ending January 3, 1951.

JAMES P. KEM, Republican, of Kansas City, Mo.; born in Macon, Mo., April 2, 1890; son of James P. and Evelyn Lee Kem; graduated from University of Missouri, 1910, from Harvard Law School in 1913; married Mary Elizabeth Carroll, of Bullitt County, Ky., in 1920 and they have two daughters-Mrs. V. R. Shackelford, Jr., of Orange, Va., and Miss Evelyn Kem; served in United States Army (Infantry) from 1917 to 1919; for many years has been engaged in the general practice of law in Kansas City, Mo.; chairman, Jackson County (Missouri) Republican Committee, 1944; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1944; member-American Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Lawyers Association of Kansas City (president, 1943), Kansas City Bar Association, William Bland Post No. 50 of American Legion, Ivanhoe Masonic Lodge, Kansas City University Club, Kansas City Country Club, Missouri Shorthorn Breeders' Association, Cass County, Missouri, Farm Bureau, Farmers Club of Kansas City (president, 1942), St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Kansas City; trustee (vice chairman of board of trustees), University of Kansas City; director, St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City; elected to the United States Senate on November 5, 1946, for the term ending January 3, 1953.

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REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Clark, Daviess, Grundy, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Marion, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, and Sullivan (16 counties). Population (1940), 232,484.

WAT ARNOLD, Republican, of Kirksville, Mo.; born on a farm near Downing, Schuyler County, Mo., September 21, 1879; attended the Coffey, Mo., rural school and was graduated from the Kirksville State Teachers College; taught school at Atlanta, Mo., 1903-4; entered the lumber business in 1905 at Atlanta, Mo., and in 1908 organized the Arnold Lumber Co. and moved to Kirksville, Mo., in which company he is now associated with his son, Sam M. Arnold; past president of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce of Kirksville; active in civic and fraternal organizations; member of the Presbyterian Church; married Miss Myra Gertrude Mills; three children; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946; member, Committee on Agriculture.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Boone, Camden, Carroll, Charlton, Cole, Cooper, Hickory, Howard, Lafayette, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Randolph, and Saline (15 counties). Population (1940), 282,964.

MAX SCHWABE, Republican, of Columbia, Mo., was born on a farm near Columbia, Boone County, Mo., on December 6, 1905, the son of Dr. George Washington and Lulu Margaret (Stotts) Schwabe; attended the public schools of Sedalia and Columbia and the University of Missouri, completing a major in political science and taking a course in law; married Miss Georgia May Ashlock in Columbia, Mo., July 12, 1930, and they have two daughters, Gladys June and Maxine May; formerly engaged in the life-insurance business in central Missouri; member of the Christian Church; former Boy Scout leader; brother of George B. Schwabe, Member of Congress from Tulsa, Okla.; elected to Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942, from the Second District, which usually goes Democratic by about 15,000 majority and which had not been represented by a Republican for 20 years; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, De Kalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Platte, Ray, and Worth (14 counties). Population (1940), 291,744. WILLIAM C. COLE, Republican, of St. Joseph, Mo.; born on a farm near Fillmore, Andrew County, Mo., on August 29, 1897; attended public schools of Fillmore and St. Joseph, Mo.; was graduated from the St. Joseph Law School in the class of 1928, receiving the degree of LL. B.; admitted to the practice of law at St. Joseph, Mo., March 31, 1928; associate member of the law firm, Strop & Strop, St. Joseph, Mo.; served as State representative, second district, Buchanan County, Mo., at special 1942 session of Missouri State Legislature; president of St. Joseph Bar Association, 1942; member of St. Joseph Lions Club, Charity Lodge No. 331, A. F. & A. M; member Moila Temple Shrine; Shady Beach Lodge, I. O. O. F.; B. P. O. E., Lodge No. 40, St. Joseph, Mo.; L. O. O. M., St. Joseph Lodge, No. 315; C. S. Simineo Lodge, No. 92, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; served 10 months as mounted scout on the Mexican border with the Missouri forces in 1916; served 14 months in war zone on board the U. S. S. Machias, doing submarine patrol and convoy duty during First World War; member of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; married Miss Esther Leah Arnold at St. Joseph, Mo., August 29, 1927, and they have one daughter, Mary Barbara; elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on November 3, 1942; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-JACKSON COUNTY: Blue, Brooking, Fort Osage, Prairie, Sni-a-Bar, and Van Buren Townships, KANSAS CITY: Wards 11 to 17, and parts of wards 2, 4, 18, 19, and 20. Population (1940), 243,543.

CHARLES JASPER BELL, Democrat, of Blue Springs, Mo., was born in Lake City, Colo., in 1885; attended country schools in Jackson County, Mo., Lees Summit (Mo.) High School, and the University of Missouri; graduated from Kansas City School of Law in 1913 with degree of LL. B.; lawyer; member of City Council of Kansas City, Mo., 1926-30; represented Kansas City in river conferences in Chicago and St. Louis; one of committee of three to draft administrative code, which now comprises the general law of Kansas City; in 1930 was elected as circuit judge, sixteenth Missouri circuit; resigned from bench in May 1934 and became partner in firm of Mosman, Rogers, Bell and Conrad, Bryant

Building, Kansas City, Mo.; elected as Representative in the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Fourth Missouri District on November 6, 1934; during that term served as chairman of Special Committee Investigating Old Age Pension Organizations; reelected to Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses; member of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission; served as chairman of Committee on Insular Affairs, 1942-46.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-JACKSON COUNTY: Washington Township. KANSAS CITY: Ward 1; ward 2, precincts 1 to 7, 9 to 14, 18, and 19 to 21; ward 3; ward 4, precincts 1 to 6, 8 to 11, 13, 14, and 16 to 22; wards 5 to 10, ward 18, precincts 8 to 23; ward 19, precincts 1 to 3, 5 to 7, 10 to 15, 18, and 19; ward 20, precincts 1, 2, 5; 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 17 to 19. Population (1940), 234,285.

ALBERT LEE REEVES, JR., Republican, of Kansas City, Mo.; born May 31, 1906, in Steelville, Crawford County, Mo.; educated in public schools of Kansas City, Mo.; graduate William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., A. B., 1927, and University of Missouri School of Law, LL. B., 1931; head of Department of Speech, Baylor College, Tex., 1927-28; attorney at law; admitted to bar, Missouri, April 1931; member Lawyers Association of Kansas City, Missouri, and American Bar Associations; has never held public office; entered on active duty July 1942, assigned to Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division, with grade of captain; subsequently, served in India, Burma, and China as executive officer, Motor Transport Command, and as commanding officer, Four hundred and sixty-eighth Quartermaster Group and One thousand nine hundred and fifth Engineer Aviation Battalion; promoted to major in February 1943, and to lieutenant colonel in October 1944; relieved from active duty April 23, 1946; holds reserve commission; married Eleanor Louise Glasner in 1935; two children, daughters, Elaine Louise, age 9, and Martha Emilie, age 6; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Greene, Henry, Johnson, Pettis, Polk, St. Clair, and Vernon (11 counties). Population (1940), 288,849.

MARION T. BENNETT, Republican, of Springfield, Mo.; born at Buffalo, Mo., June 6, 1914; educated in public schools of Buffalo, Jefferson City, and Springfield, Mo.; graduate of Southwest Missouri State College, A. B., 1935, and Washington University School of Law, LL. B., 1938; admitted to practice of law in State and Federal courts, including United States Supreme Court; practiced law in Springfield, Mo.; member of Greene County and Missouri Bar Associations, Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity, Missouri State Historical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, National Aeronautic Association, Greene County, Mo., Republican Central Committee, 1938-42, various farm organizations, and the Christian Church; married Miss June Young, of Hurley, Mo.; two children, a daughter, Ann, and a son, William Philip; volunteered for combat duty in World War II, but was rejected; served as secretary to his father, Phil A. Bennett, Member of the Seventy-seventh Congress and Member-elect of the Seventy-eighth Congress; elected at a special election, January 12, 1943, to fill vacancy caused by death of Phil A. Bennett; reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944, and Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946, in all three elections he carried every county in the Sixth District and received the largest majorities ever cast for a candidate for State or National office in the District; member, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Howell, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Ozark, Stone, Taney, Webster, and Wright (15 counties). Population (1940), 313,435.

DEWEY SHORT, Republican, of Galena, Mo.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carter, Crawford, Dent, Iron, Jefferson, Laclede, Madison, Oregon, Perry, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Shannon, Texas, Washington, and Wayne (18 counties). Population (1940), 276,634.

PARKE M. BANTA, Republican, of Arcadia, Mo.; born at Berryman, Mo., November 21, 1891; attended the public schools, William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.; graduated from Northwestern University Law School, Evanston-Chicago, Ill., LL. B., 1914; practiced law at Potosi, Mo., 1914-25 and at Ironton, Mo., 1925-41; administrator, State Social Security Commission of Missouri, 1941-45; served in the United States Army, World War I; member American Legion; Rotary Club; Masonic fraternity; Delta Theta Phi law fraternity; American Bar Association, and the Missouri bar; married Miss Gladys Nichols April 13, 1918; three daughters, Doris Jean, Carol, and Mary Beth; elected to the Eightieth Congress on November 5, 1946.