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JAMES PINCKNEY POPE, Democrat, of Boise, Idaho; born March 31, 1884, in Jackson Parish, La., son of Jesse T. and Lou Pope; was educated in the common schools of Jackson Parish, and was graduated from the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, at Ruston, La., in 1906, and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909, with the degree of LL. B.; located in Boise, Idaho, in October, 1909; was admitted to the bar, in Idaho, in the following November, 1909; engaged in private practice of the law continuously until his election to the United States Senate; served as city attorney of Boise during the year 1916, and as assistant attorney general of Idaho during the years 1917 and 1918; elected mayor of Boise in April, 1929, and served until February 15, 1933; married Pauline Ruth Horn on June 26, 1913; two sons, Ross P. and George A.; elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1932, receiving 103,020 votes, John Thomas, Republican, 78,325 votes, and Carl Oliason, Liberty Party, 3,801 votes.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Benewah, Boise, Bonner, Boundary, Canyon, Clearwater, Custer, Gem, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lewis, Nez Perce, Payette, Shoshone, Valley, and Washington (19 counties). Population (1930), 189,576.

COMPTON I. WHITE, Democrat, of Clark Fork, Idaho, was born in Baton Rouge, La., July 31, 1877, the son of John E. White and Roberta (Bowman) White, of Mississippi and Louisiana stock, respectively; soon after his birth his parents moved to the ancestral home in Rankin County, Miss.; received his early education in the private school of Jackson, Miss.; moved to Clark Fork, Idaho, at the age of 13, and attended the grade schools; entered the Metropolitan Business College, of Chicago, and the Gonzaga University, of Spokane, Wash.; pioneered with his father in reclaiming a farm from the logged-off land and also in the sawmill business; was in the railway service in the capacity of telegraph operator, trainman, and conductor, after which he engaged in the agricultural and lumbering business on his home place at Clark Fork, later becoming interested in mining and as manager of several mining properties; stock raising and agriculture are now receiving the major portion of his attention; married Josephine Elizabeth Bunn, a school teacher, in 1915, and they have two children— Compton I., jr., and Enid Mary, age 12 and 10, respectively; is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, Modern Woodmen, Elks, Eagles, Grange, and Farmers Union; served as a member of the town council and as school trustee, and has been active in the councils of the Democratic organization in the precinct, county, and State; was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Houston, in 1928, and at Chicago, in 1932; unsuccessful candidate for Representative in Congress in 1930, but on November 8, 1932, was elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 42,784 votes, and defeating Burton L. French, Republican incumbent, by over 10,000 votes.

SECOND DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Ada, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Power, Teton, and Twin Falls (25 counties). Population (1930), 255,455.

THOMAS C. COFFIN, Democrat, of Pocatello, Idaho, was born in Caldwell, Idaho, October 25, 1887; graduated from the Phillips-Exeter Academy at Exeter, N. H., with the class of 1906, and thereafter attended the Sheffield Scientific School, and the law school of Yale University; commenced the practice of law in Boise, Idaho, in 1911; mayor of Pocatello, 1931-1933; served in the United States Navy, aviation branch, during the World War; married, and has one daughter Jeanne; elected to the Seventy-third Congress receiving 58,138 votes, Addison T. Smith, Republican, 46,273 votes, and Goold, Liberty, 900 votes.

ILLINOIS

(Population (1930), 7,630,654)
SENATORS

JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; born in Virginia; student in school in Georgia; attended the University of Virginia; have lesser degrees, universities in Ohio and Texas, and honorary degrees for countries in

Europe; admitted to practice law at the city of Seattle, State of Washington; was member of upper house of legislature, State of Washington; Democratic Congressman at large for State of Washington; married Rose Lawton Douglas, of Georgia. Served as officer in Spanish-American War; transferred from State guard as voluntary officer, first to staff of General Brooke in Cuba, later on staff of Gen. Fred Grant in Puerto Rico; at end of service mustered out at Newport News; moved to Chicago, 1903; was selected by mayor and city council of Chicago as corporation counsel of the city, 1905. Author of treatises of Federal law, "Removal of Causes"; also on the law of injunctions. Author of works on history-particularly of governmental nature-"The Two Great Republics, Rome and America"; coauthor with other writers on general subjects of the law of government and political systems. Was chosen at Democratic primary ballot of 1912 for United States Senator for State of Illinois, and the election confirmed by the legislature of State, electing Lewis as Democrat for Senate, long term, 1913 to 1919; was named by the majority of the United States Senate as Senate whip the first whip the Senate allowed itself to adopt as a part of its organization. As Senator, was designated from time to time in matters with foreign countries; named by President Wilson delegate to represent Senate at Safety at Sea Convention at London, 1914. During World War designated to incidental service in Europe and reporting service to President Wilson; in other instances to Secretary of War and Secretary of State. Was decorated by foreign countries; reported in Paris to General Pershing and General Dawes as to matters committed to his service. At the conclusion of these duties was complimented by Gen. George Bell, as commanding general; requested as staff aide to perform war duties; returning on naval ship Mount Vernon, serving with others put in care of wounded soldiers, the ship was torpedoed at sea; later, crippled, in to Brest, France. Lewis returned to Illinois and was nominated governor by convention, confirmed by the primary vote of 1920; was defeated in election by Republican candidate-afterwards Governor Small. As a Democrat, was reelected to the United States Senate on November 4, 1930, by popular vote, taking office on March 4, 1931.

WILLIAM H. DIETERICH, Democrat, of Beardstown, Ill.; born March 31, 1876, at Cooperstown, Brown County, Ill.; graduate of Kennedy Normal and Business College (private), Rushville, Ill., and Northern Indiana Law School, Valparaiso, Ind.; attorney at law by profession; served as city attorney of Rushville, Ill.; treasurer of Rushville union schools; master in chancery, Schuyler County; county judge, Schuyler County; special inheritance tax attorney from 1913 to 1917; representative in the fiftieth and fifty-first general assemblies of the State of Illinois; corporal in Company K of Anderson's Provisional Regiment, Spanish-American War; elected on November 4, 1930, from the State at large, to the Seventy-second Congress; elected on November 8, 1932, to the United States Senate for the term ending in 1939; married Nona S. Runkle and they have two children-Ruth Dieterich Kalthoff, and William J., of Beardstown.

REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 7,630,654.

MARTIN ADLAI BRENNAN, Democrat, of Bloomington, Ill., bachelor; born September 21, 1879, at Bloomington, where he has always resided; graduate of local schools and of Wesleyan College of Law, Bloomington, in 1902; served as presiding judge of the Illinois Court of Claims, 1913-1917; served two terms as representative in the General Assembly of Illinois, 1921-1923; elected as Congressman at Large from Illinois to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; the vote cast for the two major parties for this office is as follows: Martin A. Brennan, Democrat, 1,675,274; Walter Nesbit, Democrat, 1,655,147: Richard Yates, Republican, 1,421,221; Julius Klein, Republican, 1,406,771.

WALTER NESBIT, Democrat, of Belleville, Ill., was born in Belleville, May 1, 1878; educated in the grade and night schools; coal miner by trade for 20 years; held various offices in labor organizations; secretary-treasurer of district No. 12, Illinois United Mine Workers of America, for last 16 years, 1917-1933; married

and is the father of four children; honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and of the United Spanish War Veterans; certificate of honor and membership in United States Civil Legion for distinguished and loyal service during World War as a member of Red Cross and United States Labor Board; elected to the Seventy-third Congress from the State at large, defeating his Republican opponents by over 200,000 votes.

FIRST DISTRICT.—CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 1; ward 2, precincts 1 to 94; ward 4, precincts 1 to 7; ward 11, precincts 40 to 54. Population (1930), 142,916.

OSCAR DE PRIEST, born in Florence, Ala., 1871; family moved to Kansas in 1878; attended public schools in Salina and the Salina Normal School (business department); painter and decorator by trade; business in Chicago, real estate; married; no military service; served two terms as commissioner, Cook County, Ill.; one term as alderman, city of Chicago; Republican committeeman of the third ward, city of Chicago; elected Representative in Congress from the first district of Illinois, November 6, 1928; reelected to the Seventy-second Congress November 4, 1930; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress November 8, 1932.

SECOND DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 3, precincts 1 to 58; ward 4, precincts 8 to 67; wards 5 to 8; ward 9, precincts 1 to 20, and that part of 21 east of South Halsted Street, and 22 to 58; ward 10; ward 17, precincts 53, 54, 70, and 71; ward 19, precincts 52, 56, and 58. Population (1930), 577,998.

P. H. MOYNIHAN, Republican, of Chicago, Ill., was born in Chicago and attended the public schools there; served four terms as an alderman in the city of Chicago; Republican committeeman of the tenth ward of Chicago; served eight and one-half years as chairman and member of the Illinois State Commerce Commission; has been engaged in the publishing and printing business and at present is vice president of the Calumet Coal Co. of Chicago.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 3, precincts 59 to 63, and 70; ward 9, that part of precinct 21 west of South Halsted Street; ward 13, precincts 5 to 54; ward 14, precincts 24 to 42 and 50 to 53; ward 15, precincts 5 to 54; ward 16; ward 17, precincts 1 to 52, 55 to 69, and 72 and 73; ward 18; ward 19, precincts 1 to 51, 53 to 55, and 57. COOK COUNTY: Townships of Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton, and Worth. Population (1930), 540,666.

EDWARD A. KELLY, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; born in the city of Chicago, April 3, 1892; graduated from the Longfellow School, the Lake High School, and Orr's Business College; played professional baseball; employed by the Illinois Steel Co. as accountant; entered the United States Army during the World War, served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, honorably discharged February 28, 1919; organized the real estate and insurance firm of E. A. Kelly Co., which bears his name; always active in civic and political affairs in his district for the past 20 years; was elected president of the thirty-second ward Democratic organization when only 23 years old; married Miss Rosemary Eulert, of Lemont, Ill., and is the father of two sons, Edward A., jr., and Robert J., 7 and 5 years old, respectively; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 4, 1930, receiving 82,748 votes, a plurality of 23,384 over E. W. Sproul, Republican, who received 59,364 votes; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 2, precincts 95 to 97; ward 3, precincts 64 to 69; ward 11, precincts 1 to 39 and 55 and 56; ward 12; ward 13, that part of precinct 1 east of Cicero Avenue, and precincts 2 to 4; ward 14, precincts 1 to 23 and 43 to 49; ward 15, precincts 1 to 4; ward 21, precincts 7 to 11 and 25 to 27; ward 22, that part of precinct 7 south of Twenty-second Street, and precincts 18 to 20 and 22 to 42; ward 25, precincts 31 and 37 to 40. Population (1930), 237,139.

HARRY P. BEAM, Democrat, of Chicago; born in Peoria, Ill., November 23, 1892; resided in Chicago since he was 7 years of age; was graduated from high school, St. Ignatius College, and Loyola University; admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois in 1916; enlisted in the United States Navy during the World War; served as commander of the Armour Post American Legion; served as assistant corporation counsel of the city of Chicago, 1923-1927; member of Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and American Bar Association; married Miss Marge Brown, of Chicago, June, 1921, and they have one daughter, Betty Jane Beam; elected to Seventy-second Congress on November 4, 1930; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 20, precincts 4 to 14 and 33 to 52; ward 21, precincts 1 to 6, 12 to 24, and 28 to 49; ward 22, that part of precinct 7 north of West Twenty-second Street, and precincts 8 to 13 and 21; ward 24, precincts 13 to 17 and 41 to 47; ward 25, precincts 26 to 30, 32 to 36, and 41. Population (1930), 140,481.

ADOLPH J. SABATH, Democrat, of Chicago; born April 4, 1866, in Czechoslovakia; lawyer; for 12 years judge of the municipal court of Chicago; married Mae Ruth Fuerst in 1917; member of Masonic bodies and other clubs and organizations of Chicago, Ill.; elected to the Sixtieth and to all subsequent Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 13, that part of precinct 1 west of Cicero Avenue, and precincts 55 to 59; ward 20, precincts 1 to 3; ward 22, precincts 1 to 6 and 14 to 17; ward 23; ward 24, precincts 1 to 12, 18 to 40, and 48 to 53; ward 25, precincts 1 to 25; ward 27, precincts 1 to 43, 61, and 62; ward 28, precincts 53 to 57; ward 29; ward 30, precincts 21 to 66; ward 37, precincts 46 to 78. COOK COUNTY: Townships of Berwyn, Cicero, Lyons, Oak Park, Proviso, River Forest, Riverside, and Stickney. Population (1930), 632,834.

THOMAS J. O'BRIEN, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; born April 20, 1878, in Chicago, Ill.; educated in high school and took advanced courses in business law and accounting; married Nettie Kaufer, July 15, 1920; was State representative in the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fifty-sixth, and fifty-seventh general assemblies; was State bank examiner under auditors Brady, Russel, and Nelson; associated in the accounting business with John S. Weisbach & Co.; elected to the Seventythird Congress, receiving 164,187 votes, his opponent, Alfred F. Ruben, Republican, receiving 95,637 votes.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 26, precincts 1 to 7; ward 28, precincts 1 to 52; ward 30, precincts 1 to 20; ward 31; ward 32, precincts 1 to 21; ward 33, precincts 1 to 48; wards 34 to 36; ward 37, precincts 1 to 45; wards 38 to 40; ward 41, that part of precinct 1 south of Devon Avenue, and precincts 2 to 61; ward 45, precinct 1; ward 47, precincts 1 to 18; ward 50, precincts 52 to 69. COOK COUNTY; Townships of Barrington, Elk Grove, Hanover, Leyden, Maine, Norwood Park, Palatine, Schaumberg, and Wheeling. Population (1930), 889,349.

LEONARD WILLIAM SCHUETZ, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill., was born in Posen, Germany, now Poland, November 16, 1887; came to Chicago with his father when 1 year of age; father died when boy was 10 years of age; went to work at the age of 10; educated himself, public schools (grammar school high school, and business college); stenographer and secretary for number of years; later executive position with Swift & Co., Chicago, for 15 years; past 10 years president and treasurer of Schuetz Construction Co., Chicago, general contractors and builders; elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 20, precincts 15 to 32; ward 26, precincts 8 to 42; ward 27, precincts 44 to 60; ward 32, precincts 22 to 47; ward 33, precincts 49 to 51. Population (1930), 138,216.

LEO KOCIALKOWSKI, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; born in Chicago, August 16, 1882, in the same district which he was elected to represent and where he has always lived; orphaned at an early age, he was forced to work for a living and an education; worked in various capacities in various business houses; for 16 years worked on expert tax appraisals and on delinquent taxes in office of treasurer of Cook County, Ill.; member of Iroquois Club, Chicago, and the Chicago Press Club; not married; delegate to Democratic National Convention at Houston, Tex., 1928; elected ward committeeman from ward 33, in 1930, and from ward 32, in 1932; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 30,147 votes, and defeating Peter Granata, Republican, who received 11,625 votes.

NINTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 42; ward 43, precincts 10 to 42; ward 44, precincts 1 to 45 ward 46, precincts 12 to 59. Population (1930), 209,650.

FRED A. BRITTEN, Republican, of Chicago; was educated in the public schools and a business college of San Francisco; has been in the general building construction business in Chicago, doing work in different parts of the United States since 1894; represented the twenty-third ward in the Chicago City Council from 1908 to 1912; elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixtysixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, and Seventy-third Congresses.

TENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO: Ward 41, that part of precinct 1 north of Devon Avenue; ward 43, precincts 1 to 9; ward 44, precincts 46 to 56; ward 45, precincts 2 to 61; ward 46, precincts 1 to 11; ward 47, precincts 19 to 73; wards 48 and 49; ward 50, precincts 1 to 51. COOK COUNTY: Townships of Evanston, New Trier, Niles, and Northfield. LAKE COUNTY. Population (1930), 577,261.

JAMES SIMPSON, JR., Republican, of Wadsworth, Ill.; born January 7, 1905, at Chicago, Ill.; educated in public and private schools and attended Harvard University, specializing in courses in government; started farming in 1928, and is still actively engaged in farm work; married Ella deT. Snelling, of Boston, Mass., on January 15, 1931; member of the following clubs: Racquet Club of Chicago, Saddle and Cycle, Tavern, and Shoreacres; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 101,671 votes; Charles H. Weber, Democrat, 100,449 votes; Ralph E. Church, Independent, 45,067 votes.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Du Page, Kane, McHenry, and Will (4 counties). Population (1930), 363,136.

FRANK R. REID, Republican, of Aurora, Ill.; president National Rivers and Harbors Congress; member Committees on Flood Control, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and Revision of the Laws; was born at Aurora, Ill., on April 18, 1879; educated in the Aurora public schools, University of Chicago, and Chicago College of Law; admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1901; has been State's attorney and county attorney of Kane County; president Illinois State's Attorneys' Association, and assistant United States attorney at Chicago; was member of the house of the Forty-seventh General Assembly of Illinois, and chairman of the committee on statutory revision; attorney for the Illinois Police Association; chairman Kane County Republican central committee; secretary League of Illinois Municipalities; married and has five children; was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Boone, De Kalb, Grundy, Kendall, La Salle, and Winnebago (6 counties). Population (1930), 292,023.

JOHN T. BUCKBEE, Republican, of Rockford, was born in Rockford, Ill., August 1, 1871; son of Theodore E. and Catherine E. Buckbee; received his education in the Rockford city schools and later took his technical training in agriculture and horticulture in Austria, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, and Great Britain; is married and has two daughters; president of the nationally known H. W. Buckbee Seed Co., of Rockford, Ill.; was elected on November 2, 1926, to the Seventieth Congress; reelected to Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, and Whiteside (6 counties). Population (1930), 178,198.

LEO ELWOOD ALLEN, Republican, of Galena, Jo Daviess County, Ill., was born in Elizabeth, Ill., on the 5th day of October, 1898; graduate of Galena High School and of the University of Michigan, 1923; attorney at law; member of law firm of Allen & Heer, Galena, Ill.; during World War served for 27 months in this country and in France as sergeant in the One hundred and twenty-third Regiment Field Artilley, Thirty-third Division; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 44,645 votes, a majority of 9,738 votes over his Democratic opponent, Orestes H. Wright.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1930), 199,104.

CHESTER THOMPSON, Democrat, was born in Rock Island, Ill., September 19, 1893, and has lived in that city all his life; his parents were Charles L. and Susan Miller Thompson, both of whom came from old-established families of the community; was educated in the public and high schools of Rock Island, and upon finishing his education there, in 1910, became associated with his father in the plastering-contracting business, which, since his father's death in 1925, he is still conducting under the name of Charles L. Thompson Son Co.; was elected treasurer of Rock Island County, in 1922; after completing his term in 1926, he temporarily retired from politics, but early in 1927 was drafted by his friends to become Democratic candidate for mayor of the city of Rock Island; was successful and was the first Democratic mayor of his home city in exactly 30 years; was

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