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served as district attorney of the ninth judicial district of Louisiana from 1920 to 1933, when he resigned to assume duties in Congress; elected to the Seventythird Congress on November 8, 1932, without opposition, receiving 25,644 votes.

MAINE

(Population (1930), 797,423)

SENATORS

FREDERICK HALE, Republican, of Portland, Cumberland County, Me., was born at Detroit, Mich., October 7, 1874; prepared for college at Lawrenceville and Groton schools, and graduated from Harvard in 1896; admitted to the bar in 1899; served in the Maine Legislature in 1905; elected to the United States Senate in September, 1916, to succeed Senator Charles F. Johnson. He was reelected in 1922, and again in 1928. His term of office will expire in 1935.

WALLACE HUMPHREY WHITE, JR., Republican, of Lewiston, was born in that city August 6, 1877; was educated in the public schools of Lewiston and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1899. Following his graduation he came to Washington as assistant clerk to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, and later served as secretary to the President of the Senate and as private secretary to the late Senator Frye, of Maine; he is a lawyer by profession. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the Sixty-fifth. Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses, and in September, 1930, was elected to the United States Senate; his term of service will expire in 1937.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cumberland, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and York (4 counties). Population (1930), 265,989.

CARROLL L. BEEDY, lawyer, Republican, of Portland, Me.; elected a Member of the Sixty-seventh Congress from the first district of Maine in September, 1920, and reelected to all subsequent Congresses.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Somerset, and Waldo (7 counties). Population (1930), 264,434.

EDWARD CARLETON MORAN, JR., Democrat, of Rockland, Me.; born at Rockland, December 29, 1894; graduated 1917 from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.; profession, insurance; Democratic candidate for Governor of Maine in 1928 and in 1930; World War veteran; married on October 13, 1924, to Miss Irene Shirley Gushee; one son-Paul Wilson Moran, born March 17, 1926. Elected to the Seventy-third Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1930), 267,000.

JOHN GREGG UTTERBACK, Democrat, of Bangor, Me.; born in Johnson County, Ind.; attended the public school at Franklin; located in and established the carriage business in Bangor in 1905; elected as councilman in 1912, as alderman in 1913, and as mayor in 1914; member of the Congregational Church, Rotary Club, Knights of Pythias, and United Commercial Travelers; married and has two sons and three daughters; on September 12, 1932, was elected as a Representative to the Seventy-third Congress, defeating ex-Gov. Ralph O. Brewster, Republican.

MARYLAND

(Population (1930), 1,631,526)

SENATORS

MILLARD E. TYDINGS, Democrat, Havre de Grace, Md.; born at Havre de Grace, April 6, 1890; attorney at law; graduated from Maryland Agricultural College in mechanical engineering; studied law at University of Maryland; admitted to bar 1913; served in World War from April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919; promoted through ranks from enlisted man to lieutenant colonel; cited by Gen erals Pershing, Morton, and Upton; awarded distinguished-service medal; speaker of Maryland House of Delegates; State senator, Maryland; elected to Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses; elected to United States Senate 1926; reelected 1932.

PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, Republican, of Baltimore, Md.; born August 6, 1865, in Princess Anne, Md.; educated in public and private schools; LL. D. degrees from University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, Washington College, Chestertown, Md., and St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; lawyer; admitted to the Maryland bar in 1886; State's attorney for Dorchester County, Md., 1892-1898; comptroller of the treasury of Maryland, 1898-99; collector of internal revenue, district of Maryland, 1902-1911; Governor of Maryland, 1912-1915; Republican national committeeman for Maryland; married Ellen M. Showell (deceased); has two sons-Phillips Lee Goldsborough, jr., and Brice Worthington Goldsborough, 2d; elected to the United States Senate in 1928.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Annes, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester (9 counties). Population (1930), 193,658.

THOMAS ALAN GOLDSBOROUGH, Democrat, of Denton, Caroline County, Md.; born September 16, 1877, at Greensboro, Caroline County, Md.; A. B., Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1899; LL. B., University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., 1901; lawyer; State's attorney for Caroline County, 1904-1908; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and reelected to each succeeding Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baltimore, Carroll, and Harford. CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 15 and 16; ward 25, precincts 1 to 9; wards 26 to 28. Population (1930), 461,419.

WILLIAM PURINGTON COLE, JR., Democrat, of Towson, Baltimore County, Md., and also of Fork, Baltimore County, Md., where he owns and resides on his dairy farm; born in Towson, Md., May 11, 1889; graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Md., in 1907; graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now University of Maryland), receiving B. S. degree in civil engineering in 1910; studied law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore; passed State bar in 1912, and admitted to practice in the spring of that year; abandoned practice of law in August, 1917, to enter Fort Myer Training Camp, Fort Myer, Va., receiving commission as first lieutenant the following December; assigned to the Three hundred and sixteenth Regiment, Infantry, Seventy-ninth Division, Camp Meade, Md.; embarked for overseas duties on July 8, 1918, with that division and participated in all battles with said division; promoted to rank of captain, in France; returned to the United States after 11 months' foreign service and was discharged at Camp Dix; member of Baltimore County, State of Maryland, and American Bar Associations; member of board of regents of the University of Maryland, which is also the State board of agriculture; married in June, 1918, to Edith May Moore, and they have one child-William Purington Cole, 3d; elected to the Seventieth Congress with a majority of 16,078 over his opponent, elected to the Seventy-second Congress by a majority of 25,049, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress by the unprecedented majority of 45,101.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 1 to 8; ward 18, precincts 9 to 13; ward 22. Population (1930), 203,929.

VINCENT L. PALMISANO, Democrat, of Baltimore, was born at Terminese, Italy, June 13, 1883, the son of Cosimo and Anna Marie (Sansone) Palmisano; migrated to America with parents; settled in Baltimore in 1887; educated in parochial schools; at age of 11, employed in box factory; stonemason's helper at age of 15; in real-estate business at age of 21; took up study of law and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1909; actively interested in East Baltimore politics; elected to Maryland House of Delegates, 1914; elected to the first branch of the City Council of Baltimore, 1915; reelected, 1919; elected member of the Democratic State central committee of Baltimore city, 1923; appointed by Hon. Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, as one of the police examiners for Baltimore city, 1925; married, December, 1919, to Mary Fermes Pessaro, who was born in Baltimore; elected to the Seventieth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF BALTIMORE: Wards 9 to 14, and 17; ward 18, precincts 1 to 3; wards 19 and 20. Population (1930), 259,467.

AMBROSE JEROME KENNEDY, Democrat, of Baltimore, Md.; born in Baltimore, January 6, 1893; educated at St. John's Parochial School, Calvert Hall College, and Polytechnic Institute; engaged in the brokerage and insurance business; married on August 9, 1910, to Mary E., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dailey; was an unsuccessful candidate for the State legislature in 1918; member of the Baltimore City Council in 1922; reelected in 1923 for a 4-year term; elected to the State senate in 1926; appointed parole commissioner of the State of Maryland in 1929 and served until his election to Congress; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 8, 1932, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. Charles Linthicum, and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress.

FIFTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Prince Georges, and St. Marys (6 counties). CITY OF BALTIMORE: Ward 18, precincts 4 to 8 and 14 to 16; wards 21, 23, and 24; ward 25, precincts 10 to 16. Population (1930), 244,519.

STEPHEN WARFIELD GAMBRILL, Democrat, of Howard County; born near Savage, Howard County, Md., October 2, 1873; educated at Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, and a graduate of the law school of the Columbian University of Washington, D. C., now known as the George Washington University; admitted to the bar in 1897; has practiced law in the city of Baltimore since 1908; a member of the Maryland State Legislature in the sessions of 1920 and 1922; a member of the Maryland State Senate in the session of 1924; elected to the United States House of Representatives, November 4, 1924, to fill vacancy in the Sixty-eighth Congress, and aiso elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1930), 268,534.

DAVID JOHN LEWIS, Democrat, of Cumberland, Md., was born on May 1, 1869, in Center County, Pa., near Osceola Mills, the son of Richard Lloyd and Catherine (Watkins) Lewis; at the age of 9 years went to work in a coal mine and was employed there until 23 years old; while working in coal mine learned to read in Sunday school and studied law under Benjamin A. Richmond, Esq., and Latin under the Rev. John W. Nott, of Mount Savage, Md.; was admitted to the bar in 1892, and practiced at Cumberland; on December 19, 1893, married Florida M. Bohn, of Cumberland; elected a member of the Maryland Senate and served from 1902 to 1904; Democratic nominee for the Sixty-first Congress in 1908; was elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from 1911 to 1917, representing the sixth Maryland district; defeated for United States Senator in 1916; appointed a member of the United States Tariff Commission by President Wilson in 1917 and served to 1925; member of the Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., the Society for Psychical Research, of England, and the fraternal orders of Eagles and Elks; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 4, 1930, by a majority of 6,071 votes over the Hon. Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican; reelected to the Seventythird Congress.

MASSACHUSETTS

(Population (1930), 4,249,614)

SENATORS

DAVID IGNATIUS WALSH, Democrat, of Fitchburg, Mass., was born in Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., on November 11, 1872; attended the public schools of Clinton, Mass.; Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., A. B., 1893, LL. D., 1913; Boston University School of Law, LL. B., 1897; from several universities, LL. D.; lawyer; elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1900, and reelected, 1901; lieutenant governor, 1913; governor, 1914, and reelected 1915 (yearly terms); delegate at large to the Democratic National Conventions, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932; delegate at large to the Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1917-18; elected as the first Democrat since before the Civil War to the United States Senate, November 5, 1918, to succeed the Hon. John W. Weeks, his Republican opponent; was defeated for reelection to the United States Senate, November 7, 1924, receiving 547,600 votes to 566,188 for his Republican opponent; elected to the United States Senate, November 2, 1926, to succeed William M. Butler, appointed to fill the unexpired term of Henry Cabot Lodge, by more than 55,000 plurality; reelected, November 6, 1928, by 124,492 plurality; his term of office expires in 1935.

MARCUS ALLEN COOLIDGE, Democrat, of Fitchburg, Mass., was born in Westminster, Worcester County, Mass., October 6, 1865; attended the public schools, Bryant & Stratton Commercial College, Boston; manufacturer; mayor of Fitchburg, 1916; member Wilson Campaign Committee, 1916; chairman Democratic State convention, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Conventions; treasurer Democratic State committee; member of Massachusetts Democratic Electoral College, 1929; trustee and vice president Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass.; married Ethel Louise Warren, of Springfield, Vt., 1898; has three daughters Mrs. Donald F. Carpenter, Mrs. Robert E. Greenwood, and Mrs. Harry Hines Woodring; elected to the United States Senate, November 4, 1930, to succeed Senator Frederick H. Gillett, Republican, by a plurality over his opponent, former Senator William M. Butler, of 112,713; his term of office expires in 1937.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Berkshire and Franklin. HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of Holyoke and Westfield; towns of Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, and Tolland. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Towns of Belchertown, Chesterfield, Cummington, Enfield, Goshen, Greenwich, Huntington, Middlefield, Pelham, Plainfield, Prescott, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington. WORCESTER COUNTY: Towns of Athol and Royalston. Population (1930), 274,703.

ALLEN TOWNER TREADWAY, Republican, of Stockbridge; Amherst College; active member, supreme council, thirty-third degree, Scottish Rite, northern masonic jurisdiction; granger; Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1904; Massachusetts Senate, 1908-1911; president of senate, 1909-1911, inclusive; elected to the Sixty-third and succeeding Congresses; reelected to the Seventythird Congress; member of Ways and Means Committee, House of Representatives; member of Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

SECOND DISTRICT.—HAMPDEN COUNTY: Cities of Chicopee and Springfield; towns of Agawam, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Longmeadow, Ludlow, West Springfield, and Wilbraham. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: City of Northampton; towns of Amherst, Easthampton, Granby, Hadley, Hatfield, and South Hadley. Population (1930), 292,066.

WILLIAM JOSEPH GRANFIELD, Democrat, of Springfield, was born in Springfield, Mass., December 18, 1889; attended the grammar and high schools in Springfield, the Williston Academy at Easthampton, Mass., in 1910, and graduated from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., in 1913, with the degree of LL. B.; profession, attorney at law; member of the Common Council of Springfield in 1915 and 1916; served in the State house of representatives, 1917-1919; delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1918 and 1919;

delegate to the Democratic National Convention at New York City in 1924, and at Houston, Tex., in 1928; delegate at large to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 1932; married Jane I. Campbell (deceased, August 28, 1929); three children-Eleanor Jane, William J., and John Campbell; elected to the Seventy-first Congress on February 11, 1930, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. William K. Kaynor, deceased; reelected to the Seventy-second and Seventythird Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-HAMPDEN COUNTY: Towns of Brimfield, Holland, Monson, Palmer, and Wales. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY: Town of Ware. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Marlborough; towns of Ashby, Boxborough, Framingham, Hudson, Maynard, Pepperell, Shirley, Stow, Sudbury, Townsend, and Wayland. WORCESTER COUNTY: Cities of Fitchburg, Gardner, and Leominster; towns of Ashburn. ham, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Dana, Dudley, East Brookfield, Hardwick, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Lunenburg, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Rutland, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Templeton, Warren, Webster, West Brookfield, Westminster, and Winchendon. Population (1930), 282,230.

FRANK H. FOSS, Republican, of Fitchburg, Mass.; born in Augusta, Me., September 20, 1865; graduate of public school and Kents Hill Seminary, Kents Hill, Me.; contractor; served in Fitchburg City Council seven years; mayor four years; chairman Republican State committee four years; married; elected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Towns of Ashland and Hopkinton.

WORCESTER

COUNTY: City of Worcester; towns of Auburn, Boylston, Douglas, Grafton, Holden, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Northborough, Northbridge, Shrewsbury, Southborough, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Westborough, and West Boylston. Population (1930), 288,216.

PEHR G. HOLMES, Republican, of Worcester, Mass., was born in Sweden, April 9, 1881; attended public schools of Worcester; manufacturer; member of Common Council of Worcester, 1908-1911; alderman, 1913-14; president of the board of aldermen, 1915-16; mayor of Worcester, 1917-1919; member of the governor's council, seventh Massachusetts district, 1925-1928; married Freda C. Johnson, and they have two children; elected to the Seventy-second Congress by a majority of 7,335 votes over his Democratic opponent, David A. Goldstein; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress by a majority of 10,327 over his Democratic opponent, John J. Walsh.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: City of Cambridge, ward 11; cities of Lowell, Melrose, and Woburn; towns of Acton, Arlington, Ayer, Bedford, Belmont, Billerica, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lexington, Littleton, Reading, Stoneham, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford, Wilmington, and Winchester. Population (1930), 309,888.

EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Republican, of Lowell; born, Saco, Me., 1881; graduate Rogers Hall School, Lowell, and Madame Julien's School, Paris, France; served overseas, 1917; with American Red Cross in care of the disabled, 1918-1922; appointed Personal Representative in care of disabled veterans by President Harding, 1922; reappointed by President Coolidge, 1923, and by President Hoover, March 28, 1929; presidential elector, 1924; elected to Congress June 30, 1925, to fill vacancy caused by death of husband, the late Representative John Jacob Rogers; reelected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 74,459 votes, against 49,788 for her Democratic opponent.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-ESSEX COUNTY: Cities of Beverly, Gloucester, Haverhill, and Newburyport, city of Salem, wards 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6; towns of Amesbury, Boxford. Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Newbury, North Andover, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfield, Welham, and West Newbury. Population (1930), 255,879.

A. PIATT ANDREW, Republican, of Gloucester; educated at Princeton and Harvard; assistant professor of economics, Harvard, 1903-1909; expert assistant and editor of publications of National Monetary Commission, 1908-1911; Director of the Mint, 1909-10; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1910-1912; served in France continuously for four and a half years during World War, first with French, later with United States Army; cited by both Armies; promoted to lieutenant colonel, September, 1918; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, September 27, 1921, to fill unexpired term, and to succeeding Congresses; reelected to Seventy-third Congress by a majority of 34,655.

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