FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Simpson, and Smith (10 counties). Population (1930), 244,562.

ROSS A. COLLINS, Democrat, of Meridian; born April 25, 1880, at Collinsville, in Lauderdale County, Miss.; preliminary education in city schools of Meridian, and in 1894-95, the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College; A. B., Kentucky University (now Transylvania University); LL. B., University of Mississippi; LL. D., Transylvania University, 1930; admitted to bar and practiced law at Meridian, 1901-1912; married Alfreda Grant, of Meridian, 1904; they have two children-Jane, aged 17, Melvin, aged 12; elected attorney general of Mississippi, 1911; reelected without opposition in 1915; candidate for Governor, 1919; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress; reelected to Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Mation, Pearl River, Perry, Stone, and Wayne (16 counties). Population (1930), 284,457.

WILLIAM MEYERS COLMER, Democrat, of Pascagoula, Miss., was born at Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss., February 11, 1890; educated in the public schools, at Moss Point, McHenry, and Gulfport, Miss., and Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.; taught school from 1914 to 1917; admitted to the bar in 1917, at Purvis, Lamar County, Miss., and has practiced law at Pascagoula since 1919; served as attorney of Jackson County, Miss., 1921-1927, and as district attorney (Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, Stone, and George Counties, Miss.) from 1928, until his resignation, in 1933, having been elected to Congress; during the World War served as a private, and was honorably discharged as regimental sergeantmajor; married Miss Ruth Miner, of Lumberton, Miss., to which union three boys were born-Billy, jr., Jimmy, and Tommy; Mason, Methodist, Elk, Woodman of the World, Rotarian, American Legion, Forty and Eight, and Pi Kappa Alpha; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, receiving 22,831 votes.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Walthall, Warren, Wilkinson, and Yazoo (15 counties). Popula tion (1930), 414,301.

RUSSELL ELLZEY, Democrat, of Wesson, Miss., was born March 20, 1891; the son of William Judson Ellzey, a farmer, and Alice McPherson Ellzey, who was reared on a farm at Union Church, Jefferson County; married Miss Ruth Ratcliff, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Ratcliff, of McComb, Miss., and is the father of a 4-year old son, Clyde Lawrence Ellzey; was reared on a farm in Lincoln County, where he attended the rural schools of that community; graduated from Mississippi College with an A. B. degree in 1912; later, was a summer student at the University of Chicago; for 18 years he taught school in Copiah and Lincoln Counties, and at one time served as superintendent of education in Lincoln County, and for the past 10 years has been president of the Copiah-Lincoln Junior College; in 1917 he volunteered his services for the World War, and served 18 months in American camps and in France; is a Mason, a member of the Baptist Church, and a Rotarian; was overwhelmingly elected on March 15, 1932, to the Seventy-second Congress, to fill the unexpired term of the lamented Percy E. Quin; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress by a majority of 8,927 over a very worthy opponent.

MISSOURI

(Population (1930), 3,629,367)
SENATORS

ROSCOE C. PATTERSON, Republican, was born in Springfield, Mo., September 15, 1876; married; one son; educated in public schools of Springfield, Mo., Drury College, University of Missouri, and Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; graduated from the law department of Washington University with the degree of LL. B. in June, 1897; admitted to the Missouri bar September 15, 1897, and engaged in the general practice of law at Springfield until December 21, 1925; elected prosecuting attorney of Greene County (two terms)

from January 1, 1903, until January 1, 1907; member of the Republican State committee from the seventh congressional district of Missouri from 1912 until 1920; chairman of Republican State conventions which met in St. Louis in 1918 and in Kansas City, May 5, 1920; member Sixty-seventh Congress; presidential elector at large from Missouri in 1924; appointed by President Calvin Coolidge United States attorney for the western district of Missouri, December 21, 1925; for a term of four years; resigned as United States attorney February, 1929; elected United States Senator November 6, 1928, for a term of six years.

BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, Democrat, of St. Louis County, Mo., was born at Bowling Green, Mo., January 8, 1890, the son of Champ and Genevieve (Bennett) Clark; attended the public schools at Bowling Green and Washington, D. C.; graduated from Eastern High School, Washington, D. C., in 1908, University of Missouri, with A. B. degree, in 1912, and George Washington University, with LL. B. degree, in 1914; parliamentarian of the United States House of Repre sentatives, 1913-1917; attended first officers training camp at Fort Myer, Va., in 1917, receiving commission as captain; elected lieutenant colonel, Sixth Regi ment Missouri Infantry, and served as lieutenant colonel of that regiment, which later became the One hundred and fortieth Regiment United States Infantry, until September, 1918; Assistant Chief of Staff, Eighty-eighth Division, from September, 1918, to March, 1919, and of Thirty-fifth Division, from March, 1919, until discharged in May, 1919; promoted to colonel of Infantry in March, 1919; one of the 17 charter members and an incorporator of the American Legion, and chairman of the Paris caucus, which formally organized the Legion; past national commander of the American Legion; past commander of the Thirtyfifth Division Veterans' Association and ex-president of the National Guard Association of the United States; member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; practiced law in St. Louis since discharge from the Army; active in Democratic politics all his life, having attended every Democratic National Convention since 1900; parliamentarian of the Democratic National Convention in 1916; delegate at large and member of the resolutions and platform committee of the Houston Convention in 1928; vice chairman of the Democratic regional headquarters at St. Louis in 1928; member of Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis; member of Masonic and Odd Fellows orders, Missouri Athletic Club, and the St. Louis, Mo., and American Bar Associations; married on October 2, 1922, to Miss Miriam Marsh, the daughter of the late Hon. Wilbur Marsh, of Waterloo, Iowa, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the presidential campaigns of 1916 and 1920, and they have three sons-Champ, and the twins Marsh and Kimball; elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1932, for the term commencing March 4, 1933, but was subsequently appointed to the Senate on February 3, 1933, by Gov. Guy B. Park, to fill the unexpired term caused by the resignation of Hon. Harry B. Hawes.

REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 3,629,367.

JOHN J. COCHRAN, Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo.; born August 11, 1880; lawyer; secretary to Hon. William L. Igoe and Hon. Harry B. Hawes, who represented St. Louis in Congress for 14 years; secretary to the late Senator William J. Stone, being with the Senator at the time of his death; during the period of his service with Senator Stone was also secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate; married; elected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses; candidate at large for nomination and election to Seventy-third Congress; in primary with 56 Democratic candidates received next to highest number of votes polled for any candidate; in election received 1,013,824 votes, leading Democratic candidates, receiving 9,654 more votes than Hon. James R. Claiborne, who finished second, and 404,556 more votes than Hon. L. C. Dyer, who led Republican candidates; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

JAMES R. CLAIBORNE, Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo.; born June 22, 1882, at St. Louis, Mo.; educated in the St. Louis public schools, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1907; lectured in law school of St. Louis University on torts, evidence, and other subjects, over a period of 10 years; lawyer, giving

special attention to trial work in both State and Federal courts; married Miss Louise Minnis, of St. Louis, November, 1919, and they have two childrenMartha Ann Claiborne and James R. Claiborne, jr.; Democratic candidate for judge of the circuit court, eighth judicial district, in 1924; elected as Representative at large from Missouri to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 1,004,170 votes, the second highest vote of all the successful candidates.

JOSEPH B. SHANNON, Democrat, of Kansas City, Mo.; born at St. Louis Mo., March 17, 1867; educated in public schools of St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; admitted to bar in Missouri and entered upon the practice of law in Kansas City, Mo., in 1905; chairman Democratic State committee in 1910; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Denver in 1908, at Baltimore in 1912, at San Francisco in 1920, at New York in 1924, at Houston in 1928. and at Chicago in 1932; member of the Missouri constitutional convention of 1922-23; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; appointed chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Government Competition with Private Enterprise; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress from the State at large.

CLYDE WILLIAMS, Democrat, of Hillsboro, was born on a farm in Jefferson County, Mo., October 13, 1873; attended the country schools, the De Soto High School, the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, and was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1901, receiving the degrees of A. B. and LL. B.; prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County from 1902 to 1908; practiced law in southeast Missouri continuously since 1901; married to Lola Marsden, of Victoria, Mo., April 26, 1905; has two daughters, Eleanor Doyne and Merle Lee, and one son, Evan Duane; elected to the Seventieth Congress by a majority of 574 over Charles E. Kiefner, and to the Seventy-second Congress by a majority of 3,255; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

CLARENCE CANNON, Democrat, of Elsberry; born April 11, 1879, at Elsberry, Mo.; was graduated from La Grange College (now Hannibal-La Grange Junior College), William Jewell College, and Missouri University; admitted to State and Federal bars and entered the practice of law at Troy, Mo.; married; two daughters; parliamentarian of the House of Representatives under Democratic and Republican administrations; volunteered for World War; delegate to State and National Democratic conventions; parliamentarian of the Democratic National Conventions at San Francisco, 1920, New York, 1924, Houston, 1928, and Chicago, 1932; editor of two editions of the Manual and Digest of the House of Representatives, 1916 and 1918; author of A Synopsis of the Procedure of the House, 1919, of Procedure in the House of Representatives, 1920, of Cannon's Procedure, 1928 (published by resolutions of the House), and of two editions of the Convention Parliamentary Manual (published, 1928 and 1932, by the Democratic National Committee); author of treatise on parliamentary law in Encyclopædia Britannica; editor and compiler of the Precedents of the House of Representatives by act of Congress; received honorary degree of LL. D., conferred by William Jewell College, 1930, and Culver-Stockton College, 1932; elected to Sixty-eighth and succeeding Congresses. In state-wide election held November 8, 1932, led in largest number of counties in the State and received highest number of votes cast for any congressional candidate on any ticket outside of St. Louis.

FRANK HOOD LEE, Democrat, of Joplin, Mo.; born March 29, 1875, near De Sota, Johnson County, Kans.; his parents moved to Vernon County, Mo., in 1876, and settled near Virgil City; his father, Daniel Marion Lee, was a Confederate soldier; educated at country school at Virgil City, Vernon County, Mo.; lawyer; married Miss Allie King, of Marshall, Mo., and is the father of seven children-Mrs. Dorothy Lee Steinert; Katherine B.; Alfred K., married; Marion S.; Harold H.; Frank H., jr.; and Mary Virginia Lee, the youngest, aged 15 years; member of the State legislature in 1915 and 1917; Democratic nominee for Representative in the United States Congress in 1922 and 1930, never being defeated in a primary; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, from the State at large, receiving a popular vote of 997,448, being sixth highest of the successful 13 Democrats elected-the highest Republican received 609,268 votes.

JAMES EDWARD RUFFIN, Democrat, of Springfield, Mo., was born on a farm near Covington, Tipton County, Tenn., July 24, 1893; accompanied his parents to Aurora, Mo., in 1905, where he attended the grade schools; graduated from the Aurora High School, in 1912, and from Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in 1916, with the degree of A. B., and was a tackle on the mythical all-Missouri Valley football team during his senior year; after teaching a year at Nickerson College, Nickerson, Kans., he entered an officers' training camp, and served overseas with the First and Thirty-fifth Divisions; graduated from the law school of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1920, with the degree of LL. B.; commenced the practice of law in Springfield, Mo., in 1920; married Miss Grace Gresham, of Springfield, Mo., July 29, 1933; served as assistant city attorney of Springfield, 1926-1928; president of Greene County (Mo.) Bar Association, 1931; is holding his first elective office; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, from the State at large.

RALPH FULTON LOZIER, Democrat, of Carrollton, was born on a farm in Ray County, Mo., January 28, 1866; attended country schools; graduated from the Carrollton High School at the age of 17 years; taught country schools for three years reading law at night; admitted to the bar in October, 1886; president of Missouri Bar Association, 1912-13; member of the American Bar Association; married Iowa Carruthers, of Bloomfield, Iowa, February 24, 1892, who died January 22, 1929; has two sons, Lue C. and Ralph, jr.; elected to the Sixtyeighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

JACOB L. MILLIGAN, Democrat, of Richmond, was born March 9, 1889; educated in the Richmond public schools; attended the law department of the University of Missouri, 1910-1914; admitted to the bar, 1913; married; enlisted in the Sixth Regiment Missouri Infantry April 8, 1917; served as captain of Company G, One hundred and fortieth Regiment Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, from August 4, 1917, to May 15, 1919; embarked for France April 23, 1918; returned April 28, 1919; was elected to fill a vacancy in the Sixty-sixth Congress on February 14, 1920; again elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress and reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses.

REUBEN TERRELL WOOD, Democrat, of Springfield, Mo., was born on a farm near Springfield, August 7, 1884, of Virginia parents; received his education in the public schools of Springfield, and under the tutorship of his father, who was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and his mother, who graduated from Piedmont Female Academy near Cobham, Va.; at an early age he entered the cigar industry; elected president of the Missouri State Federation of Labor in 1912 and served in this capacity for 20 consecutive years; also served as chairman of the legislative committee of the Missouri Federation of Labor and attended every session of the Missouri General Assembly from 1913 to 1933, sponsoring legislation in the interests of the wage earner, farmer, and small business man; led the continuous fight for the enactment of the Missouri workmen's compensation law, from 1915 until its final passage in 1925, and the subsequent ratification, by vote of the people in the general election of 1926; served in the capacity of national legislative representative of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees during the session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, from October, 1919, to April, 1920, sponsoring legislation in the interest of the railway employees; during the World War was a member of the State advisory board for Missouri of the United States Fuel Administration and was a member of the Missouri division of the United States Food Administration; was elected Congressman at large in the general election of November 8, 1932, to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 994,569 votes, and with a majority of 385,301 over his nearest Republican opponent, L. C. Dyer.

MILTON ANDREW ROMJUE, Democrat, of Macon, was born December 5, 1874, at Love Lake, Macon County, Mo., and grew to manhood on a farm near the above-named place; received his education in the public school, in the Kirksville State Teacher's College, and at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo.; received the degree of LL. B. at the University of Missouri in 1904, where

he was graduated with the highest honors of his class; was elected judge of the probate court of Macon County, Mo., in 1906, and served for eight years, having been elected by the highest number of votes on the Democratic ticket at each election; elected a second term without opposition of any party; his father, Andrew Jackson Romjue, was born in Scotland County, Mo., in 1840, and came of Kentucky parentage; his mother, Susan E. (Roan) Romjue, was born in Randolph County, Mo., her father having been a native of Caswell County, N. C., and her mother, Matilda Sears, of Virginia stock; he has served four years as chairman of the central Democratic committee and has frequently been a delegate to State Democratic conventions; was married to Maude Nickell Thompson on July 11, 1900, and has one son, Lawson Rodney Romjue, now 26 years of age; was elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses; was reelected to the Seventy-third Congress as a Representative at large; was the director of organization in the Democratic State headquarters during the campaign of 1932, and at the general election terminating this campaign the entire State and National Democratic tickets carried Missouri by the largest majorities ever recorded in the history of the State; was one of a delegation of 12 Congressmen to meet and welcome President Wilson at New York upon his return to the United States from the Peace Conference in Europe, July 8, 1919; member of Baptist Church and following fraternal orders: Masonic (thirty-second degree), Elks, and Woodmen (both Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World).

RICHARD M. DUNCAN, Democrat, of St. Joseph, Mo., was born near Edgerton, Platte County, Mo., on November 10, 1889, the son of Richard F. and Margaret Meloan Duncan; attended the country public schools of Platte County and was graduated from the Christian Brothers College of St. Joseph, Mo., in 1909; married Miss Glenna Davenport, in St. Joseph, June 4, 1913, and they have one son, 18 years of age; served as deputy circuit clerk of Buchanan County, Mo., 1911-1917; was admitted to the practice of law in St. Joseph in 1916; member of the law firm of Kranitz & Duncan, of St. Joseph; served as city counselor of St. Joseph, 1926-1930; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Representative in Congress from the fourth Missouri district in 1928; was elected to. the Seventy-third Congress from the State at large in 1932.

CLEMENT CABELL DICKINSON, Democrat, of Clinton, Henry County, Mo., was born December 6, 1849, in Prince Edward County, Va.; graduated from Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, in June, 1869; taught school thereafter in Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri; located at Clinton, Mo., in September, 1872; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875; was elected prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Mo., in 1876, and served three terms of two years each; was Democratic presidential elector in 1896; was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1900 and served one term of two years; was elected to the State Senate of Missouri in 1902 and served one term of four years. 1907 was appointed a member of the board of regents of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., for a term of six years; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress from the sixth congressional district of Missouri at the special election on February 1, 1910, to fill the unexpired term of David A. De Armond, deceased, and took his seat February 7, 1910; again elected to the Sixty-second Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

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MONTANA

(Population (1930), 537,606)
SENATORS

BURTON KENDALL WHEELER, Democrat, of Butte, was born at Hudson, Mass., February 27, 1882; educated in the public schools; graduated from the University of Michigan; entered the practice of law at Butte in 1905; married Lulu M. White in 1907; has six children; elected to the State legislature in 1910; served five years as United States district attorney; elected United States Senator in 1922; reelected in 1928.