REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 6,646,697.

CHARLES V. TRUAX, Democrat, of Bucyrus, Ohio; born on farm, educated in country and public schools; farmer, specializing in pure bred Duroc Jersey hogs; made 26 public sales, 1913-1923, sold hogs to breeders in every State in the Union, in Canada, South America, Australia, and Japan; editor of the Swine World, published in Chicago, 1916-1921; visited all hog-raising States as field representative and auctioneer; coorganizer of first National Swine Show, 1917, Omaha, Nebr.; director of agriculture, Ohio, 1923-1929; delegate and personal representative of the Governor of Ohio to National Wheat Conference, Chicago, 1923, and to National Agricultural Conference held in Des Moines, Iowa, 1926; coorganizer with George N. Peek and vice chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two, which sponsored McNary-Haugen bills of 1926 and 1927; political activities: Chairman, Democratic executive and central committees of Wyandot County, 1920-1924; elected member and vice chairman Democratic State central committee, 1922; delegate and secretary of Ohio delegation to Democratic National Convention in New York, 1924; acted as reading clerk in said convention; called roll on one hundred and third ballot that nominated John W. Davis for President; nominated for United States Senator in Democratic primaries, 1928, defeating field of four opponents, including Gov. George White; received 300,000 votes more than head of ticket in general election; defeated in Hoover landslide by Dr. Simeon D. Fess; nominated for Congressman at large in 1932, receiving highest vote in a field of 11 candidates; elected to the Seventythird Congress, receiving 1,206,631 votes and having a majority of 98,070 over his nearest political opponent; married Miss Helen Roberts, and they have three children-Dorothea, John, and Charles, jr.; member of all Masonic bodies, Knight Templar, Consistory and Shriner, Elks, and Farmers National Union.

STEPHEN M. YOUNG, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio; born on a farm in Ohio, May 4, 1889; attended Kenyon and Adelbert Colleges, and received the degree of LL. B. from Western Reserve University Law School in 1912; master civil law (honorary), Kenyon College, 1933; served two terms in the General Assembly of Ohio, 1913-1917; chief assistant prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County, 1919-20; Democratic nominee for attorney general of Ohio in 1922; member of the Ohio Commission on Unemployment Insurance, 1931-32; served in National Guard on Mexican Border in 1916 and in Field Artillery in 1918; married, and has three children.

FIRST DISTRICT.-HAMILTON COUNTY: City of Cincinnati, wards 1 to 6; ward 7, except precincts A and C; wards 8 and 9; ward 10, except precincts I, K, L, N, and O; ward 11, precincts A, P, Q, T; and U; ward 12, precincts A, N, P, Q, and V; wards 13 and 14; ward 15, except precincts A and B, ward 16, precincts D, G, K, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, and Z-east; ward 23, precinct T; ward 24, precincts A, B, C, H, I, and J; townships of Anderson, Columbia, Symmes, and all of Millcreek except the city of St. Bernard. Population (1930), 296,533.

JOHN BAKER HOLLISTER, Republican, 1831 Keys Crescent, Cincinnati, Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1890; educated at Cincinnati public schools and St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; graduated Yale College, A. B., 1911; University of Munich, Germany; graduated Harvard Law School, LL. B., 1915; attorney at law, member of the firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister; served two terms as member of the Cincinnati Board of Education, 1921-1929; attended first officers' training camp, Plattsburg, May, 1917; commissioned first lieutenant, later captain; instructor Heavy Artillery School, Fort Monroe; overseas in command of Battery B, Forty-sixth Artillery; later in command of Third Battalion of that regiment; on detached service with American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover, January to June, 1919, in Poland and Lithuania; married, August 15, 1917, Ellen West Rollins, of Boston, Mass.; elected to the Seventy-second Congress at a special election held on November 3, 1931, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Nicholas Longworth; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-HAMILTON COUNTY: City of Cincinnati, ward 7, precincts A and C; ward 10, precincts I, K, L, N, and O; ward 11, except precincts A, P, Q, T, and U; ward 12, except precincts A, N. P, Q, and V; ward 15, precincts A and B; ward 16, precincts A, B, C, E, F, H, I, J, L, M, N, Y, and Z-west; wards 17 to 22; ward 23, except precinct T; ward 24, precincts D, E, F, G, K, L, and M; wards 25 and 26; townships of Colerain, Crosby, Delhi, Green, Harrison, Miami, Springfield, Syca more, and Whitewater; and the city of St. Bernard in Millcreek Township. Population (1930), 292,823. WILLIAM E. HESS, Republican, of Cincinnati, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 13, 1898; educated in the Cincinnati public schools, University of Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Law School; admitted to the practice of law in 1919;

member at large of Cincinnati City Council, 1922 to 1926; ex-service man; married Stella Ostendorf in 1927; Member of the Seventy-first and Seventysecond Congresses; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Butler, Montgomery, and Preble (3 counties). Population (1930), 410,020.

BYRON B. HARLAN, Democrat, of Dayton, Ohio, was born in Greenville, Ohio, in 1886; moved to Middletown in 1890 and to Dayton in 1894; admitted to practice law in 1909; graduated from the University of Michigan, college of law (LL. B.), in 1909, and arts college (A. B.), in 1911; married in 1914 to Sada B. Shaw, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Shaw, and they have three children-Richard, aged 17, Bruce, 15, and Eleanor, 13; served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Montgomery County, Ohio, from 1912 to 1916; member of Methodist Church; president of the Ohio Federated Humane Societies; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, and Shelby (6 counties). Population (1930), 236,783.

FRANK LE BLOND KLOEB, Democrat, of Celina, Ohio; born at Celina, Ohio; grandson of Francis C. Le Blond, former Member of the House of Representatives; attended Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin; graduate of the law school of Ohio State University; lawyer; admitted to the bar in May, 1917; enlisted in the United States Navy and served during the World War; commissioned ensign, serving on the U. S. S. Satilla and W. M. Irish; served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Mercer County, Ohio, January, 1921, to January, 1925, being nominated and elected for both terms without opposition on either Republican or Democratic tickets; married Florence Root, of Milwaukee, Wis., September 2, 1930; elected to the Seventy-third Congress. FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Williams (7 counties). Population (1930), 159,679.

FRANK C. KNIFFIN, Democrat, of Napoleon, was born April 26, 1894, in Williams County, Ohio; lawyer (1919); married February 8, 1917, to Miss Florence Fichter, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., and they have two children-Frank C. Kniffin, jr., and Robert Kniffin; elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Pike, and Scioto (6 counties) Population (1930), 190,828.

JAMES G. POLK, Democrat, of Highland, Ohio, was born on a farm in Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1896; son of William Alexander Polk and Amy Isyphena (Ockerman) Polk; attended village school at Highland and at New Vienna, Ohio, graduating from the latter high school in 1915; graduated from the agricultural college of Ohio State University in 1919, after having been called for military service at Camp Sherman in the fall of 1918; principal of New Vienna High School, 1919-20; superintendent of schools, New Vienna, 1920-22; graduated from Wittenberg College, 1923, with degree of master of arts; principal of Hillsboro High School, 1923-1928; at present is farming in Fairfield Township, Highland County, Ohio; married March 26, 1921, to Mary Smith, of Canton, Ohio, and they have four children-Martha Jean, William A., Helen Ruth, and Lois May; member Kappa Phi Kappa, National Educational Fraternity, Masons, Grange, American Legion, Kiwanis, B. P. O. E., and Methodist Episcopal Church. Has the distinction of being the first Democrat ever elected to Congress from the sixth district as now constituted; one of the very few Members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming; elected to the Seventy-second Congress with a majority of 3,858 over his Republican opponent; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress with a majority of 11,245; member of Committee on Agriculture.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Logan, Madison, Union, and Warren (9 counties). Population (1930), 286,374.

LEROY TATE MARSHALL, Republican, of Xenia, Ohio, was born near Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio, on November 8, 1883; educated in the public schools of Greene County, Ohio; graduated from Cedarville College, at Cedar

ville, Ohio; taught school four years; elected clerk of courts, Greene County, Ohio, for two terms, 1909-1913; served two terms in the Ohio State Senate, 1925-1928; was chairman of the Greene County Republican organization for 12 years, 1920–1932; admitted to the bar in 1915 and has engaged in the practice of law since that time; married Miss Nelle C. Turnbull, and they have two children; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, receiving 65,064 votes, and Aaron J. Hallaron, Democratic opponent, 57,715 votes.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, Marion, Morrow, and Wyandot (6 counties). Population (1930), 182,329.

BROOKS FLETCHER, Democrat, of Marion, Ohio; editor-publisher; served in Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses, and again elected to the Seventy-third Congress.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lucas and Ottawa (2 counties). Population (1930), 371,818.

WARREN JOSEPH DUFFEY, Democrat, of Toledo, Ohio, was born in Toledo, January 24, 1886; married and has three sons and three daughters; received A. B. and A. M. degrees from St. John's University, Toledo, Ohio, and LL. B. degree from the department of law of the University of Michigan, of Ann Arbor; attorney; member of Lucas County, Ohio State, and American Bar Associations; member of the eightieth General Assembly of Ohio, 1913-14; member of Toledo City Council, 1917-18; elected as a Representative to the Seventy-third Congress.

TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, and Vinton (6 counties). Population (1930), 171,054.

THOMAS A. JENKINS, Republican, of Ironton; born in Jackson County, Ohio; married; graduate Providence University and Ohio State University; admitted to bar in 1907; elected prosecuting attorney Lawrence County, Ohio, two terms; elected to State Senate of Ohio in 1922; elected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Fairfield, Hocking, Perry, Pickaway, and Ross (5 counties). Population (1930), 168,281.

MELL G. UNDERWOOD, Democrat, New Lexington, Ohio, was born at Rose Farm, Ohio, January 30, 1892; reared on farm; educated and taught in public schools; Ohio State University Law School; lawyer; elected prosecuting attorney, Perry County, 1916; served two terms; married Flora E. Lewis, of Cadiz, Ohio, and has three children-Mell G., jr., Max L., and Linda Lou; elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventysecond Congresses; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Franklin. Population (1930), 361,055.

ARTHUR P. LAMNECK, Democrat, of Columbus, Ohio, was born at Port Washington, Ohio, March 12, 1880; has lived in Columbus since 1907, and has been actively engaged in business and civic affairs during this time; married and has two children-a son and a daughter; holds a commission as captain in the United States Army in the Reserve Corps; elected to the Seventy-second Congress on November 4, 1930; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood (5 counties). Population (1930), 213,825.

WILLIAM LOUIS FIESINGER, Democrat, of Sandusky, Ohio; born at Willard, Huron County, Ohio; educated in public schools of Norwalk, Ohio; LL. B. Baldwin-Wallace University; lawyer; city solicitor, Sandusky, Ohio, 1903-1909; judge, common pleas court, Erie County, Ohio, 1925–1931; married Maude Nelles; two children-Mrs. Wade Wenton Dauch and Lois Fiesinger, and granddaughter, Mary Lois Dauch; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

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91 FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit (4 counties). Population (1930), 525,696.

DOW W. HARTER, Democrat, of Akron, Ohio, was born in Akron, Summit County, January 2, 1885; educated in the public schools of Akron and graduated from Akron High School; attended the University of Michigan, and later was graduated from the law school of that university; first assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit County, 1914-1916; member of the General Assembly of Ohio, 1919-20; was appointed United States commissioner at Akron by the late Judge D. C. Westenhaver, of the United States Court, serving in this capacity for a period of eight years; member of the Episcopal Church of Our Savior; married and has two sons, one attending Kenyon College and the younger a student of the Akron public schools; elected to the Seventy-third Congress.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, and Wash ington (6 counties). Population (1930), 198,291.

ROBERT THOMPSON SECREST, Democrat, of Caldwell, Ohio, was born January 22, 1904, in Noble County, near Senecaville, the son of Ralph W. and Amelia Thompson Secrest; graduated from Senecaville High School, 1922; graduated from Muskingum College with the degree of A. B., 1926; principal of Senecaville High School, 1926-30; superintendent of schools, Murray City, Ohio, 1931-32; elected to Ohio State Legislature from Noble County in 1930; married Virginia Bowden, of Cadiz, Ohio, November 28, 1929, and they have two -Nancy Ann, Mary Jane, and Robert Thompson, jr.; daughters, and one sonelected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; he and Governor White, of Ohio, share the honor of being the only two Democrats elected from the fifteenth district since the Civil War, and Mr. Secrest is the only man of either party ever to carry all six counties in the same election; the vote was, Robert T. Secrest, Democrat, 50,313; C. Ellis Moore, Republican, 38,113; and Joseph H. Ewing, Independent, 444.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne (4 counties). Population (1930), 353,727.

WILLIAM R. THOM, Democrat, of Canton, Ohio; born July 7, 1885, in that city, the son of Louis and Katherine M. Thom; graduated from Canton High School in 1903, devoting the next five years to newspaper reporting for Canton newspapers; special student in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, 1909-1911; graduate of Georgetown Law School, Washington, D. C., 1916; admitted to the bar of Ohio, January, 1917, and since then a practicing lawyer in Canton; served in Washington as secretary of J. J. Whitacre, a Member of the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses from the old eighteenth Ohio district, consisting of Stark, Columbiana, and Mahoning Counties; reporter for the United Press in the House of Representatives Press Gallery, 1915–16; member of the Canton Park Commission for the last 12 years; member of First Reformed Church, of Canton, Ohio; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 67,670 votes, to 63,609 for C. B. McClintock, Republican.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Knox, Licking, and Richland (6 counties). Population (1930), 237,061.

CHARLES WEST, Democrat, of Granville, was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, January 12, 1895, son of William H. and Clara Kunkel West; educated in the public schools of Mount Vernon, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, and later spent three years in graduate study at Harvard University, in preparation for the degree of Ph. D.; was American vice consul at Naples, Italy, during the administration of Woodrow Wilson; was instructor of government at Harvard University and the College of Wooster; since 1924 has been professor of political science at Denison University; was married January 3, 1920, to Anna May Deardoff, of Lebanon, Ohio; elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

COUNTIES: Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, and Jefferson

(5 counties). Population (1930), 304,411. LAWRENCE E. IMHOFF, Democrat, of St. Clairsville, Ohio; born at Round Bottom, Ohio, December 28, 1895; educated in rural schools and the St. Clairs

ville High School; enlisted at the beginning of the World War as a private and served in the Fifth Regiment, United States Marines; wounded three times in the second battle of the Marne; after the war attended the Ohio State University; clerk of courts of Belmont County, 1921-1925; probate judge of Belmont County, 1925-1933; studied law, was admitted to the bar January, 1930; married Miss Martha Elizabeth Korn, of Wheeling, W. Va., September 1, 1923, and they have one child-Patricia Ann, 6 years old; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 55,438 votes, his Republican opponent, Frank Murphy, receiving 55,010 votes.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashtabula, Mahoning, and Trumbull (3 counties). Popu lation (1930), 427,566.

JOHN G. COOPER, Republican, of Youngstown, Ohio; after serving two terms in the lower house of the General Assembly of Ohio from Mahoning County, was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: Wards 1 to 4; ward 5, precincts F, M, and V; wards 7 and 8; ward 9, precincts A to H; wards 10, 21, 23, and 24; ward 25, except part of precinct I; and ward 31, except precinct D. Population (1930) 301,964.

MARTIN L. SWEENEY, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio; born April 15, 1885, in Cleveland; educated in the parochial and public schools; graduated, June, 1914, from Cleveland Law School of Baldwin Wallace College, with degree of LL. B.; member of Ohio Legislature, 1913-14; in the general practice of law at Cleveland from 1914 to 1923; elected judge of the Municipal Court of Cleveland, November, 1923, and served as judge for eight years; married and has four children; elected to the Seventy-second Congress at the special election held on November 3, 1931, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Charles A. Mooney, receiving 34,826 votes, his Republican opponent, D. Hayden Parry, receiving 14,500; delegate to the Democratic National Convention, June, 1932; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, November 8, 1932, receiving 52,738 votes.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: Ward 5, precincts A to E, G to L, and N to U; ward 6; ward 9, precincts I to M and P to Y; ward 11, precincts A to E; wards 12 to 16; ward 17, precincts D to Q; ward 18, precincts T to V; ward 19, part of precinct CC; wards 28 and 29; ward 30, precincts A to L and Q and R; and ward 31, precinct D. Population (1930), 322,901.

ROBERT CROSSER, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents in September, 1881; attended the public schools at Salineville, Ohio, graduating from the high school in 1893; entered Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in September, 1893, and graduated in June, 1897, with the degree of A. B. (M. C. L., honorary, June, 1929); entered the law school of Columbia University in October, 1897, remaining part of a year, and the Cincinnati Law School in October, 1898, graduating from the latter in June, 1901, with the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the bar of Ohio in June, 1901, and entered upon the practice of law in Cleveland in September, 1901; was a member of the State house of representatives 1911-12, and was the author of the municipal initiative and referendum bill passed by the legislature in 1911; was elected a member of the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio, which convened at Columbus on January 9, 1912, and adjourned August 26, 1912, serving as chairman of the initiative and referendum committee, and was the author of the initiative and referendum amendment to the constitution; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress from the State at large; reelected to the Sixtyfourth Congress from the twenty-first Ohio district, and reelected to the Sixtyfifth Congress; again elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventyfirst, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Geauga, Lake, and that part of Cuyahoga County outside the city of Cleveland; the city of Cleveland, ward 9, precincts N, Ó, Z, AA, and BB; ward 11 precincts F to W; ward 17, precincts A to C; ward 18, precincts A to 8; ward 19, precincts A to DD except part of CC; wards 20 and 22; ward 25, part of precinct I; wards 26 and 27; ward 30, precincts M to P; and wards 32 and 33. Population (1930), 633,678.

CHESTER C. BOLTON, Republican, of Lyndhurst, suburb of Cleveland, Ohio; born in Cleveland, September 5, 1882; A. B., 1905, Harvard University;