M. C. L. (honorary), 1930, Kenyon College; married; has three children; Ohio National Guard and World War service; member Ohio Senate, 1923–1928; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1928; elected to Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

OKLAHOMA

(Population (1930), 2,396,040)

SENATORS

ELMER THOMAS, Democrat, of Medicine Park, was born on a farm in Putnam County, Ind.; educated in the common schools; worked on farm, public works, and taught school to pay way through Central Normal College, Danville, and through DePauw University, Greencastle, where he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of A. B.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Indiana; moved to Oklahoma in 1900 and located at Lawton, where he practiced law and became interested in business; married Edith Smith, September 24, 1902; has one son, Wilford; elected to Oklahoma Senate at statehood, 1907; reelected 1908, 1912, and 1916; president pro tempore 1910-1913; chairman of Democratic State convention 1910; resigned from State senate 1920 to enter campaign for Congress; was Democratic nominee in 1920 but was defeated in the election; renominated and elected in 1922 to Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress; elected to the United States Senate in 1926 and reelected for the term beginning March 4, 1933; member of Phi Delta Theta college fraternity; is an Elk, Mason, and Shriner.

THOMAS PRYOR GORE, Democrat, of Oklahoma City, was born in Webster County, Miss., December 10, 1870; his parents were Tom M. Gore and Carrie E. Gore, nee Wingo; attended a local school at Walthall, Miss., and graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., 1892; received degree of doctor of laws from that institution in 1921; moved to Texas in 1896 and to Oklahoma in 1901; married Nina Kay, December 27, 1900; served one term in the Territorial senate; delegate at large from the State of Oklahoma to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore in 1912, at Houston in 1928, and at Chicago in 1932; appointed by President Wilson as a member of the Rural Credit Commission, 1913; elected to the United States Senate, by the legislature, December, 1907; drew the short term, expiring March 3, 1909; reelected by Oklahoma Legislature January, 1909; reelected for a third term in 1914; retired from the Senate March 3, 1921; again elected to the United States Senate, November, 1930, defeating the then incumbent, W. B. Pine, Republican; his term of service began March 4, 1931, and will expire in 1937.

REPRESENTATIVES

AT LARGE.-Population (1930), 2,396,040.

WILL ROGERS, Democrat, of Moore, Okla., was born at Bessie, Oklahoma Territory (now Oklahoma), December 12, 1898; received a B.S. degree in government, B.A. degree in English, and a master's degree in education, the former two degrees were taken at Central State Teachers' College at Edmond, and the latter at the Oklahoma University at Norman; is a school teacher by profession; has been engaged in educational work in Oklahoma for the past 15 years, having been superintendent of schools at Cheyenne, Rush Springs, Chattanooga, and Moore; offered his services during the World War, when only 18 years of age, but the war was ended before he saw any service; married and has one daughter, Nell; member of Baptist Church; Mason and member of Eastern Star; member of Oklahoma Farmer's Union, Oklahoma Memorial Association (historical), and Red Red Rose (educator's fraternal organization); elected from the State at large to the Seventy-third Congress by the following vote: Will Rogers, Demo crat, 467,644; R. A. Howard, Republican, 171,415; George E. Taylor, Independent, 2,027; R. J. Shive, Independent, 1,016.

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, and Washington (10 counties). Population (1930), 404,981.

WESLEY ERNEST DISNEY, Democrat, of Tulsa, Okla.; born in Shawnee County, Kans., son of Wesley Disney and Elizabeth Matney Disney; attended the common schools of Kansas; graduate of Kansas University, 1906; admitted to the bar in Kansas in 1906 and to Oklahoma bar in 1908; practiced law at Muskogee, Okla., from 1918 to 1923, thereafter at Tulsa; married Anna Van Sant, of Muskogee, September 22, 1910; has two sons-Wesley Van Sant and Ralph Willard; served as county attorney of Muskogee County, 1911-1915, and was known as a vigorous prosecutor of public and private offenders, removing and convicting sheriff, clerk, mayor, treasurer, and commissioners for malfeasance in office; member of Oklahoma House of Representatives, 1919-1923, where he was author of tax measures; chairman of board of managers and directed successful impeachment of governor in 1923; trial lawyer and interested in various business enterprises, particularly oil and agriculture; elected to the Seventy-second Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Sequoyah, and Wagoner (8 counties). Population (1930), 238,281.

WILLIAM W. HASTINGS, Democrat, of Tahlequah, Okla.; attended the Cherokee Male Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1884, and from the law department of Vanderbilt University in 1889, being one of the class representatives; in 1896 married Lulu Starr; of this union there are three children-Lucile Ahnawake, Mayme Starr, and Lillian Adair; has lived in what is now Oklahoma all his life. He is a Cherokee Indian by blood; was attorney general for the Cherokee Nation from 1891 to 1895; represented the Cherokee Nation in winding up its tribal affairs before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the departments at Washington since 1890; was national attorney for the Cherokee Tribe from 1907 to June 30, 1914; was a delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912; was elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixtyfifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, and Seventy-third Congresses.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, McCurtain, Marshall, Pittsburg, and Pushmataha (11 counties). Population (1930), 287,397. WILBURN CARTWRIGHT, Democrat, of McAlester, was born on a farm in Meigs County, Tenn., son of J. R. Cartwright and Emma Baker-Cartwright; moved with his family to the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, at the age of 12; farmed, cleared land, and followed public works; worked his way through common schools at Wapanucka, Okla., high school at State normal, Ada, Okla., State teachers college, Durant, Okla.; received his LL. B. at State university, Norman, Okla., in 1920, with supplementary work in the University of Chicago; profession, teacher and lawyer; admitted to the State bar in 1917; taught in rural, village, and city schools in Coal, Atoka, and Pittsburg Counties; member of summer faculty, State teachers college, Durant, Okla.; elected to the State legislature, 1914, and reelected in 1916; elected State senator from Coal, Atoka, and Bryan Counties in 1918 for a term of four years; ex-service man; married, 1920, Miss Carrie Staggs, piano instructor in University of Oklahoma, daughter of T. H. Staggs, of Enid, Okla.; has two children-Doralyn Emma, born February 27, 1927, and Wilburta May, born May 13, 1928; was vocational advisor for disabled ex-soldiers in 1921 and 1922 and made his home in McAlester, Okla.; served as chairman of the board of regents for the State school of mines at Wilburton, Okla., 1923-1926; defeated Charles D. Carter in the primary of 1926 and elected to the Seventieth Congress; was reelected to the Seventy-first Congress by 17,651 majority, to the Seventy-second Congress by a majority of 30,226, and to the Seventy-third Congress by a majority of 48,865.

FOURTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Coal, Creek, Hughes, Johnston, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, and Seminole (9 counties). Population (1930), 360,468.

TOM D. McKEOWN, Democrat, of Ada, Pontotoc County, was born in South Carolina, June 4, 1878, the son of Theodore B. and Nannie B. McKeown; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of South Carolina on June 3, 1899; moved to Ada, Okla. (then Indian Territory), January, 1901; married Miss Anna Sanders January 9, 1902; was a member of the first State bar commission

of the State of Oklahoma; was district judge of the seventh district of Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915; was presiding justice of the fifth division of the supreme court commission from June 1, 1915 to 1916; member of American Bar Association, National Press Club, and Ada Country Club; elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cleveland, Garvin, Logan, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, and Payne (7 counties). Population (1930), 376,738.

FLETCHER B. SWANK, Democrat, of Norman, Okla.; son of Wallace Swank and Melinda Swank (nee Wells); was reared from early boyhood to manhood near Beef Creek, Indian Territory (now Maysville, Okla.); worked on the farms and ranches of the Indian Territory until he moved to Cleveland County; was educated in the common schools, Noble Academy, University of Oklahoma, and graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1909, with the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the practice of law the same year; taught school, and in 1902 was elected superintendent of schools of Cleveland County and served until statehood, November 16, 1907; in 1910 was elected county judge of Cleveland County and served four years; in 1914 was elected district judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Oklahoma; reelected in 1918 without opposition; resigned as district judge September, 1920, after being nominated to Congress; married December 30, 1914, to Miss Ada Blake, of Norman, Okla., and they have two sons, Fletcher B. Swank, jr., age 18 years, and James Wallace Swank, age 11 years; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, and was reelected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses; again elected to the Seventy-second Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, with a majority of 28,518 votes.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Kingfisher, and Stephens (9 counties). Population (1930), 263,164.

JED JOHNSON, Anadarko, Democrat; born in Ellis County, Tex., July 31, 1888; son of La Fayette D. and Evalyn Carlin Johnson; married Beatrice Luginbyhl, Chickasha, Okla., 1925; two daughters, Jedolyn Jean and Joan; educated at Oklahoma University and l'Université de Clermont, France; served in American Expeditionary Forces as private in Company L, Thirty-sixth Division; worked in civil service; as salesman; editor Cotton County newspaper; admitted to practice of law, 1918; engaged in law practice, Chickasha and Anadarko; admitted to practice before United States Supreme Court; State senator seven years, representing fifteenth and seventeenth districts; delegate from United States Congress to Twenty-fourth Annual Peace Conference, Interparliamentary Union, Paris, France, 1927; attended similar world peace conference at Geneva, Switzerland, 1929; delegate from Oklahoma, Tenth Annual Convention American Legion, Paris, 1927; elected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Roger Mills, Tillman, and Washita (11 counties). Population (1930), 240,944.

JAMES V. MCCLINTIC, Democrat, of Snyder, Okla.; born on a farm at Bremond, Tex.; a few years thereafter moved, with his parents, to Grosbeck, Tex.; graduated from the Grosbeck High School and attended Add Ran University, Waco, Tex.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., at the age of 22 and served an apprenticeship in a wholesale dry goods company, afterwards became a general salesman, with headquarters in Texas; resigned this position and moved to Oklahoma Territory, and located at Snyder, which was the last station served by trains on the Frisco Railroad; engaged in the mercantile business, which was partially destroyed in a cyclone on May 10, 1905; moved to Texas County, Okla., in 1906, and filed on a homestead 35 miles from a railroad; returned to Snyder and was appointed clerk of the county court; resigned this position and became the representative in the State legislature from the new county of Swanson, which was named for the present Secretary of the Navy; later, the supreme court, after the county had been formed, declared the election to be illegal, and the same was dissolved; resigned as a member of the house of representatives and elected to the State senate; resigned as member of the State senate and elected as the first Representative from the seventh congressional district of Oklahoma to the

Sixty-fourth Congress; enrolled and studied law at Georgetown University; member of the Oklahoma bar; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixtyseventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Alfalfa, Beaver, Cimarron, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay, Major, Noble, Texas, Woods, and Woodward (12 counties). Population (1930), 224,067.

ERNEST WHITWORTH MARLAND, Democrat, of Ponca City, Okla., was born on May 8, 1874, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of LL. B. in 1893; married Miss Lyde Roberts; entered the petroleum oil business in 1895 and was actively engaged in it as a producer, refiner, and marketer until 1929; organized the Marland Oil Co. (now the Continental Oil Co.) in 1917, and served as chairman of its board of directors, 1917 to 1928, and president from 1917 to 1928; engaged as an independent oil producer and royalty owner since 1928; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, receiving 51,404 votes, defeating M. C. Garber, Republican, who received 31,677 votes; this district has always heretofore been represented in Congress by a Republican Representative.

OREGON

(Population (1930), 953,786)
SENATORS

CHARLES L. McNARY, Republican, of Salem, Oreg.; born on a farm near that city, June 12, 1874; educated in Salem public schools and attended Stanford University; dean of Willamette College of Law, 1908-1913; received degree of doctor of laws from Williamette University; by profession a lawyer; associate justice of Oregon Supreme Court, 1913 and 1914; chairman Republican State central committee, 1916-17; appointed by Governor Withycombe, May 29, 1917, to fill unexpired term of Senator Harry Lane, deceased; term of office expired general election, November 5, 1918; appointed, December 17, 1918, by Governor Withycombe to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Hon. F. W. Mulkey, who had been elected to fill short term ending March 3, 1919; elected November 5, 1918, for 6-year term beginning March 4, 1919; reelected November 4, 1924, for 6-year term beginning March 4, 1925; reelected November 4, 1930, for 6-year term beginning March 4, 1931; term expires in 1937.

FREDERICK STEIWER, Republican, of Portland, Oreg.; born October 13, 1883, at Jefferson, Marion County, Oreg.; educated in public schools; graduate of Oregon State College and University of Oregon; lawyer; district attorney, 1913-1916; State senator, 1917; served in World War August, 1917, to March, 1919; member of Sixty-fifth Artillery after September 1, 1918; married, December 12, 1911, to Frieda Roesch, of Pendleton, Oreg., and has two childrenElisabeth and Frederick Herbert; elected to the United States Senate November 2, 1926; reelected November 8, 1932, for 6-year term, beginning March 4, 1935.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill (17 counties). Population (1930), 432,572.

JAMES W. MOTT, Republican, of Salem, Oreg.; lawyer; born in Clearfield County, Pa., November 12, 1883; came to Salem, Oreg., with parents, Dr. William S. and Willetta M. Mott, in 1890; attended Salem public schools, University of Oregon, and Stanford University; A. B., Columbia University, New York, 1909; LL. B., Willamette University, Salem, 1917; commenced practice of law at Astoria, Oreg., in 1917; enlisted in the Navy in 1918, returning and resuming practice in 1919; elected city attorney of Astoria in 1920; elected representative from Clatsop County in the Oregon Legislature in 1922; reelected in 1924 and in 1926; returned to Salem, establishing law office there in 1929;

elected representative from Marion County in the Oregon Legislature in 1930; appointed corporation commissioner of Oregon by Gov. Julius L. Meier in 1931; married to Miss Ethel L. Walling, of Polk County, Oreg., in 1919, and they have two daughters-Frances Anne and Dorothy May; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving majority over Democratic opponent, Harvey G. Starkweather, of 22,377 votes.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Baker, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler (18 counties). Population (1930), 182,973.

WALTER MARCUS PIERCE, Democrat, of near La Grande, Oreg., was born on a farm near Morris, Ill., May 30, 1861; attended country school and Morris Academy; taught school; moved to Oregon in 1883 and taught school and served as county school superintendent and county clerk; operated wheat farms; attended Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1896; practiced law for 10 years; engaged in banking and power and light business; since 1907 has operated stock and wheat farm; in Oregon State Senate two terms, 1902-1906 and 1916-1920, with special interest in legislation on roads and education; Governor of Oregon, 1923-1927; Democratic National Committeeman from Oregon, 1932-1936; member of Board of Regents of Oregon State College, 1905-1927; married Cornelia Marvin, State librarian of Oregon; has six children by former marriage; elected to Seventy-third Congress, receiving 30,219 votes, against 25,169 for Robert R. Butler, Republican; 5,133 for Hugh E. Brady, Independent; 1,258 for O. D. Teel, Socialist; and 937 for P. F. Schnur, Socialist-Labor.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Multnomah. Population (1930), 338,241.

CHARLES H. MARTIN, Democrat, of Portland, Oreg.; born on a farm near Albion, Ill.; graduated from West Point in class of 1887; after serving through the various grades in the Regular Army was retired as a major general on October 1, 1927, and took up residence in Portland, his adopted home; had active service with combat troops in the Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrection, Boxer campaign in China, and was a division commander in the World War; awarded the distinguished-service medal and two citations for bravery in action; Assistant Chief of Staff, United States Army, from 1922 to 1924; commanded Panama Canal Department from 1925 to date of retirement; married Louise J. Hughes, of Portland, Oreg., in 1897, and has three children, all grown; elected to Seventy-second Congress, receiving 49,316 votes, against 35,483 for Hon. Franklin F. Korell, Republican; the Republican majority in the district in 1928 was 46,000; reelected to Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, receiving 74,397 votes, against 40,650 for Homer D. Angell, Republican.

PENNSYLVANIA

(Population (1930), 9,631,350)
SENATORS

DAVID AIKEN REED, Republican; born December 21, 1880, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; married; B. A., Princeton, 1900; LL. B., University of Pittsburgh, 1903; practiced law at Pittsburgh, 1903-1917; chairman of Pennsylvania Industrial Accidents Commission, 1912-1915; major Three hundred and eleventh Regiment, Field Artillery, 1917-1919; practiced law at Pittsburgh since 1919; member American Battle Monuments Commission since 1923; delegate, London Naval Conference, 1930; appointed to the United States Senate on August 8, 1922, to fill vacancy caused by death of Hon. William E. Crow, and elected November 7, 1922, to fill unexpired term and also for the full term: reelected November 6, 1928, for term expiring in 1935.

JAMES JOHN DAVIS, Republican, of Pittsburgh, elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 1930, for the term ending March 3, 1933: reelected November 8, 1932, for the term ending in 1939.

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