REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 1 to 6, 26, 39, and 48. Population (1930), 286,462.

HARRY C. RANSLEY, Republican, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born February 5, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pa.; was educated in public and private schools; he was married March 31, 1902, to Harrie A. Dilks, and they have one daughter, Mrs. William A. Clementson, 2d; he is a member of the firm of Dunlap, Mellor & Co., dealers in oils and naval stores, Philadelphia; he was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1891-1894; and for 16 years was a member of the Select Council of Philadelphia; during 8 of these years he was president of that body; delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1912; he was sheriff of Philadelphia County, 1916-1920; was chairman of the Republican city committee, 1916-1919; Member Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

SECOND DISTRICT.—CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 7 to 10, 24, 27, 30, 36, and 44. Population (1930), 247,068.

JAMES MONTGOMERY BECK, Republican, of Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia, July 9, 1861; graduated Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa., 1880; LL. D., Muhlenberg College, Moravian College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, McGill University, Lafayette College; D. Lit., Franklin and Marshall; married Lilla, daughter of James Mitchell, of Philadelphia, 1890; admitted to bar of Philadelphia, 1884; to bar of New York City, 1903; to bar of England, 1922; United States attorney, eastern district of Pennsylvania, 1896-1900; Assistant Attorney General, United States, 1900-1903; Solicitor General, United States, 1921-1925; officer, Legion of Honor (French); commander, Order of the Crown (Belgium); commander, Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish); member Pennsylvania Society Sons of Revolution; corresponding member Société de Gens de Lettres, of France, and fellow of Royal Historical Society, London; honorary bencher of Gray's Inn, England; fellow of American Philosophical Society; past president and gold medalist, Pennsylvania Society of New York; author of The Evidence in the Case, War and Humanity, The Reckoning, The Passing of the New Freedom, The Constitution of the United States, Vanishing Rights of the States, May It Please the Court, and Our Wonderland of Bureaucracy; elected to Congress November 8, 1927, to fill a vacancy; reelected on November 6, 1928, November 4, 1930, and November 8, 1932.

THIRD DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 to 20, 25, 31, 37, and 45. Population (1930), 298,461.

ALFRED M. WALDRON, Republican, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born September 21, 1865, in the present third congressional district, Philadelphia, where he still resides; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia; is a widower, and has two daughters; engaged in the insurance business; member of Philadelphia Select Council during the terms of Mayors Blankenburg and Smith; delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1924, 1928, and 1932; is a member of the Republican Central Campaign Committee; elected in November, 1932, to the Seventy-third Congress.

FOURTH DISTRICT.—CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 15, 28, 29, 32, 38, and 47. Population (1930), 274,376.

GEORGE WASHINGTON EDMONDS, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born at Pottsville, Pa., February 22, 1864; educated in the public schools and the Central High School; graduate (Ph. G.) of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; is in the wholesale coal and lumber business, and during the past five years has been manager of the Port of Philadelphia Ocean Traffic Bureau, an association of the commercial bodies of that city for the advancement of the interests of the port; member of the Common Council of Philadelphia, 1896-1902; is married; was a Member of the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixtyseventh, and Sixty-eighth Congresses; elected to the Seventy-third Congress by a vote of 43,086, to 36,198 polled by W. J. O'Rourke, Democrat, his opponent.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 23, 33, 35, 41, and 43. Population (1930), 269,564. JAMES J. CONNOLLY, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in that city; is married and has four children; financial secretary of the Republican city committee of Philadelphia; elected to the Sixty-seventh and each succeeding Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 34, 40, and 46. Population (1930), 291,720.

EDWARD LOWBER STOKES, Republican, of Philadelphia, was born in that city September 29, 1880; was educated at St. Pauls School, Concord, N. H.; spent seven years as a clerk in the Girard Trust Co., Philadelphia, at the expiration of which time established the firm of Edward Lowber Stokes & Co., dealers in high-grade bonds; 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. George S. Graham, receiving 34,188 votes, and Hill, Democrat, 1,309; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress as a representative of the sixth congressional district of the State of Pennsylvania.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: Wards 21, 22, 42, 49, and 50. Population (1930), 283,310. GEORGE POTTER DARROW, Republican, of Philadelphia; born in Waterford, Conn., February 4, 1859; attended the common schools of New London County, Conn.; was graduated from Alfred University, New York, in 1880; president of the twenty-second sectional school board of Philadelphia for three years; member of city council of Philadelphia, 1910-1915; elected to the Sixtyfourth and each succeeding Congress.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Delaware. Population (1930), 280,264.

JAMES WOLFENDEN, Republican, of Upper Darby, was born in Cardington, Delaware County, Pa., July 25, 1889; received a common school and academic education; is a manufacturer; elected, as a Republican, to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Thomas S. Butler; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses. NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bucks and Lehigh (2 counties). Population (1930), 269,620.

OLIVER W. FREY, Democrat, of Allentown; born in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pa., September 7, 1890; married, June 28, 1928, to Jessie M. Straub; educated in the public schools of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa; graduated from William and Mary Academy in 1912, and from William and Mary College in 1915 with an A. B. degree; then entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania and studied there until the outbreak of the World War; entered United States Army in April, 1917, and was honorably discharged as a commissioned officer in June, 1919; reentered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in June, 1920, with an LL. B. degree; began the practice of law in Allentown immediately after graduation and has been practicing in that city since; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 7, 1933, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Henry W. Watson. TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Chester and Lancaster (2 counties). Population (1930), 323,511.

J. ROLAND KINZER, Republican, of Lancaster, was born on a farm in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pa., March 28, 1874; attended the public schools; graduated from Lancaster (Pa.) High School in 1891 and Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1896; member of Lancaster County bar since 1900; married Bertha Snyder, of Lancaster, Pa.; Chi Phi fraternity; Lutheran; county solicitor, 1912-1923; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City in 1928; elected to the Seventy-first Congress on January 28, 1930, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. W. W. Griest; reelected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Lackawanna. Population (1930), 310,397.

PATRICK J. BOLAND, Democrat, of Scranton; son of Fanny and Christopher T. Boland, prominent contractor; educated in parochial schools and St. Thomas College; member of firm of Boland Bros., general contractors; elected

to council, school board, and county commissioner of Lackawanna County; nominated on all tickets for Congress in May, 1930, and elected to the Seventysecond Congress without opposition in November, 1930; reelected to the Seventythird Congress without opposition.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Luzerne. Population (1930), 445,109.

C. MURRAY TURPIN, Republican, born March 4, 1878; native and lifelong resident of Kingston, Pa.; graduate Kingston High School; Wyoming Seminary, department of business; and University of Pennsylvania (D. D. S.); prior to entering college was carpenter, grocery clerk, and steamboat captain; member Clerks' and Boatmen's Unions; active in community affairs; served 4 years as borough chairman community welfare association; served 6 years as member of board of education, years as burgess of Kingston, and 4 years as prothonotary, Luzerne County; upon the death of Congressman Casey, was elected to the Seventy-first Congress at special election, June 4, 1929; reelected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses; was volunteer in war with Spain, corporal Company F, Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; following the war was commissioned second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain of Pennsylvania National Guard by Gov. William A. Stone, before casting first vote, being youngest captain in State at the time; member of Arnts Fishing Club; United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, and Wyoming Valley Automobile Club; also member of Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans of the United States and Canada, Psi Omega fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Veteran Firemen's Association, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and United Spanish War Veterans; served two terms as president of Kingston Business Men's Association; permanent president of West Side Veterans' Association, composed of members of the Grand Army of the Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars; honorary member of the following organizations: Rural Letter Carriers Association, Patriotic Order of Americans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Roma (Italian) Citizens Club, Adams County (Pa.) Veterans' Association, Daughters of America, and of Lavina Derr Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans; distinguished service certificate, American Legion; descendant of veterans of Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican, and Civil Wars; married, 1907, to Anna V. Manley, of Wilkes-Barre (now deceased); four children were born to Doctor and Mrs. Turpin.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Northumberland and Schuylkill (2 counties). Population (1930), 364,009.

GEORGE FRANKLIN BRUMM, Republican, of Minersville, was born at Minersville, Pa., son of Charles Napoleon and Virginia Brumm, the former having represented his constituency in eight different Congresses; received his preliminary education in the common schools of Minersville, Washington, and Pottsville; graduate of University of Pennsylvania (B. S., 1901); upon graduation took up the study of law in Pittsburgh, at the same time being employed in the insurance business; graduate of law school of the University of Pennsylvania (LL. B., 1907); was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in January, 1908, and practiced law as a profession since that time; is not married; entered the military service of the United States in 1916 as a private and served as a corporal in Company C, Pennsylvania Engineers, on the Mexican border; during the World War was attorney for the conscription board and was a member of the speakers' bureau, Three-Minute Men Association; in 1918 ran for the nomination for Congress from the twelfth congressional district and, while nominated, was counted out; in 1920 again ran for the nomination and was beaten by a small majority through the interjection of a third candidate, who took 2,000 votes from the Brumm support; in 1922 was nominated and elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress, receiving 23,218 votes to 19,305 for Charles F. Ditchey, Democrat; in 1924, reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress, receiving 35,737 votes to 14,637 for Thomas J. Butler, Democrat; in 1928 elected to the Seventy-first Congress, receiving 46,486 votes to 37,243 for Bernard O'Hare, Democrat; in 1930, reelected to the Seventy-second Congress, receiving a majority of 43,676 votes; in 1932, reelected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving a majority of 92,065 votes.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Berks.. Popolation (1930), 231,717.

WILLIAM E. RICHARDSON, Democrat, of Reading, Pa.; born in Exeter Township, Berks County, on the Daniel Boone homestead, September 3, 1886, the son of Charles M. and Elizabeth Snyder Richardson; at ar early age moved to Bernville, Berks County, where he was reared; attended the public schools; member of last class to graduate under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, where Wilson was one of his professors; graduated from Princeton University A. B., in 1910, and from Columbia University, LL. B., in 1913; at present engaged in the practice of law in Reading, Pa.; served with Squadron A, New York Cavalry, on the Mexican border; Section I, Ambulance Americaine, in Belgium and France, 1915; commissioned in Cavalry at Fort Myer, Va., and participated in major engagements of World War as a machine gunner, first with the Eightieth Division and later with the Seventh Machine Gun Battalion, Third Division; married to Mary Eckert Potts, and they have three children; elected to the Seventythird Congress, having a majority of 6,500 votes over his Republican opponent.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bradford, Columbia, Montour, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming (8 counties). Population (1930), 205,084.

LOUIS T. MCFADDEN, Republican, of Canton, was born in Troy, Pa., July 25, 1876; farmer; elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress with 2,934 plurality, the Sixty-fifth with 4,757 plurality, the Sixty-sixth with 6,394 plurality, the Sixtyseventh with 19,028 majority, the Sixty-eighth with 8,901 majority, the Sixtyninth with 15,043 majority, the Seventieth with 11,101 majority, the Seventy-first with 47,422 majority, the Seventy-second with 18,152 majority; renominated and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress by Republican, Democratic, and Prohibition Parties, with 68,410 majority.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, and Tioga (6 counties). Population (1930), 235,574.

ROBERT F. RICH, Republican, of Woolrich, Clinton County, Pa.; born June 23, 1883, at Woolrich, Pa.; married, and has four daughters; educated at Dickinson Seminary, of which he is president of the board of trustees, and Williamsport Commercial College, Williamsport, Pa.; Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., of which he is a member of the alumni council; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., of which he is a member of the board of trustees; Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; general manager and treasurer of the Woolrich Woolen Mills, which recently celebrated its one hundredth anniversary; director, secretary, and treasurer of the Chatham Water Co., of Woolrich; director and treasurer of the Pearce Manufacturing Co., Latrobe, Pa.; director and secretary of the Oak Grove Improvement Co., Avis., Pa.; president of the State Bank of Avis; director of the Lock Haven Trust Co., of Lock Haven, member of the board of trustees of Lock Haven Teachers College, Lock Haven, Pa., and of the board of trustees of Lock Haven Hospital; thirty-third degree Mason; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1924; elected a Member of the Seventy-first, Seventysecond, and Seventy-third Congresses.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Montgomery. Population (1930), 265,804.

J. WILLIAM DITTER, Republican, of Ambler, Montgomery County, Pa., was born September 5, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated from Temple University with degree of LL. B.; lawyer; member of the Montgomery County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; married, September 2, 1913, to Mabel Sylvester Bearné, and they have two children-Mabel Bearné and J. William, jr.; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 59,693 votes, as against 32,706 votes cast for his Democratic opponent.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, and Union (8 counties). Population (1930), 198,269.

BENJAMIN K. FOCHT, Republican, of Lewisburg, was born in New Bloomfield, Pa., the son of a Lutheran minister who was an orator and author of note; was educated at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania State College, and Susquehanna University; editor of the Saturday News, published at Lewisburg, since 18 years of age; is now president of the Saturday News Publishing Co.; served as an officer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; was given the degree of A. M. by Susquehanna University in 1906; member of various fraternal organizations; is married to Edith F., daughter of the late Henry G. Wolf, and had three children-two daughters, Ellen W. and Edith Virginia, the latter deceased, and a

son, Brown; served three terms in the Pennsylvania Assembly and four years in the Pennsylvania State Senate; was State water supply commissioner, and deputy secretary of the Commonwealth; is author of important legislation in Pennsylvania; was elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Seventy-third Congresses.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Cumberland, Dauphin, and Lebanon (3 counties). Population (1930), 300,570.

ISAAC H. DOUTRICH, Republican, of Harrisburg, Pa.; born December 19, 1871, on a farm near Middletown, Dauphin County, Pa.; son of Eli and Caroline Doutrich; educated in the public schools of his home district and Elizabeth town, Pa.; graduated from Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa.; engaged in retail clothing business, operating stores in Orwigsburg, Middletown, Schuylkill Haven, Phoenixville, Pottsville, and Harrisburg; now president of Doutrich & Co.'s retail clothing stores in Harrisburg; married Miss Lena Erb, of Palmyra, Pa.; one son and one daughter; first public office, city councilman in Harrisburg, in charge of parks and public property; appointed to fill vacancy caused by death and to which he was later elected for full term; resigned that office, March 1, 1927, to assume duties as a Member of Congress, to which he was elected, November 2, 1926; Member Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventysecond Congresses, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Clarion, Elk, Forest, Mercer, Venango, and Warren (6 counties). Population (1930), 277,067.

THOMAS CUNNINGHAM COCHRAN, Republican; born in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer County, November 30, 1877, soon afterwards removing to Mercer, where he has been practically a lifelong resident; prepared for college at Mercer High School, from which he was graduated in 1896; after teaching a year in the public schools, entered Westminster College, completing the classical course with the degree of A. B., summa cum laude, in 1901; the following year he taught Greek and constitutional law in Mercer Academy, and then began further study of law in the office of his father, the late W. H. Cochran, Esq.; admitted to the bar in 1903, and served as district attorney of Mercer County from 1906 to 1909; member of the Mercer County Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, and American Bar Association; married, 1906, to Miss Olive Belle Pierson, of Vienna, Ohio; they have three sons and two daughters; elected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carbon, Monroe, and Northampton (3 counties). Popu lation (1930), 260,970.

FRANCIS E. WALTER, Democrat, of Easton, Pa.; born May 26, 1894, at Easton, Pa.; received degree of B. A. from George Washington University and LL. B. from Georgetown University; attorney at law; Northampton County solicitor, 1928-1933; during the World War was in the Air Service of the Navy; married; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, receiving 39,996 votes; William R. Coyle, Republican, 34,189; Simon R. Hartzell, Socialist, 1,675.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.--COUNTIES: Adams, Franklin, and York (3 counties). Population (1930), 269,273.

HARRY L. HAINES, Democrat, of Red Lion, Pa.; born at Red Lion, February 1, 1880; married and has five children; elected to the Seventy-second Congress and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Blair, Centre, and Clearfield (3 counties). Population (1930), 272,861.

J. BANKS KURTZ, Republican, of Altoona, Pa., was born on a farm in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pa.; attended the public schools of his native township, and then taught in them two years; received his collegiate education at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. (A. M.); graduate of Dickinson Law School (LL. B.); began the practice of law at Altoona, where he still practices; served two terms as district attorney of Blair County; was Blair County chairman of committee of public safety and council of national defense during the World War; married Jennie Stockton, of Washington County, Pa. (who died April 8, 1932), and has one daughter, Dorothy Stockton Kurtz, and one son, Jay Banks Kurtz; elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses.