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Telegraph Conference in Paris in 1925, and as an unofficial observer of the United States at the International Juridical Conference on Wireless Telegraphy, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927, later being elected a member of this committee and president of the American section; was appointed by the President as a United States delegate to the International Radio Telegraphic Conference in Washington, D. C., in 1927, and as chairman of the United States delegation to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, held in London, England, in 1929, and by the Secretary of State as chairman of the United States delegation to the meeting of the International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications, held at Copenhagen in 1931; is a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College; received the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1928.

REPRESENTATIVES

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

SIMON MOULTON HAMLIN, Democrat, of South Portland, Maine; born at Standish (Richville), Maine, August 10, 1866; attended public schools, Gorham Normal, Bridgton Academy, and Bowdoin College, A. B.; taught school for 35 years, also serving as superintendent of schools; served as city clerk of South Portland, 1913; member of the board of registration, South Portland, 1926-32; mayor of South Portland, 1933; occupation at present is real estate and farming; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on September 10, 1934, receiving 48,235 votes, and Carroll L. Beedy, Republican, receiving 46,635 votes.

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

EDWARD CARLETON MORAN, JR., Democrat, of Rockland, Maine; born at Rockland, December 29, 1894; graduated 1917 from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; 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; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress. THIRD DISTRICT. COUNTIES: Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington (5 counties). Population (1930), 267,000.

RALPH O. BREWSTER, Republican, of Bangor, Maine; born at Dexter, Maine, February 22, 1888; educated in the Dexter schools; graduated from Dexter High School, 1905, Bowdoin College, 1909, and Harvard Law School, 1913; principal of the Castine High School, 1910; admitted to the Maine bar in 1913; member of Portland school committee, 1915-23; representative to Maine Legislature, 1917; renominated, but resigned to enter military service; private, second lieutenant, captain, and regimental adjutant, Third Infantry, Maine ́National Guard; private, Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor; representative to legislature in 1921; senator 1923; Governor of Maine 1925-29; chairman Governors' conference 1926-27; married and has one son; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on September 10, 1934.

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 Generals Pershing, Morton, and Upton; awarded Distinguished Service Medal and Distinguished Service Cross; 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.

GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE, Democrat, of Baltimore; lawyer; born at Lloyds, Md., August 22, 1877; son of John Anthony LeCompte and Sophie E. (Travers) Radcliffe; graduated from Cambridge (Md.) Seminary in 1893; A. B., Johns

Hopkins, 1897, Ph. D., 1900; LL. B., University of Maryland, 1903; LL. D., Washington College, 1934; married Mary McKim Marriott on June 6, 1906, and they have one son-George Marriott Radcliffe, born June 9, 1919; principal of Cambridge Seminary, 1900-1901; teacher, Baltimore City College, 1901-2; admitted to Maryland bar in 1903; attorney for American Bonding Co., 1903-4, second vice president, 1906–14, and president, 1914-30-now director; first vice president, director, and member of executive committee of Fidelity & Deposit Co.; trustee of Fidelity Securities Co.; liquidating committee of Baltimore Trust Co.; member of Baltimore board, Liquor License Commission, 1916-19; secretary of state of Maryland, 1919-20; regional adviser 1933-34, region no. 10, Public Works Administration for States of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and District of Columbia; member Maryland State Council of Defense, World War; special commissioner to organize war-work records of Maryland; vice president of Maryland Historical Society; chairman of Maryland Democratic Campaign Committee, 1932; author: Governor Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War, 1902; elected to United States Senate on November 6, 1934, receiving 264,279 votes, Joseph I. France, Republican, receiving 197,643 votes. Home, 12 Edgevale Road, Roland Park, Baltimore; office, Fidelity Building, Baltimore.

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, 1904-08; 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, Seventy-second, Seventy-third Congresses, and reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

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, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth 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; was delegate to the Democratic National Convention held at Houston, Tex., in 1928; appointed parole commissioner of the State of Maryland in 1929 and served until his election to Congress; was also delegate to Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, Ill., in 1932; 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; reelected on November 6, 1934, to the Seventy-fourth 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 also elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth 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 Congress 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 Congress on November 4, 1930, by a majority of 6,071 votes over the Hon. Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican; reelected 1932, by a majority of 14,137, and in 1934 by 1,361.

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; reelected November 6, 1934, by 316,084 plurality; his term of office expires in 1941.

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, LL. D., 1934; active member, supreme council, thirty-third degree Scottish Rite, northern masonic jurisdiction; granger; Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1904; Massachusetts Senate, 1908-11; president of senate, 1909–11, inclusive; elected to the Sixty-third and succeeding Congresses, including the Seventy-fourth; ranking 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, 1917-19; 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, Aug. 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, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth 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 Ashburnham, 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.

JOSEPH E. CASEY, Democrat, of Clinton, Mass.; born in Clinton, Mass., December 27, 1898, graduate of Boston University Law School, degree of LL. B.; attorney at law; member of the American Bar Association and the Massachu

setts Bar Association; member of the American Legion; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1924 and 1932; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934.

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, 1908-11; alderman, 1913-14; president of the board of alderman, 1915-16; mayor of Worcester, 1917-19; member of the Governor's council, seventh Massachusetts district, 1925-28; 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; and reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress by a majority of 15,663 over his Democratic opponent, James H. Ferguson.

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, Maine, 1881; graduate Rogers Hall School, Lowell, and Madame Julien's School, Paris, France; received honorary M. A. degrees from Tufts College and Bates College; served overseas, 1917; with American Red Cross in care of the disabled, 1918-22; 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, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress, receiving 75,754 votes, against 46 125 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, Wenham, and West Newbury, Population (1930), 255,879.

A. PIATT ANDREW, Republican, of Gloucester; educated at Princeton and Harvard; assistant professor of economics, Harvard, 1903-9; expert assistant and editor of publications of National Monetary Commission, 1908-11; Director of the Mint, 1909-10; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1910-12; served in France continuously for 4%1⁄2 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-fourth Congress without opposition.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.—ESSEX COUNTY: Cities of Lawrence, Lynn, and Peabody; city of Salem, ward 4; towns of Andover, Lynnfield, Nahant, and Saugus. MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Towns of North Reading and Wakefield. SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Revere and town of Winthrop. Population (1930), 312,956. WILLIAM P. CONNERY, JR., Democrat, of Lynn, was born on August 24, 1888; attended St. Mary's School, Lynn; Montreal College, Montreal, Canada; and Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass.; received honorary degree of master of arts, Holy Cross College, 1925; entered theatrical profession as actor and afterward became manager; enlisted as a private in Company A, One hundred and first Regiment United States Infantry, August 23, 1917; served 19 months in France, taking part in all major operations, engagements, and battles of the One-hundred and first Regiment Infantry, Twenty-sixth (Yankee) Division; promoted from private to regimental color sergeant for meritorious service September 25, 1918; honorably discharged April 28, 1919; was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses; reelected to the Seventy-first Congress after receiving both Democratic and

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