SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, 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., 1921-27, 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; member of American Legion, Forty and Eight, and Pi Kappa Alpha; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, receiving 22,831 votes; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

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

DAN R. MCGEHEE, Democrat, of Meadville, Miss., was born September 10, 1883, son of W. C. and Nora L. McGehee (nee Nora Lumpkin), of Bude, Miss.; reared on farm at Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss.; attended the primary school of Little Springs; graduated from Mississippi College in 1903 with B. S. degree, and from the law school of the University of Mississippi in 1909; practiced law in Meadville, Miss., since 1909; married Dorothy Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hunt, of Cuthbert, Ga., and they have four children-Lena Deane, Dorothy Ann, Gloria, and Patricia; member of the State legislature as senator from the sixth district, composed of Pike and Franklin Counties, 192428; member of the house of representatives, 1928-32, and of the State senate from 1932 to the present; Mason, Shriner, Woodman of the World; member of Baptist Church; president of Bank of Franklin; planter; elected to the Seventyfourth Congress on November 6, 1934.

MISSOURI

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

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 Representatives, 1913-17; attended first officers training camp at Fort Myer, Va., in 1917, receiving commission as captain; elected lieutenant colonel, Sixth Regiment 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.

HARRY S. TRUMAN, Democrat, of Independence, Mo., was born at Lamar, Mo., May 8, 1884; elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 1934, for the term ending January 3, 1941.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Adair, Clark, Daviess, Grundy, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Marion, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, and Sullivan (16 counties). Population (1930), 244,369.

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 Teachers 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; 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.; he has served 4 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 27 years of age; was elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixtysixth, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses; was reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; was the director of organization in the Democratic State headquarters during the campaigns of 1928 and 1932, and at the general election terminating the 1932 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).

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Benton, Boone, Camden, Carroll, Chariton, Cole, Cooper, Hickory, Howard, Lafayette, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Randolph, and Saline (15 counties). Population (1930), 287, 820.

WILLIAM L. NELSON, Democrat, of Columbia, Mo.; born August 4, 1875, on a farm near Bunceton, Cooper County, of which county his parents, T. Alpheus Nelson and Sarah A. (Tucker) Nelson (both now deceased), were natives, having descended from Virginia and Kentucky families; educated in public schools, Hooper Institute, William Jewell College, and Missouri College of Agriculture; taught school 5 years; was once associated with L. O. Nelson, oldest of 6 brothers, in publication of Bunceton Weekly Eagle, which for a quarter century was continued under same family ownership as exponent of livestock and farming interests of central Missouri; represented Cooper County in the Forty-first and Forty-fourth Missouri General Assemblies, being author of various agricultural measures; in 1908 removed to Columbia to become assistant secretary of agriculture for Missouri, which position he held for 10 years; was married June 9, 1909, to Stella Boschert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Boschert, of Bunceton, and has one son, Will L., Jr.; farm owner and operator; elected from old Eighth District to Sixty-sixth Congress by a majority of 193 votes, to Sixty-ninth Congress by a majority of 940 votes, to the Seventieth Congress by a majority of 5,734 votes, to the Seventy-first Congress, by a majority of 6,788 votes, to the Seventy-second Congress by a majority of 7,471 votes, and from new Second District to the Seventy-fourth Congress by a majority of 17,641 votes.

THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Platte, Ray, and Worth (14 counties). Population (1930), 299,490. 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; deputy circuit clerk of Buchanan County, Mo., 1911-17; 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, 192630; elected to the Seventy-third Congress from the State at large in 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Third District.

FOURTH DISTRICT.—JACKSON COUNTY: Blue, Brooking, Fort Osage, Prairie, Sniabar, and Van Buren Townships. KANSAS CITY: Wards 9 to 14, and 16. Population (1930), 239, 251.

CHARLES JASPER BELL, Democrat, of Kansas City, Mo., was born in Lake City, Colo., in 1885; attended country schools in Jackson County, Mo.; Lees Summit (Mo.) High School, and Missouri University; graduated from Kansas City School of Law in 1913 with degree of LL. B.; lawyer; member of City Council of Kansas City, Mo., 1926–30; represented Kansas City in river conferences in Chicago and St. Louis; one of committee of three to draft administrative code, which now comprises the general law of Kansas City; in 1930 was elected as circuit judge, sixteenth Missouri circuit; resigned from bench in May 1934 and became partner in firm of Mosman, Rogers, Bell & Buzard, Bryant Building, Kansas City, Mo.; elected as Representative in the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Fourth Missouri District, on November 6, 1934, receiving 84,440 votes, to 18,659 votes for Horace Guffin, Republican.

FIFTH DISTRICT.-JACKSON COUNTY: Washington Township. KANSAS CITY: Wards 1 to 8, and 15. Population (1930), 231,203.

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; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Fifth District of Missouri.

SIXTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Greene, Henry, Johnson, Pettis, Polk, St. Clair, and Vernon (11 counties). Population (1930), 287,786.

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, a majority of 385,301 over his nearest Republican

opponent; was declared the nominee from the new Sixth Congressional District of Missouri in the August 1934 primary, winning this honor against two other sitting Members of Congress, and was elected in the November 1934 election to the Seventy-fourth Congress, defeating his Republican opponent by a majority of 11,000 votes.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Howell, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Ozark, Stone, Taney, Webster, and Wright (15 counties). Population (1930), 293,294.

DEWEY SHORT, Republican, of Galena, Mo.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Carter, Crawford, Dent, Iron, Jefferson, Laclede, Madison, Oregon, Perry, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Shannon, Texas, Washington, and Wayne (18 counties). Population (1930), 253,716.

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 as Representative at large for the State of Missouri by a majority of 415,862, and to the Seventy-fourth Congress from the new Eighth Congressional District.

NINTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Audrain, Callaway, Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Maries, Monroe, Montgomery, Osage, Pike, Ralls, St. Charles, and Warren (13 counties). Population (1930), 207,068. 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 Encyclopaedia 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. TENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Ripley, Scott, and Stoddard (10 counties). Population (1930), 251,817. ORVILLE ZIMMERMAN, Democrat, of Kennett, Mo., was born on a farm in Bollinger County, Mo., December 31, 1881; attended country school at Glen Allen and later attended Mayfield-Smith Academy at Marble Hill; graduated from State Teachers College at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1904, and from University of Missouri in 1911 with LL. B degree; was admitted to the bar in the same year; volunteered for service in the World War; married Miss Adah G. Hemphill in 1919 and they have one son-Joe A.; elected a Member of the Seventy-fourth Congress from the new Tenth Congressional District by a majority of 12,500. ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Ward 4, precincts 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13 to 15; wards 5 to 9 and 14 to 17; ward 19, precincts 1 to 4 and 11 to 19; ward 20, precincts 14 to 23; ward 22, precincts 1 to 4; wards 23 and 25; ward 26, precincts 1 to 4, 8 to 15, and 21 to 23. Population (1930), 341,538. THOMAS C. HENNINGS, JR., Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo., was born in St. Louis, Mo., June 25, 1903, son of former Circuit Judge Thomas C. and Sarah Poullain Wilson Hennings; attended the public schools and the Soldan High

School of St. Louis; was graduated from Cornell University with A. B. degree in 1924; completed a law course at Washington University in 1926, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in St. Louis; appointed an assistant circuit attorney for the St. Louis Circuit Court for Criminal Causes in 1929, and served until December 1934; appointed a colonel on Governor Park's staff in 1932; member of the survey commission of the Missouri Association for Criminal Justice, 1924-25; director of the Cornell Alumni Corporation and former president of the Cornell Club of St. Louis; director of the American Red Cross; member of the Community Council Committee on Delinquency and its Prevention; lecturer on criminal jurisprudence at the Benton College of Law; member of the American, Missouri State, and St. Louis Bar Associations; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934, receiving 58,787 votes, L. C. Dyer, Republican, receiving 44,241 votes.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.-ST. LOUIS COUNTY. CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Wards 10 to 13, and 24; ward 28, precincts 1 to 9 and 22 to 31. Population (1930), 425,481.

JAMES R. CLAIBORNE, Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo.; born in St. Louis, Mo., on June 22, 1882; grandson of Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne and great nephew of William C. C. Claiborne; 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 children-Martha 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; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress to represent the Twelfth District (old Tenth District), defeating Cleveland A. Newton, who represented the Tenth District from 1919 to 1927.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.—CITY OF ST. LOUIS: Wards 1 to 3; ward 4, precincts 1 to 3, 6 to 8, 10, and 12; ward 18; ward 19, precincts 5 to 10; ward 20, precincts 1 to 13; ward 21; ward 22, precincts 5 to 35; ward 26, precincts 5 to 7, 16 to 20, and 24 to 26; ward 27; ward 28, precincts 10 to 21. Population (1930) 266,534. 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, Seventyfirst, 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 (Democrat), and 404,556 more votes than the leading Republican candidate; candidate for United States Senate at primary August 7, 1934, in a four-cornered race; defeated by Harry Truman, the vote being Truman 276,850, Cochran 236,105, J. L. Milligan 147,614, G. L. Cleveland 7,651; received the largest vote ever given a Democratic candidate for the Senate who was not nominated; following the primary the candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth District, Joseph A. Lennon, withdrew and Cochran was unanimously nominated by the Congressional Committee to fill the vacancy; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress over his Republican opponent, George Strodtman, the vote being Cochran 60,006, Strodtman 31,283; Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

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 5 years as United States district attorney; elected United States Senator in 1922; reelected in 1928 and 1934.