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 in Macon County, Mo., and grew to manhood on a farm; 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., magna cum laude, at the University of Missouri in 1904, where he was graduated with the highest honors of his class; his father, Andrew Jackson Romjue, and his mother, Susan E. (Roan) Romjue, were both Missouri born; 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; was elected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-eighth, and succeeding Congresses including the Seventyseventh Congress; chairman of Post Office and Post Roads Committee, Seventysixth 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 on a farm near Bunceton, Cooper County, Mo.; educated in public schools, Hooper Institute, William Jewell College, and Missouri College of Agriculture; taught school 5 years; later, in addition to farming, was associated with brothers in county newspaper work and engaged in agricultural journalism; 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, resigning to become a candidate for Congress; married to Stella Boschert, of Bunceton, Mo., and has one son, Will L., Jr., honor graduate from the School of Law, University of Missouri; farm owner and operator; member Committee on Rules, House of Representatives; author of various agricultural publications; associate editor of The Farmer's Cyclopedia; honorary member Future Farmers of America, Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Spanish-American War Veterans; Baptist; Kiwanian; Member of the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventyfourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Seventyseventh Congress by majority approximately 3,000 greater than district gave President Roosevelt, and 5,000 more than that given Democratic candidate for Governor.

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; admitted to the practice of law in St. Joseph in 1916; served as city counselor of St. Joseph, 1926-30; elected to the Seventy-third Congress from the State at large in 1932; reelected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses from the Third District; member Ways and Means Committee.

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

CHARLES JASPER BELL, Democrat, of Blue Springs, Mo., was born in Lake City, Colo., in 1885; attended country schools in Jackson County, Mo., Lees Summit (Mo.) High School, and the University of Missouri; 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, Bryant Building, Kansas City, Mo.; elected as Representative in the Seventy-fourth Congress from the Fourth Missouri District, on November 6, 1934; during that term served as chairman of Special Committee Investigating Old Age Pension Organizations; reelected to Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses; chairman of Elections Committee No. 1.

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 and in 1940; 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 Seventyfourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses 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.

PHILIP A. BENNETT, Republican, of Springfield, Mo., was born on a farm near Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo., March 5, 1881, the son of the late Marion F. and Mary J. (O'Bannon) Bennett, and comes from colonial stock, being a direct descendant of Richard Bennett, who was Governor of Virginia, 1652-55; was educated in the Buffalo (Mo.) High School; was graduated from the Springfield Normal and Business College in 1902; taught school for 2 years; purchased the Buffalo (Mo.) Reflex, which he edited and published for 17 years; served as State senator (nineteenth district), 1921-25, and as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1925-29; married to Miss Bertha Tinsley in 1912, and they have two childrenAttorney Marion T. Bennett and Miss Mary Edith Bennett, a teacher at Springfield, Mo.; both children are single; elder in South Avenue Christian Church, Springfield; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940, by a majority of 10,894 votes, in a district which is normally 10,000 Democratic.

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; again elected to the Seventyfifth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress by an increased majority over 1934; served as permanent chairman of the Democratic State convention held at Jefferson City, Mo., on September 13, 1938; is ranking member of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives; is a member of the Temporary National Economic Committee; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

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; was graduated from La Grange College (now Hannibal-La Grange Junior College), William Jewell College, and Missouri University; B. S., A. B., A. M., LL. B., LL. D.; professor of history, Stephens College, 1904-08; 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, Chicago, 1932, Philadelphia, 1936, and Chicago, 1940; 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 and 1939 (published by resolutions of the House), of four editions of the Convention Parliamentary Manual (published, 1928, 1932, 1936, and 1940, by the Democratic National Committee), of Cannon's Precedents of the House of Representatives (published by law, 1936), and of treatises on parliamentary law in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1929 and 1938, and in the Encyclopaedia Americana, 1940; editor and compiler of the Precedents of the House of Representatives by act of Congress; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; 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; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress, leading all State and National tickets in congressional district from Sixty-eighth to Seventy-seventh Congresses, inclusive.

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 and began the practice of law at Kennett, Mo., where he has since resided; volunteered for service in the World War; married Miss Adah G. Hemphill in 1919, and they have one son-Joe A.; member of Lions Club, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars (honorary), Masonic fraternity, and Methodist Church; member of the board of regents of State Teachers College at Cape Girardeau, Mo.; elected a Member of the Seventy-fourth Congress from the new Tenth Congressional District by a majority of 13,000; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress by a majority of 24,000; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress by a majority of over 13,000; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress by a majority of over 17,000.

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.

JOHN B. SULLIVAN, Democrat, of St. Louis, Mo., was born in Sedalia, Pettis County, Mo., October 10, 1897, son of the late Patrick F. and Catherine Rochford Sullivan; graduated from St. Louis University, with A. B. degree, in

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1918; member of Students' Army Training Corps, 1918; received LL. B. degree in 1922, and LL. M. degree in 1923; admitted to the Missouri bar, 1921, and engaged in private practice from 1921 to 1936; associate city counselor of St. Louis, 1936-38; secretary to the mayor of St. Louis, 1938-40; memberships: St. Louis Bar Association; Missouri Bar Association; Lawyers' Association of St. Louis, vice president, 1938; American Legion, past adjutant, past commander, Post No. 1; past judge advocate, Department of Missouri; the Forty and Eight, executive committee, 1931; Delta Sigma Phi; Delta Theta Phi; Jefferson Club, vice president, 1932, president, 1938-39, executive committee, 1940; Smoke Elimination Committee of the City of St. Louis, secretary and lawyer member; City Government Institute, member of executive committee; Municipal Employees Merit and Pension System Committee; Municipal Government_Survey Commission; Mayor's Budget Committee; elected to Seventy-seventh Congress November 5, 1940, with a plurality of 17,690.

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.

WALTER CHRISTIAN PLOESER, Republican, of St. Louis, Mo.; born in St. Louis, Mo., January 7, 1907; educated in public schools of St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and Casper and Lusk, Wyo., and at City College of Law and Finance at St. Louis; member of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly of the Missouri Legislature 1931-32; member of the DeMolay Legion of Honor; Algabil Lodge, No. 544, A. F. and A. M.; Lincoln Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics; St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; Insurance Board of St. Louis; South St. Louis Lions Club; and Noonday Club; founder of the Insurance Institute of Missouri; insurance business, president of Ploeser, Watts & Co. and chairman of the board of Marine Underwriters Corporation; founder of the Young Republican Federation of Missouri and a member of the specially created Republican National Program Committee and chairman of the subcommittee on finance, taxation, and budget for the fifth region, which included the States of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota; wife is Dorothy Mohrig Ploeser; two daughters, Ann and Sally; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940, defeating incumbent Democrat by 18,400 votes, the vote being 127,005 to 108,605; first Republican to represent this Twelfth Missouri District.

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; elected to Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, 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 reelected, receiving 1,013,824 votes, leading 13 Democratic candidates; candidate for United States Senate, primary August 7, 1934; defeated by Harry Truman, the vote being Truman 276,850, Cochran 236,105, J. L. Milligan 147,614; following 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; reelected to Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses; delegate at large to Democratic National Convention, 1928; district delegate, 1932; chairman, Committee on Accounts; chairman, Select House Committee on Government Organization; member, Select Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments; Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.

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; again reelected in 1940 by the largest vote ever given any candidate for office in the State of Montana.

JAMES E. MURRAY, Democrat, of Butte, Mont.; born on a farm near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 1876; graduated St. Jerome's College, Berlin, Canada, 1895; New York University Law School, New York, LL. B. 1900, LL. M. 1901; admitted to Montana bar, 1901; served as county attorney of Silver Bow County, Mont., 1906-8; chairman of State advisory board, Montana, P. W. A., 1933; married Miss Viola E. Horgan, of Memphis, Tenn., June 1905; has six sons, James A., William D., Edward E., Howard A., Charles A., and John S.; elected to United States Senate on November 6, 1934, to fill out the unexpired term of the late Thomas J. Walsh; reelected November 3, 1936, for the term ending in 1943.

REPRESENTATIVES

FIRST DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Beaverhead, Broadwater, Deerlodge, Flathead, Gallatin, Granite, Jefferson, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Madison, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli, Sanders, and Silver Bow (17 counties). Population (1930), 211,918.

JEANNETTE RANKIN, Republican, of Missoula, Mont.; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress in 1916 and to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940.

SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, McCone, Meagher, Musselshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Pondera, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, and Yellowstone (39 counties), and part of Yellowstone National Park. Population (1930), 325,688.

JAMES FRANCIS O'CONNOR, Democrat, of Livingston, Mont.; born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa; attended public schools and normal school in Iowa; graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1904 with LL. B. degree; profession, lawyer; served as district judge of the sixth judicial district of Montana in 1912; member of the State house of representatives, 1917-18, and served as speaker during the same term; special counsel for the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., in 1918; elected to the Seventyfifth Congress on November 3, 1936, reelected to the Seventh-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938, and to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940, receiving a majority of 33,390 votes.

NEBRASKA

(Population (1930), 1,377,963)

SENATORS

GEORGE W. NORRIS, Independent, of McCook, Nebr.; was born near Clyde, York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861, eleventh in a family of 12 children; his early life was spent on this farm; his father died when he was a small child, his only brother was killed in the Civil War, and his mother was left in straitened circumstances; was compelled to work out among the