TWELFTH DISTRICT.-COUNTY: Franklin. Population (1930), 361,055.

JOHN M. VORYS, Republican, of Columbus, Ohio; lawyer; born in Lancaster, Ohio, June 16, 1896; attended public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio; graduated from Columbus East High School, Yale University (B. A.), Ohio State University (juris doctor); pilot in United States Naval Air Service, overseas, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant, senior grade; teacher in the College of Yale in China, Changsha, China, 1919-20; assistant secretary, American delegation, Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington, 1921-22; representative from Franklin County in Ohio General Assembly, 1923-24; senator from tenth district in Ohio General Assembly, 1925-26; director of aeronautics of Ohio, 1929-30; member of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease; married Lois West, of Lucknow, India, in 1927; three children-Martin, Jeanny Esther, and Mary; elected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood (5 counties). Population (1930), 213,825.

ALBERT DAVID BAUMHART, JR., Republican, of Vermilion, Ohio; born in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio, June 15, 1908; graduated from the Ohio University with A. B. degree in 1930 and with M. A. degree in 1931; publishing house representative; member of the Ohio Senate 1937-40; elected to the Seventyseventh Congress on November 5, 1940.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit (4 counties). Population (1930), 525,696.

DOW W. HARTER, Democrat, of Akron, Ohio, was born there and educated in the public schools; graduated from Akron High School and the University of Michigan; an active lawyer in Akron for 20 years; former member of General Assembly of Ohio; member of Protestant Episcopal Church; married; two sons; elected to the Seventy-third Congress, to the Seventy-fourth Congress, to the Seventy-fifth Congress, to the Seventy-sixth Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, and Washington (6 counties). Population (1930), 198,291.

ROBERT THOMPSON SECREST, Democrat, of Caldwell, Ohio, was born January 22, 1904, in Noble County, near Senecaville, the son of Ralph W. and Amelia Thompson Secrest; graduated from Senecaville High School, 1922; graduated from Muskingum College with the degree of A. B., 1926; principal of Senecaville High School, 1926-30; superintendent of schools, Murray City, Ohio, 1931-32; elected to Ohio State Legislature from Noble County in 1930; married Virginia Bowden, of Cadiz, Ohio, November 28, 1929, and they have two daughters and one son- -Nancy Ann, Mary Jane, and Robert Thompson, Jr.; elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932; he and Governor White, of Ohio, share the honor of being the only two Democrats elected from the Fifteenth District since the Civil War, and Mr. Secrest is the only man of either party ever to carry all 6 counties in the same election; member of the following committees: Flood Control, Library, Mines and Mining, Roads, and Invalid Pensions; reelected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne (4 counties). Population (1930), 353,727.

WILLIAM R. THOM, Democrat, of Canton, Ohio; born July 7, 1885, in that city, the son of Louis and Katherine M. Thom; graduated from Canton High School in 1903, devoting the next 5 years to newspaper reporting for Canton newspapers; special student in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, 1909-11; graduate of Georgetown Law School, Washington, D. C., 1916; admitted to the bar of Ohio, January 1917 and since then a practicing lawyer in Canton; served in Washington as secretary of J. J. Whitacre, a Member of the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses from the old Eighteenth Ohio District, consisting of Stark, Columbiana, and Mahoning Counties; reporter for the United Press in the House of Representatives Press Gallery, 1915-16; member of the Canton Park Commission for 12 years; member of First Reformed Church, of Canton, Ohio; Member of the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses; again elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Knox, Licking, and Richland (6 counties). Population (1930), 237,061.

J. HARRY MCGREGOR, Republican, of West Lafayette, Ohio; contractor; was born on a farm near Unionport, Ohio, September 30, 1896; graduate of West Lafayette High School; attended West Lafayette College and Oberlin (Ohio) College; during the World War served in the Field Artillery; member of the State house of representatives, 1935-40, and served as minority whip and secretary of the finance committee, 1937-39, and as majority floor leader and speaker pro tempore, 1939–40; married Miss Twila Cox, of Dresden, Ohio, May 29, 1918, and they have two daughters and one son- -Constance Louise, a senior at Miami University; Betty Jane, a sophomore at Miami University; and Harry Laird, a student in public school at West Lafayette; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress at a special election held on February 27, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. William A. Ashbrook; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, and Jefferson (5 counties). Population (1930), 304,411.

LAWRENCE E. IMHOFF, Democrat, of St. Clairsville, Ohio; born at Round Bottom, Ohio, December 28, 1895; educated in rural schools, St. Clairsville High School, and Ohio State University Law College; profession, lawyer; LL. B. degree; enlisted and served in the Fifth Regiment, United States Marines, during the World War; wounded in the Second Battle of the Marne; elected clerk of courts, Belmont County, two terms, 1921-25; elected probate judge of Belmont County, two terms, 1925-33; appointed special assistant to the United States Attorney General, April 1, 1939, and resigned March 15, 1940, in compliance with provisions of Hatch Act, to file for Congress; member of all veterans' organizations and numerous fraternal orders; married Miss Martha Elizabeth Korn, of Wheeling, W. Va., September 1, 1923, and they have one child-Patricia Ann, 14 years of age; elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventyseventh Congresses.

NINETEENTH DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Ashtabula, Mahoning, and Trumbull (3 counties). Population (1930), 427,566.

MICHAEL JOSEPH KIRWAN, Democrat, of Youngstown, Ohio; elected to the Seventy-fifth and each succeeding Congress.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: Wards 1 to 4; ward 5, precincts F, M, and V; wards 7 and 8; ward 9, precincts A to H; wards 10, 21, 23, and 24; ward 25, except part of precinct I; and ward 31, except precinct D. Population (1930), 301,964.

MARTIN L. SWEENEY, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio; elected to the Seventy-second and each succeeding Congress.

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.-CITY OF CLEVELAND: Ward 5, except precincts F, M, and V; ward 6, ward 9, precincts I to M, P to Y, and EE; ward 11, precincts A to E; wards 12 to 16; ward 17, precincts D to Q; ward 18, precincts T, U, and V; ward 19, part of precinct Z; wards 28 and 29; ward 30, precincts A to L and Q and V; and ward 31, precinct D. Population (1930), 322,901.

ROBERT CROSSER, Democrat, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents in September 1881; attended the public schools at Salineville, Ohio, graduating from the high school in 1893; entered Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in September 1893 and graduated in June 1897 with the degree of A. B. (M. C. L., honorary, June 1929); entered the law school of Columbia University in October 1897, remaining part of a year, and the Cincinnati Law School in October 1898, graduating from the latter in June 1901 with the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the bar of Ohio in June 1901 and entered upon the practice of law in Cleveland in September 1901; was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1911-12; was elected a member of the fourth Constitutional Convention of Ohio, which convened at Columbus on January 9, 1912, and adjourned August 26, 1912, serving as chairman of the initiative and referendum committee, and was the author of the initiative and referendum amendment to the constitution; was elected to the Sixty-third Congress from the State at large; reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress from the Twenty-first Ohio District, and reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress; again elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses.

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Geauga, Lake, and that part of Cuyahoga County outside of the city of Cleveland; the city of Cleveland, ward 9, precincts N, O, Z to DD, and FF to HH; ward 11, precincts F to W; ward 17, precincts A to C; ward 18, precincts A to S; ward 19, precincts A to DD, except part of Z; wards 20 and 22; ward 25, part of precinct I; wards 26 and 27; ward 30, precincts M to P, and W to EE; and wards 32 and 33. Population (1930), 633,678.

FRANCES P. BOLTON, Republican, of Lyndhurst (suburb of Cleveland), Ohio; born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 29, 1885; married in 1907; three sons, Charles, Kenyon, and Oliver, and one daughter, Elisabeth, not living; active for many years in public health nursing and nursing education, and other social service, educational, and philanthropic work; trustee of Lakeside Hospitals, East End Community Center, School of Nursing at Western Reserve University, all of Cleveland; honorary member of Army Nursing School Alumni Association, National League of Nursing Education; member of Advisory Council, National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses; Vice-Regent for Ohio of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, which has charge of George Washington's home; Republican State Central Committeewoman, 1937-40; vice chairman, National Republican Program Committee; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the unexpired term of her husband, Chester C. Bolton, at a special election held on February 27, 1940; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress November 5, 1940.

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.; honorary degree of LL. D. by DePauw University, 1937; 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, 1910-13; 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 1932; reelected in 1938 for the term beginning January 3, 1939; member of Phi Delta Theta college fraternity; is an Elk, Mason, and Shriner.

JOSH LEE, Democrat, of Norman, Okla.; born in Childersburg, Ala., January 23, 1892; moved to Pauls Valley, Okla. (then Indian Territory), and in 1901 to farm in Kiowa County; attended the public schools of Hobart and Rocky, Okla., Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, and the University of Oklahoma, earning A. B. degree from latter institution in 1917; served as private in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Thirty-fourth (Sandstorm) Division in World War; was made head of public speaking department at the University of Oklahoma in 1919; also holds M. A. degree in political science from Columbia University in New York City, and LL. B. degree from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; married Louise Gerlach, of Woodward, Okla., January 17, 1923; they have two children, Robert Joshua, 15, and Mary Louise, 8; was elected to Seventy-fourth Congress in November 1934; was elected to United States Senate in November

1936.

REPRESENTATIVES

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

WILL ROGERS, Democrat, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was born at Bessie, Oklahoma Territory (now Oklahoma), December 12, 1898; received B. S. degree in government and B. A. degree in English from Central Teachers' College, Edmond, and M. S. degree in education from Oklahoma University, Norman; is a school teacher by profession; was engaged in educational work in Oklahoma for 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 could enlist; married Miss Chloe Gorden, also a teacher, and they have one daughter-Nell; member of Baptist Church; Woodman, Mason, Shriner, Knights of Pythias, and member of Eastern Star; member of Oklahoma Farmers' Union, Oklahoma Memorial Association (historical), Red Red Rose (educator's fraternal organization), Phi Delta Kappa, and Pi Kappa Alpha; chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives; elected from the State at large to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress; reelected to Seventy-seventh Congress. 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, 1911-15; member of Oklahoma House of Representatives, 1919-23, where he was author of tax measures; chairman of board of managers and directed successful impeachment of Governor in 1923; trial lawyer; elected to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

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

JACK NICHOLS, Democrat, of Eufaula, Okla.; born in Joplin, Mo., in 1896; educated in the public schools there and in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the teachers' college at Emporia, Kans.; studied law in the office of his brother, Clark Nichols, and was admitted to the bar upon examination in 1926 and has practiced law as partner of his brother under the firm name of Clark and Jack Nichols since; reported for duty at the First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Logan H. Roots, Little Rock, on May 14, 1917, but failed of commission; thereafter served with the Nineteenth Infantry in the Regular Army, being stationed at Camp Travis, Tex.; honorably discharged on March 27, 1919; has been active in the American Legion and State League of Young Democrats; never before held or sought public office; married Marion Young, of Eufaula, Okla., on March 30, 1921, and to this union was born one daughter, Nina Jean, who is now 18 years old, and a son, Dan, born June 20, 1936; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940.

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. degree at University of Oklahoma, at Norman in 1920, with supplementary work in the University of Chicago; profession-teacher, lawyer; admitted to the Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1914, and reelected in 1916; elected State senator from Coal, Atoka, and Bryan Counties in 1918 for a term of 4 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 adviser 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., 1923-26; defeated Hon. Charles D. Carter, chairman of the Democratic caucus, 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, to the Seventy-third Congress by a majority of 48,865, to the Seventy-fourth Congress by a majority of 36,233, to the Seventy-fifth Congress by a majority of 43,589, to the Seventy-sixth Congress by a majority of 35,330 and to the Seventy-seventh Congress by a majority of 55,221; grand master of I. O. O. F. for State of Oklahoma, 1934-35; chairman of Committee on Roads.

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

LYLE H. BOREN, Democrat, of Seminole, Okla.

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

A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Democrat, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; born in Oklahoma City, March 2, 1902; educated in the public schools and the University of Oklahoma, B. A., 1924; married; editor of the Oklahoma Daily, and served 5 years as political writer of the Scripps-Howard Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City; entered the retail furniture business in 1929; served as president of the following: Oklahoma Furniture Association, 1930; Oklahoma University Alumni, 1931; Oklahoma City Retailers Association, 1937 and 1938; Oklahoma City Rotary Club, 1934; cofounder and, from 1927 to 1936, coauthor of the Oklahoma State Press Gridiron; member of Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Delta Chi, and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

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.; son of La Fayette D. and Evalyn Carlin Johnson; married Miss Beatrice Luginbyhl, Chickasha, Okla., 1925; three daughters, Jean, Joan, Janelle, and one son, Jed, Jr.; 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; salesman; editor, 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 two terms, representing fifteenth and seventeenth districts; delegate from United States Congress to Twenty-fourth Annual Peace Conference, Interparliamentary Union, Paris, France, 1927; sent to similar world peace conferences at Geneva, Switzerland, 1929, and Paris, 1937; delegate from Oklahoma, Tenth Annual Convention, American Legion, Paris, 1927; first vice president, Thirty-sixth Division Association; chairman, speakers' bureau, Democratic National Congressional Committee; member, House Steering Committee; elected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventysecond, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventyseventh Congresses.

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

SAM C. MASSINGALE, Democrat, of Cordell, Okla.; born at Quitman, Miss., August 2, 1870; received education from the public schools and university of that State; came to Fort Worth, Tex., when 21 years old, and studied law; in 1898 served as private in Company D, Second Texas Infantry, in the Spanish-American War; moved to Cordell in 1900 and opened law office, and has practiced law since that time; in 1902 he served as a member of the Territorial Council; married Anna Canaday at Mulvane, Kans., 1903; have three daughters-Margaret Hippen, Betty Lou Nelson, and Jane Massingale; elected as Representative from the Seventh District of Oklahoma to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress on November 8, 1938; reelected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940.

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