REPRESENTATIVES FROM ILLINOIS, 59TH CONGRESS

MADDEN, MARTIN B., Republican, of Chicago, First district, was born March 20, 1855. He obtained his education in the public schools and the night classes of a business college. At the age of ten he began work in the stone quarries near Chicago and has always been identified with the stone industry. He is now the president of the Western Stone Company and has served as president of the Quarry Owners Association of the United States, and of the Illinois Manufacturers Association. He has taken an active interest in politics for many years, was a delegate to the national conventions of 1900 and 1904, and was elected to Congress in 1904.

MANN, JAMES R., Republican, of Chicago, Second district, was born in 1856; is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and the Union College of Law, Chicago; has been attorney for Hyde Park and the South Park Commissioners; was alderman for four years. He was elected to Congress in 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904.

WILSON, WILLIAM W., Republican, of Chicago, Third district, was born in Ohio, Bureau county, Illinois, March 2, 1869. He has a literary, commercial and legal education and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and then the Chicago College of Law, receiving the degree of L L. B. He has been engaged as a clerk, school teacher, and practicing lawyer; admitted to the bar in 1893, and elected to Congress in 1904.

WHARTON, CHARLES E., Republican, of Chicago, Fourth district, was born in Aledo, Illinois, April 22, 1875, and came with his parents to Chicago three years later; was educated in the common and high schools of Chicago, and graduated from the law department of the Uuiversity of Michigan in 1896. He has served as town attorney for the town of Lake and as assistant city attorney of Chicago, and was elected to Congress in 1904.

MICHALEK, ANTHONY, Republican, of Chicago, Fifth district, was born in Bohemia, January 16, 1878. His parents came to America three months later. He was educated in the common schools and attended business college for six months. He is a book-keeper by Occupation. He was elected to Congress in 1904 and is said to be the first man of Slavonic blood to sit in the Congress of the United States.

LORIMER, WILLIAM, Republican, of Chicago. Sixth district, was born in Manchester, England; was elected to Congress in 1894, 1896, 1898, 1902, 1904.

KNOPF, PHILIP, Republican, of Chicago, Seventh district, was born in Lake county, Illinois, November 18, 1847. When sixteen years of age he enlisted in Co. I, 147th Volunteers and served during the Civil war. He received a common school and business education and for a time was engaged in the teaming business. In 1880 he was appointed United States gauger, and has since held the office of deputy coroner, county clerk and State Senator. He was elected to Congress in 1902 and re-elected in 1904.

MCGAVIN, CHARLES, Republican, of Chicago, Eighth district, was born in Riverton, Illinois, January 10, 1874. He received a common school education and for a number of years was engaged in the coal-mining business as book-keeper and in other capacities. In 1895 he began to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1897; went to Chicago in 1899 and and became assistant city attorney in 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM ILLINOIS-59TH CONGRESS.

BOUTELL, HENRY S., Republican, of Chicago, Ninth district, was born March 14, 1856, in Boston, Mass., and went to Chicago in 1863. He was educated in the Northwestern University, received degrees of A. B. in 1876; Harvard University A. B. in 1876, and A. M. in in 1877; Northwestern LL. D. in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1836. He was secretary to the lieutenant governor in 1879, and a member of the "103" who elected Senator Logan in the Illinois Legislature in 1885. He was elected to Congress, special election, in 1897, re-elected in 1898-1900-'02-'04.

FOSS, GEORGE E., Republican, of Chicago, Tenth district, was born in Berkshire, Vermont, July 2, 1863. He received an A. B. from Harvard in 1885, and LL. B. from the Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1889. He has represented the Seventh and Tenth congressional districts during the past ten years and has been for the last four years, chairman of the committee on naval affairs in the House of Representatives.

SNAPP. HOWARD M., Republican, of Joliet, Eleventh district, was born in Joliet, Sept. 27, 1855, and was educated in the public schools, with three years in the Chicago University. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and has since practiced his profession. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1896, and for years was master-in-chancery of Will county, and was elected to Congress in 1902 and 1904.

FULLER, CHARLES E., Republican, of Belvidere, Twelfth district, was born on a farm near Belvidere, March 31, 1849, and received a high school education. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and has served as city attorney of Belvidere, state's attorney of Boone county, a representative in the General Assembly, State Senator and circuit judge. He raised a provisional regiment for the Spanish-American war in 1898, and was commissioned colonel by Gov. Tanner. He was a delegate to the National convention in 1884. He was elected to Congress in 1902 and re-elected in 1904.

HITT, ROBERT R., Republican, of Mt. Morris, Thirteenth district, was born in Urbana, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1834, and removed to Ogle county, Ill., in 1837. He was educated at Rock River Seminary, now Mt. Morris College, and at DePauw University. He was secretary and charge de affaires ad interim at Paris, from Dec. 1874 until March 1881, assistant Secretary of State in 1881, was elected to Congress in 1882, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. R. M. A. Hawk, and has been returned at each subsequent congressional election.

MCKINNEY, JAMES, Republican, of Aledo, Fourteenth district, was born at Oquawka, April 14, 1852, received his early education in the public schools, and graduated from Monmouth College, in 1874. Since 1894 he has been a member of the Republican State Committee; in 1900 was chairman of the Executive Committee of that body and in 1904 was a member of the Managing Committee having direct charge of the Presidential campaign in Illinois. He was appointed a member of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission in 1901 but resigned a year ater, and was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress at a special election held Nov. 7, 1905, to fill he vacancy caused by the death of Hon. B. F. Marsh.

PRINCE, GEORGE W., Republican, of Galesburg, Fifteenth district, was born in Tazewell county, March 4, 1854. He graduated from Knox College in 1878 and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He was elected city attorney of Galesburg in 1881, chairman of the Republican county committee in 1884, Representative in the General Assembly in 1888 and 1890, and was candidate for Attorney General in 1892. He was elected to Congress in 1895 vice Hon. P. S. Post, deceased, and was re-elected in 1896-'98-1900-'02-'04.

GRAFF, JOSEPH V., Republican, of Peoria, Sixteenth district, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., July 1, 1854, graduated from the Terre Haute High School and took a partial college course at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He was a delegate to the National Convention in 1892 and was elected to Congress in 1894, and at each ucceeding congressional election.

STERLING, JOHN A., Republican, of Bloomington, Seventeenth district, was born on a farm near LeRoy, Feb. 1, 1857. He entered the Illinois Wesleyan University, paying his way through school by teaching and graduated in 1881. He was superintendent of the Lexingon schools for two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1884, was elected state's attorney in 8 92, and to Congress in 1902 and 1904.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM ILLINOIS-59TH CONGRESS

CANNON, JOSEPH G., Republican, of Danville, Eighteenth district, was born in Guilford, N. C., May 7, 1836; is a lawyer; was State's attorney from 1861 to 1868; was elected to Congress in 1872-74-76-78-80-82-84-86-88-92-94-96-98–1900–02-04, and was chosen Speaker of the House in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses.

MCKINLEY, WILLIAM B., Republican, of Champaign, Nineteenth district, was born in Petersburg, Ill.. and has resided in Champaign since 1859. His occupations have been those of banker, farmer, street railway and interurban builder and operator. He was elected trustee of the University of Illinois in 1902, which position he resigned in 1905. He received a collegiate education.

RAINEY, HENRY T., Democrat, of Carrollton, Twentieth district, was born in Carrollton, Aug. 20, 1860, educated at Knox and Amherst colleges, graduating in 1833, with the degree of A. B. and A. M. He studied law in the Union College of Law, Chicago, graduating with the degree of B. L. in 1885. He was master in chancery for six years, and has been actively engaged in the practice of law since his admission to the bar in 1886. He was elected to Congress in 1902 and 1904, being the only Democrat elected from Illinois to the Fifty-ninth Congress.

RIVES, ZENO J., Republican, of Litchfield, Twenty-first district, was born in Hancock county, Ind., Feb. 22, 1874, came to Illinois in 1880. He received a common school education and in 1898 began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1901 and in 1903 was appointed city clerk. Prior to taking up the study of law he was employed as helper in a car foundry and as a common laborer in other lines of work. He was elected to Congress in 1904.

RODEN ERG, WILLIAM A., Republican, of East St. Louis. Twenty-second district, was born near Chester, Oct. 30, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Illinois, the Central Wesleyan College, Warrentown, Mo., and the St. Louis Law School. He taught school for a time and was later admitted to the bar. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1896; was elected to Congress in 1898, 1902 and 1904. He resigned from the United States Civil Service Commission April 1, 1902, in order to again make his canvass for Congress.

DICKSON, FRANK S., Republican, of Ramsey, Twenty-third district, was born in Hillsboro, Oct. 6, 1877, and was educated in the public schools of the state. He served through the Spanish-American war in the 4th Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf. He now holds commission as captain, being regimental quartermaster, 4th Inf. I. N. G. He was elected to Congress in 1904, from a district that was strongly Democratic in 1900.

CHAPMAN, PLEASANT T., Republican, of Vienna, Twenty-fourth district, was born near Vienna, Oct. 8, 1854. He graduated from McKendree college in 1876, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He has served as superintendent of schools, county judge and State Senator. He has twice been a member of the Republican State Committee and was chairman of the appropriation committee of the State Senate for two sessions. He is a lawyer and also engaged in banking and farming. He was elected to Congress in 1904.

SMITH, GEORGE W., Republican, of Murphysboro, Twenty-fifth district, was born in Putnam county, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1846; his father removed to Wayne county, Ill.. in 1850; learned blacksmithing, educated at McKendree college and Bloomington (Ind.) University, graduating in 1870; admitted to the bar the same year and since has practiced in Murphysboro; was Republican elector in 1880; was elected to Congress in 1888-90-92-94-96-98 1900-02-04.