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FRANCIS KING,
Senator from the twenty-fifth district, comprising the counties of Gratiot, Isabella and Mecosta counties, was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 1863, of English parents. He attended public and private schools in that city, later graduating from Williams college; came to Alma, Michigan, in 1902, and has since been actively identified with the city's growth. He was twice elected mayor, twice president of the board of trade, at present a member of the city school board, trustee of Alma college, director and second vice-president of the First State Bank and financially interested in the large manufac- turing interests of Alma and he has in every case proved his worth as a public official and successful business man. For two years he served as a member of the State Forestry Commission and represented the eleventh congressional district in the Republican national convention in 1908. Mr. King is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,285 to 4,524 for Frank L. Convis and 244 for James C. Harrison.
JAMES E. MCGREGOR,
Senator from the twelfth district, comprising the counties of Oakland and Washtenaw, was born at Landreth, Ontario, August 12, 1858, of Scotch parents. He was educated in the grammar schools and at business college. Mr. McGregor is married and has three sons and one daughter. His residence is Ypsilanti, where he is engaged in the retail dry goods business. He has held various offices as follows: City clerk, three years; member board of public works, three years; member of park commission, three years; chairman board of county auditors, three years, and probate register. He is a Democrat, and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 8,021 to 7,980 for Frank L. Covert, 371 for John Harper, 208 for George M. Campbell, 125 for Clarence J. Tinker and 5,348 for Otto A. Stoll.
THOMAS H. McNAUGHTON,
Senator from the seventeenth district, comprising every township of Kent county. and the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth wards of Grand Rapids, was born May i, 1861, on his father's farm in Ada township, Kent county, Michigan. His education was acquired in the public schools of the township. He has been master of Kent Pomona eight years; a member of the executive committee of the State Grange eight years, and recently reelected for two more years. He is now president of Kent county farmers' institute. He has been a member of the legislative committee of the State Grange for three years, and for nine years a member of the Ada high school board. Mr. McNaughton is a Republican and has always been active in the political affairs of the state and county. He was elected to the legislature of 1909-10 and reelected November 8, 1910, serving two terms in the house of representatives from the second representative district of Kent county. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,105 to 4,904 for William H. Molloy, 307 for Charles A. Johnson, 782 for John S. Kates and 4,473 for Oscar W. Braman.
JAMES ALFRED MURTHA,
Senator from the second district of Wayne county, was born at Flatbush, Long Island, New York, September 3, 1870, and was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and at Larchmere academy and Columbia University. Since 1891 he has been engaged in the practice of law. He is single and has resided in Michigan about nine years. He was a presidential elector for the third congressional district of New York on the Palmer and Buckner Gold Democrat ticket and was also a Democratic candidate for Congress from the above-named district. Mr. Murtha is a Democrat and was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 3,634 to 2,686 for Joseph Gardulski, 2,302 for August Cyrowski, 42 for George Suttie and 433 for Louis Erb.
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SAMUEL ODELL,
Senator from the twenty-sixth district, comprising the counties of Lake, Manistee, Mason, Newaygo and Oceana, was born at Shelby, Michigan, August 30, 1881, of English descent. He acquired his education in the schools of Detroit, and the University of Michigan. He has always been a resident of Michigan, and has been engaged in business at Shelby since 1902. He is a Republican, was supervisor of Shelby township two terms, was elected to the legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 7,088 to 2,155 for Richard E. Southwick, 2,789 for Lee A. Lewis and 27 for Frank A. Noyes.
ROBERT Y. OGG,
Senator from the fourth district of Wayne county, comprising the eighth, tenth, twelfth and fourteenth wards of the city of Detroit, was born in the town of Dundas, Ontario, July 22, 1860, of Scotch parentage. His education was acquired in the common schools and the composing room and editorial room of the daily newspaper was his alma mater. He began his business career as a newsboy and learned the printer's trade. He was subsequently newspaper writer, public official and business man, at present occupying offices in the Majestic building, Detroit, as manufacturers' representative for paving materials. He was married to Miss Susie M. McCarthy in 1888 and has lived in Detroit the best part of his life. He has always been active in Republican, Labor and Masonic circles. In 1886 he was elected to the house of representatives, being the youngest member of that body. Twenty-two years later, in 1908, he was elected to the house of representatives and was reelected in 1910. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,885 to 4,797 for Thomas W. Thompson, 5,365 for Thomas H. S. Schooley, 141 for Brock C. Eby and 565 for Arthur E. Purdon.
HERBERT E. POWELL,
Senator from the eighteenth district, comprising the counties of Ionia and Montcalm, was born in Ronald township, Ionia county, Michigan, April 27, 1866, and is of American descent. He received his schooling in the district schools and the Ionia high school. In 1887 he assumed the management of his father's farm, part of which, with other purchases, he now owns, giving special attention to raising stock and the breeding of Shropshire sheep. He was married in 1888 to A. May Waterbury, and they have two sons and one daughter. Mr. Powell is a stockholder and director of the National Bank of Ionia, president of the Ionia Hardware Company, and is in many ways identified with the commercial interests of the county. He is a Republican and was a member of the legislatures of 1901-2 and 1903-4 and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,825 to 4,363 for Salem F. Kennedy, 418 for Nikolay Rosendal and 3,213 for John Butler.
WILLIAM A. ROSENKRANS,
Senator from the fourteenth district, comprising the counties of Ingham and Shiawassee, was born at Flint, Michigan, March 25, 1864, of American parents. His education was acquired in the Pinckney, Byron and Corunna high schools, graduating from the latter in 1884. He immediately secured a clerkship in the then First National Bank, now the Old Corunna State Bank, and has been with the institution ever since, having served as its cashier since 1894. Mr. Rosenkrans is also connected with other financial institutions, being vice-president of The State Savings Bank of Owosso, Michigan, and the Bank of New Lothrop, Michigan. He was married in 1891 to Hattie E. Harper, daughter of Judge A. A. Harper. Mr. Rosenkrans has filled many places of trust in his city and state. He was mayor of the city of Corunna for four successive terms, member of the board of education of Corunna for fifteen years and in 1897 was appointed by Governor Warner a member of the board of control of the Industrial School for Boys which position he resigned upon his election to the senate. Mr. Rosenkrans is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Order of Elks. He is a Republican and
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was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,809 to 6,114 for Cyrenius P. Black, 539 for Floyd Gorsline, 769 for Ed. McAfee and 6,440 for Fred C. Holbeck.
FRANK D. SCOTT,
Senator from the twenty-ninth district, comprising the counties of Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Montmorency, Otsego and Presque Isle, was born at Alpena, Michigan, August 25, 1878, of Scotch parentage. His education was acquired in the Alpena high school. In 1901 he graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, and has since practiced law. He served as circuit court commissioner one term; was prosecuting attorney 1904 to 1908; city attorney, 1902-3, and again in 1909, and is at present holding this position. June 21, 1901, he was appointed United States Commissioner for the Eastern District of Michigan which position he still holds. Mr. Scott is single and has always resided in Michigan. He is a past master of the F. and A. M., and a member of the Odd Fellows and the Elks. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 7,399 to 4,474 for John E. Martin and 196 for Douglas Tallady.
GEORGE G. SCOTT,
Senator from the fifth district of Wayne county, was born at Detroit, Michigan, Septem- ber 16, 1874, and is of Scotch descent. He is the son of Rev. John P. Scott, deceased, former pastor of the Second avenue Presbyterian church of Detroit. He received his education at the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, graduating from the scientific and business departments, and later graduating from the law department of the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bar of Ohio as well as of Michigan and is now engaged in the practice of law with offices at 713 Ford building, Detroit. He was married to Miss Hattie A., daughter of Otto and Johanna Krause, June 5, 1907, and has two sons,-Gifford G., age four years, and Milton, age one year. Mr. Scott is a Republican and represented the fourth district of Wayne county in the legislature of 1905-6 and the first district in 1907-8 and was elected to the senate of 1909-10 and 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 4,811 to 3,976 for John C. Cahalan, Jr., 4,393 for Ari E. Woodruff, 147 for William S. Lathers and 402 for W. A. Schnau.
WILLIAM M. SMITH,
Senator from the fifteenth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Barry, Clinton and Eaton, was born in Bath township, Clinton county, Michigan, on April 27, 1870, of Irish parentage. His parents, James M. and Hannah Smith, were born and married in Ireland, coming to America during the Civil war. They resided for a time in the state of New York, and afterwards came to Bath township, where James M. Smith engaged in farming. Both his parents died within one year, when Mr. Smith was fifteen years of age. At seventeen he began teaching in the district schools of Clinton county, his last work as a public school teacher being as principal of the schools of the village of DeWitt. In the meantime he had studied privately and in summer schools, and at the Michigan Agricultural College and University of Michigan, and had been granted a state teacher's life certificate by the state board of education, and
had also been admitted to the bar. During 1895 and 1896 he taught in the village of DeWitt, and also practiced law; in the fall of 1896 he was elected county clerk of Clinton county, serving two terms; in the fall of 1900 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Clinton county, serving three terms. He has also been city attorney of St. Johns. Mr. Smith was a Republican presidential elector in 1904, and a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1912. He served from 1906 to 1910 as a member of the Repub- lican state central committee from the eighth congressional district. Since 1900 he has been exclusively engaged in the practice of law at St. Johns. He is a member of all the Masonic bodies, the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Grange, and other fraternal societies. He is a Republican, and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,860 to 6,291 for Dean W. Kelley and 4,484 for Eric E. Nies.
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HENRY E. STRAIGHT,
Senator from the ninth district, comprising the counties of Branch and Calhoun, was born on a farm in Coldwater township, Branch county, Michigan, December 26, 1864, of American descent. His education was acquired in the district schools, the college of Valparaiso, Indiana, and Ypsilanti Normal. He followed farming and school teach- ing for a few years and has held several township offices. Early in life he identified himself with grange and farmers' institute work, holding the office of worthy lecturer of Branch county pomona, and has for the past four years held the office of secretary and treasurer of the Branch county farmers' institute society. He was committee clerk in the senate in 1900. He is a member of Coldwater lodges B. P. O. E. and I. O. O. F. and was for six years a member of company A, second regiment, M. N. G. In 1899 he married Sarah B. Depue, and to them have been born three boys and two girls, all of whom are living. He is engaged in the clothing and gents' furnishing business in Coldwater. Mr. Straight has always been a Republican, he served two terms as county clerk of Branch county and was a representative in the state legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,357 to 5,934 for Isaac E. Corliss, 1,108 for Alexander A. Cannon and 5,383 for Frank Coward.
LEONARD D. VERDIER,
Senator from the sixteenth district, comprising the county of Kent, was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 19, 1877, of Holland descent. He received his education in the Grand Rapids high school, from which he was graduated in 1895. He also grad- uated from the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1899, and from the law department in 1901. Mr. Verdier has always resided in Michigan, is married, and has three children. Since 1901 he has practiced law at Grand Rapids. He is a Repub- lican and was a member of the legislature during the sessions of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,372 to 5,214 for Harry C. White, 168 for George Roelofs and 4,298 for Charles D. Sharrow.
ROBERT E. WALTER,
Senator from the twenty-seventh senatorial district, comprising the counties of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Missaukee and Wexford, was born at Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan, September 16, 1877, of English parentage. He was educated in the Fife Lake schools and the Traverse City high school. He is mar- ried and has always resided in Michigan. Mr. Walter participated in the Spanish- American war, serving with company M, 34th Michigan volunteer infantry. At the - age of twenty-one he was elected township clerk and at the age of twenty-two was elected county clerk which office he held five terms. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,031 to 3,742 for Emanuel Wilhelm, 1,193 for Neal D. Benson and 5,782 for George W. Wood.
GEORGE LEO WEADOCK,
Senator from the twenty-second senatorial district, comprising the county of Saginaw, was born at Saginaw, Michigan, February 9, 1881, of Irish-American parents. He was educated in the parochial and public schools of Saginaw, Notre Dame university and the law department of the University of Michigan. Mr. Weadock was in the real estate and insurance business for some time and since 1908 has practiced law. He is married and has always resided in Michigan. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,102 to 6,090 for Eugene A. Snow, 1,305 for Ed. Hartwick, 159 for J. George Fischer and 4,246 for John E. Ferris.
MILAN D. WIGGINS,
Senator from the eighth district, comprising the counties of Allegan and Van Buren, was born at Independence, Ohio, in 1846, of English parents. He was educated at
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Hiram and Oberlin colleges. His father died in 1850 and until 1865 he lived on a farm with his uncle. He taught school four years and was in the mercantile business until 1876. Mr. Wiggins is married and has been a resident of Michigan thirty-seven years. He represented the second district of Van Buren county in the state legislatures of 1889 and 1891 and held the office of supervisor for six years. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,674 to 3,980 for George W. Taylor and 1 for F. E. Miller.
CHARLES T. WINEGAR,
Senator from the thirty-first district, comprising the counties of Alger, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron and Marquette, was born at Escanaba, Michigan, July 28, 1878. He graduated from the Escanaba high school in 1893, and from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1904. In 1910, he was married to Alta W. Poppleton, of Detroit. Mr. Winegar has been engaged in the practice of law during the past nine years. He is a National Progressive and was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 6,659 to 6,383 for Michael H. Moriarty, 3,092 for John C. Wickstrom, 408 for Anton Larson and 1 scattering.
JAMES C. WOOD,
Senator from the thirtieth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Chippewa, Delta, Luce, Mackinac, Menominee and Schoolcraft, was born at Hastings, Michigan, March 31, 1872, and received his education in the Jackson public schools and at Lake Forest university. After his school life at Jackson he spent four years as a clerk in the store of J. B. Branch & Company, at Coldwater, Michigan, and in 1893 he entered the law department of Lake Forest university, from which he graduated in 1895. He entered practice of law in connection with law clerkship at Chicago, Illinois, later associating with George W. Hayden at Ishpeming, Michigan, in practice of law where he remained until Mr. Hayden's death in 1902. In November, 1902, he located at Manistique, where he has since practiced. He served as city attorney of Manistique for three terms and was also prosecuting attorney of Schoolcraft county. Mr. Wood is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate 'November 5, 1912, by a vote of 7,291 to 5,034 for Alvah L. Sawyer and 1 for Charles D. Symonds.
FRED LANGDON WOODWORTH,
Senator from the twentieth district, comprising the counties of Huron and Sanilac, was born at Caseville, Michigan, January 8, 1877, of Irish-English descent. He was married in March, 1902, to Miss Gertrude Lowe and has three children. His father, Thomas B. Woodworth, a Huron county lawyer, represented Huron county in the legislature of 1877. His ancestors came to America in 1628 and were in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. His oldest brother, Philip B., was professor of physics at the State Agricultural College in 1886-99, and is now professor of electrical engineering at Lewis Institute, Chicago. His brother Paul, is a lawyer at Bad Axe, Huron county, and was prosecuting attorney from 1901 to 1909. Mr. Woodworth graduated from the agricultural course at the State Agricultural College with the class of 1898. He has since been a farmer and stock raiser in Chandler township, Huron county. He is a Republican and served in the legislature during the sessions of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate November 5, 1912, by a vote of 5,711 to 2,745 for Burr B. Lincoln ..
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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE.
NOBLE ASHLEY,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Lincolnshire, England, on September 30, 1863, and located at the city of Detroit, Michigan, in 1880; followed the occupation of printing, and is at present engaged in fraternal insurance work. Mr. Ashley was married in 1888 and has three sons. He has always been a Republican, and is a member of a large number of fraternal societies, having held several important offices in the same. He has served his ward in the common council, his county on the board of supervisors, and his district in the state senate of 1905-6. He was a representative in the legislatures of 1903-4 and 1911-12, and was reelected Novem- ber 5, 1912, by a plurality of 3,504.
JOSEPH EDWARD BAYLISS,
Representative from Chippewa county, was born at Pakenham, Ontario, Canada, January 8, 1875, and received his education in the district and grammar schools. He came with his parents to Sault Ste. Marie in 1878, and has resided there ever since, with the exception of twenty months in Yukon and Alaska. He was married in 1900 to Estelle McLeod, of Sault Ste. Marie, and they have one boy, Clifton M. Mr. Bayliss entered county politics in 1908, when, with five candidates for sheriff, he received sixty-five per cent of the total vote of his home city in the primary and won over his Democratic opponent at the general election by over 1,250 majority. He was president of the local branch of the national letter carriers' association, Master of Bethel lodge No. 358, F. and A. M., also member of Chapter, Council and Commandery and Chancellor Commander of Red Cross Lodge No. 351, K. of P. He is also president of the Michigan association of sheriffs, chiefs of police and prosecuting attorneys. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,040 to 982 for Fred Green and 1 for L. C. Fletcher.
WILLIAM J. BIERD,
Representative from the second district of Bay county, was born at Carrollton, Saginaw county, Michigan, September 25, 1872, of American and Irish parentage. He received his early education in the public schools of Saginaw county and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1893. Located in Williams township in 1893 and since that time has been engaged in farming. Mr. Bierd is unmarried. He is a Republican and has held the offices of township clerk, township treasurer and supervisor and is now secretary of the board of education. He was elected to the legislatures of 1907-8, 1909-10, 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,321 to 1,018 for Mars Guindon and 1,118 for Heman Horton.
WILLIS FILLMORE BRICKER,
Representative from Ionia county, was born at Ada, Hardin county, Ohio, May 20, 1854, of Dutch and English descent. His education was acquired in the district schools. He came to Ionia county, Michigan, in 1867, locating in Boston township. For the past thirty-two years he has been engaged in the dry goods, bazaar and clothing business and owns and operates two large farms near Belding. Mr. Bricker has dealt extensively in Belding real estate, having built fourteen fine business buildings and over forty houses, all modern in every respect. He was elected alderman of Belding one term; mayor six times, and was representative in the state legislature of 1897-8. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 3,162 to 2,987 for Charles M. Ralston and 1,287 for Charles L. Kling.
FRANCIS X. BURKE,
Representative from the fourth district of Wayne county, was born in the township of Ecorce, Wayne county, in 1866, and was educated in the public schools of Detroit
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and Ecorse. His mother came from an old French family whose ancestors came to Detroit with Cadillac in 1701. Mr. Burke was postmaster at River Rouge during Grover Cleveland's second administration, and has served as justice of the peace of Ecorce township for five consecutive terms, holding that office at the present time. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,528 to 1,428 for Alexander J. Polk, 897 for George M. Adams and 36 for Paul Dinger.
WILLIAM R. BURNS,
Representative from the Schoolcraft district, comprising the counties of Alger, Luce, Mackinac and Schoolcraft, was born in Athens, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 15, 1872. Received his education in the Athens high school. He was united in marriage in 1902 to Elizabeth J. Lobb, of Negaunee, Michigan. Mr. Burns has served two terms as president of the village of Munising and has resided in Michigan for the past nine years. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1909-10 and was again elected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,282 to 1,781 for William P. Preston.
ASHMON H. CATLIN,
Representative from the second district of Ingham county, was born at Hudson, Lenawee county, Michigan, April 19, 1869, of Irish and French ancestry. He received his educa- tion in the district and public schools of Wayland. In 1881 he removed with his parents to Le Roy township, Ingham county, where he has since resided. Mr. Catlin is married and has three sons. He was elected president of the Webberville State Bank at their annual meeting in 1909 and holds the position at the present time. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Gleaners. He has held the office of township treasurer two years, and was supervisor for nine consecutive years, receiving his largest plurality at the last election for that office. In 1909 he was chairman of the board of supervisors of Ingham county. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,940 to 1,577 for Alfred Allen, 171 for Frank G. Marshall and 1,282 for Eli F. Allen.
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