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in the practice of law and in literary work, but still retaining his citizen- ship in Mississippi. In 1892 he was again elected to Congress and served as the Representative of the Fourth District in the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses. In 1895 he announced as a candidate for the United States Senate as the successor to Senator James Z. George, who had declined re-election. In the campaign which followed Mr. . Money advocated the free coinage of silver, and at the January, 1896, session of the Legislature was elected for a six-year term, beginning in 1899, his principal opponents being John Allen, Robert Lowry and Charles E. Hooker. On August 14, 1897, Senator George died and Governor McLaurin appointed Mr. Money to succeed him, until the meeting of the Legislature in 1898. When the Legislature met in Janu- ary he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Senator George. Senator Money took his seat in the Senate December 7, 1897, and has served continuously since that time. His term expires March 3, 1911. He did not offer for re-election at the primary of August 1, 1907. His successor will be the Hon. John Sharp Williams, who is the senatorial nominee of the Democratic party. During his service in the House Mr. Money served on the important committees of Postoffices and Postroad (Ch.) and Foreign Affairs. In the Senate he is a member of the following commit- tees: Agriculture, Cuban Relations, Finance, Foreign Relations, Geo-
logical Survey, Railroads and Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, which are among the great committees of the Senate. Senator Money is a Democrat and is a member of the Masonic and Delta Psi fraternities. He was married November 5, 1863, to Claudia Boddie at Ellislie plantation, Hinds County, Mississippi, the daughter of George
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and Louisa (Clark) Boddie, and a descendant of Nathan Boddie of Essex County, England, who came to Virginia and represented that colony in the Provisional Congress in 1774. Mrs. Money died in October, 1907, at Mississippi City, Mississippi, and is buried at Carrollton, Mississippi. The family of Senator Money now living are George Pierson, Hernan De Vaux, Mabel (Money) Kitchen and Lillian (Money) Read. The oldest daughter of the family, Claudia (Money) Hill, wife of Hon. W. S. Hill, Congressman from the Fourth Mississippi District, died in New Orleans in February, 1903. In 1905 Senator Money made his home on the Coast at Mississippi City, where he now resides. In the Senate he is ranked by his associates as one of the most learned and versatile Senators in the National Congress.
ANSELM JOSEPH M'LAURIN.
Anselm Joseph McLaurin, of Brandon, United States Senator from Mississippi, was born March 26, 1848, at Brandon, Miss. He is the son of Lauchlin McLaurin and wife, Ellen Caroline Tullus. His paternal ancestors immigrated to America from Scotland; maternal from Wales. John London, his maternal great-grandfather, was a solider of the Revo- lution and took part in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. His father represented Smith County in the State Legislature in 1841, 1861, 1865 and 1875. When an infant the parents of Senator McLaurin removed to Smith County, where he was reared on a farm; attended the neighborhood schools of that county under the instruction of R. M. Currie, Noah Derrick, James Stingley, B. F. Lane, Margaret Chrisman, James Cowart and James Holiday and Thomas Fore, in Rankin County, until he was sixteen years of age, when he joined the Confederate Army and served as a private soldier in the Third Mississippi Cavalry, enlisted in August, 1864. After the war he entered the Summerville Institute and continued through the Junior year; studied law at home at night, after work hours; was licensed to practice law by Judge John Watts, July 3, 1868; located at Raleigh, Smith County, Miss., for the practice of his profession the first Monday in October, 1868; practiced there until March, 1876, at which date he removed to Brandon, Miss. He was elected District Attorney in November, 1871; elected to the House of Representatives from Rankin County in November, 1879; was elector from the State at large in 1888; delegate from Rankin County to the Constitutional Convention of 1890; elected United States Senator Feb- ruary 7, 1894, to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Edward C. Wal- thall, resigned; elected Governor in November, 1895, for a term of four years, beginning January 21, 1896, and ending January 16, 1900: re- elected to the United States Senate January 16, 1900, and took his seat March 4, 1901; re-elected January 20, 1904, for a term of six years, to begin March 4, 1907. Senator McLaurin has always been a loyal Democrat and has served as Chairman of County and Congressional Democratic Executive Committees. He is a member and steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; is a Royal Arch Mason, Knight of Honor,
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Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the World. He was married at Trenton, Miss., February 22, 1870, to Laura Elvira Victoria Rauch, daughter of John Rauch and wife, Epsilon Rauch, of Trenton, Miss. Mrs. McLaurin's paternal ancestors immigrated to America from Ger- many; maternal from England and Germany; her father, John Rauch, was a scholarly theologian. Senator and Mrs. McLaurin have had born to them ten children, seven of whom are living: Stella (McLaurin) Berry, Delta (McLaurin) McLaurin, Daisy (McLaurin) Stevens, Irene (McLaurin) Pate, Anselm Joseph, Jean Wallace and Laura Rauch; they have lost three daughters: Laura Fostina, Sallie C. and Mary Louise (who died at the age of seventeen after graduating with first honors). As a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1890, Senator McLaurin advocated the disfranchisement of wife-beaters, the insertion of a provision requiring. the payment of a pension of at least seventy-five dollars a year to all disabled, needy Confederate soldiers, the election of the judiciary by popular vote, and in a message to the Legislature made the first recom- mendation for the establishment of a textile school for the A. and M. College. His term of service will expire March 3, 1913. Senator McLaurin is a member of the following important Senate Committees: Civil Service and Retrenchment, Claims, Immigration, Indian Depredations, Interstate Commerce, Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments, and Public Lands. Senator McLaurin is an able and faithful advocate of the best interests of the people.
REPRESENTATIVES.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Counties-Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktib- beha, Prentiss and Tishomingo. (Nine counties.)
Population 1900-187,739.
EZEKIEL SAMUEL CANDLER.
Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr., of Corinth, Representative in Congress from the First Mississippi District, was born at Bellville, Hamilton County, Florida, January 18, 1862. He is the son of Ezekiel Samuel Cand- ler and wife, Julia Bevill Candler. Mr. Candler is a descendant of Wil- liam Candler, who was a Colonel in the Army of the Revolution, and the ancestor of the Candler family of Georgia, which has been prominently identified with the history of that State from 1776 to the present time. His parents removed to Tishomingo County, Miss., when he was eight years old. He attended the Iuka Male Academy; entered the law depart- . ment of the University of Mississippi and was graduated June 30, ISSI, with the degree of LL. B .; began the practice of law at Iuka, Miss., July 1, 1881, with his father, under the firm name of Candler & Candler, which partnership still exists; removed to Corinth, Miss., January 1, 1887, where
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he has since resided; was Presidential Elector for the First Congressional District in 1888 on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket; was elected to Congress November 6, 1900, as the successor to "Private" John M. Allen, and re-elected in November, 1902, 1904 and 19c6. Mr. Candler is a Democrat, and has always been a strict party man; has given active and faithful service on County and District Executive Committees; is a mem- ber and deacon of the Baptist Church, and was for nine years moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist Association; is superintendent of the Sunday- school at Corinth; Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias; is alternate Supreme Representative in the Domain of Mississippi of the last named order. Mr. Candler was married at Cherokee, Ala., April 26, 1883, to Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood, daughter of Thomas B. and Susan Hazle- wood, of Town Creek, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Candler have three children: Julia Bevill, Susan Hazlewood and Lucia Alice. Mr. Candler was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress without opposition, receiving 3,245 votes. He was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses without opposition, and is a member of the Committees on Agriculture, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic and Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Counties-Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah and Union. (Nine counties.)
Population 1900-183,795.
THOMAS SPIGHT.
Thomas Spight, of Ripley, Representative in Congress from the Second District, was born October 25, 1841, near Ripley, Miss. He is the son of James Munford Spight and wife, Mary Rucker Spight; his maternal ancestors came to America from Ireland; Richard D. Speight, his paternal ancestor, was a delegate from North Carolina to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States. Captain Spight was reared on a farm in Tippah County, Miss., and attended the common schools and Ripley Male Academy; entered Lagrange College, Tennessee, in 1859; left college in 1861 and enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private; became Lieutenant and Captain of Company B, Thirty-fourth Mississippi Regiment, before he was twenty years old, being the youngest officer of that rank in the famous Walthall's Brigade, which was com- manded by the late distinguished Senator from Mississippi; participated in nearly all the battles fought by the Army of Tennessee; he was severely wounded July 22, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia; was in command of what was left of the Thirty-fourth Mississippi Regiment in April, 1865, when he surrendered with the army under General Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, North Carolina; taught school after the war; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Ripley, Miss., in 1874, and has been in active practice since that time; represented Tippah County in the Legis- lature from 1874 to 1880, and took a prominent part in the impeachment
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of Adelbert Ames; was Presidential Elector on the Hancock ticket in 1880; elected District Attorney for the Third Judicial District in 1884, and filled that position until 1892, when he voluntarily retired; was elected to Congress from the Second District June 1, 1898, and has served continuously from that date to the present time. Captain Spight is a Democrat and has been a prominent member of the State Democratic Executive Committee. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has served as clerk of his Church and Association, and superintendent of the Sunday-school; is a Knight of Honor; was married near Ripley, Miss., December 12, 1865, to Mary Virginia Barnett, daughter of Albert G. and Frances A. Barnett, of Tippah County. Mrs. Spight died May 21, 1901, and on October 15, 1903, Captain Spight was again married to Mrs. Thida Duncan Moore. By the first marriage there are six children, viz .: Mattie (Spight) Hines, Mamie V., Lynn D., Allie F., Henry R. and Lillian Spight. Captain Spight was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and is a member of the Committees on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and War Claims.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Counties-Bolivar, Coahoma, Holmes, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tunica and Washington. (Ten counties.)
Population 1900-232, 174.
BENJAMIN GRUBB HUMPHREYS.
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, of Greenville, Representative in Con- gress from the Third District, was born at Lucknow Plantation, Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865. He is the son of Benjamin Grubb Hum- phreys and wife, Mildred Hickman Maury. . His ancestors came to Missis- sippi from Virginia and Tennessee. Ralph Humphreys, his paternal great- grandfather, was Colonel of a Virginia regiment in the Army of the Amer- ican Revolution. He is also a descendant of James Wilson, of Pennsyl- vania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The father of the subject of this sketch was Brigadier-General Benjamin Grubb Humphreys of the Confederate Army, and Governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, when he was forcibly ejected from the executive residence by Federal sol- diers under the command of Brigadier-General Adelbert Ames, U. S. A., who succeeded him as military Governor. His mother is a member of the Maury family of Tennessee. Mr. Humphreys attended the public schools and the Lexington High School under the instruction of Professor G. W. Smith; entered the University of Mississippi in ISSo, and received a department diploma in 1884, having completed the Junior year; took first Phi Sigma medal in IS82; studied law at the University of Missis- sippi in 1891, but was not graduated. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, first as clerk and afterwards as a traveling salesman; engaged in the mer- cantile business from 1887 to 1891; was admitted to the bar in November, 1891; appointed Superintendent of Education of Leflore County in Janu-
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ary, 1892, for a term of four years; was selected messenger by the Presi- dential Electors in 1892 to deliver the electoral vote of Mississippi; elected District Attorney for the Fourth Circuit Court District of Mississippi in 1895 for a term of four years, and was re-elected without opposition in 1899. When war was declared against Spain in 1898, Mr. Humphreys raised a company at Greenwood, Miss., and was elected First Lieutenant, and offered to resign his office of District Attorney in order to join the army, but Governor A. J. McLaurin declined to accept his resignation and gave him instead a leave of absence; served in the Second Mississippi . Volunteer Infantry at Panama, Florida, under General Fitzhugh Lee; was a candidate for Congress in 1900; defeated by Hon. Patrick Henry; in 1902 was nominated without opposition in the Democratic primary and elected in November without opposition to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Mr. Humphreys is a Democrat; member and deacon of the Presbyterian Church; is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, Knight of Honor and Woodman of the World. Mr. Humphreys was married at Biloxi, October 9, 1889, to Louise Yerger, daughter of Major William Yerger and wife, Lucy Green, of Greenville, Miss. Mrs. Humphreys is a descendant of Judge William Yerger of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals. Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys have two children, William Yerger and Mildred Maury. Mr. Humphreys was elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and is a member of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Counties-Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Gre- nada, Montgomery, Pontotoc, Webster and Yalobusha. (Eleven coun- ties.)
Population 1900-199,650.
WILSON SHEDRIC HILL.
Wilson Shedric Hill, of Winona, Representative in Congress from the Fourth District, was born January 19, 1863, in Choctaw County, Miss .; was educated in the common schools of that section of the State; attended the University of Mississippi; studied law at Comberland University, Leb- anon, Tenn .; began its practice at Winona, Miss., in 1884, where he has since resided; was elected to the House of Representatives from Mont- gomery County in 1887, and served one term; elected District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District in 1891, and re-elected without opposition in 1895, and again in 1899; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress Novem- ber 3, 1902, without opposition for nomination or election. Mr. Hill is a loyal Democrat; member of the Methodist Church, Mason, Odd Fellow, Woodman of the World and Knight of Honor. For the past fifteen years Mr. Hill has been prominent in the public affairs of Mississippi and has given faithful and efficient service to the people. He was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and is a member of the following committees: Expenditures in the Interior Department, Postoffice and Postroads.
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FIETH DISTRICT.
· Counties-Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, New- ton, Scott, Smith and Winston. (Ten counties.)
Population 1900 -- 183,066.
ADAM MONROE BYRD.
Adam Monroe Byrd, of Philadelphia, Representative in Congress from the Fifth District, was born July 6, 1859, in Sumpter County, Alabama. He is the son of John Byrd and wife, Elizabeth Tann Byrd. His paternal ancestors removed from Georgia to Alabama; maternal from Indiana to the same State. Alfred Tann, his grandfather, was from Indiana, and served with General William Henry Harrison in his campaign against Tecumseh and participated in the battle of Tippecanoe, and afterwards became one of the pioneer settlers of Western Alabama. The father of the subject of this sketch was a soldier of the Confederacy and died in the service. Mr. Byrd attended the common schools of Neshoba County until twenty-one years old; entered Hiwassee College, Tennessee, for one year; attended Cooper Institute at Daleville, Miss., for three years, leaving that institution six months before graduation; entered the law school of Cum- berland University, Tennessee, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of LL. B. in June, 1884; admitted to the bar; began the practice of law at Philadelphia, Miss., where he now resides; was Superintendent of Education of Neshoba County in 1887, 1888 and 1889; was State Sen- ator from 1889 to 1895; elected to the House of Representatives from Neshoba County in November, 1895; District Attorney in 1896; Chan- cellor from 1897 to 1903; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress in Novem- ber, 1902. Mr. Byrd is a Democrat, Methodist and Mason, having taken the Shriner's degree; has been twice married, first to Maggie Simmons, December 16, 1887, who died in August, 1898; married second time to Mary R. Gulley, daughter of James A. Gulley and wife, Leola Gulley, of Meridian, Miss. Mr. Byrd has two children by his first marriage, Annie Kate and Eddie Lee, and two by his second marriage, Lena Elizabeth and Adam Monroe, Jr. Mr. Byrd was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Six- tieth Congresses and is a member of the following committees: Elections No. 2, Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Public Lands.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Counties-Covington, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Simpson, Wayne, Lamar and Jefferson Davis. (Fifteen counties.)
Population 1900-152,440.
EATON JACKSON BOWERS.
Eaton Jackson Bowers, of Bay St. Louis, Representative in Congress from the Sixth District, was born June 17, 1865, at Canton, Madison Coun-
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ty, Miss. He is the son of Eaton Jackson Bowers and wife, Sallie Lee. Dinkins. His ancestors came originally from North Carolina. The father of the subject of this sketch was a native of North Carolina; during his childhood his parents removed to Hardeman County, Tennessee, where he was reared; was graduated from the Transylvania University at Lex- ington, Kentucky; studied law in the office of Judge J. W. C. Watson at Holly Springs, Miss .; enlisted in the Confederate Army; was a Lieuten- ant in the Madison Rifles; served with Generals Van Dorn and W. H. Jackson until the close of the war. Mr. Bowers attended the schools of Canton, Miss., under the instruction of Mrs. Lou Slover and Mrs. Ann Webster; entered the Mississippi Military Institute at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1879 and continued studies until 1881; leaving school at the age of fifteen, he found employment as writer, or assistant, in the Chancery Clerk's office of Madison County; after serving in that office for a short time he was engaged in bookkeeping in Grenada and Canton until April 13, 1883; studied law in the office of Judge J. W. Downs, at Canton, Miss., for three months; was admitted to the bar April 8, 1883, at the age of seventeen years; located in Canton, Miss., for the practice of his profes- sion and remained until August, 1884, when he removed to Bay St. Louis, Miss., and formed a partnership with Col. Ben Lane Posey; was Presi- dential Elector on the Democratic ticket for the Sixth District in 1888; was appointed in 1892 by Judge Niles of the Federal Court, Attorney for the Receiver of the G. & S. I. R. R., and was thereafter general counsel for the company until December 31, 1905, when he resigned; was Presi- dential Elector from the State at large in 1892 and 1896; elected to the State Senate from the First District in 1885, and served one term of four years ;· elected to the House of Representatives from Hancock County in 1899; nominated for Congress in 1902, over W. H. Hardy, of Perry Coun- ty, and E. M. Barber, of Harrison County, and elected without opposition November 3, 1902. Mr.' Bowers is a Democrat and has been active in party affairs as a member of County and State Executive Committees. He is a member, trustee and steward of the Methodist Church; is a Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Elk and Owl. He was married at Bay St. Louis, Miss., September 3, 1888, to Tallulah Gaines Posey, daughter of Ben Lane Posey and wife, Fannie B. Posey, of Bay St. Louis. Mrs. Bowers' father was a member of the famous "Palmetto Regiment," from South Carolina, in the war with Mexico, and com- manded the company from Mobile, Ala., known as the "Red Eagles," in the Confederate Army. Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have four children; Eaton Jackson, Posey Ridgely, Sallie Zoe and Samuel Holloway. Mr. Bowers · was Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of . 1906. He was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and is a member of the Committees on Public Buildings and Grounds and Ventilation and Acoustics.
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SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Counties-Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Ein- coln, Pike and Wilkinson. (Nine counties.)
· Population 1900-211,521.
FRANK ALEXANDER M'LAIN.
Frank Alexander McLain, of Gloster, Representative in Congress from the Seventh District, was born January 29, 1852, on a farm near Liberty, Amite County, Miss. He is the son of Enoch Bateman McLain and wife, Nancy Berryhill McLain. His ancestors immigrated to America from Scotland and settled in Robeson County, North Carolina, in 1776; removed to Tennessee in 1803, and from thence to Amite County, Miss., in 1812. The father of the subject of this sketch was a soldier of the Confederate Army in the cavalry under General Forrest; is a planter and merchant. Mr. McLain attended the public schools of Amite County; in 1879 was a student at Woodlawn Institute in East Felicianna Parish, La., under the instruction of Rev. Mr. Relyea and Rev. Samuel H. Hayden; entered the University of Mississippi and was graduated from that institution in June, 1874, with the A. B. degree; was a teacher in the public schools of the State from 1875 to 1879, and studied law during that period; obtained license to practice law in September, 1879, at Liberty, Miss., and located there for the practice; remained until 1885, at which time he removed to Gloster, Miss .; was elected to the House of Representatives from Amite County in 1881 for a term of two years; was elected District Attorney for his Judicial District in 1883, in which capacity he served three consecutive terms of four years each, beginning in January, 1884, and ending January, 1896; was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1890 as Floater Representative from Amite and Pike Counties; retired voluntarily from the office of District Attorney January 1, 1896, and resumed the practice of law at Gloster, Miss .; was unanimously nominated by the Executive Com- mittee and elected without opposition, receiving every vote cast, to fill out the unexpired term in the Fifty-fifth Congress of William Franklin Love. who died October 17, 1889; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congress and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress without opposition. Mr. McLain is a Democrat; member of the Methodist Church and Knight of Pythias; was married at Magnolia, Miss., March 6, 1879, to Fannie Ann Tyler, daughter of William G. Tyler and wife, Lindsay Connally, of Tylertown, Miss. Mrs. McLain died at Washington, D. C., March 13, 1900. Mr. McLain has three children: Mary (McLain) Hines, Enoch Bateman and William Tyler; was married at Gloster, Miss., to Sarah Elizabeth Conerly, April 17, 1907. He was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and is a member of the Committee on District of Columbia and Pensions.
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