to the bar in 1857. He was elected clerk of the courts of Ashtabula county in 1857, and served six years. Settled in Minnesota in 1869, and in Duluth, February, 1870, where he followed the practice of law until his appointment as judge, April, 1889. He has held the offices of county attorney for St. Louis county, member of city council and mayor of Duluth, and member of board of education.

WILLIAM A. CANT (Republican) was born at Westfield, Marquette county, Wisconsin, Dec. 23, 1863. Came to Minnesota in 1881; settled in Duluth in April, 1886; was elected a member of the house of representatives in 1894, city attorney of Duluth in 1895, and judge of the district court in 1896. Was educated in the common schools of his native state, the St. Cloud State Normal School of Minnesota, and the University of Michigan.

HOMER B. DIBELL (Republican) was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, forty years ago; graduated from the University of Indiana in 1889, and from the Northwestern University law school, of Chicago, in 1890; was admitted to the bar in October of the same year. Judge Dibell has been a practicing attorney in Duluth for a number of years. Term as district judge began January, 1900. He is married.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

GORHAM POWERS (Republican) was born in Pittsfield, Somerset county, Maine. He received a common school and academic education; settled in Minnesota in 1866; enlisted as a private Feb. 2, 1862, Fourth Maine Battery Light Artillery; commissioned lieutenant in Thirteenth United States Colored Heavy Artillery, August, 1864; discharged October, 1865. Graduated from Albany Law School, 1866; practiced law in Minneapolis two years, then located at Granite Falls; held the office of county attorney of Yellow Medicine county seven years; in 1879 was a member of the legislature; appointed judge by Governor Merriam, February, 1890; elected same year.

G. E. QVALE (Republican) was born at Haugesund, Norway, forty-four years ago; came to the United States in October, 1878; settled in Minnesota the following year; admitted to the bar July, 1882; practiced law in Willmar until appointed judge in 1897; elected in 1898; was judge of probate six years, and county attorney four years, of Kandiyohi county. Mr. Qvale resides at Willmar.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

P. E. BROWN (Republican) was born in Wisconsin; educated at the University of Wisconsin and Albany Law School. He is forty-four years of age, married and resides at Luverne. He was appointed judge of district court by Governor Merriam Feb. 25, 1891.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.

WILLIAM WATTS (Republican) was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, in 1850; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in 1877; came to Minnesota in 1878; resides at Crookston; has held the offices of city attorney, county attorney, president of the city council, and a member of the board of education. Elected judge 1898. He is married.

ANDREW GRINDELAND (Republican) is by profession a lawyer, residing at Warren, Marshall county, Minn. He was born in Winnesheik county, Iowa, forty-eight years ago.. He graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa in 1882, and settled in Minnesota July of the same year. He is married, and has held the office of judge of probate of Marshall county. Served as senator from the Sixty-third district, 1889 to 1903. Appointed judge of the district court, Fourteenth district, March 24, 1903.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.

WILLIAM S. MCCLENAHAN (Republican) was born in Baltimore, Md., June 19, 1854; was graduated (A. B.) from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1875, and from the law department of the University of Maryland (LL. B.) in 1880; practiced law in Baltimore until October, 1882, when he came to Brainerd, where he has resided and practiced law ever since; held the office of city attorney of Brainerd from March, 1888, until November, 1900; has held no other office prior to his election to the office he now holds; still resides at Brainerd.

MARSHALL A. SPOONER (Republican) was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 18, 1858. Graduated from Hughes College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1876, and later studied law. In 1878 began active practice of law in Cincinnati. Located at Moorhead, Minn., in 1882, and in 1885 removed to Minneapolis. He has resided and practiced law at Bemidji since the spring of 1902. Was appointed judge of the district court, Fifteenth district, March, 1903.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.

STEPHEN A. FLAHERTY (Republican) was born in Sheboygan, Wis., on April 11, 1855. He was educated at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., and at the State University of Minnesota. In 1881 he located at Morris, and was there admitted to the bar in 1882. He was for many years county attorney of Stevens county, and resigned that office in 1895 upon moving to Minneapolis. After one year's residence in that city he located in Litchfield, and in the spring of 1899 returned to Morris, where he now lives.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.

JAMES H. QUINN (Republican) was born in Kilbourn City, Wis., June 23, 1857; came to Minnesota, locating in Blue Earth county, June, 1864; has practiced law ever since twenty-four years of age; was elected county attorney of Faribault county five terms; resigned when appointed judge in March, 1897. Mr. Quinn is married and resides at Fairmont, Minn.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.

ARTHUR E. GIDDINGS (Republican) was born in Anoka, Oct. 2, 1860. He is a graduate of the State University, and took a full course at the university law school. He has been city attorney of Anoka for two terms, and county attorney of Anoka county. Mr. Giddings is married and resides at Anoka. First term began 1899.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

SENATORS.

KNUTE NELSON (Republican) of Alexandria was born in Norway, Feb. 2, 1843. He came to the United States in July, 1849, resided in Chicago, Ill., until the fall of 1850, when he removed to the state of Wisconsin, and from there to the state of Minnesota in July, 1871. He was a private and non-commissioned officer in the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment during the War of the Rebellion, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port Hudson, La., on the 14th day of June, 1863. He was admitted to the bar as a practicing attorney in the spring of 1867; was a member of the assembly in the Wisconsin legislature in 1868 and 1869; was county attorney of Douglas county, Minnesota, in 1872, 1873 and 1874; was state senator in 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878; was presidential elector in 1880; was a member of the board of regents of the State University from Feb. 1, 1882, to Jan. 1, 1893; was a member of the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses for the Fifth district of Minnesota; was elected governor of Minnesota in the fall of 1892; re-elected as governor in the fall of 1894, and was elected United States senator for Minnesota on the 23d day of January, 1895, and reclected Jan. 23, 1901.

MOSES E. CLAPP (Republican) was born at Delphi, Ind., in 1851; parents removed to Hudson, Wis., in 1857; attended common school and graduated from Wisconsin Law School in 1873; commenced the practice of law at New Richmond, Wis., in 1873; removed to Hudson, Wis., in 1875; removed to Fergus Falls, Minn., in June, 1881; was elected attorney general in the fall of 1886, again in the fall of 1888, and again in the fall of 1890; removed to St. Paul, Minn., in the spring of 1891. Elected to the United States senate Jan. 23, 1901, to fill the unexpired term of the late Cushman K. Davis. Re-elected, 1905.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

JAMES A. TAWNEY (Republican) was born near Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1855; is married and resides at Winona, having