JOSEPH E. PHILLIPS, Clearfield County, was born in Woodward township, Clearfield County, Pa.; educated in the public schools; is a graduate of the Excelsior Normal School at Mahaffey, and of the Lock Haven Normal School; attended Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, for one term; taught county school for eight years; remained on arm until thirty-five years of age; has been a lumberman, civil engineer, State road contractor and superintendent and has also been engaged in the mercantile business; is at prezent a general contractor; has always been interested in forestry, road building and protection of game; elected to the House of Representatives in 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

HAROLD CARTER PIKE, Montgomery County, was born in Cheltenham Village, Cheltenham township, Montgomery County, Pa., December 13, 1892; was educated in the public schools, graduating from the Cheltenham High School in 1910; at the age of fourteen years became a reporter on the Jenkintown Times Chronicle, a weekly newspaper, and a few years later became connected with several Philadelphia dailies, and has been doing considerable newspaper writing; a few days after passing his twenty-first birthday, was appointed secretary to the Commissioners of Cheltenham Township, and also secretary of the Health Board; is a member of the Republican Executive Committee of Montgomery County, and is a baseball enthusiast, being president of the Montgomery County and the Philadelphia Suburban Baseball Leagues, organizations composed of baseball teams in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties; is a member of the executive board of the Philadelphia Sporting Writers' Association; elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

ERNEST BECHTEL POSEY, Berks County, was born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., February 28, 1885; educated in the public schools of Reading and Stener's Business College; was cashier for the Bell Telephone Company, four years, timekeeper for a large contracting firm, two years, when the contractor's work was finished superintended the cleaning of the streets of Reading City, and is now engaged in the street cleaning contract business; has always taken an active interest in politics; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920. RICHARD SHAW QUIGLEY, Clinton County, was born at Blanchard, Centre County, Pa., December 25, 1886, and is the youngest son of Captain James A. Quigley, civil war veteran, and Mary Shaw Quigley; was graduated from Bellefonte Academy when fourteen years of age, and entered Pennsylvania State College in 1902; left college in his senior year and married Miss Dorothy Armstrong, of Lock Haven, Clinton County, December 2, 1905; was employed for two years by the B. F. Sturdevant Company, of Pittsburgh; has resided in Lock Haven since 1907; is a member of the board of directors of the New York and Pennsylvania Company; vice-president and secretary of the Lock Haven Auto Company; served as president of the Imperial Refining Company, from 1916 to 1918; is a director of the Chelsea Refining Company; was first captain and founder of Company K, Pennsylvania Reserve Militia, later, promoted to Major of 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, Pennsylvania Reserve Militia; elected in the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

HARRY L. RHOADS, Lancaster County, was born in Salisbury township, Lancaster County, Pa., October 1, 1864; was educated in the public schools; is engaged in the general merchandise business which he has conducted for twenty-nine years; is President of the First National Bank, at Intercourse; was a member of the Republican State Committee four years; served as delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1894; is one of the directors of the Lancaster Fair Association; elected to the House of Representatives in 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

IRWIN P. RICHARDS, Northampton County, was born at Black Horse Tavern, Williams township, Northampton County, Pa., June 9, 1864, and is the son of the late William and Mary E. Moyer Richards; educated in the public schools and Trach's Academy, Easton; occupied as a farmer and hotel keeper, eighteen years, and as an auctioneer, forty years; in 1915, was elected sheriff of Northampton County, and served four years; for eight years has had charge of the mail-hauling service between the Easton Post Office and the railroad depots in Easton and Philipsburg, N. J.; is a member of the Elks, American-Mechanics, Red Men, Moose, Eagles and Equines; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

HOWARD FOX RIEDER, Westmoreland County, was born in Philadelphia, October 31, 1872; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia; about twenty-one years ago, located at New Kensington with the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, the first manufacturers of aluminum in this country is at present superintendent of the Tube and Extrusion Mills of the United States Aluminum Company, at New Kensington; served two terms as auditor and two terms in New Kensington Council; was elected to council in the Borough of Arnold, also appointed burgess; has always taken an active part in politics; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

ALBERT E. RINN, Lehigh County, was born at Easton, Northumberland County, Pa., June 6, 1864; removed to Allentown with his parents, where he attended public schools and business college; learned the printing trade, later became a traveling salesman; is at present engaged in farming; served as Chairman of the Democratic City Committee of Allentown, and for six years was deputy clerk of the Quarter Sessions; was elected justice of the peace of Upper Saucon township; elected to the House of Representatives in 1914, 1916 and 1918, having been endorsed by the Democratic and Republican parties; re-elected in November, 1920.

THOMAS G. ROMAN, Luzerne County, was born at Alden, Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., August 13, 1893; educated in the public schools, State Normal Schools, Fast Stroudsburg. and the Centre College of Kentucky; worked in the coal mines; enlisted in the U. S. Navy, and served as a captain's writer; has been engaged in teaching since 1914, and is at present principal to the schools of Newport Township; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

TITUS M. RUCH, Northampton County, was born in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pa., March 28, 1871; educated in the public schools; since 1000, has been engaged in the mercantile business: served as member also president of the Hellertown Town Council, a member of the school district fourteen years, secretary, eight years, president of the Northampton County School Directors Association, ten years, and mercantile appraiser of Northampton County in 1918; is a member of a number of fraternal organizations, also served as division commander of the Sons-of-Veterans in 1913; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

MICHAEL J. RUDDY, Lackawanna County, was born in Ireland, August 15, 1873; educated in public schools; came to United States in 1883; worked in breaker and mines until 1898, when he started in the hotel business in which he is still engaged; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

JOSEPH A. RUTH, Montgomery County, was born at Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa., April 20, 1877; educated in the public schools; is president of the Ruth Glass Company of Conshohocken; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

ADAM C. SCHAEFFER, Schuylkill County, was born at Cramberry, Luzerne County, Pa., June 21, 1881; moved to Mahanoy City in September, 1887, and attended the public schools from 1888 until May, 1895, when he entered the mines; in 1903, when twenty-one years of age, was defeated for office of chief burgess, and in 1906 was elected to that posi.ion and served for thre years; elected to the House of Representatives in 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

JOSEPH M. SCHILLING, Erie County, was born at Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pa., August 23, 1881; educated in the public schools; removed to Erie in 1903, where he was employed in the store of C. S. Marks and Company; served as a machinist apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops, and was foreman of repairs, five years; is at present secretary of the Fraternal Order of Eag.es in Erie, and deputy grand president for Western Pennsylvania; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

JOSEPH H. SCHWARTZ, Luzerne County, was born in New York City, July 20, 1860: graduated from the New York City public schools, and was admitted to College of the City of New York but, for financial reasons, was unable to finish the course; has resided at Plymouth since 1876; was engaged in active business there over forty years, retiring in 1919; is a son of a veteran of the Civil War; is one of the eight living charter members of Plymouth Fire Company No. 1, a director of the First National Bank of Plymouth, and on the Board of Trustees of the Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hospital of Wilkes-Barre; elected to the House of Representatives i November, 1920.

CHARLES A. SHAFFER, Columbia County, was born near Berwick, Columbia County, Pa.. September 24, 1867, and left an orphan at age of ten years, the eldest of five children: educated in the public schools and the Orangeville Academy, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Cellege of Embalming. Cincinnati, Ohio; received his early training on a farm and was later emploved in the mercantile business and then in the furniture and undertaking business; for the past thirty-three years has been commercial salesman for the undertaking profession and is a member of the Harrisburg Burial Case Company, wholesale manufacturers of undertaking goods, at Harrisburg; in Berwick, where he lives, is a director of one of the largest banking institutions, and one of the general officers of the United Evangelical Church; was a member of the PanamaPacific Exposition Commission; was elected by the Democratic Party to the House of Representatives in 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920. Was Democratic noninee for Speaker of the House, session of 1913.

WALTER R. SHANNON, Pike County, was born in Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pa., February 10. 1876; educated in the public schools of Pike County, after taking preparatory course, entered the Baltimore University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1897; since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Lackɛwaxea, Pa served one term on the School Board; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

JOHN H. SHELLENBERGER, Juniata County, was born in Fayette Township, Juniata County. Pa., July 30, 1873; reared on a farm; educated in the public schools and Juniata College: taught school ten consecutive years in Fayette Township; has been engaged in fruit growing since 1898; is director of the Farmers' National Bank, of McAlisterville, and director and secre tary of the Juniata Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company for a number of years; elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

ALVIN O. SIEG, Monroe County, was born at Panther, Pike County, December 14, 1872; reared on a farm; attended the district schools; in 1893, started in the mercantile business at Tehyhanna; was appointed postmaster in 1907, serving in that office for seventeen years; has been elected district committeeman for the past ten years, and is a member and secretary of the local board of education; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920, and is the first Republican Representative from Monroe County.

DUNCAN SINCLAIR, Fayette County, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., Janner 13, 1874; moved with his parents to Philadelphia when five years of age; educated in the publis schools of Philadelphia; learned the trade of plumbing; served throughout the Spanish-American War with the First U. S. V. Engineers in Porto Rico; has been engaged in the plumbing business at Brownsville, Fayette County, since 1901; served as president of the Brownsville Townshir School Board; elected to the House of Representatives in 1914, 1916, and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

RUSSELL SMILEY, Fayette County, was born in Georges Township, Fayette County, P. December 9, 1891; reared on a farm: educated in the public schools, graduating from the Uniontown High School; taught in the public schools of the County five consecutive years, in the meantime, reading law in the office of L. B. Brownfield, Esq., of Uniontown; was admitted to the Bar February 12, 1915: served in the United States Army, Company E. Three Huntreď Nineteenth Infantry, Eight'eth Division, twenty-two months; elected to the House of Repre sentatives in November, 1920.

ISAAC L. S. SMINK, Philadelphia, was born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pa., February 2, 1890; in 1898, removed to Philadelphia with his parents, and was educated in the public schools of that City; at fifteen years of age, entered the printing trade, pursuing his studies in the evening classes of Central Manual Traning School and Business College; upon completing his apprenticeship, became a member of Typographical Union No. 2, since which time he has been active in printing interests; was a delegate to the Scranton convention of the International Typographical Union in August, 1918, special organizer for Typographical Union No. 2, 1919-1920, and, at present, is serving his third consecutive term as recording secretary of Phi.adelphia Typographical Union No. 2; during the World War, was connected with the Committee of Public Information and the Liberty Loan Committees as a Four-minute speaker; was endorsed by the Committee of One Hundred as a candidate on the Republican ticket for City Council from the First District, Primary Election of 1919; is secretary-treasurer of the United Tenants' Protective Association, president of the Forty-eighth Ward Branch, U. T. P. A., member of the Philadelphia Housing Adjustment Committee, having been appointed by the sheriff in September, 1920, president of the Forty-eighth Ward Republican Alliance Executive Committee, vice-president of the J. Hampton Moore Republican Club of the Fortyeighth Ward, and secretary of the Forty-eighth Ward Business Men's Improvement Association; is prominently identified with various secret and fraternal societies; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

HARRY J. SMITH, Lehigh County, was born in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., in 1866, and is a son of William N. Smith, Civil War Veteran; left grammar school at twelve years of age; worked in a shoe factory twenty-five years, after which he engaged in the wholesale confectionery trade, and is now in the oil and belting business; was delegate to the Republican State Convention of 1898, voting for William A. Stone; is the oldest Republican Committeeman in Lehigh, serving on the county committee thirty-five years, starting before he was of age; served five years in Old Fourth Infantry, N. G. P., as drummer boy of Company D, Allen Rifles, formerly the First Defenders; during the war with Germany, was superintendent of the U. S. Employment Office, in Allentown, later acting in same capacity for the State; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920. HOWARD SMITH, Philadelphia, was born at Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., May 16, 1875: educated in the public schools and Temple College; learned the trade of plumbing and steam fitting and, in 1898, purchased plumbing business from his brother in which he is now actively engaged; served in the First and Nineteenth Regiments, N. G. P., from which he was honorably discharged as a first sergeant; also served two terms as secretary of the Pennsylvania State Association Master Plumbers; is a member of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920. JETFERSON W. SMITH, Philadelphia, was born at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., March 15, 1859; in 1868, his parents removed to Harrisburg where he attended public and private schools; learned the printing trade, serving an apprenticeship of four years on the Harrisburg Patriot; in 1880, removed to Philadelphia where he worked at his trade; represented Typographical Union No. 2. at the formation of the Pennslvania State Federation of Labor and the International Typographical Convention at Chicago in 1893; was appointed superintendent of Station S of the Philadelphia Post Office on August 1, 1893, from which he resigned on July 1. 1910, to accept a clerkship in the mercantile appraiser's office: elected to the House of Representatives in 1914 and 1916; again elected in November, 1920.

LEE SMITH, Fayette County, was born near Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., February 27, 1863; educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Southwestern State Normal School, California, Pa., and the West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.; when a boy worked in a factory and as a telegraph operator, several years; taught schools, also served as principal of Uniontown public schools from 1891 to 1895, and superintendent from 1895 to 1902: since 1903, has been practicing law at Uniontown; elected to the House of Representatives in 1911 and 1916; again elected in November, 1920.

JOHN F. SNOWDEN, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, December 14, 1856; was educated in the public schools; held position of clerk in electrical bureau and a position in the sheriff's office; after having been in grocery business for a number of years, went into manufacture of wooden ware which he discontinued during the war, and since then has been working at Cramp's Shipyard; was a member of the executive committee of the Forty-fifth Ward for years; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

GEORGE HENRY SOFFEL, Allegheny County, was horn in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. January 8. 1875; educated in the public schools of Pittsburgh; is president of the George II. Soffel Company, Plumbing Contractors, with main offices in Pittsburgh, and branch office in Detroit, Michigan; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

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ANDERSON SOWERS, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, January 8, 1879; educated in the public schools; admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1900, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law; served three years in common council; elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

ROBERT S. SPANGLER, York County, was born in York, York County, Pa., May 10, 1882; educated at public and private schools in the city of York and at the University of Virginia: after having successfully passed the Supreme Court examination, was admitted to the Bar of York County in 1905: subsequently admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: has served as secretary and chairman of the RepubBean Committee of York County and as chairman of Congressional Committee, delegate to State Convention, State Committeeman and Prosilent of York Com ty Republican Club; at the beginning of the war with Germany, after examination, he received a copiission as First Lieutenant of Infantry in United States Army; attended Officers' Training School at Fort Nagara in May, 1917, from which he received an honorable discharge as result of defcet in eve: elect to the House of Representatives in 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918: to elected in November, 1920; was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on January 7, 1919, and again cled Speaker of the House January 4, 1921.

J. ADD. SPROWLS, Washington Courty, was born at West Tind v. Washington County, Pa., July 29, 1871: is a graduate of U; iversity of Pittsburgh, Medical Department, 1896: is president of the Bark of Donora has Yeen ember of Board of Education of Donora for twenty years, of which beard, be Is president. Isa pe Went of 11e board of health of Donora; elected to the Hon of Re resentatives in 1916 ad 1978 pceleted in November, 1920.

FRANK H. STACKHOUSE, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, December 25, 1873; educated in the public schools; has been in the employ of William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company for twenty-eight years; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

WILLIAM FREDERICK STADTLANDER, Allegheny County, was born June 1, 1874, in Allegheny City, now North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa.; attended public schools of Allegheny City; is a graduate of Philips-Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in the year 1900; of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, 1904; was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in January 1906, and has practiced law continuously since that time; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

OSCAR D. STARK, Wyoming County, was born in Lemon Township, Wyoming County, Pa., August 3, 1865; educated in the public schools, Keystone Academy, Factoryville, Pa., and was graduated from the Mansfield State Normal School in 1888; enlisted in Company G, Thirteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1888, and was honorably discharged in 1891; principal of the Mehoopany High School, eight years; traveled the Mississippi Valley, two years, then was made manager and superintendent of agents of the machine department of the Buda Manufacturing Company, at Chicago; superintendent of lead and zinc mines at Joplin, Mo.; returned to Lemon Township, purchased a farm and has been engaged in agriculture ever since; supervisor of Lemon Township, six years; is now secretary and treasurer of the Board of Supervisors of Lemon Township, and has been for the past fourteen years; is secretary of the Wyoming County Fair Association, at Tunkhannock, which office he has held for the past ten years; is secretary of the Wyoming County Supervisors' Association, and has been since its organization; is director and secretary of the Wyoming County Grange Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was one of its organizers; is secretary and treasurer of the Stark Cemetery Ass80ciation at East Lemon, and was one of its incorporators; also president of the Wyoming County Bee Keepers Association; elected to the House of Representatives without opposition in 1918; re-elected without opposition in November, 1920.

JOSEPH G. STEEDLE, Allegheny County, was born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., March 10, 1880; was educated in the parochial and public schools and received an academic education at Curry's College, Pittsburgh; entered the Medical Department of the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1898, from which he was graduated in 1902: served as interne in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in 1902, also in the City Hospital at Marshalsea, Pa.; began the general practice of medicine at McKees Rocks in 1904, and is now surgeon at the Ohio Valley General Hospital, at McKees Rocks; served as Burgess of McKees Rocks from 1909-1914; elected to the House of Representatives in 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920. PHILIP STERLING, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, April 10, 1887; educated in the public schools, graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia, 1906, University of Pennsyl vania, College Department, 1909, Law Department, 1910; admitted to the bar, October, 1910: entered the office of the Honorable Frederick J. Shoyer, where he remained until 1912: since then has been engaged in the general practice of law, as a member of the firm of Sterling and Willing; member of the Manufacturer's Club; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

ANDREW F. STEVENS, Philadelphia, was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

GEORGE W. STEVENSON, Jefferson County, was born in Philadelphia, August 17, 1872: when two years of age, removed with his parents to Williamsport and, after graduating from the Williamsport High School, took a two years course at the Williamsport Commercial College? then entered the J. G. Erig Cracker and Cake Bakery and, later, took up railroading, which be followed for a number of years; is now engaged in the fire insurance business at Punxsutawney; served as assessor, school director and tax collector; elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

GEORGE HAMILL STEWART, Jr., Cumberland County, was born at Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa., January 28, 1888; educated at Mercersburg Academy, Washington and Jeferson College and Princeton University; was member of firm in the grain business six years; is now engaged in executive secretarial work and bank director: enlisted in the Four Hundred Fortysixth Depot Detachment, U. S. Army Engineers, Camp Devens, Mass., November 27, 1917, and served sixteen months with the American Expeditionary forces in France during the World War as a private, master engineer and commissioned officer; detached service with the Deputy Director General of Transportation; attached to the Nineteenth Regiment of Engineers and Eighty-fourth Company Railway Transportation Corps; honorably discharged from the service May 1, 1919, Camp Upton, N. Y.; elected to borough council in November, 1919; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

BENJAMIN MORRIS STRAUSS, Berks County, was born in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pa, September 20, 1855; reared on a farm; educated in the public schools, Swatara Institute, MIlersville State Normal School and Palatinate College: taught school seven terms; was admitted to the bar in 1880, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law; also admitted to practice before the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of the United States; served as alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1913 and 1917; again elected in November, 1920.

E. MARION SWEITZER, Clarion County, was born on a farm in Porter Township, Clarion County, Pa., May 19, 1879; received his early education in the public schools, later, at West Mille Academy, and was graduated from Clarion State Normal School in 1902; taught in the rural schools four terms, and in graded schools, three years; served as supervising principal of the Clarion schools, two years, and of the Wick City schools, six years; is now general manaZET of Farmer's General Store, at Shippenville, Pa.; is National President of Farmers' Society of Equity, main office in Indianapolis, Ind.; President of National Equity Farmers' Exchange, Chicago, Ill.; has been secretary and district organizer of Western Pennsylvania Clearing Hee since 1914; member of council of Shippenville Borough; director of the Minnesee Coal and Timber Company, Nashville, Tenn., and of the National Board of Farm Organizations, Weshington, D. C.; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

LORENZO D. THOMAS, Luzerne County, was born at Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, Pa.. November 3, 1874; educated in the public schools of Luzerne County, supplementing that with a commercial course in Wood's Business College; served as shipper for L. V. Coal Company, West Pittston; was engaged in the general construction business, eighteen years, retiring therefrom in 1910 to enter the Gospel Ministry of the Baptist Church; was ordained at Eatonville, Wyoming County, and served that charge until August 1, 1913, since that time has been located at Wyoming during the World War, served as Y. M. C. A. Secretary_at_Potomac Park Bliss Electrical School and Walter Reed Military Hospital, Washington, D. C., after taking war work course at the International Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass.; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

HENRY J. TRAINER, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, October 1, 1866; was graduated from the Mt. Vernon Grammar School; was a member of the Third Ward School Board, six years, four years of which time, he served as president of the Board; was elected to select Council in February, 1899, and served twenty years, was member of the Finance Committee. fifteen years. and chairman of the Railroad Committee, seven years; served two terms as member of the Republican State Committee, and twenty-two years as a member of the Republican City Committee from the Third Ward; is treasurer of the Colonial Ice Cream Company; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

TIMOTHY OAKLEY VAN ALEN, Northumberland County, was born at Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., February 17, 1887, and is a son of the late Gilbert R. and Frances Withington Van Alen; was educated in the public schools of Northumberland, Mercersburg Academy, 1902-1904, and Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 1904-1908; during vacation period, was employed as machinist's helper in the office of Van Alen and Company and in the Keystone Forging Company, of which latter company he is now the secretary and treasurer; also president of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, at Northumberland; in 1911, enlisted as a private in Company E, Twelfth Regiment, N. G. P., serving a full enlistment, having been discharged in 1914, with the grade of Regimental Sergeant Major under assignment at Headquarters. Third Brigade, N. G. P., in July, 1917, re-enlisted as a private in Headquarters. Twenty-eighth Division, later being promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain and Major, serving throughout the World War with the Twenty-eighth Division, both in the United States and in France, one year; has always been a Republican; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

JOHN W. VICKERMAN, Allegheny County, was born in England; came to America at the age of two years: was educated in the public and grammar schools; entered the service of the Young Men's Christian Association, and served as secretary of the Railway Branch, at Altoona and Pittsburgh; later, entered the publishing business, and is now editor and proprietor of the City and Suburban Life, at Bellevue, also president and treasurer of the Suburban Printing Company. and trustee of Allegheny College, at Meadville; elected to the House of Representatives in 1914, 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

GEORGE THOMAS WALKER, Washington County, was born in Washington, Washington County, Pa., November 7, 1854; received his education in public schools, graduating with honors from the High School in the class of 1870; after attending Washington and Jefferson College for a time he learned the carpenter and contracting business under his father, with whom, he joined in a partnership in the lumber and building business; after the death of his father he continued in the same line for a number of years under the name of Walker and Slater, erecting most of the large buildings in Washington and vicinity, retiring about five years ago; served five years in Company H, 10th Regiment, N. G. P., as a Sergeant; was with that command under the late Colonel A. L. Hawkins during the riots in Pittsburgh; has always been staunch Republican and has taken an active part in local politics, having served on the School Board and City Council of which body he was president; also served a term as Chief Burgess of Washington and of East Washington, retiring from this office one year ago; elected to the House of Representatives in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

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JAMES A. WALKER, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, October 5, 1878; educated in the public schools and Central High School and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1900; admitted to the bar of the Courts of Philadelphia County in June, 1900; member of Bars of Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania and District Court and Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States for Third Circuit; has been engaged in the active practice of the law since his admission to the bar; member of Republican Executive Committee of Thirtieth Ward, Philadelphia, 1901-1905, and of the Republican Executive Committee of Forty-sixth Ward, Philadelphia, since 1914; is secretary of the Commission to Codify and Revise the Laws of the Commonwealth relating to Banks, Private Bankers and Trust Companies; was member four-minute men, also legal adviser of Draft Board No. 42, during World War, and appointed by Governor honorary delegate to Atlantic Congress for a League of Nations; elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.

WILLIAM HOWARD WEAMER, Bucks County, was born at Smicksburg, Indiana County, Pa.: educated in the public schools; followed farming and, in 1906, became owner of the Willow Grove Stock Farm, where he now resides; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

CHARLES Z. WEISS, Lebanon County, was elected to the House of Representatives in November. 1920.

JOHN WALTER WELLS, Potter County, was born at Oswayo, Potter County, Pa.; educated in the public schools of Oswayo and Coudersport, and was graduated from the Mansfield State Normal School in 1887: taught school, 1887-88; attended Alford University and was graduated from Cornell University, Law School, in 1890; admitted to the Potter County Bar in 1892; served as chairman of the Republican County Committee, 1894, 1915-1917: State Committeeman in 1895; elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; again elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1920.

JAMES WETTACH, Allegheny County, was born in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pa., September 7, 1875; educated in the public schools and Iron City College of Pittsburgh: is a beef and pork packer by occupation; has served on the Seventh Ward School Board of Old Allegheny City, as well as two terms in common council; also served one term in common council of Twentyfourth Ward. Pittsburgh: elected to the House of Representatives in 1912 and 1914; again elected in 1918; re-elected in November, 1920.