The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-02

the State Senate and I10ues Of Rep resAntAtives. He was . Presidential elector in 1880 and has been chatrtnen of the Congressional Commiftee and . member of the State Democratic Com mittee. In iS96 Mir. Parker was ap. member of important committees ek the convention.
 v S .A
 Hon. John '. Porter.
 Jackson County is represented by two delegates. One of these e Hon. John
 F. Proctor an able young lawyer Of
 Scottsboro who is at present solicitor of the county which he represents. Mir.
 Proctor was born in Jackson County
 September {, 1869, and is one of tho
 youngest members of the convention.
 He was graduated by the State Normal
 School ct Florence in the class of 119e
 and is at present member sof tho Board of Trustees of that fnstituticn. MT. Proctor was graduated in the leW class of the State University in 1oo9 and soon took high rank In his pro- fessicn.6 He hys manifested keen tn> terest in politics, having always been . Democrat and served one term as chairman of the committee of Jacksou County. Mr. Proctor has also sefved
 as member of the State Democratic
 Committee.
 Mir. Proctor was Assistant Clsrk of
 the House of Representatives at the
 session of 1s9o-93 and 1Ss4-95. He was
 Secretary of the Senate at the sessions
 of 1SSs-97 and 1sss-99. As an evideucol of his ability and knowledge of Iegieta~ tive matters he was appointed by President Knox, chairman of the Com
 mittee on tte Journal. Mir. Proctor married Miss Stella Moody of Scotts-
 bor and has one child.
 .* U le Hon. B. r. McMillan. The delegate from Baldwin County is Hon. B. r. McMillan who reside1 at
 Daphne. the county seat of hie county Mir. McMiIian !s an elderly dignihed gentleman He was born in Monroe vile. Monroe County, Ala, In ls{t, but
 removed with his parents to Stockton. received his education in the common schools of his county and entered busi- ness early in life. He was Con- federate soldier and member of Com pany 1 of Wirt Adams Cavalry. He served throughout the war and at its close engaged in manufacturing lurn- Der and merchandising in Baldwin County which pursuit he has followed since that time.
 
 nes man. He was born. bred and lived Democrat all of his life. He is q member of the Presbyterian Church. .2 .A .H Judge A. c. Howze. Judge A. c. Howxe of Jefferson. was born August 1T, 1s4S, in Athens. Clarke County, Georgia, although the home of his parents was then in Mobile. He was raised mainly in Perry County | this State. After attending the pri-
 mary schools he began Q course of study at Howard College at Marion. and after a two years course. enlisted | in September. 1863, as a private in Sel- | dens Battery of light artillery, com 1 nected with the Confederate States army and remained in said service uI1- l til the surrender. He served under 1 Johnston and Hood in the campaigns l in Georgia and Tennessee, engaging In all the battles of said campaign and I finally surrendering after the evacua- | ton of Mobile at Meridian, Miss.. in \ May, 1865.
 | After engaging in business pursuits | for a short while Judge Howze entered | the University of Georgia and gfaduat- ed therefrom in the class of 1869. He studied law under the late Governor l Andrew .B. Moore and was admitted l to the bar in 1889. He was appointed ] y | County by Governor R. B. Lindsay in | April, 1871, and retired therefrom In | November, 1884 and resumed the prac- l tice of the law. He removed from l Perry County to Birmingham, where
 he has ever since been engaged in the practice of the law.
 Judge Howze was elected as q dei- | egate from the Ninth Congressional District to the Constitutional Conven. tion. He Is an elder In the Presbyte rian Church.
 ss < < Judge James E. Cobb. Judge James D. Cobb of Macon. was born in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia, October s, 1885, and was grad uated at Emory College in 1856. He | was a lieutenant of company F, 9th Texas rangers during the war between ! the States and was taken prisoner al Gettysburg. When the war closed he entered the practice of law at Tuske- gee and continued until 1874 when he
 was elected Circuit Judge of the Fifth | Circuit and was twice reelected. He was elected to Congress and resigned | the Judgeship to accept that place. He was in Congress five terms. Judge Cobb is now engaged in the
 practice of law at Tuskegee and has been appointed by the Supreme Court | to make up reports when work accu- mulates to warrant employment of ] special help. Judge Cobb is prominent in Masonic work. having been High Priest of the Chapter and often < member 0f the Grand Lodge. He still takes an active part in politics and was elected to the Convention without opposition.
 Hon. c. ". Ferguson. Hon. Charles W. Ferguson of Jeffer- son. was born at Summerfield, in Dal- las County, in 1855, and moved soon thereafter to Tuskegee in Macon Coun- ty, with his father, where ne was rais- ed. ell removed to Montgomery and | lived here about fifteen years. going
 to Birmingham In 1SS7 where he has
 met with success as a lawyer being at
 present Solicitor of the Tenth Circuit. He is young man of promise andfa
 lawyer of acknowledged ability. MT.
 Ferguson Is an active and prominent
 political worker. He Is at the front
 in all the campaigns of his County and is eminently equipped for the duties
 he has taken up as a member Of the Convention. ~ Hon. J. o. Senteii. Hon. J. O. Sentell. who represents Crenshaw County in the lower House of the General Assembly. is also del- egate from that county to the Con- stitutional Convention. MT. Sentell