The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

credit to himself and with entire sat Affection te his constituency until 1878. While a member of Congress he was one of the few Democrats who voted in Exposition to the Electoral Commis- sion. In 1893 he was appointed by ex- Gov. Jones to the position of Chancei- Tor to fiil the vacancy created by the death of Hon. John A. Foster and served until 1898. He is now engaged in the practice of the law at his home fn Clayton. He was nominated by the Democrats of the Third CongreSsiona' District as one of the delegates Co .ae Convention.
 pr. R. M Cunningham.
 pr. R. NJ. Cunningham was born or the 18th day of August, 1855, at MoGne Hope, Lawrence County. At the time of hss birth his father was a merchant, but retired to a little farm near Mount Hope in 1861. Dr.. Cunningham was reared on this farm, working as ( farm hand, receiving common scnoo- edacati6n. between laying by and gath ering and planting crops he studied xpedicine under Dr. J. M. Clark at Mount Hope, taking his fiist course of lectures at the University of Louis vile in 1874. He commenced the prac- tice of medicine at Newburg in Frank lin County. az an undergraduate in 1875. In August, 1876, he married Miss Sue l.. Moore, a daughter of Hon. James E. Moore of Franklin County. : In 1879 he graduated at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and resumed the practice of medicine in Franklin County.
 In 1880. Dr. Cunningham, was elect ed a member of the Lower house of the General Assembly from Franklin County. In March, 1881, he was ap- pointed physician of the pen!tentiar. for a term of four years. For tw years of this time he lived at We tumpka, in 1883, removing to Prat City. In 1885 he was appointed prison physician of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. which position he still holds. and is now the physi- elan and surgeon of the Alabama Steel and Ship Building Company. the Ems ley Division of the Tennessee, Chatta- nooga, and Iron Railway Company and the Semett-Solvay Company. Ike has a private hospital at Ensley where he lives. and Is also engaged in large private practice. He is Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medi- cine in the Birmingham Medical Col lege; has been President of the Jeffer- son County Medical Society; of the State Medical Society of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, and retired in April as the President of the MedicaI Association of Alabama.
 Dr. Cunningham is Past Grand Com mander of Knights Templar, and is al this time Grand Master of Masons. He enjoyed the unique distinction of be- ing Grand Commander of Knights Templar and Grand Master of MasonS at the same time.
 In 1896 he was elected to the State Senate from Jefferson County. and in s8es was elected President of that body. He was unanimously nominat- ed as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention prior to the repeal of the act in 1899, and was elected a delegate from the Senatorial District of Jeffer- son County to the Constitutional Con- vention now in session. He is a mem Der of the Committees on Rules. on Taxation and Amendments to Consti- tuition and Miscellaneous Provisions.
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 Hon. Thomas H. Watts.
 Hon. Thomas Henry Watts, one of the delegates from Montgomery Coun- ty, is son of the late ex-Governor Thomas Hill Watts. He is a native of Montgomery, having been born in this city August 8, 1853. He was grad uated in law and academies ut the State University and took both de- grees from the same platform in the same year. MT. Watts practices his profession in Montgomery, and is the senior member of a leading law firm. He was Assistant Secretary of th@l Constitutional Convention of 1875 aHa' has ever taken an active and earnest interest in the public affairs of the city of his birth. He was Alderman from Ward from 1885 to 1S93 and in the latter year was President of the City Council. He was nominated as q delegate to the proposed Convection, of 1898.
 Mir Watts Is Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Past Master Workman of the Ancient Order of Uni ted Workmen. Great Junior Sagamore of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men. This last namel office is the third highest office within the gift of the Red Men.
 Hon. J. H. Barefeld.
 One of the youngest but most active men in the Convention is the delegate ] from Monroe County, Hon. J. H. Bare | field. He was born in Clarke County | ,n January 20, 1875. and received his |
 
 vas graduated from Howard College at East Lake. in the class of 1895 and vas Captain of company A of the .orps of Cadets. He took a law | curse at the University of Virginia md won the Harrison trophy as the of the Washington Lit .rary Society in a debate against the i Jefferson Literary Society. MT. Bare field located for the practice of law in | Monroe County in 1896 and was at one | ime Solicitor of the County. He mar led Miss Harrington of Monroeville.
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 Hon. Charles H. Greer.
 The delegate from the Eighteenth Ienatorial District, Hon. Charles Heard sseer. is a newspaper man. He Is at resent editor of The Marion Standard nd has owned and published newspa- ers in Alabama continuously for twen y-five years. MT Greer was born IDril 24, 1860. near LaGrange, Ga. His arents removed. when he was a child, 9 Alabama, and MT. Greer was educa- sd principally at Lafayette, Chambers ;ounty. He finished his education at ,ahlenesa. Ga, and took the first