The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-30

gress, receiving 22,915 votes, to 21,O5O
fof Mark A. Walsh, Democrat, $50 for
Michael T. Kennedy, Socialist and 202
Tor Sam Whitlock, Prohibitionist.
GEORGE w. PRINCE, Republican,
of Galesburg, was born March 4, 1854,
in .Tazewell County, ILL.,. attended the
public schools and graduated from
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill, in 1878;
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1880; was elected city attorney
of Ghlesburg in 1881; was chairman Of
the Republican county central COM
mittee of Knox County in 1884; was
elected a member of the lower house
of the general assembly of Illinois on
the Republican ticket in 1890; was the
candidate for attorney general of Illi-
nois on the Republican ticket in 1892; 4
was elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. p. S. Post; was elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty
seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and
to the Sixtieth Congresses, and reject
ed to the Sixty-frst Congress, receiv-
ing 26,770 yoaes, to 22,410 for w.
Emory Lancaster, Democrat, 1,7S5 for
William w. Vose, Prohibitionist, and
1871 for Edw. L. Switzer, Socialist.
JAMES WILLIAM GOOD, Republi-
can OF Cedar Rapids, was born Septem-
Der a. 1866, near that place in Linn
County, Iowa; graduated from Coe Col
lege, Cedar Rapids, in 1892, receiving
the degree of bachelor of sciences; at
so graduated from the law department
of the University of Michigan in 1893,
receiving the degree of bachelor OF
laws; is a lawyer by profession; has
never before held any Office of pub
lie nature except that of city attorney
for the city of Cedar Rapids, from April
1906, to April, 1908; was elected to the
Sixty-first Congress, receiving 22,776
votes to 1894 for Samuel K. Tracy,
Democrat, 500 for c. P. Whitmore, Pro-
hibitionist and 342 for L. Aft Hanson,
Socialist.
WILLIAM A. RODENBERG, Re-
publican, of East st. Louis, was born
near Chester, Randolph County ILL.,,
October 3d. 1865; was educated in the
public schools and was graduated from
Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton,
Mo-, in the spring of 1884; engaged in
the profession of teaching for seven
years; attended the st. Louis Law
School and was admitted to the bar;
was a delegate to the Republican ma
tional convention of 1896 at st, Louis;
was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress
was appointed a member of the United
States Civil Service Commission by
President Mckinley, March 25, l9Ol;
resigned April 1, 1902, in order to again
make the race for Congress; was elect
ed to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected TO
the Sixty-frst Congress, receiving ~
S5S votes, to 24,341 for Chas. A. Karen,
Democrat, LOIS for A. ]. Meek, Pro-
hibitionist, and Elsa for john W.
Taunt, Socialist
JOHN THOMAS WATKINS, Demo-
crat, of Minden, was born at Minden,
La, january 10, 1854; was educated
in the public schools of his native
town, and spent three years at Cum
berland University lebanon, Tenn;
was compelled to leave six weeks be-
fore graduation because Of serious ill
ness, failing to secure a diploma, but
received a certificate for faithful at
tendance and proficiency in all his stu
dies and having been elected valedic-
torian of his society; studied law and
was admitted to the bar July 1878;
married January Is, 1879; was elected
district Judge in 1892 and reelected in
1896 and 1900, his last term expiring
December 8, 1904; was elected 20 the
Fifty-ninth and SiXtieth Congresses,
and reelected to the SiXty-first Con-
gress, receiving 7,1SS votes, to 449 for
John F. Slattery, Republican, and 573
for w. E. Emmons, Socialist.
BENJAMIN GRUBB HUMPHREYS,
Democrat, of Greenville, was born in
Claiborne County, Miss, August II,
1865; his father was Brig. Gen. BENZ.
G. Humphreys, Confederate States
army, and governor of Mississippi from
1865 to 1868, when he was forcibly
elected from the executive mansion by
Federal soldiers under the command OF
Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames, U. S. Army
who succeeded him as military COVER
nor, his mother was Mildred Hickman
Maury, of Tennessee; he was educated
at the University of Mississippi, in the
cIess of 1885, but left before gradua-
ton, having completed the junior year;
he engaged in mercantile pursuits, first
as a clerk, afterwards as a commercial
,, traveller, or drummer" and subse-
quently on his own account; he was
married to Miss Louise Yerger, OF
Greenville, Miss, October 8, 1883;
studied law. and was admitted to the