WILLIS G. SEARS, speaker of the house of representatives of Nebraska, during its twenty-seventh session, is a native of Ohio and was born August 16, 1860. He was elected by the Republicans of the twelfth representative district, Burt county. He was made the Republican caucus nominee by unanimous vote, and elected speaker of the house unanimously January 1, 1901. Came to Nebraska from Pennsylvania in the year 1879, located in Burt county, is a lawyer by profession, has been county attorney for six years and mayor of his home town, Tekamah, three terms. His family consists of a wife and five children.

   VICTOR ANDERSON is the Populist representative from Kearney county, the sixtieth district. He is a native of Illinois, having been born in the town of St. Charles, Kane county, August 7, 1870. His father died one week from the day on which he was born. He was reared by his mother in St. Charles, Ill., until he was seven years of age, when they removed to Nebraska. He is a farmer by occupation; present address is Minden, Kearney county; is single and has held no public office until elected to the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature.

   J. A. ANDREWS, Republican representative from Frontier and Gosper counties, the sixty-sixth district, was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 31, 1859, and came to Nebraska, May 5, 1894. He was married to Laura Eaton, August 26, 1886, who died February 9. 1900, leaving no children. Mr. Andrews resides at Eustis, Frontier county, where he is a practicing physician. He was postmaster at Redding, Iowa, under President Harrison's administration.

   J. W. ARMSTRONG, one of the representatives from the third district, was born in Iowa, November 15, 1854, and came to Nebraska in 1882. He lives at Auburn, Nemaha county, where he is engaged in the hardware, furniture, and undertaking business. His family consists of a wife, two sons, and two daughters. He was elected to the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature by the Republicans.

   CHARLES H. BEALL was elected by the Populists and Democrats of Clay county, the forty-second district, to the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature. He was born in Maryland in the year 1869, coming to this state from Virginia in 1879. Mr. Beall, after coming to Nebraska, worked on his father's farm in Thayer county, and taught school until 1893, attending college at the Silana, Kansas, University for the next three years. He was principal of the Fairfield Business College for the next three years. He is unmarried and resides in Fairfield, where he is engaged in the insurance business.

   D. A. BECHER, Democratic member from Platte county, the twenty-fourth representative district, was born in Germany forty-three years ago, came to America in the year 1880 and settled in Illinois, coming from there to Nebraska in 1880. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising; has a wife and family of five boys and three girls. Mr. Becher has been justice of the peace one term, town clerk two terms, and four times elected county supervisor.