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 MARTIN J. WADE was born in Burlington, Vermont, on the 20th of October, 1861. He came to Iowa in 1870 and received his education in the common schools, at St. Joseph's College at Dubuque and in the Iowa State University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1886. In 1892 a professor in the Law Department of the State University and since the latter date has been a lecturer in the same department, and since 1897 has been lecturer in the Medical Department. In 1889-90 he was president of the State Bar Association; and has been president of the Iowa City Public Library since its organization in 1897. In 1893 Mr. Wade was elected judge of the Eighth Judicial District, serving until 1902 when he was elected Representative in Congress for the Second District on the Democratic ticket. JOHN L. WAITE, journalist, was born in Ravenna, Ohio, August 29, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and attended business college at Chicago. For twelve years he was a telegraph operator; and later was one of the projectors of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad telegraph line which he helped to construct, and of which he became superintendent. In 1869 he became identified with the Burlington Hawkeye, first as city editor and in 1874 became associate editor. In 1877 he was promoted to managing editor and in 1881 he was appointed postmaster of Burlington. At the close of his term he became editor in chief and general manager of the Hawkeye which, under his direction, has wielded wide influence among the Republican journals of Iowa. In 1898 Mr. Waite was again appointed postmaster of Burlington retaining the management of the Hawkeye. GEORGE W. WAKEFIELD was born November 22, 1839, at De Witt, Illinois, and was educated in the common schools and at Lombard College. When the Civil War began he enlisted in Company F, Forty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving three years. After the close of the war Mr. Wakefield was engaged in farming and teaching. Finally studying law he was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1868. The same year he came to Iowa, locating at Sioux City, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1870 he was elected auditor of Woodbury County, which position he held four years. In 1885 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial District, serving two years, and in 1887 was chosen Judge of the District Court which position he has held up to the year 1903. Judge Wakefield has been one of the promoters of the Sioux City public library, serving as president of the board of trustees from 1892 to 1903. MADISON M. WALDEN, seventh Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa, was born in Ohio, in 1837. He received a good education and came to Iowa in