Boat Club and Prismatic Club, in Detroit, and of the Huron Mountain Club. Mr. Campbell has been a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and for years a vestryman of Christ Church, Detroit. Mr. Campbell led the poll in his district, both at the primary vote and the September election. In the convention he was made chairman of the committee on permanent organization and order of business, which afterwards became a permanent committee, he was also made chairman of the committee on the legislative department. He was also made a member of the committee on schedules, and was added to the committee on phraseology and arrangement towards the close of the convention when that committee was required to put the general revision into its final form. When the convention determined that the revised constitution should be submitted to the people for ratification at the November election, instead of in April as the legislature had provided, Mr. Campbell represented the convention before the Supreme Court and secured an opinion sustaining the action of the convention.

JOHN J. CARTON

delegate from the thirteenth district, Genesee county, was born in Clayton, Genesee county, in 1856, and is of Irish descent. He was educated in the district schools in the township of Clayton, afterwards attended the Flushing high school and for a time attended the school in Flint. He was by turns a farmer, clerk and school teacher until 1877, when he worked in a drug store at Flushing until August of that year, then accepting a position with Niles & Cotcher, merchants at Flushing, as bookkeeper. He remained there until December, 1880, in which year he was elected clerk of Genesee county, serving four years in that capacity. In the meantime he studied law and was

ΙΟΙ

admitted to the bar in 1884. He at once formed a partnership with George H. Durand, under the firm name of Durand and Carton. Mr. Carton was city attorney for two years. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1899 to 1905 and served as Speaker of the House in 1901 and 1903. At the opening of the Constitutional Convention of 1907, he was unanimously chosen its president and served in that capacity until the convention adjourned.

MARTIN J. CAVANAUGH

delegate from the tenth district, Jackson and Washtenaw counties, was born in the township of Manchester, Washtenaw county, on the twenty-third day of July, 1866, and attended the district school in the township of Sharon until about fourteen years of age, when he went to the village of Manchester and graduated from the Manchester high school in 1883 and from the literary department of the University of Michigan with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1887. The same year he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in the village of Chelsea, and shortly thereafter removed to the city of Ann Arbor, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Cavanaugh was married November sixth, 1889, to Miss Mary C. Seery, and has four children. He has always been interested in public education and has been commissioner of the schools of Washtenaw county and president of the board of education for the city of Ann Arbor for a number of years, and was elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention by the tenth senatorial district as a Democrat, although the district was overwhelmingly Republican, and has been nominated by his party for circuit judge of his district and for justice of the Supreme Court of this state.