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THIRTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Dodge and Washington counties.
HERMAN J. F. BILGRIEN (Rep.) was born on a farm near Iron Ridge, Dodge county, March 19. 1864, and has spent his entire life on the same farm. He attended the Iron Ridge state graded school and besides being an extensive dairy farmer is a practical cheesemaker and butcher, having conducted a meat market for 12 years. He has beer director of the Iron Ridge graded school for 2! years; was town treasurer 1906-07 and has been town chairman since 1912. He was the first presi- dent of the Farmers' Co-operative Meat Packing Company, of Madison, a $750,000 corporation owned entirely by farmers, and served two years. He was elected to the senate in 1918, receiving 6,626 votes to 4,101 for John H. G. Leiven( Dem.), and 2,301 for John H. Thoma (Soc.).
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FOURTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Outagamie and Shawano counties.
ANTONE KUCKUK (Rep.) has conducted a jew- elry and music store in Shawano for over 33 years, but is now devoting his time to banking, the manu- facture of the Four Wheel Drive Trucks and the Iwen Box & Veneer Co. He was born in Schleis- ingerville, Feb. 10, 1863, attended the common schools and evening business college, and then held a number of clerical positions in Hartford, Wausau and Shawano until he engaged in the jew- . elry and music business for himself. He was in- strumental in starting the Wisconsin National Bank, Shawano, 1902; the State Bank of Gresham, 1909; Farmers State Bank, Beaver Dam, 1911; State Bank of Caroline, 1913, and is director in each and vicepresident of the two former ones. He is also director of the Four Wheel Drive Co., and the Iwen Box & Veneer Co. He served as a member of the Shawano county board and Shawano school board for years, was nominated and elected to the assembly in 1906 without opposition and elected to the senate in. 1916.
FIFTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Calumet and Manitowoc counties.
HENRY KLEIST (Soc.) was born on a farm in the town of Eaton, Manitowoc county, Sept. 29, 1860. Six years later his parents moved to the town of Rantoul, Calumet county, where he has lived ever since. He attended the common schools as a boy in the winter, working on the farm in summer, and later worked in the woods in winter. Since the death of his father, in 1888, he and his brother, Charles, have operated the homestead farm, now known as Kleist Brothers' Grain and Dairy Farm. He has always lived with his mother, now 82 years old. He is president of the Calumet County Equity Society and the Farmers Advance- ment Association of Brillion, and a member of the Brillion Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges. He was elected to the senate in 1918, receiving 4,393 votes to 3,611 for Leo P. Fox (Dem.).
SIXTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Grant, Crawford and Richland counties.
HENRY E. ROETEHE (Rep.), editor of the Fen- nimore Times, was elected to the assembly in 1906, 1908 and 1912 and to the senate in 1916 on the plat- form of fewer laws, economy in public expendi- tures and opposition to the creation of unnecessary offices, which he has advocated and fought for at each session. Born May 24, 1866, in Watertown. he has served as town clerk, village clerk and president of Fennimore, presidential elector and state's messenger to Washington. He was a candi-
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date for the Republican nomination for governor in the primary election of 1914 but was de- feated by Gov. E. L. Philipp.
SEVENTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
. Green, Iowa and La Fayette counties.
OSCAR R. OLSON (Rep.) banker and farmer of Blanchardville, was born March 24, 1869, in the town of Jordan, Green county, attended the district school and later Valpariso University, Valpariso, Ind. Taught in the country schools for three winters, working on the farm in summer. Was elected reg- ister of deeds of Green county in 1892 when but 23 years of age and was re-elected two terms. Was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard six years, serving as captain and adjutant of the First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the war with Spain. Engaged in farming 11 years and served as town chairman several terms. Engaged in the banking business in Blanchardville and is . now president of the Union State Bank. He was elected to the senate in 1918 without opposition.
EIGHTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Fond du Lac and Green counties.
ALBERT J. PULLEN (Rep.) was the first member of the legislature to volunteer his services when it became imminent that the United States would enter the world war, being commissioned First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, March 24, 1917, but was not called to the colors until June, 1918, serving until Dec. 3, 1918. He was born in Vermont, Nov. 1, 1863, received a high school edu- cation, attended the University of Vermont and graduated from the medical department of the University of the South in 1897. He located in North Fond du Lac in 1900 where he has since practiced medicine and surgery. He was chairman of the committee which incorporated the village of North Fond du Lac, was president of the village five times and for 13 years president of the school board. He served as county treasurer from 1908 to 1912. He is vice-president of the First National Bank of North Fond du Lac and of the Citizens State Bank Fond du Lac, president of the Fond du Lac County Medical Society and Humane Society. He was elected to the senate in 1916.
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NINETEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Winnebago county.
JULIUS H. DENNHARDT (Rep.) was a member of the assembly during the 1911 session and was elected to the senate in 1918, receiving 4,838 votes to 1,014 for Homer E. Greenwood (Soc.) and 363 for James Ivy (Pro). He was born in Naumburg, Sax- ony, Germany, Feb. 5, 1860, and came to America and to Wisconsin when a young man. He was educated in the common schools and then engaged in the implement business, and for years has been the most prominent auctioneer in the Fox River Valley.
TWENTIETH SENATORIAL DISTRICT -
Sheboygan and Ozaukee counties.
THEO. BENFEY (Rep.) is a veteran of the Span- ish-American war of 1898. He enlisted with Com- pany C, Second Wisconsin National Guard at the outbreak of the war and served through the Porto Rican campaign. He was born in Plymouth, June 11, 1871, graduated from the Sheboygan high school, the University of Wisconsin and Law Col- lege of the University, and since 1895 has been engaged in the practice of law with his father in Sheboygan under the firm name of Benfey & Benfey. He was district attorney of Sheboygan county from 1899 to 1905 and has been alderman of the first ward, Sheboygan, since 1915. He was elected to the senate in 1916 and was chairman of the judiciary committee in the 1919 session.
TWENTY-FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Adams, Juneau, Marquette and Waushara counties.
JOHN A. CONANT (Rep.) was born in Weyau- wega, Aug. 7, 1887. He was educated in the coun- try schools, graduated from the Eagle River high school and the University of Minnesota, studied law, was admitted to the bar and took up the prac- tice of his profession in Westfield, Marquette county. He served as district attorney for Marquette county from 1915 to 1919, when he resigned to assume his seat in the senate. He was elected to the senate in 1918, without opposition, after having won the nomination in the primary election over Frank H. Hanson.
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TWENTY-SECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Rock and Walworth counties.
LAWRENCE E. CUNNINGHAM (Rep.) was mayor of Beloit eight years, being elected four consecu- tive terms. He was born in Beloit, March 1, 1852 and has always lived there. Was educated in the public schools and began his business career as a carpenter and since 1874 has been at the head of the firm of Cunningham Brothers, general contractors. lumber dealers and manufacturers. He has been treasurer of the board of education for twelve years and has always taken a keen interest and active part in all civic matters. He was elected to the senate in 1912 and re-elected in 1916.
TWENTY-THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT Waupaca and Portage counties.
HERMAN J. SEVERSON (Rep.), of Iola, is a native of the town of Christiana, Dane county, where he spent his boyhood years on his father's farm. He was educated in the public schools of that county, and at the Stoughton Academy, Red Wing College, Drake University and is a graduate from the law department of the University of Wis- consin. For two years he was a teacher in the public schools of Jefferson and Dane counties and one year was the principal of the graded schools at London. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1897 and is by profession a lawyer. Chairman of Republican County Committee of Waupaca county 1904-1908. District Attorney for Waupaca county 1908-1910. Delegate to Republican National Con- vention at Chicago, June, 1908. He was elected to the senate in 1918 receiving 5,527 votes against 2,591 votes for William F. Collins (Dem.).
TWENTY-FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Clark and Wood counties.
ISAAC P. WITTER (Rep.) was chairman of the Seventh district in the Y. M. C. A. campaign in 1917 and in the United War Work campaign in 1918 and was active in his county in all other war work. Born in Grand Rapids, May 11, 1873, he graduated from the Grand Rapids high school in 1891, attended the University of Wisconsin three years and after two years in a bank in Grand Rapids with his father, spent a year in study abroad. Returning to his home he again became affiliated with the bank of Grand Rapids and has been its president since 1902. With the exception of two years he has been a member of the board of education for 20 years, its president for seven years. He has served on the Good Roads organiza- tion and with his various business interests has
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been active in every movement for civic better- ment. He was elected to the senate in 1916.
TWENTY-FIFTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Langlade and Marathon counties.
CLAIRE B. BIRD (Rep.) although prominent in public life for many years, never held an elective office until elected to the senate in 1918, when he received 5,056 votes to 3,794 for Christ Bloom (Soc.). He was born in Jefferson, Oct. 27, 1868; graduated from the Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, in 1886; from the University of Wisconsin 1889, and the Law College 1891, since when he has practiced law in Wausau. He was appointed city attorney of Wau- sau in 1897 and served two years; was vice-presi- dent of the State Board of Education 1917-18, re- signing when elected to the senate; and served as president of the Wisconsin State Bar Association in 1914, when he proposed the legal incorporation of all attorneys as a practical means to give ade- quate discipline against abuses and better control by court. The idea was later taken up by other State Bar Associations and the American Society of Judicature.
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TWENTY-SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Dane county.
HENRY A. HUBER (Rep.) was born Nov. 6, 1869, in Evergreen, Alleghany county, Pa., and came to a farm in Pleasant Springs, Dane county, with his parents in 1879. He attended the common schools and Albion academy and graduated from the Law College, University of Wisconsin in 1896, since which time he has been practicing law in Stough- ton. He was city attorney of Stoughton 4 years; member of the county board 2 years; executive clerk to Gov. La Follette 1903-04; was elected to the assembly in 1904 and to the senate in 1912 and re-elected in 1916.
TWENTY-SEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Columbia and Sauk counties.
GEORGE STAUDENMAYER (Rep.) was elected to the senate in 1914 as a Democrat and re-elected from the same district in 1918 as a Republican, the most unique record in the political history of the state. He was born in the town of Caledonia, Columbia county, Dec. 3, 1857, and educated in the common schools. He began farming in 1882 in his native town and took up threshing in 1887, and has followed both professions since. He was elected president of the Wisconsin Brotherhood of Threshermen in 1918. Until elected to the senate the first time he had never held a public office. In 1918 he received 4,498 votes to 2,473 for J. E. Jones (Ind.).
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TWENTY-EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Eau Claire and Chippewa counties.
ROY P. WILCOX (Rep.) was born in Eau Claire, June 30, 1873, was graduated from the public schools and high school of Eau Claire and Cornell University with the degree of L. L. B. in 1897, since when he has practiced law in Eau Claire. He was elected to the senate in 1916 and took a prominent part in the war session of the legislature in 1917 and was chairman of the interim committee on re- construction and readjustment. During the war he took an active part in the various Win-the-War campaigns, touring the state with the Jackie band for three Liberty Loan campaigns. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for gov- ernor in 1918, being defeated by 440 votes as fol- lows: E. L. Philipp, 71,614; R. P. Wilcox, 71,174; J. N. Tittemore, 45,357.
TWENTY-NINTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Dunn, Barron and Polk counties.
AL C. ANDERSON (Rep.) was the only member of the senate elected in 1918 without opposition either in the primary or the general election. He was first elected to the senate in 1916 to fill the unexpired term of Hon. George E. Scott (deceased). Born Sept. 24, 1860, he received a common school education and is secretary and treasurer of An- derson Bros., Inc., Menomonie, wholesale and re- tail manufacturers and dealers in cigars and to- bacco. He is a member of the joint finance com- mittee and of the special legislative visiting com- mittee.
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THIRTIETH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Taylor, Iron, Vilas, Oneida, Lincoln, Forest and Florence counties.
WILLARD T. STEVENS (Rep.) president pro tem- pore of the senate in the 1919 session, was born Sept. 6, 1865, in Beetown, Grant county, going with his parents to Cassville when one year old. He attended the common school in Cassville and busi- ness college in Dubuque, Ia., moving to Rhine- lander in 1889. He is president of the Stevens Lumber company; was sheriff of Oneida county two terms; member of the Republican state central committee 1904-06. He was elected state senator in April 1912 for the unexpired term of James A. Wright, (deceased) and was re-elected in the fall of 1912 and in 1916.
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THIRTY-FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Jackson, Vernon and Monroe counties.
J. HENRY BENNETT (Rep.) is a lawyer and re- sides at Viroqua. He was born in Vernon county in 1874, educated in the public schools, and admit- ted to the bar in 1895. He was elected district at- torney of Vernon county in 1898, re-elected. and continued to serve as such for 15 years. He was elected to the senate in 1914, served on the judiciary committee, and became chairman of the committee
n 1919. Was attorney for the University Legis- chairman of the committee on corporations and as member of the committee on legislative procedure in 1919. Was attorney for the University Legis- lative Investigating committee in 1906. Is a mem- ber of the national, state and local bar associa- tions and is one of the five lawyers constituting the Council of the American Bar Association for Wisconsin.
THIRTY-SECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT
La Crosse and Trempealeau counties.
EUGENE F. CLARK (Rep.) was born in King- field, Maine, Aug. 14, 1850. He came to Wisconsin with his parents 4 years later, settling in Monroe, Green county, but one year later removed to Gales- ville, Trempealeau county where he has since re- sided. Since 1884 he has been president of the Bank of Galesville; for 25 years has been a mem- ber of the Trempealeau county board of supervi- sors; for 30 years has been secretary of the Trem- pealeau County Mutual Farmers Insurance Com- pany; and for 24 years has been clerk of the Galesville board of education. He was a member of the assembly in 1895 and again in 1901 and was elected to the senate in 1916.
THIRTY-THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT Waukesha and Jefferson counties.
CHARLES MULBERGER (Dem.) was born in Watertown, Nov. 1, 1873. He was educated in the public schools and high school and graduated from Law College, University of Wisconsin in 1894. Was manager of the Globe Milling Company for 20 years; was alderman of Watertown 1900 to 1904; president of the fire and police commission four years; and mayor of Watertown since 1915. He was elected to the senate in 1914 and re-elected in 1918, receiving 5,294 votes to 1,014 for George Neu (Soc.).
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CHIEF CLERK
OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.) has had more legis- lative experience than any other man in Wisconsin, having been connected with the legislature most of the time since 1881. He began as bookkeeper of the senate; was a member of the senate for 12 years 1896 to 1908; was elected chief clerk of the senate in 1915 without his knowledge and re- elected in 1917 and 1919. During Gov. James O. Davidson's five years encumbency in the execu -. tive office Mr. Munson was his private secretary. He was born March 2, 1856, in Howard county, Iowa, and came to Wisconsin in 1876, and pub- lished the Richland County Republican-Observer for 10 years. For the last 34 years he has been a resident of Viroqua as editor and publisher of the Vernon County Censor. In the campaign of 1916 he was chosen as one of Wisconsin's presidential electors on the republican ticket.
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
COL. JOHN TURNER (Rep.) was the first re- turned soldier from France to be elected to an office in Wisconsin. He was born in Mauston, March 27, 1868, was educated in the Mauston schools and Nov. 1, 1897, purchased the Mauston Star, and was its editor and publisher until Aug. 1, 1917, when he sold it to enter the U. S. Service. He has had a long and honorable military record. He enlisted in Company D, Third Infantry Wisconsin National Guard, Sept. 21, 1885, was promoted to 2nd lieutenant in 1892, 1st lieutenant 1894 and captain 1895. Volunteered for United States service in the war with Spain in 1898 and served in the Porto Rican campaign. He was discharged from federal service Jan. 16, 1899 and was commissioned Cap- tain in the Quartermaster Corps, Third Regiment, · and became major in 1908. He again volunteered for federal service during the Mexican border trouble in 1916, and served from July 1, to Dec. 14 He was commissioned Lieut. Colonel March 24. 1917 and for the third time volunteered his serv- ices to his country, was called into service March 26, 1917, for the war with Germany. Was commis- sioned Colonel July 2, 1917, and left Camp Douglas Sept. 13, 1917, in command of the Third regiment. When the Wisconsin National Guard was reor- ganized at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, he was placed in command of the 128th Infantry, and took it to France, in Feb., 1918, where he saw active service for eight months and was then retired and honorably discharged. He has a son, Lieut. George S. Turner, still with the 128th Infantry. He was elected sergeant-at-arms of the senate in 1919 by unanimous vote.
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MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY
ADAMS AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES
JAMES F. McDOWELL (Rep.) was born in Pack- waukee, Wis., May 27, 1862. He was educated in the common schools, the Oshkosh Normal and the Northern Indiana Normal at Valparaiso, Ind .; taught in the public schools for four years and
served as county superintendent of schools in Marquette county for three terms, from Jan. 1, 1895 to 1901. He spent four years in South Dakota buying grain. He purchased a farm in Packwaukee in 1892 where he lived until the spring of 1914 when he retired and moved to Montello. From Jan. 1, 1915 to Jan. 1, 1919, he served as deputy clerk of the circuit court of Marquette county. He was elected to the assembly in 1918, receiving 1,611 votes as against 991 for J. W. Kelly (Dem.).
ASHLAND COUNTY
JOHN C. CHAPPLE (Rep.) is serving his third term as a member of the assembly from Ashland county, having been elected in 1908, 1916 and 1918. In his last campaign he received 1,554 votes to 36 for J. A. Cobb (Ind.) Mr. Chapple was born in La Porte City, Ia., May 27, 1875, was educated in the public schools, Cornell college, of Mt. Vernon, Ia., and Northland College, Ashland. He learned the printers' trade and engaged in the newspaper busi- ness, publishing the La Porte City, Ia. Press, the Saturday Evening Press at Phoenix, Ariz., and for about 25 years has published the Ashland Press. He is also vice-president of the Chapple Publish- ing Co., of Boston, publishers of the National Maga- zine, which is edited by his brother, Joe Mitchell Chapple. He is a staunch Republican and during the war devoted a great deal of time to war work.
BARRON COUNTY
CLARENCE CLINTON COE (Rep.) is a lawyer and banker of Barron. He was born in Sterling, Ill., Jan. 4, 1864, was educated in the country school and Sterling (Second Ward) High School and was graduated from the University of Wis- consin Law school with the class of 1888. He im- mediately began to practice law in Barron, served as district attorney of Barron county from 1889 to 1891 and municipal judge from 1892 to 1900. With his brother he owns the Barron County Ab- stract Co. He has been president of the Almena State Bank since its incorporation and is also di- rector in several other banks. He was elected to the assembly in 1918, receiving 1,956 votes to 667 for C. A. Beggs (Ind.).
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BAYFIELD COUNTY
FRANK W. DOWNS (Rep.), of Washburn, never held a political elective or appointive office until elected to the assembly in 1918. Having secured the nomination at the primary he was elected with- out opposition in November, 1918. Mr. Downs was born in Monroe Centre, Conn., August 22, 1870. He received a common school education and then took up electrical engineering, which profession he has since followed.
BROWN COUNTY
First District. The towns of Ashwaubenon, How- ard, Pittsfield, Suamico, the city of Green Bay, and that part of the village of Pulaski within Brown county.
THOMAS A. DELANEY (Dem.) is a successful attorney of Green Bay. He was born in Oconto, April 23, 1886, was educated in the Catholic paro- chial schools of Oconto and Green Bay, the East Side Green Bay high school and the law school of Marquette university, Milwaukee. He was elected police justice for the city of Green Bay at a special election June 12, 1912, to fill a vacancy and was re-elected in 1913 and 1915, serving two and one- half terms, until April, 1917. He has been chair- man of the Brown County Democratic Committee since Sept., 1914, and member of the Democratic State Central Committee from the Ninth Congres- sional district since 1916. He was elected to the assembly in 1918, receiving 1,995 votes to 1,658 for William C. Haslem (Rep.), and 166 for John B. Everhard (Ind.).
BROWN COUNTY
Second District. The towns of Allouez, Bellevue, De Pere, Eaton, Green Bay, Hobart, Humbolt, Preble, Holland, Glenmore, Morrison, Lawrence, New Denmark, Rockland, Wrightstown, Scott, the village of Wrightstown and city of De Pere.
NIELS P. LARSEN (Rep.) was born in Denmark, June 4, 1853, but came to America and to Wiscon- sin when but a lad of 8 years, settling with his parents on a farm in the town of New Denmark, Brown county, in 1861, where he received a common school education. In 1875 he purchased a farm in New Denmark where he lived until 1918 when he sold it to his eldest son and purchased a home in the village of Denmark. He was elected to the assembly in 1918 by 104 votes, receiving 1,416 votes to 1,312 for Henry F. Jensen (Dem.). For several years Mr. Larsen has been active in the work of
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the Society of Equity in Brown county and the state organization.
BUFFALO AND PEPIN COUNTIES
EDWIN F. GANZ (Rep.) was nominated and elected to the assembly in 1918 without opposi- tion. He was born of Swiss parentage in the town of Waumandee, Buffalo county, June 13, 1859, was educated in the public schools and Platteville normal and taught school in Buffalo county 14 years. In 1890 he purchased the Buffalo County Journal, which he edited until 1913, when he moved on to a farm which he has since operated in com- pany with his son, specializing in the breeding of Aberdeen Angus cattle. He served as postmaster of Alma from 1897 to 1913 and for over 20 years was a court commissioner. During the world war he was a member of the local draft board and chairman of the county Council of Defense.
BURNETT AND WASHBURN COUNTIES
JAMES H. JENSEN (Rep.) served in the 1917 session of the legislature and was re-elected in 1918 without opposition after winning out in the primary by a large vote. Born on a farm near Grantsburg, Aug. 16, 1864, he moved into the city in 1884, where he has been successfully engaged in the mercantile, lumber and real estate business. He served as county clerk six years, chairman of the county board several terms, village trustee, then village president 10 years, had charge of the municipal electric lighting plant and was president of the Burnett County Fair Association for 11 years.
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