SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. (Chapter 1-Special session Wisconsin Legislature, 1896.) Section 2. Until there shall be a new apportionment, the senatorial districts of this state shall be constituted as follows: 1. The counties of Door, Kewaunee and Marinette shall constitute the first senatorial district. 2. The counties of Brown and Oconto shall constitute the second senatorial district. 3. The counties of Kenosha and Racine shall constitute the third senatorial district. 4. The Sixth, Thirteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-first wards of the city of Milwaukee, and the village of Whitefish Bay, and the towns of Granville and Milwaukee shall constitute the fourth senatorial district. 5. The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards of the city of Milwaukee shall constitute the fifth senatorial district. 6. The Ninth, Tenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards of the city of Milwaukee shall constitute the sixth senatorial district. 7. The Fourteenth and Seventeenth wards of the city of Milwaukee and the villages of Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Wauwatosa, and the towns of Lake, Oak Creek, Franklin, Greenfield and Wauwatosa shall constitute the seventh senatorial district. 8. The Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and Twelfth wards of the city of Milwaukee shall constitute the eighth senatorial district. 9. The counties of Adams, Marquette, Waushara and Wood shall constitute the ninth senatorial district. 10. The counties of Pierce and St. Croix shall constitute the tenth senatorial district. 11. The counties of Burnett, Douglas and Polk shall constitute the eleventh senatorial district. 12. The counties of Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Iron, Sawyer and Washburn shall constitute the twelfth senatorial district. 13. The county of Dodge shall constitute the thirteenth senatorial district. 14. The counties of Outagamie and Shawano shall constitute the fourteenth senatorial district. 15. The counties of Calumet and Manitowoc shall constitute the fifteenth senatorial district. 16. The counties of Grant and Iowa shall constitute the sixteenth senatorial 17. The counties of Green and Lafayette, and the towns of Avon, Beloit, Clinton, Newark, Plymouth, Spring Valley, Turtle, and the village of Clinton and the city of Beloit, in the county of Rock, shall constitute the seventeenth senatorial district. 18. The countles of Fond du Lac and Green Lake shall constitute the eighteenth senatorial district. 19. The county of Winnebago shall constitute the nineteenth senatorial district. 20. The counties of Ozaukee and Sheboygan shall constitute the twentieth senatorial district. 21. The counties of Portage and Waupaca shall constitute the twenty-first senatorial district. 22. The towns of Bradford, Center, Fulton, Harmony, Janesville, Johnstown, Lima, La Prairie, Magnolia, Milton, Porter, Rock and Union, and the village of Evansville, and the cities of Edgerton and Janesville, in the county of Rock, and the towns of Aztalan, Jefferson, Koshkonong, Lake Mills, Milford, Oakland, Summer and Waterloo and the villages of Lake Mills and Waterloo, and the cities of Fort Atkinson and Jefferson, in the county of Jefferson, shall constitute the twenty-second senatorial district. 23. The county of Walworth and the towns of Cold Springs, Concord, Farmington, Hebron, Ixonla, Palmyra, Sullivan and Watertown, and the village of Palmyra, and the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh wards of the city of Watertown, in the county of Jefferson, shall constitute the twenty-third senatorial district. 24. The counties of Buffalo, Eau Claire and Pepin shall constitute the twentyfourth senatorial district. 25. The counties of Clark and Marathon shall constitute the twenty-fifth senatorial district. 26. The county of Dane shall constitute the twenty-sixth senatorial district. 27. The counties of Columbia and Sauk shall constitute the twenty-seventh senatorial district. 28. The counties of Crawford, Richland and Vernon shall constitute the twenty-eighth senatorial district. 29. The countles of Chippewa and Dunn shall constitute the twenty-ninth senatorial district. 30. The counties of Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Taylor and Vilas shall constitute the thirtieth senatorial district. 31. The counties of Jackson, Juneau and Monroe shall constitute the thirtyfirst senatorial district. 32. The counties of La Crosse and Trempealeau shall constitute the thirtysecond senatorial district. 33. The counties of Washington and Waukesha shall constitute the thirty-third senatorial district. Section 3. Every incorporated village, whether mentioned in this act or not, that is not entirely separate from any town for the purposes of assessment and taxation, shall be considered as a portion of the town which it forms a part. Every incorporated village that is entirely separate from any town, and any town or ward that may have been omitted in this act, shall join two assembly assembly district in which it is situated, if it shall be entirely surrounded by territory forming such district, and also be a part of the same senatorial district as such assembly district. If, however, any such incorporated village, town or ward that may have been omitted in this act, shall joint two assembly districts in the same county, it shall form a part of the assembly district which it may adjoin having the smallest population, and also be a part of the senatorial district of which such assembly district forms a part. Section 4. This act shall be published in the official state paper and be in force from and after its passage and publication, and no other publication shall be required. Such act shall also be included in the volume of laws that may be passed by the legislature at its session in 1897 and no other publication in a volume shall be required. The journals of the proceedings of the senate and assembly of the present session of the legislature shall also be included in the printed volumes of the legislature of 1897 and no printing of such proceedings in a separate volume shall be required Approved February 28, 1896. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATORS. JOHN LENDRUM MITCHELL, of Milwaukee, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., October 19, 1842; acquired the rudiments of an education in the Milwaukee public schools, followed by a course in a military school in Hampton, Conn.; he was then sent abroad and studied in Dresden, Munich, and Genoa; upon the breaking out of the rebellion he returned home, and at the age of 19 entered the military service as second lieutenant of Company I, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted to be first lieutenant January 17, 1863, and transferred to Company E, same regiment; in June, 1863, was detailed for service on brigade staff of General Rousseau; participated in the battles and engagements of his regiment, including Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoovers Gap, and the campaigns about Chattanooga; threatened with loss of eyesight and on surgeon's certificate of disability he resigned his commission, which was accepted; was a member of the State senate of Wisconsin in 1872-73 and 1876-77; president of the Milwaukee school board 1884-85; president of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, and president of the Northwestern Trotting-Horse Breeders' Association; in 1886, by joint resolution of Congress, he was appointed a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, reappointed in 1892, and elected second vice-president of the Board in 1895; was a member of the National Democratic Committee for four years, and in 1892 was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee; is vice-president of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company Bank, and of the Northwestern National Insurance Company; was elected to the fifty-second congress from the Milwaukee district in 1890, and re-elected in 1892, receiving 19,616 votes, against 18,294 for Theobald Otjen, republican; 829 for Theodore Fritz, people's party; 349 for E. L. Eaton, prohibitionist. He was elected as a democrat, to succeed Philetus Sawyer in the United States senate, receiving 77 votes in joint legislative convention, against 46 for John C. Spooner, republican, and 1 for Gen. Edward S. Bragg. His term of office will expire March 4, 1899. JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Madison, was born January 6, 1843, in Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn county, Indiana; was educated at the University of Wisconsin, from which institution he graduated in 1864; came to Wisconsin June 1, 1859, and settled at Madison; removed from Madison to Hudson, Wis., in September, 1870, where he resided until 1893, when he returned to Madison, where he has since resided; is by profession a lawyer; he entered the war as a private in Co. D, 40th Wis. Inf. Vols.; was Captain of Co. A, 50th Wis. Inf. Vols., and at the close. of service was brevetted major; was private and military secretary to Gov. Lucius Fairchild for a time and was assistant attorney general under Attorney Generals Charles R. Gill and S. S. Barlow; was member of legislature from St. Croix county in 1872; he was elected January 28, 1885, to succeed Hon. Angus Cameron as United States senator, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1891; was nominated by the republicans for governor of Wisconsin in 1892, but was defeated; he was nominated and elected United States senator January 27, 1897, to succeed Hon. W. F. Vilas, receiving every republican vote in both houses. |