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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
The senate consists of thirty-three members, who hold their office for four 
years, and receive a compensation of $500 for each regular session. Senators 
representing odd numbered districts were elected in 1894, and hold office until 
January 1, 1899. Those from even numbered districts were elected in 1896, and 
hold office until January 1, 1901. The population given is from the census of 
1895.  The lieutenant-governor is president of the senate, but can vote only in 
case of a tie, when he has the casting vote therein.  The senate contains 29 
republicans and 4 democrats.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
Grant and Iowa counties. Population, 1895—61,819.
CHARLES HENRY BAXTER (Rep.), of Lancaster, Grant county, was born in Still 
water, Saratoga county, New York, November 15, 1841, and was educated in the 
public schools in New York and Wisconsin; came to Wisconsin in 1857 and settled 
on a farm near Lancaster; enlisted as private in Company C, 25th Regiment 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1862; was with that regiment until 
after the fall of Vicksburg; was also private in Company A, 41st Regiment 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and afterward captain Company K, 47th Regiment 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; was appointed chief of ordnance, district of 
Middle Tennessee, by Gen. ge. H. Thomas, and attached to tho staff of Gen. Van 
Cleve and Gen. Milroy; was mayor of the city of Lancaster; member of the 
council; member of county board of supervisors; member republican state central 
committee eight years; chairman of the county central committee twenty years; 
president Southwestern Wisconsin Veterans’ Association ten years; delegate at 
large to the G. A. R. encampment in California in 1885; also in Boston, Mass., 
in 1890; was the republican candidate for the assembly in 1886; was elected to 
the state senate in 1892, receiving 5,972 votes, against 5,211 for Jacob 
Bremer, democrat, and three scattering; was elected to the state senate in 
1896, receiving 8,440 votes, against Morton Dustman, democrat, who received 
5,727 votes.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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