Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Emery, John Q. 
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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

STATE OFFICERS.
Terms of office expire first Monday of January, 1899
STATE SUPERINTENDENT.
JOHN Q. EMERY (Rep.), of Albion, Dane county, was born In Ohio, September 15, 
1843, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1846. He was educated at the 
public schools and at the Albion Academy and Normal Institute, graduating from 
the latter institution in 1866, with the degree of Ph. B. He received the 
degree of A. M. (Hon.) from Beloit college in 1883. He has resided at different 
times in Dane, Jefferson, Wood and Pierce counties, holding various responsible 
educational positions; among others, was county superintendent of the Dane 
county east district, county superintendent of Wood county and principal of the 
union graded school at Grand Rapids, sixteen years principal of the high school 
at Fort Atkinson, and president of the State Normal school at River Falls. He 
was president of the Wisconsin Teachers’ association in 1874-5, and a member of 
the state board of examiners for teachers’ state certificates from 1886 to 
1889. He has had extensive experience as a special conductor of teachers’ 
institutes and been several times appointed official visitor to state normal 
schools. He owns and operates a farm in the town of Albion, and is, after 
education, most deeply interested in the progress of agriculture. He was 
elected state superintendent in 1894, receiving 197,063 votes, against 137,565 
for Wm. H. Schultz, democrat; 24,641 for John Uhlrich, populist, and 11,229 for 
E. L. Eaton, prohibition. He was unanimously re-nominated by acclamation and re-
elected state superintendent in 1896, receiving 265,940 votes, the largest 
number of votes ever given to any candidate for a state office in Wisconsin, 
against 167,319 votes for Francis Cleary, democrat; 8,064 votes for Wm. L. 
Morrison, prohibition, and 1,322 votes for Herman Seibt, socialistic labor.

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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