Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Krauss, David F. Jones 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

ASSEMBLY.
The assembly consists of 100 members, who are chosen biennially by districts, 
and who receive a compensation of $500 for their term of office. The speaker is 
chosen by the members, and receives $500 for his services.
The assembly contains 91 republicans, 8 democrats and 1 fusion.MILWAUKEE COUNTY.

MONROE COUNTY.
Population in 1895—26,350.

DAVID F. JONES (Rep.), of Sparta, was born May 11, 1859, In Utica, N. Y.; was 
educated in the district schools, Sparta schools, Galesville College and Lake 
Forest University; came to Wisconsin in 1866, lived at Cambria in 1866 and 
1867, at Bangor, La Crosse county, several years, and for the past fifteen 
years has resided at Sparta; is by profession a lawyer, having been admitted to 
the bar in 1884, and has since been engaged in the practice of law at Sparta; 
was district attorney of Monroe county from 1884 to 1890 and from 1892 to 1894, 
chairman of republican county committee from 1888 to 1894; unsuccessful 
candidate for senator in the 31st district in 1894; was a delegate from the 
seventh congressional district to the republican national convention in St. 
Louis in 1896; was elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 3,598 votes, 
against 2,455 votes for William Hornermiller, democrat, and 14 votes for Loren 
Howe, populist.

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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