Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Lewis, William T. 
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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.

RACINE COUNTY.

First District. The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards of ths
City of Racine.  Population in 1895—21,463.

WILLIAM T. LEWIS (Rep.), of Racine, was born March 10, 1840, in Utica, Oneida 
county, N. Y.; was educated in Utica; came to Wisconsin in October,
1855, settling at Racine, which has since been his place of residence; is a 
telegraph operator and served as military operator in 1864 at Etowah and 
Cartersville, Ga., until Sherman marched to the sea. In 1864 he formed a co-
partnership w5th Mr. Mitchell, which corporation at present is styled the 
Mitchell & Lewis Co., manufacturers of vehicles. He was a delegate to the 
national republican contention in Minneapolis in 1892; was president of the 
Baptist state convention in 1891-2; was nominated for state senator in 18S4, 
but was defeated by the landslide that carried others also along into the gulf; 
was elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 3,049 votes, against 2,222 for 
Andreas Hanson, democrat, and 73 for William R. Taylor, prohibitionist.

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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