Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....McKenzie, Duncan J. 
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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
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER.
DUNCAN J. McKENZIE (Rep.), of Alma, Buffalo county, was born in Glengarry 
county, Ontario, July 4, 1848, and received a common school education in 
Ontario; came to Wisconsin in 1872, and settled at Chippewa Falls; in 1875 
removed to Buffalo county, and has resided there since; is by occupation a 
miller and lumberman; was trustee of the village of Alma and one of the first 
alderman of the city; was supervisor in 1884; was state lumber inspector of the 
Ninth district in 1878-89; was chairman of the Buffalo county republican 
committee in 1888 and 1889; was mayor in 1891; was postmaster of Alma in 1892 
and resigned before taking his seat in the assembly; was elected member of the 
assembly in 1892, representing the counties of Buffalo and Pepin. He was 
elected state railroad commissioner in 1894, receiving 197,299 votes against 
137,267 for George C. Prescott, democrat; 24,693 for Nicholas F. Lawler, 
people’s, and 11,239 for John W. Evans, prohibitionist. He was re-elected in 
1896, receiving 265,672 votes, against 167,648 votes for C. F. Kalk, democrat; 
8,121 votes for Ole A. Christensen, prohibitionist, and 1,330 votes for August 
Greifenhagen, socialist labor candidate.

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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