Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Munson, Oliver G. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Smith Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 October 30, 2014, 1:07 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. Crawford, Richland and Vernon counties. Population, 1895—63,857. OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, was born March 2, 1856, in Howard county, Iowa; was educated in the common and high schools of Iowa and Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1876; resided in Richland Center ten years and at Viroqua eleven years; is an editor and publisher, having published the Richland Republican ten years and the Vernon Co. Censor eleven years; has been city clerk of Richland Center, supervisor from city of Viroqua, bookkeeper in the state senate several terms and assistant chief clerk of the assembly two terms. He was elected to the senate in 1896, receiving 9,361 votes, against 5,221 votes for B. F. Washburn, the fusion candidate, and 1 vote for A. J. Shauff. Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1897/munson1212gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb