Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Phillips, John 
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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

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
Portage and Waupaca counties. Population, 1895—59,324.

JOHN PHILLIPS (Rep.), of Stevens Point, was born at Richmond, Vermont, November 
4, 1823, and was educated in the common schools and at Johnston (Vt.) Academy. 
He graduated at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1853. He came to 
Wisconsin in 1845, and has practiced his profession as a physician since 1848, 
at Stevens Point. He has been supervisor of the town of Stevens Point, a member 
of the Portage county board of supervisors, school superintendent of the town 
of Stevens Point, and was a member of the assembly in 1860 and 1864. He was 
pension examiner from 1863 to 1885. He was a regent of normal schools from 1876 
to 1891, and was treasurer and president of the Stevens Point board of 
education from 1876 to 1881. He was on the board of visitors to West Point in 
1864. He was elected to the senate in 1894, receiving 7,637 votes, against 
3,539 for A. R. Lea, democrat, and 603 for George Ratcliff, prohibition.

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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