Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Thayer, Lyman Wellington 
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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

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
Fond du Lac and Green Lake counties. Population, 1895—63,375.
LYMAN WELLINGTON THAYER (Rep.) was born October 30, 1854, at Wausau, Wis.; was 
educated in Wausau common schools and Jones’ Commercial College at St. Louis, 
Mo. Lived at Wausau until 1886 when he removed to Ripon, where he has since 
resided. Was engaged in lumbering at Wausau until 1886, and has since been 
engaged in stockraising. Has been repeatedly elected chairman of the town of 
Ripon since 1890; was chairman of county board of supervisors of Fond du Lac 
county in 1895; was elected to the assembly in 1892 and to the state senate in 
1894 to fill the unexpired term of Hon. S. M. Smead, resigned. Was made 
chairman of the joint committee on apportionment, and also chairman of the 
joint special committee on apportionment at the special session of the 
legislature in February, 1896; was re-elected to the senate in 1896, receiving 
8,229 votes against 6,617 votes for Benj. F. Sweet, fusion democrat. He was 
elected president pro tempore of the senate in 1897.

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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