Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Whitehead, John M. 
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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-SECOND DISTRICT.

The towns of Bradford, Center, Fulton, Harmony, Janesville, Johnstown, Lima, La 
Prairie, Magnolia, Milton, Porter, Rock and Union, and the village of 
Evansville, and the cities of Edgerton and Janesville, in the county of Rock, 
and the towns of Aztalan, Jefferson, Koshkonong, Lake Mills, Milford, Oakland, 
Sumner and Waterloo, and the cities of Fort Atkinson and Jefferson, in the 
county of Jefferson. Population, 1895—50,352.

JOHN M. WHITEHEAD (Rep.) was born July 29, 1852, on a farm near Hillsboro, 
Illinois. Was educated at a select school, Hillsboro Academy, preparatory 
department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. (1871-2), Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. (1872-3), Yale College (1873-77), where he took 
the degree of A. B. He studied law in the office of Learning & Thompson at 
Chicago, and was admitted to the bar of Illinois in October, 1880, and to the 
bar of Wisconsin in September, 1883. He came to Wisconsin in August, 1883, 
settling at Janesville, where he has since resided. Is a member of the county 
board of Rock county, representing the 4th ward of Janesville. Was elected to 
the state senate in 1896, receiving 7,105 votes, against 4,725 votes for W. W. 
Reed, democrat, and 1 vote for W. T. Vankirk.

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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