Biographical Sketches:  J. HERBERT GREEN


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901. 

The Wisconsin Blue Book.
The Wisconsin Legislature.
Senate.

The senate is composed of thirty-three members , who hold office for
four years and receive $500 for each of their services at each regular
session.  Members of the senate, session of 1901, representing odd
numbered districts, were elected in 1898.  Their terms will end Jan.
1, 1903.  Those representing even numbered districts were elected in
1900. Their terms will end Jan 1, 1905.  The lieutenant-governor is
present of the senate, but can vote only in case of a tie.  A
temporary  president, to act in the absence of the president, is
chosen by the members of the senate.  The senate of 1901 contains 31
republicans, and 2 democrats.  Lieutenant Governor Jesse Stone,
president; James J. McGillvray, present pro tem.; Walter L. Houser,
chief clerk; C. A Pettibone, sergeant-at-arms.

FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The 6th, 13th, 18th and 21st Wards of the
City of Milwaukee, and the Village of Whitefish Bay, and the Towns of
Granville and Milwaukee. Population, 1900 - 65,217.


J. HERBERT GREEN (Rep.), was born Sept. 7, 1860, in Fond du Lac, Wis.
Was educated in the public schools at Oshkosh; moved from Fond du Lac
to Oshkosh in 1861, to Chicago in 1880 and to Milwaukee in 1884; was
general salesman in wholesale dry goods house in Chicago from 1880 to
1888. Opened business in Milwaukee as a retail dry goods merchant in
1888, retiring from that business in 1897, and is now engaged in real
estate business. Was a member of the Milwaukee county Republican
committee in 1896. He was elected to the state senate in 1896, and was
re-elected in 1900, receiving 6,237 votes against Joseph A. Meyers
(Dem.), who received 4,923 votes, and 11. G. Hanson (Soc. Dem.), who
received 947 votes.