Biographical Sketches:  FRANCIS B. KEENE


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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.

page 755

ASSEMBLYMEN.

GEO. H. RAY, Speaker; W. A. NOWELL, Chief Clerk; A. M. ANDERSON,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The Assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their service during the term. The Speaker Is chosen
by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services as
Speaker. The Assembly of 1901 contains 82 Republicans and 18
Democrats.

MILWAUKEE COUNTY.

First District. The 1st, 3d and 7th wards, Milwaukee. Population in
1900 - 22,080. (Changed by apportionment of 1901. See new
apportionment following biographies. Now wards 1 and 18.)

FRANCIS B. KEENE (Rep.), was born In Milwaukee, Dec. 11, 1856. After
attending private schools there, he was four years, 1871 to 1875, at
Racine College, and then entered Harvard College, from which he was
graduated in 1880, in the same class with Vice-President Roosevelt.
For several years after leaving college he was on the engineer corps
of the C., M. & St. P. R. R., occupied In locating and building
extensions to that system. He resigned his position there to enter the
coal business in Milwaukee, in which he was long engaged. In recent
years he has been active in newspaper and other literary work and has
long been identified with the national work for improved municipal
government. He was secretary of the Milwaukee Carnival association
that celebrated the semi-centennial of Wisconsin in 1898. He Is a
trustee of Milwaukee-Downer college. He was elected to the assembly in
November, 1898, and again in 1900, receiving 2,484 votes, against
2,446 cast for Thomas F. Ramsey (Dem.), and 100 for David White (Soc.-
Dem.). In each session of the legislature Mr. Keene was made chairman
of the committee on cities.