Biographical Sketches:  ELMER D. MORSE


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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 734

THE WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.

The senate is composed of thirty-three members, who hold office for
four years and receive $500 each for their services at each regular
session. Members of the senate, session of 1901, representing odd
numbered districts, were elected In 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 president 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 the
senate. The senate of 1901 contains 31 Republicans and 2 Democrats.
Lieutenant-Governor Jesse Stone, president; James J. McGillivray,
president pro tem.; Walter L. Houser, chief clerk; C. A. Pettibone,
sergeant-at-arms.


EIGHTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Fond du Lac and Green Lake counties.
Population, 10,00 63,386.

ELMER D. MORSE (Rep.), of Princeton, Green Lake county, was born at
Madison, N. Y., April 6, 1844. He came to Wisconsin with his parents
three years later and settled in what is now Princeton, Green Lake
county. He received a common school education, entered the army in
1861, serving four years, and attended school one year after being
mustered out. He has since been engaged in the lumber, grain and
produce business. At the organization of the Princeton State bank in
1893 he was elected vice-president and has since been made its
president. When the Montello State bank was organized, a few years
later, he was elected its president. While he has always taken an
active part in politics, he has never held a political office, until
he was elected to the state senate, receiving 8,266 votes, against
Louis A. Lange (Dem.), who received 6,793 votes.