Biographical Sketches:  JULIUS EDWARD ROEHR


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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 730-731

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.


EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The 5th, 8th, 11th and 12th Wards of the
City of Milwaukee. Population, 1900 - 64,482.

JULIUS EDWARD ROEHR (Rep,), was born March 6, 1860, in Brooklyn, N.
Y.; was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and Milwaukee, and
attended the Wisconsin University at Madison from 1879 to 1881,
graduating therefrom in June, 1881; came to Wisconsin in May, 1873,
settling in Milwaukee, where he has since re-sided; has practiced law
since 1881; was nominated for member of assembly by the republicans of
the Eighth assembly district in 192, and was defeated by the Bennett
law issue; in the spring of 1892 he was nominated on the Republican
ticket for judge of the superior court, but was defeated by Judge John
C. Ludwig; was appointed Circuit court commissioner for Milwaukee
county by Judge D. H. Johnson in 1888 and re-appointed in 1894 and re-
appointed in 1900; represented the Fourth congressional district at
the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896; was elected
to the senate in 1896, and was a member of the legislative committee
which revised the statutes known as "the Statutes of 1898." In 1900 he
was again elected to the state senate, receiving 6,496 votes against
5,236 for Joseph Deuster (Dem.), and 910 for Edward F. Melnes (Soc.
Dem.).