Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ANDERSON, A. M. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 20, 2007, 5:30 pm Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. ASSEMBLYMEN. IRVINE L. LENROOT, Speaker; C. 0. MARSH, 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 1003 contains 75 republicans and 25 democrats. OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS. A. M. ANDERSON, of Grantsburg, Burnett county, sergeant-at- arms of the assembly in 1901 and 1903, was born in Norway March 23, 1866, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1870, when they settled in Racine, afterwards living at different points in the state and settling in Grantsburg in 1870. Since then Mr. Anderson has been a resident of Grantsburg and is in the general merchandise business. He received a common school education and was employed eight years with the St. Paul & Duluth railroad. He was editor and proprietor of the Grantsburg Sentinel six years, was one of the founders of the first bank of Grantsburg and has been secretary of the Grantsburg Starch company since its organization. He had charge of the Document Receiving department of the Republican National committee in Chicago during the campaign of 1900 and is the youngest man ever elected sergeant-at-arms of the Wisconsin legislature and the first man since l873 to be re-elected to the office. Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069 - 1117. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1903/bios/anderson180gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb