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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

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 1903, representing odd-numbered districts, were
elected in 1902, Their terms will end Jan. 1, 1907. 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 of the senate. The
senate of 1903 contains 3O Republicans and 3 Democrats.
Lieutenant-Governor James O. Davidson, president; James J.
McGillivray, president pro tern.; Theo. W. Goldin, chief
clerk; Sanfield Macdonald, sergeant-at-arms.

FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Door, Kewaunee and Marinette
counties. Population in 1900—65,617.

HARLAN PAGE BIRD (Rep.), of Wausaukee, was born in Bradford
county, Pa., sixty years ago. He was educated in the common
schools and in his early life engaged successively, in
school teaching, land surveying and bookkeeping. His
employments led him to Brooklyn, N. Y., and from there he
emigrated to the lumber woods of Wisconsin. Upon the
breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in 1861 in the
12th Wisconsin infantry and served with credit, receiving a
gunshot wound during the advance upon Vicksburg; he was
mustered out in 1865 and immediately engaged in lumbering
and mercantile pursuits. He was elected to the state senate
in the fall of 1902, receiving 6,042 votes against 3,948
votes cast for Charles Metzer (Dem.), and 208 for J. J.
Sherman (Pro.).

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.

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