Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BURNS, EDWARD EUGENE 
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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.

SIXTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Crawford and Grant counties.
Population, 1900—56,167.

EDWARD EUGENE BURNS (Rep.), of Platteville, Grant county, is
a native of Illinois. He was born Jan. 20, 1858, at what is
now East Dubuque. In the year of his birth his parents,
moved to Jamestown, Grant county, Wisconsin, and settled on
a farm where he grew up. He is a lawyer; was educated in the
common schools, the Platteville Normal school, and the
University of Wisconsin, graduating in the law class of
1887. After graduating from the University he practiced law
one year in Boscobel, and moved to Platteville December 1,
1890, where he has since lived. He was elected a member of
the county board in 1895 and 1896, and city attorney of
PlatteviUe in 1897 and 1898, resigning on entering the army
he was again elected in 1899. He served in the Spanish-
American war as captain of Co. C, of the 4th Wis. Inf.
Vols., from June 30, 1898, to Feb. 28, 1890. He was elected
to the state senate on Nov. 6, 1900, receiving 8,810 votes
against 5,024 for William Synon (Dem.), and 440 for John W.
Horsetail (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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