Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES O. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

STATE OFFICERS. 

LIEUTENANT  GOVERNOR.

JAMES O. DAVIDSON (Rep.), of Soldiers' Grove, was born in
Norway, Feb. 10, 1854, and was educated in the common
schools of his native country. He came to Wisconsin in 1872,
residing first at Madison, later at Boscobel, and since 1877
at Soldiers' Grove. He has been engaged for twenty-three
years in the mercantile business. He was president of the
village of Soldiers' Grove in 1888 and 1889, treasurer in
1892 and 1893, and again in 1897 and 1898 ; was elected to
the assembly in 1892 and re-elected in 1894 and again in
1896. He was chairman of the Republican committee of the
Third Congressional district for years; was elected state
treasurer in 1898 and re-elected in 1900; was elected
Lieutenant Governor in 1902, receiving 194,449 votes against
135,127 for John Wattawa (Dem.), 9,471 for Wesley Molt
(Pro.), 17,004 for Robert Saltiel (Soc. Dem.), and 858 for
Hans Hillman (Soc. Lab.)

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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