Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....FREAR, JAMES A. 
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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.

ST. CROIX COUNTY. One District. Population, 1900—26,830.

JAMES A. FREAR (Rep.), was born at Hudson, Wis., Oct. 24,
1861. Was attending Appleton, Wisconsin, University in 1878,
when with his parents he moved to Washington, D. C. Served
five years in the U. S. Signal Corps at Fort Myer, Va.,
Indianapolis and Washington, and graduated from the National
Law University, Washington, in 1884. He was admitted to the
bar of the supreme court, District of Columbia, the same year
and then returned to Hudson, entering the law office of John
C. Spooner, with whom he remained for one year. Has held
different city offices, including city attorney of Hudson for
several years. He was appointed district attorney for St.
Croix county by Governor Upham in April, 1896, and was elected
for three consecutive terms thereafter. He was appointed on
the staff of the governor in 1901 and elected to the assembly
in 1902. receiving 2,156 votes against 2,082 for Herman
Heebink (Dem.), and 177 for Waldo M. Mosher (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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