Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....GAVENEY, JOHN C. 
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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.

THIRTY-SECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT. La Crosse and Trempealeau
counties. Population, 1900—66,111.

JOHN C. GAVENEY (Rep.), of Arcadia, Trempealeau county, was
born in the town where he now lives June 30, 1863. He is a
lawyer and was educated in the common schools, the high
school of Arcadia and the University of Wisconsin, from
which he graduated in 1885, and from the law school in 1888.
He has been elected president of the village of Arcadia
three times and was elected to the state senate Nov. 6,
1900, by 8,618 votes, against 4,856 for John F. Doherty
(Dem.), and 357 for David Wood (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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