Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....GREEN, J. HERBERT ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 17, 2007, 5:50 pm 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. FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The 1st, 13th, 18th and 21st wards of the city of Milwaukee, the towns of Granville and Milwaukee, and the villages of North Milwaukee, East Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay. Population, 1900—61,035. J. HERBERT GREEN (Rep.), was born Sept. 7, 1860, in Fond du Lac, Wis. Was educated in the public schools at Oshkosh; moved from Fond du Lac to Oshkosh in 1861, to Chicago in 1880 and to Milwaukee in 1884; was general salesman in wholesale dry good house in Chicago from 1880 to 1888. Opened business in Milwaukee as a retail dry goods merchant in 1888, retiring from that business in 1897, and is now engaged in the manufacturing business. Was a member of the Milwaukee county Republican committee in 1896. He was elected to the state senate in 1896, and was re-elected in 1900, receiving 6,237 votes against Joseph A. Meyers (Dem.), who received 4,923 votes, and H. G. Hanson (Soc. Dem.), who received 947 votes. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1903/bios/green45gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb