Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LU DU, WILLIS F. 
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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.

MARATHON COUNTY. First District. The towns of Bergen, Berlin,
Brighton, Cassel, Cleveland, Day, Eau Pleine, Emmett,
Frankfort, Halsey, Hamburg, Holton, Hull, Johnson, Maine,
McMillan, Marathon, Mosinee, Rib Falls, Reitbrock, Spencer,
Stettin, and We in, the villages of Marathon, McMillan,
Mosinee and Edgar, and the east ward of Colby. Population,
1900—21,559.

WILLIS F. LU DU (Dem.), of the village of Mosinee, Marathon
county, Wis., was born in the state of Pennsylvania, Tioga
county, July 2nd, 1856; came to Wisconsin in 1866 and settled
in Marathon county, and was educated in the public schools; is
at present engaged in the mercantile business, and has been
since 1880; was also engaged in the lumber business from 1888
to 1900. He is at the present the vice-president of the
Marathon county Telephone Company, and is also a member of
board of trustees of said company; was chairman of the town of
Bergen, Marathon county in 1888-89-1900. He was chairman of
the committee on printing and stationary of Marathon; was on
the executive board of public works of the building of the
Marathon county court house and insane asylum; was supervisor
of the village of Mosinee in 1893; was elected president of
the village of Mosinee in 1900 for the term of one year; was
appointed postmaster of the village of Mosinee in 1894, in
which capacity he served four years; was chairman of the first
assembly district of Marathon county democratic committee for
four years; has been a member of the democratic county
committee since 1880; was a delegate to the state democratic
convention held at Milwaukee in 1896; and was elected to the
assembly from the flrst district of Marathon county in 1902,
receiving 1,928 votes against 1,526 for Geo. Feurieh (Rep.).

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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