Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MARTIN, HARRY CHAPMAN 
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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.

SEVENTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Green, Iowa and Lafayette
counties. Population, 1900—66,792.

HARRY CHAPMAN MARTIN (Rep.), of Darlington, Lafayette
county, was born at Darlington, Dec. 15, 1854, and received
his early education in the public schools of that place,
after which he taught school for one year and then attended
the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in
1879. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1881,
and has since practiced law at Darlington. Soon after his
admission to the bar he was appointed county superintendent
of schools of Lafayette county, and was twice thereafter
elected to that office. In 1887 he was elected mayor of the
city of Darlington and was re-elected in 1888. He was city
attorney for several years thereafter and was elected
district attorney of Lafayette county in 1892; was a member
of the Republican State Central committee for four years;
was elected to the assembly in 1895 to All vacancy
occasioned by the death of James Freeman; was elected to the
state senate in 1898 and re-elected in 1902, receiving 7,236
votes against 5,343 votes cast for Geo. W. Crawford (Dem.).

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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