Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MORSE, ELMER D. 
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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.

EIGHTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Fond du Lac and Green Lake
counties. Population, 1900—63,386.

ELMER D. MORSE (Rep.), of Princeton, Green Lake county, was
born at Madison, N. Y., April 6, 1844. He came to Wisconsin
with his parents three years later and settled in what is
now Princeton, Green Lake county. He received a common
school education, entered the army in 1861, serving four
years, and attended school one year after being mustered
out. He has since been engaged in the lumber, grain and
produce business. At the organlzation of the Princeton State
bank in 1803 he was elected vice-president and has since
been made its president. When the Montello State bank was
organized a few years later, he was elected its president.
While he had always taken an active part in politics, he had
never held a political office, until he was elected to the
state senate, receiving 8,266 votes against Louis A. Lange
(Dem.), who received 6,793 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.

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