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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.

TENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Pierce and St. Croix counties.
Population, 1900—50,773.

ORVILLE W. MOSHER (Rep.) was born Nov. 8th, 1853, near
Waupun, in Dodge county, Wis. He was educated in country
schools and the Waupun High school, and graduated from the
classical course at Ripon College in 1879. He was principal
of the high school at New Richmond, Wis., from 1879 to 1883.
From 1883 to date he has been engaged in milling and dealing
in grain and farm produce. He was president of the New
Richmond school board for nine years. He was elected trustee
of St. Croix county asylum for the insane at its opening in
1896 and unanimously re-elected in 1897 and in 1900. He was
elected to the assembly from St. Croix county in 1898, and
to the senate Nov. 6th, 1900, receiving 6,698 votes against
3,300 votes for F. B. Saxton (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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