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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.

TWENTY-EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Richland and Vernon
counties. Population, 19.00—47,834.

OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, was born March 2, 1856,
in Howard County, Ia.; was educated in the common and high
schools of Iowa and Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1876;
resided in Richland Center ten years and at Viroqua
seventeen years; is an editor and publisher; having
published the Richland Republican ten years and the Vernon
County Censor seventeen years; has been city clerk of
Richland Center, supervisor from city of Viroqua, book-
keeper in the state senate several terms and assistant chief
clerk of the assembly two terms. He was elected to the
senate in 1896 and re-elected in 1900, receiving 9,362 votes
against 4,132 votes for C. A. Henthorn (Dem.), 407 votes for
W. J. Robinson (Pro.), and one vote for G. L. Miner.

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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