Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....RAY, GEORGE H. 
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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.

LA CROSSE COUNTY. First District, the town of Campbell and the
1st, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th,
14th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th wards of the city of La
Crosse. Population, 1900—21,840.

GEORGE H. RAY (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born at St. Stephens,
New Brunswick, Oct. 4, 1847. He was educated in the common
schools at St. Stephens, and came to this country at the age
of eighteen, residing in Rockland and Gardner, Maine. During
his residence at Gardner he served two years in the city
council of that place. He came to Wisconsin in 1878, and has,
with the exception of a brief period, resided at La Crosse. He
served six years upon the county board of La Crosse county,
being for two years its chairman, and is president of the*"•'
State Bank of La Crosse. He was elected to the assembly in
1894 and 1890 and again in 1898, and was unanimously elected
speaker of the Forty-fourth Assembly, 1899. In 1900 he was
again elected to the assembly. He was elected speaker of the
Forty-fifth Assembly without opposition. In 1902 he was again
elected to the assembly, receiving 2,032 votes against 1,551
for Walter B. Rose (Dem.), and 106 for Bert S. Steadwell
(Pro.).

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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