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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.

EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th, and
23d wards of the city of Milwaukee. Population, 1900—64,482.

JULIUS EDWARD ROEHR (Rep.) was born March 6, 1860, in
Brooklyn, N. Y.; was educated in the public schools of
Brooklyn and Milwaukee, and attended the Wisconsin
University at Madison from 1879 to 1881, graduating there-
from in June, 1881; came to Wisconsin in May, 1873, settling
in Milwaukee, where he has since resided; has practiced law
since 1881; was nominated for member of assembly by the
republicans of the Eighth assembly district in 1892, and was
defeated by the Bennett law issue; in the spring of 1892 he
was nominated on the Republican ticket for judge of the
superior court, but was defeated by Judge John C. Ludwig;
was appointed circuit court commissioner for Milwaukee
county by Judge D. H. Johnson in 1888 and re-appointed in
1894 and reappointed in 1900; represented the Fourth
congressional district at the Republican national convention
at St. Louis in 1896; was elected to the senate in 1896, and
was a member of the legislative committee which revised the
statutes known as "the Statutes of 1898." In 1900 he was
again elected to the state senate, receiving 6,496 votes
against 5,230 for Joseph Deuster (Dem.), and 910 for Edward
F. Melnes (Soc. 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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