Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....STURDEVANT, LAFAYETTE M. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

STATE OFFICERS.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

LAFAYETTE M. STURDEVANT (Rep.), of Neillsville, was born
Sept. 17, 1856, in Chandler's Valley, Pa. He came to
Wisconsin in 1865 and settled in the town of Pine Valley,
Clark county. He grew to manhood upon the farm and was
educated in the schools of his county. By strict application
to his studies be was able to secure a certificate to teach,
and from 1872 to 1878 taught school and studied law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1878. He held the office of district
attorney of his county four years, 1884, 1885, 1890, and
1891, and was chairman of the Clark County Republican
committee from 1894 to 1898. He was elected to the assembly
from Clark county in 1898, and re-elected in 1900; was
elected attorney general in 1902, receiving 193,453 votes
against 134,001 for O. R. Skaar (Dem.), 9,617 for C. L.
Allen (Pro.), 17,484 for Richard Eisner (Soc. Dem.), and 900
for Paul Fischer (Soc. Lab.).

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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