Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BRADDOCK, W. S.
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. ASSEMBLY.

IRVINE L. LENROOT, Speaker; C. O. MARSH, Chief Clerk;
Nicholas REVELER, Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen
biennially and receive $500 for their services during the
term. The speaker is chosen by the members and receives an
additional $500 for his services as speaker. The assembly
of 1905 contains 85 republicans, 11 democrats, and 4
social democrats.

JACKSON COUNTY.

One district. Population, 1900—17,405

W. S. BRADDOCK (Rep.), was born Aug. 23, 1848, in
Philadelphia, Pa., and received his education in the
public schools of his native city and at Yale College. In
1869 he removed to a farm in Minnesota; was appointed
chief of division in the pension bureau in 1875 and for
more than ten years was in the employ of the government,
most of the time as law clerk at St. Paul in the military
department of Dakota. In 1888 he came to Jackson county,
Wis., and' engaged in the cranberry business. Was
president of the State Cranberry Growers' association
several terms, and for the past ten years has been a
member of the county board of supervisors of Jackson
county. Is in the real estate business at Mather, Wis. He
was elected to the assembly in 1902, and re-elected in
1904, receiving 2,421 votes against 78S votes for Charles
F. Hille (Dem.), and 102 votes for W. F. Murray (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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