Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAHL, ANDREW H.
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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.

VERNON COUNTY.

One district. Population, 1900—28,351.

ANDREW H. DAHL (Rep.), of Westby, was born in Columbia
county, April 13, 1859, and was educated in the high
school at Viroqua and the Northwestern Business college at
Madison. Vernon county has been his home since 1864, and
he is engaged in dealing in general merchandise. He was
supervisor of the village of Westby during 1896 and 1897,
and was elected trustee of Vernon county asylum in 1897
and re-elected in 1901 and 1904. He was president of the
village from 1899 to 1902, and was elected to the assembly
in 1898 and 1900; was chairman of committee on penal and
charitable institutions in the legislature of 1903; was
again elected in 1902, and re-elected in 1904, receiving
4,417 votes against 1,018 votes for P. D. Miller (Dem.),
and 232 votes for Vernon A. Stoddard (Pro.). He served as
chairman of committee on "Assessment and Collection cf
Taxes" during the session of 1905.

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

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