Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES O.
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Author: Halford Erickson

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


LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

JAMES O. DAVIDSON (Rep.), of Soldiers' Grove, was born In
Norway, Feb. 10, 1854, and was educated in the common
schools of his native country. He came to Wisconsin in
1872, residing first at Madison, later at Boscobel, and
since 1877 at Soldiers' Grove. lie has been engaged for
twenty-three years in the mercantile business. He was
president of the village of Soldiers' Grove in 1888 and
1889, treasurer in 1892 and 1893, and again in 1897 and
1898; was elected to the assembly in 1892 and re-elected
in 1894 and again in 1896. He was chairman of the
republican committee of the Third Congressional district
for years; was elected state treasurer in 1898 and re-
elected in 1900; was elected Lieutenant Governor in
1902, and re-elected in 1904, receiving 247,109 votes,
against 151,403 for Henry A. Lathrop (Dem.), 28,108 for
Henry J. Ammann (Soc. Dem.), 10,864 for Geo. H. Ray (Nat.
R.), 9,152 for John H. Nicholson (Pro.), and 256 for Oscar
T. Rosaas (Soc. Lab.).

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

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