Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LENROOT, IRVINE L.
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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.


DOUGLAS COUNTY.

First District.   The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and fith wards of
the city of West Superior.    Population, 1900—18,040.

IRVINE L. LENROOT (Rep.), of West Superior, was born in
Superior Jan. 31, 1869, of Swedish parentage. He was
educated in the common schools of Douglas county, is a
lawyer ancj official reporter of the superior court of
Douglas county since 1893. He .never sought an elective
office until 1900, when he was elected to the Assembly. He
was re-elected in 1902, and was chosen speaker of the
Assembly of 1903. He was again elected to the Assembly in
1904, receiving 1,659 votes, against 717 votes for John I.
Hobe (Dem.), and 181 votes for Henry M. Parks (Soc. Dem.),
and was re-elected speaker of the Assembly 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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