Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MARTIN, CHAPMAN
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Author: Halford Erickson

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

THE WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE. The senate is composed of thirty-three members,
who hold office for four years and receive $500 each for
their services at each regular session. Members of the
senate, session of 1905, representing odd-numbered
districts, were elected in 1902. Their terms will end Jan.
1, 1907. Those representing even-numbered districts were
elected in 1904. Their terms will end Jan. 1, 1909. The
lieutenant-governor is President of the senate, but can
vote only in case of a tie. A temporary president, to act
in the absence of the president, is chosen by the members
of the senate. The senate of 1905 contains 28 republicans,
4 democrats, and one social democrat. Lieutenant-Governor
James O. Davidson, president; James J. McGillivray,
president pro tern.; L. K. Eaton, chief clerk; R. C.
Falconer, sergeant-at-arms.

SEVENTEENTH   SENATORIAL   DISTRICT. Green, Iowa and
LaFayette counties. Population, 1900— 66,792. HARRY

CHAPMAN MARTIN (Rep.), of Darlington, Lafayette county,
was born at Darlington, Dec. 15, 1854, and received his
early education in the public schools of that place, after
which he taught school for one year and then attended the
University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1870.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1881, and
has since practiced law at Darlington. Soon after his
admission to the bar he was appointed county
superintendent of schools of Lafayette county, and was
twice thereafter elected to that office. In 1887 he was
elected mayor of the city of Darlington and was re-elected
in 1888. He was city attorney for several years thereafter
and was elected district attorney of LaFayette county in
1892; was a member of the Republican State Central
committee for four years; was elected to the assembly in
1895 to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of James
Freeman; was elected to the state senate in 1898 and re-
elected in 1902, receiving 7,236 votes against 5,313 votes
cast for Geo. W. Crawford (Dem.).

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

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