Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....OLTMAN, W. 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.

PIERCE COUNTY.

One District. Population, 1900—23,943.

W. L. OLTMAN (Rep.), was born in Germany Nov. 6, 1866;
came to this country with his parents in 1868 and settled
on a farm in the town of Diamond Bluff, Pierce Co.;
followed farm life and received a common school education;
attended college in the winter of 1891, but owing to the
sickness and death of his father In the spring of that
year, he was compelled to give up school and carry on the
home farm. Was elected as chairman of his town for four
years. In 1901 was elected supervisor of assessments of
Pierce county and held that office for two years and
resigned. Was elected president of the Pierce Co. Co-
operative Mercantile Company in 1903 and re-elected in
1904. In the fall of 1904 he received the nomination for
member of assembly by acclamation and was elected to that
office, receiving 3,279 votes against 766 votes for Thomas
J. Griffin (Dem.), and 137 votes for Hugh Bell (Pro.).

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

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