Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ROEHR, JULIUS EDWARD
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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.

EIGHTH   SENATORIAL  DISTRICT. The 5th, 8th,  11th, 12th,
and 23d wards of the city of Milwaukee.    Population,
1900 — 64,482.

JULIUS EDWARD ROEHR (Rep.) was born March 6, 1860, in
Brooklyn, N. Y.; was educated in the public Schools of
Brooklyn and Milwaukee, and attended the Wisconsin
University at Madison from 1879 to 1881, graduating
therefrom in June, 1881; came to Wisconsin in May, 1873,
settling in Milwaukee, where he has since resided; has
practiced law since 1881; was nominated for member of
assembly by the republicans' of the Eighth assembly
district in 1892, and was defeated by the Bennett law
issue; in the spring of 1892 he was nominated on the
Republican ticket for judge of the superior court, but was
defeated by Judge John C. Ludwig; was appointed circuit
court commissioner for Milwaukee county by Judge D. H.
Johnson in 1888, and re-appointed in 1894 and re-appointed
in 1900; represented the Fourth congressional district at
the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896;
was elected to the senate in 1896, and was a nenber of the
legislative comittee which revised the statutes known as
the "the Statutues of 1898."  Senator Roehr was elected
president of the Bar Association of Milwaukee county on
December 10, 1904.  He was again elected to the senate in
1900 and reelected in 1904, receiving 4,788 votes against
4,656 for F. N. Rehfeld (Soc. Dem.) and 3,909 for R. T.
Ziarnek (Dem.).

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

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