Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....STOUT, JAMES H.
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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.


TWENTY-NINTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Barron, Buffalo,
Dunn and Pepin counties. Population, 1900—73,390.

JAMES H. STOUT (Rep.), of Menomonie, was born at Dubuque,
Ia., Sept. 25, 1848, and was educated in the public
schools of Dubuque and in the Chicago University. He came
to Wisconsin in 1889, and has since been engaged in the
lumber business at Menomonie. He has been for several
years one of the trustees of the Dunn county insane
asylum; president of the Menomonie board of education,
life member of the Dubuque library and life trustee of the
Findlay hospital at Dubuque. He was elected to the senate
in 1894, and was re-elected in 1S98, nad again in 1902,
receiving 6,010 votes againsŁ 74 votes for Theodore
Buchler (Dem.), and scattering, 3.

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

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