Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WILCOX, FRED M.
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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.

FOURTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Outagamie and
Shawano counties. Population, 1900 - 73,722.

FRED M. WILCOX (Rep.), of Appleton, Wis., was born in
Marshall county, Iowa, July 17, 1870. Graduated from High
School at Montour, Iowa, in 1887, and from the State
University of Iowa in 1893; assistant postmaster to C. G.
Wilcox at De Pere, Wisconsin, during the year 1894;
commenced practice of law at Seymour, Wis., in November,
1894; elected district attorney of Outagamie county in
1898, and immediately, removed to Appleton; re-elected in
1900 and again in 1902; in March, 1904, with his brother,
John C. Wilcox, formed the law partnership of Wilcox &
Wilcox. He was elected state senator in 1904, receiving
8,476 votes against 5,4S7 for Theo. Knapstein (Dem.)

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

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