Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WIPPERMAN, HERMAN C.
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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.

NINTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Adams, Marquette, Waushara
and Wood counties. Population, 1900—61,487.

HERMAN C. WIPPERMAN (Rep.) was born in 1853 in the town of
Moselle, Sheboygan county, Wis., and was reared there on
his father's farm. He received a common school education,
and after leaving school learned the carpenter's trade. In
1873 he removed from the place of his birth to the city of
Chilton, Calumet county, where together with his brother
he conducted a furniture business until 1886, at which
time he took up the study of law in the law office of A.
A. Nugent, in Chilton. In 1888 he entered the law school
of the University of Wisconsin and graduated with the
class of 1889. He practiced law in the city of Chilton
until August, 1891, when he removed to Grand Rapids. He
held the office of city attorney from 1893 to 1895 and was
twice elected mayor of Grand Rapids. In 1894 he was
elected member of the assembly from Wood county and in
1896 was re-elected. In 1900 he was elected district
attorney for Wood county, and in 1902 was elected state
senator, receiving 7,328 votes against 3,575 votes for
Edward Lynch (Dem.).

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

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