Biographical Sketches:  ISAAC THORNTON BISHOP


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. The Wisconsin
Legislature. Senate, p. 1125.

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 1907, representing odd-
numbered districts, were elected in 1906. Their terms will end Jan. 1,
1911. 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 1907 consists of 27
republicans, 5 democrats, and one social democrat. Lieutenant-Governor
W. D. Connor, president; Jas. H. Stout, president pro tem; A. R.
Emerson, chief clerk; R. C. Falconer, sergeant-at-arms.

Third Senatorial District. Kenosha and Racine counties. Population,
1900 - 67,351. (p. 1126)

ISAAC THORNTON BISHOP (Rep.), of Somers, Kenosha County, Wis., is a
native of that place. Born June 6th, 1844, of New England parents.
Attended common schools only. He was a farmer until the year 1861,
when he accepted a clerkship with Doan & Hawley, dry goods merchants,
in the city of Kenosha. He volunteered in Sept. 1862, and served three
years in the Civil War, participating in the battles of Arkansas Post,
Raymond, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge and the siege of
Vicksburg. After the war he engaged in farming and now owns and
operates a farm that his father bought from the government before the
subject of this sketch was born. He served his town as chairman five
years, justice of the peace 11 years, and has just rounded out his
twenty-fifth year as secretary of the Somers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company. He was elected state senator in 1906, receiving 4,978 votes
against 4,392 for Michael Higgins (Dem.), 1,116 for W. W. Britton
(Soc. Dem.) and two for O. W. Johnson (Pro.).