Biographical Sketches:  TIMOTHY BURKE


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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. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is
chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services
as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19
democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Brown County. (p.1140) First District. The towns of Ashwaubenon,
Howard, Pittsfield, Suanico and the city of Green Bay. Population,
1900 - 23,372.

TIMOTHY BURKE (Rep.), of Green Bay, was born on a farm in the town of
Morrison, Brown county, Wisconsin; was educated in the district
schools of that town but matered all the higher studies largely
through his own efforts; taught school for several years and during
his leisure time studied law. He entered the law department of the
University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1897 and passed the state bar
examinationi in December of that year, but attended the law school
until the summer of 1898; was member of the assembly for the second
district of Brown county, Wiscconsin, in 1895 and 1896 and was sheriff
of Brown county in 1901 and 1902; after leaving the sheriff's office,
he engaged in the practice of law and is a member of the firm Kittell
& Burke; was elected chairman of the republican county committee in
1904 and was re-elected in 1906; was elected to the assembly in 1906
receiving 2,023 votes against 845 for T. J. Boyle (Dem.) and 229 votes
for F. Camm (Soc. Dem.).