Biographical Sketches: HARLAN PAGE BIRD ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net ********************************************************************* 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. First Senatorial District. Door, Kewaunee and Marinette counties. Population, 1900 - 65,617. (p. 1125) HARLAN PAGE BIRD (Rep.), of Wausaukee, is a native of Bradford Co., Pa., born 66 years ago of New England parents. Attending common schools only, he engaged in land surveying and bookkeeping, which took him to Brooklyn, N.Y., and thence to the lumber woods of Marinette Co. He volunteered in '61, served four years in the civil war, two of which was as staff in the Vicksburg rifle pits. After the war he engaged in lumbering and mercantile pursuits; is also president of the Wausaukee State Bank. He was elected state senator in 1902, and re- elected in 1906, receiving 4,995 votes, against 3,125 for Leo. J. Evans (Dem.) and 216 for James Larson (Soc. Dem.).