Biographical Sketches:  EUGENE EDWARD BURNS


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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.

Sixteenth Senatorial District. Crawford and Grant counties.
Population, 1900 - 56,167. (p. 1131)

EDWARD EUGENE BURNS (Rep.), of Platteville, Grant county, was born
Jan. 20, 1858, at Dunleith (now East Dubuque), Illinois. In the year
of his birth his parents moved to Jamestown, Grant county, Wisconsin,
and settled on a farm where he spent his early years. He was educated
in the common schools of Grant county, the Platteville State Normal
School and the law school of the University of Wisconsin, from which
he graduated in 1887. He moved to Platteville on Dec. 1, 1890, where
he has since resided and engaged in the practice of law. He was a
member of the county board of Grant county in 1895 and 1896, which
position he resigned on entering the army, and was again re-elected on
his return in 1899. He served in the Spanish-American War as captain
of Co. C, of the 4th Wis. Inf. Vol., from June 30, 1898, to Feb. 28,
1899. He was elected to the state senate in 1900, and re-elected in
1904, receiving 7,365 votes against 4,942 cast for W. W. Gilman (Dem.)
and 400 votes cast for Josiah Thomas (Pro.).