Biographical Sketches:  WILLIAM D. CONNOR


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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. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. State Officers. Lieutenant Governor, p. 1120.

WILLIAM D. CONNOR (Rep.), of Marshfield, was born on a farm near
Stratford, Ontario, March 24th, 1864. When eight years of age he moved
with his parents to Wisconsin and grew to manhood on a farm at
Auburndale, Wood county. He was educated in the district school and
later attended the state normal school at Oshkosh for two years. He
moved to Marshfield in 1895, where he has since resided. He has been
engaged in the lumber business for the greater part of his life. He
has always been interested in politics and for twenty years was a
member of the Wood County Board of Supervisors, of which body he was
twice elected chairman. In 1892, 1894, 1896, 1902 and 1904 he was
elected a delegate to the Republican State Convention and in 1904 he
was also elected one of the four delegates-at-large to the National
Republican Convention, by the regular Republican State Convention.

Through his efforts Marshfield secured a free public library and Mr.
Connir [Connor] has been president of the library board since its
organization.

At the present time Mr. Connor is a trustee of the Wood County Normal
Training School and also of Carroll College. He was the chairman of
the Rep. State Central Committee in the campaigns of 1904 and 1906,
and was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1906, receiving 174,750 votes
against 104,398 for Michael F. Blenski (Dem.), 25,036 for William
Kaufmann (Soc. Dem.), 8,724 for August F. Fehlandt (Pro.) and 510 for
John Veirthaler (Soc. Lab.).