Biographical Sketches:  RUSSEL C. FALCONER


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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.

Officers of the Senate, p. 1138. Sergeant-at-Arms.

RUSSEL C. FALCONER was born in Williamsburg, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1851;
received a common school education; came to Wisconsin in 1855 and
settled at Quincy, Adams county; remained there until 1858 when he
removed to Columbia county; was chairman of the town of Wyocena in
1880; sheriff of Columbia county one term; mayor of the city of
Portage; was elected state senator in 1890; removed to Camp Douglas in
1899, where he engaged in the real estate business. He was elected
sergeant-at-arms of the senate at the session of 1905 and was re-
elected in 1907.