Biographical Sketches:  THEO. C. FROEMMING


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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.

Fourth Senatorial District. The 1st, 13th, 18th and 21st wards of the
city of Milwaukee, the towns of Granville and Milwaukee, and the
villages of North Milwaukee, East Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay.
Population, 1900 - 61,035. (p. 1126)

THEO. C. FROEMMING (Rep.) was born in Milwaukee May 11, 1873; is the
youngest member in the State Senate; was educated in a parochial
school of Milwaukee, and graduated from Milwaukee Business University;
also attended Concordia College for two years; was a member of the
Republican county committee from 1898 to 1900; was elected alderman of
the 21st ward in 1900 and re-elected in 1902, his term expiring in
April, 1904; is engaged as grading contractor; is also in the stone
quarry business. He was elected state senator in 1904 on the
republican ticket; he received 5,246 votes, against 3,697 for Herman
Reel (Dem.) and 3,184 for Alexis Fischer (Soc. Dem.).