Biographical Sketches:  OLIVER G. MUNSON


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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.

Twenty-eighth Senatorial District. Richland and Vernon counties.
Population, 1900 - 47,834. (p. 1135)

OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, was born March 2, 1856, in Howard
county, Ia.; was educated in the common and high schools of Iowa and
Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1876; resided in Richland Center ten
years and in Viroqua twenty-one years; is an editor and publisher,
having published the Richland Republican ten years and the Vernon
County Censor twenty-one years; has been city clerk of Richland
Center, supervisor from city of Viroqua, bookkeeper in the state
senate several terms and assistant chief clerk of the assembly two
terms. He was elected to the senate in 1896, re-elected in 1900 and
1904, receiving 6,654 votes against 2,939 votes for Capt. H. Connor
(Dem.). Was appointed private secretary to the Governor, Jas. O.
Davidson, Jan. 1, 1906, and re-appointed for a term of two years, Jan.
1, 1907.