Biographical Sketches:  THOMAS MORRIS


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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.

Thirty-second Senatorial District. La Crosse and Trempealeau counties.
Population, 1900 - 66,111. (pp. 1136-1137)

THOMAS MORRIS (Rep.), of La Crosse, was born on a farm near Bedford,
Canada, December 9, 1861. He received his education in the common
schools of Canada and the Bedford Academy. He is a lawyer, having
graduated from the Wisconsin University Law School in 1889, and is a
member of the law firm of Morris & Hartwell, at La Crosse. He was
elected district attorney of La Crosse county in 1898, and was re-
elected in 1900. He was twice elected chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee of the Seventh Congressional District, and
resigned the position when he became a candidate for the senate, at
the last election. At present he is a member of the State Board of
Normal School Regents.

Mr. Morris was elected to the state senate November 8, 1904, by a vote
of 8,103 to 4,869 for Stephen Richmond (Dem.).