Biographical Sketches:  HARRY CHAPMAN MARTIN


*********************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be
reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other
organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this
material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the
legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given
permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for
free access.  http://www.usgwarchives.net/

File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net
*********************************************************************
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.

Seventeenth Senatorial District. Green, Iowa and Lafayette counties.
Population, 1900 - 66,792. (p. 1131)

HARRY CHAPMAN MARTIN (Rep.), of Darlington, Lafayette county, was born
at Darlington, Dec. 15, 1854, and received his early education in the
public schools of that place, after which he taught school for one
year and then attended the University of Wisconsin, from which he
graduated in 1879. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1881,
and has since practiced law at Darlington. Soon after his admission to
the bar he was appointed county superintendent of schools of Lafayette
county, and was twice thereafter elected to that office. In 1887 he
was elected mayor of the city of Darlington and was re-elected in
1888. He was city attorney for several years thereafter and was
elected district attorney of Lafayette county in 1892; was a member of
the Republican State Central committee for four years; was elected to
the assembly in 1895 to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of James
Freeman; was elected to the state senate in 1898 and re-elected in
1892 and in 1906, receiving 6,284 votes against 4,383 for J. B.
Simpson (Dem.) and 189 for C. Marty (Soc. Dem.).