Biographical Sketches:  JOHN MANDT NELSON


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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. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1116

Second Congressional District. Adams, Dane, Green Lake, Jefferson and
Marquette [Counties]. Population, 1900 - 170,792.

JOHN MANDT NELSON (Rep.), of Madison, was born in the town of Burke,
Dane county, Wis., Oct. 10, 1870; received a collegiate education,
graduating from the University of Wisconsin in June, 1892; was elected
superintendent of schools in Dane county in 1892 and re-elected in
1894; resigned to accept the position of bookkeeper in the office of
the secretary of state, where he served from 1894-1897; edited The
State 1897-1898; correspondent in state treasury 1898-1902; was
graduated from the law department of the state university 1896;
pursued post-graduate studies at the state university 1901-1903; is
married; has practiced law the past four years; was a member of the
Republican State Central Committee 1902-1906; was elected to fifty-
ninth congress September 4, 1906, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. H. C. Adams, and re-elected November 6, to the sixtieth
congress, receiving 14,806 votes to 12,881 for George W. Levis (Dem.),
724 for William L. Dibble (Pro.) and 354 for W. A. Hall, Sr. (Soc.
Dem.).