Biographical Sketches:  LUCIAN H. PALMER


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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. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is
chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services
as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19
democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Milwaukee County. (p. 1161) Sixth District. The 3d, 4th and 7th wards
of the city of Milwaukee.

LUCIAN H. PALMER (Rep.) was born in Huntsville, Ala., March 12th,
1855; at the age of seven years he was left without parents; some
years later he moved with an older sister to Nashville, Tenn., where
he attended the public schools. Later he entered Central Tennessee
College, now known as Waldron University, from which institution he
graduated in 1876, having worked his way through college. Soon after
this he found employment in the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago and
later became manager of Lakeside Resort at Pewaukee, Wis.; in 1883 he
engaged in the business of caterer and continued therein until the
panic of 1895; during the next ten years he acted as steward of the
Milwaukee Yacht Club; he resigned this position to become
superintendent and steward of the Wisconsin state building at the
World's Fair held at St. Louis; at the time of his election he was
steward of the Passadena Flats in Milwaukee. He has held appointive
positions such as "U.S. Weigher of Mails," "Commissioner for Negro
Exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition," "Census Enumerator,"
"Checking Clerk in the U.S. Marshall's Office" and "Messenger of the
U.S. District Court;" he is at present a trustee of St. Mark's A. M.
E. church; was elected member of the assembly in 1906, receiving 1,668
votes against 1,601 votes cast for T. F. Ramsey (Dem.) and 507 votes
cast for Jos. Sultaire (Soc. Dem.).