Biographical Sketches: WILLIAM H. STAFFORD ********************************************************************* 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. Members of the Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1117 Fifth Congressional District. The 1st, 6th, 10th, 13th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d wards of the city of Milwaukee, the towns of Granville and Milwaukee, the villages of East Milwaukee, North Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay, in Milwaukee county, and the county of Waukesha. Population, 1900 - 181,706. WILLIAM H. STAFFORD (Rep.), the representative from the fifth congressional district, is a native of Milwaukee. He attended the Milwaukee public schools, and later attended Harvard college and Harvard law school, from which he was graduated. At the time of his election to congress he was in the active practice of law in Milwaukee. He was elected to the fifty-eighth congress, and re-elected to the fifty-ninth and to the sixtieth congress, receiving 13,948 votes against 8,870 for Albert J. Welch (Soc. Dem.), 8192 for J. G. Donnelly (Dem.) and 506 for Chas. T. Everett (Pro.).