Biographical Sketches:  THOMAS A. STEWART


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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.

Dane County. (pp. 1145-1146) Third District. The towns of Berry, Black
Earth, Blue Mounds, Cross Plains, Dane, Fitchburg, Mazomanie,
Middleton, Montrose, Oregon, Perry, Primrose, Roxbury, Rutland,
Springdale, Springfield, Vermont, Verona and Vienna, the villages of
Black Earth, Dane, Oregon, Mazomanie, Belleville, Brooklyn and Mount
Horeb. Population, 1900 - 22,467.

THOMAS A. STEWART (Dem.) was born in the town of Verona, Dane county,
Wis., Mar. 2, 1849; received his education in the common schools of
his native town, North Western Business College and the State
University; is a farmer and stock raiser; has held the office of
chairman of his town and member of the county board for 17 years; has
held the offices of director of the Verona township high school,
president of the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association, president of the
Verona Detective Association; was a delegate to the democratic state
convention in 1900, 1902, 1904; was elected member of the assembly in
1906, receiving 1,805 votes against 1,578 for A. B. Thorsrud (Rep.).