Biographical Sketches:  CHARLES H. SMITH


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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. 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.

Eighteenth Senatorial District. Fond du Lac and Green Lake counties.
Population, 1900 - 63,386. (p. 1132)

CHARLES H. SMITH (Dem.), of Markesan, was born in the town of Green
Lake, June 1st, 1863. He was educated in district schools, Berlin High
School and Commercial College of Oshkosh. He is a farmer by
occupation. He was town treasurer of Green Lake in 1887 and 1888,
supervisor of the town in 1890 and 1891, school clerk in the village
of Markesan for the past eight years; has served on the village board
for several years. He was elected to the assembly in 1902, and to the
state senate in 1904, receiving 8,024 votes against 7,024 votes for O.
A. Piggott (Rep.).