Biographical Sketches:  THEODORE M. THOMAS


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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.

Chippewa County (and Rusk). (p. 1143) Second District. The towns of
Anson, Auburn, Arthur, Bloomer, Big Bend, Cleveland, Colburn, Dewey,
Eagle, Point, Flambeau, Lawrence, Sampson, and Strickland, the village
of Bloomer, the first, second and seventh wards of the city of
Chippewa Falls. Population, 1900 - 17,361. (By act of legislature in
1902 the couty of Gates--now Rusk--was formed (comprising the towns of
Atlanta, Big Bend, Dewey, Lawrence, Rusk, Strickland and Flambeau and
the part of township 33 north, range 7 west, lying south of Chippewa
river), and remains a part of the Second Assembly district of Chippewa
county.)

THEODORE M. THOMAS (Rep.), of Ladysmith, is a native of Wisconsin,
being born in Fond du Lac county, September 11th, 1876. He is a lawyer
by profession and was a successful practitioner for five years at
Beaver Dam, removing from there to Ladysmith in July 1904. Was elected
city attorney of Ladysmith in April, 1905, re-elected in 1906. Was
elected to the assembly in 1906 receiving 1,853 votes against 749
votes for Sewel Peterson (Dem.).