Biographical Sketches:  JOHN M. WHITEHEAD


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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.

Twenty-second Senatorial District. Rock County. Population, 1900 -
51,203. (p. 1133)

JOHN M. WHITEHEAD (Rep.) was born July 29, 1852, on a farm near
Hillsboro, Ill. He was educated at Hillsboro Academy, preparatory
department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. (1871-2), Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. (1872-3), Yale College (1873-77), where
he took the degree of A. B. He studied law and was admitted to the bar
of Illinois in October, 1880, and to the bar of Wisconsin in
September, 1883. He came to Wisconsin in August, 1883, settling at
Janesville, where he has since resided. Has been a member of the
county board of Rock county, representing the fourth ward of
Janesville. Was elected to the state senate in 1896, 1900, and again
in 1904, receiving 5,810 votes against 4,200 for Robert M. Richmond
(Dem.), 428 for Morris Mortimer (Soc. Dem.), and 401 for Thos. W.
North (Pro.).