Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BURKE, TIMOTHY
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.

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 1908.
Their terms will end Jan. 1, 1913. 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 1909 contains 38 republicans, 4 democrats, and
one social democrat. Lieutenant-Governor John Strange,
president; Jas. H. Stout, president pro tem; F. E.
Andrews, chief clerk; R. C. Falconer, sergeant-at-arms.

SECOND   SENATORIAL DISTRICT.

Brown   and   Oconto   counties.    Population,
1900—67,233.

TIMOTHY BURKE (Rep.), of Green Bay, was born in the town
of Morrison, Brown county, Wisconsin, February 2, 1866. He
received a common school education and besides mastered
all of the usual collegiate subjects through his
individual efforts. He was a teacher in the district
schools, which occupation he followed, together with that
of farming, for several years, and during his leisure time
studied law. He entered the law department, of the
University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1897 and passed the
state bar examination in December of that year, but
attended the law school until the summer of 1898; was
member of assembly from the second district of Brown
county, Wisconsin, in 1895 and 1896, and was sheriff of
Brown county in 1901 and 1903.   After leaving the
sheriff's office he engaged in the practice of law and is
a member of the firm of Kittell & Burke; was elected
chairman of the Republican committee for Brown county in
1904 and was re-elected in 1906, and again in 1908, which
position he now holds. He was member of assembly for the
first district of Brown county in 1907 and 1908; was
elected state senator in 1908, receiving 7,819 votes
against 4,745 for George Dagan (Dem.), and 561 for Chas.
Robinson  (Soc.  Dem.).

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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