Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES O.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

STATE OFFICERS.

GOVERNOR.

JAMES O. DAVIDSON (Rep.), of Soldiers Grove, was born in
Norway, Feb. 10, 1854, and was educated in the common
schools of his native country. He came to Wisconsin in
1873, residing, first at Madison, later at Boscobel, and
since 1877 at Soldiers Grove. He has been engaged for
thirty-two years in the mercantile business. He was
president of the village of Soldiers Grove in 1888 and
1889, treasurer in 1892 and 1893, and again in 1897 and
1898: was elected to the assembly in 1892 and re-elected
in 1894 and again in 1898. He was chairman of the
Republican committee of the third congressional district
for several years; was elected state treasurer in 1898 and
re-elected in 1900; was elected Lieutenant Governor in
1902, and re-elected in 1904, upon the resignation of Gov.
R. M. La Follette he became Governor, Jan. 1, 1906. The
following November he was elected governor and was re-
elected in 1908 receiving 242,961 votes against 165,977
for John A. Aylward (Dem.), 28,588 for H. D. Brown (Soc.
Dem.), 11,754 for W. D. Cox (Pro.), and 394 for Herman
Bottema (Soc. Labor).

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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