Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DISCH, WILLIAM
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Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 11, 2007, 9:17 am

Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

ASSEMBLY.

L. H. BANCROFT, Speaker; O. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S.
IRVINE, Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen
biennally and receive $500 for their services during the
term. The speaker is chosen by the members and receives an
additional $500 for his services as speaker. The assembly
of 1909 contains 76 republicans, 19 democrats, and 5
social democrats.

MILWAUKEE COUNTY. Third District. The seventeenth ward of
the city at Milwaukee, the towns of. Oak Creek and Lake,
the village of Cudahy, and the city of South Milwaukee.
Population 1900—22,236.

WILLIAM DISCH (Rep.) was born in Glarus, Switzerland,
January 12, 1840; came to America in 1853; lived in New
Jersey one year; removed to Milwaukee in 1854 where he has
since resided; received his education in the common
schools; is a retired farmer; served two years and ten
months in the civil war, being a private in Company K,
24th Wis., receiving his honorable discharge at the close
of the war; was a night-watch at the state capitol two
years, policeman and janitor five years; never sought or
held an elective office; was elected to the assembly in
1906 and re-elected in 1908, receiving 2,188 votes against
1,825 for Luke Scanlon (Dem.), and 1,465 for Albert Newman
(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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