Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....FREAR, JAMES A.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

STATE OFFICERS.

SECRETARY OP STATE.

JAMES A. FREAR (Hep.) was born at Hudson, Wis., Oct. 24,
1861. Attended Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin,
in 1878, when with his parents he moved to Washington,
D.C. Served five years in the U. S. Signal Corps at Fort
Myer, Va., Indianapolis and Washington, and graduated from
the National Law University, Washington, in 1884. He was
admitted to the bar of the supreme court, District of
Columbia, the same year and then returned to Hudson,
entering the practice of law in that city. Has held
different city offices, including city attorney for
several years. He was appointed district attorney for St.
Croix county by Governor Upham in April, 1896, and was
elected for three consecutive terms thereafter. He was
appointed on the staff of the governor in 1901 and elected
to the assembly in 1902, and to the state senate in 1904.
He was appointed chairman of the senate investigation
committee on state insurance March 9th, 1905, and at the
same session chosen a member of the Wisconsin Insurance
Investigation committee. Served as chairman of both
committees during the year 1906. He was elected secretary
of state in 1906 and was re-elected in 1908, receiving
243,443 votes against 157,460 for F. B. Schutz (Dem.),
28,441 for J. G. Irwin (Soc. Dem.), 10,869 for L. H. Park
(Pro.), and 380 for John Vierthaler (independent)

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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