Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....HAMBRECHT, GEORGE P.
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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.

WOOD COUNTY.

One District. Population, 1900—25,865.

GEORGE P. HAMBRECHT (Rep.) was born in Milwaukee February
1, 1871. He graduated from the Lake Geneva public schools;
attended the University of Wisconsin three years; the law
school of University of Chicago one year where he did
sufficient extra work in the academic department of that
school to graduate with a bachelor's degree. He then
passed the Wisconsin state bar examination and while
attending the Chicago university he won a scholarship to
the Yale law school from which department he graduated. At
Yale he won the Kent Club prize in a competitive
examination on the subject of parliamentary law, and
assisted Prof. Baldwin, chief justice of Connecticut in
the preparation of his work on railroad law by verifying
the citations in this work. Mr. Hambrecht has been a
successful teacher, having been assistant and principal of
the Howe high school at Grand Rapids. Since graduating
from Yale he has practiced law in Grand Rapids being
associated with Hon. H. C. Wipperman until 1907, since
which time he has been in business alone. He served his
ward as supervisor two years and for the past year has
been city attorney. He was elected to the assembly in
1908, receiving 2,820 votes against 2,720 for W. B. Whelan
(Dem)., and 217 for Louis Wollason (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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