Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....HUSTING, PAUL O.
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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-arm


THIRTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Dodge county. Population,
1900—46,631.

PAUL O. HUSTING (Dem.) was born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
on April 25th, 1866, a son of John P. Husting and Mary M.
Husting, nee Juneau, the latter being a daughter of
Solomon Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee. He removed with
his parents to Mayville, Wisconsin, in the year 1876.
Received a common school education. Left school in his
seventeenth year and became successively clerk in general
store, railway postal clerk and mailing clerk, and later
promoted to assistant bookkeeper in the office of the
secretary of state. Entered the law school of the
University of Wisconsin and passed the state bar
examination and was admitted to the bar in 1895. Began the
practice of law alone at Mayville immediately thereafter
and in 1897 associated himself with C. W. Lamoreux under
the firm name of Lamoreux & Husting which still exists.
Was elected district attorney of Dodge county in 1902 and
was re-elected in 1904. Was elected to the senate in 1906,
receiving 4,646 votes against 2,748 for Leon Keible
(Rep.), and 124 for G. A. Paddock (Pro.).

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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