Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....JOHNSON, AXEL
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Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 5, 2007, 3:37 pm

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.

BURNETT  AND   POLK   COUNTIES.

One District.   Population, 1900—85,279.

AXEL JOHNSON (Rep.) was born in Denmark in 1870; received
a common school education in Denmark and America; studied
agriculture and worked on dairy farms in Minnesota for
some time, then went to Colorado and Wyoming for two
years. He came to Polk county, Wisconsin, in 1892, bought
the farm upon which he now lives and has been engaged in
dairying and stock-raising since. He has served his town
as clerk for six years, has been a school director for
many years, is also a director of the Polk County
Mercantile Company, a very large mercantile establishment
on the co-operative plan, and has been secretary and
manager of the Apple River and Beaver Creamery Company for
six years. He was elected to the assembly in 1908,
receiving 4,155 votes against 924 for P. A. Partlow
(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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