Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....KAMPER, JOHN H.
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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.

RACINE COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Burlington, Caledonia,
Dover, Mt. Pleasant, Norway, Raymond, Rochester, Waterford
and Yorkville, the villages of Union Grove, Corliss and
Waterford, the seventh ward of the city of Racine. <tna
the city of Burlington. Population, 1900—20,837.

JOHN H. KAMPER (Rep.) was born in Denmark December 17,
1857. He came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1866,
settling in Racine county, where he has ever since
resided. At the age of twenty-two he was elected justice
of the peace, -which office he held fourteen years. He has
filled the office of school district clerk OVM twenty
years; has been chairman of his town the pa.il nine years
and chairman of the Racine county buard or supervisors the
last three years.. He is president of the Town Insurance
Company, holding the position now ten years. He owns and
operates a farm adjoining the village of North Cape and is
president and manager of a large co-operative creamery. He
was elected to the assembly in 1908, receiving 2,240 votes
against 2,118 for Geo. Herzog (Dem.), and 176 for H. Meyer
(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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