Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....KLECZKA, JOHN C.
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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

EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.

The 5th, 8th, llth, 12th and 23d wards of the city of
Milwaukee. Population, l900—64,482

JOHN C. KLECZKA (Rep.), was born in Milwaukee on the 6th
day of May, 1885. After graduating from the parochial
school he attended Marquette University, from which
institution he graduated in 1903 with the degree of A. B.
He then pursued a post-graduate and the law course at the
Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C. On
January 1st, 1906, he was appointed deputy clerk of the
circuit courts of Milwaukee county, in which capacity be
served until the fall of 1908, when he was elected state
senator against ex-city treasurer and quondam Democratic
candidate for mayor Wm. H. Graebner and Ferd Rehfeld the
Social Democratic candidate, despite the fact that the
district was carried by Bryan and the entire Democratic
county ticket, receiving 4,396 votes against 4,312 for
Graebner and 4,073 for Rehfeld.

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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