Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MARTIN, HARRY CHAPMAN
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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

SEVENTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.

Green Iowa and Lafayette counties. Population,
1900—66,792.

HARRY CHAPMAN MARTIN (Rep.) was born on a farm near
Darlington, Lafayette county, December 15th, 1854. With
his parents he moved to Darlington when he was nine years
of age. Received his early education in a little red
school house a mile and a half from his home. Then, in the
public school at Darlington, after which he taught school
for one year and then attended the University of
Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1879. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1881, and has since
practiced law at Darlington. Soon after his admission to
the bar he was appointed county superintendent of schools
of Lafayette county, and was twice thereafter elected to
that office; In 1887 he was elected mayor of the city of
Darlington and was re-elected in 1888. He was city
attorney for several years thereafter and was elected
district attorney of Lafayette county in 1892; was a
member of the Republican state central committee for four
years; was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard five
years; President of Alumni Association, University of
Wisconsin 1904; is now serving his fifth term as Director
of the School Board at Darlington, having been first
elected in 1895; is one of the Directors of the Citizens
National Bank of Darlington; was elected from the First
Congressional District as delegate to the National
Republican Convention held in Chicago, 1908; was appointed
by Governor Davidson Senate member of the Legislative
Committee to visit the charitable, penal and reformatory
institutions of the state; was elected to the assembly in
1895 to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of James
Freeman; was elected to the state senate in 1898 and re-
elected in 1902 and in 1906, receiving 6,284 votes against
4,383 for J. B. Simpson (Dem.), and 189 for C. Marty (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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