Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....NELSON, JOHN MANDT
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE SIXTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.

REPRESENTATIVES.

SECOND  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT.

Adams, Columbia.  Dane, Green  Lake. Jefferson and
Marquette counties.    Population,   1900-170,792.

JOHN MANDT NELSON (Rep.), of Madison, was born in the town
of Burke, Dane county, Wis., October 10, 1870; received a
collegiate education, graduating from the University of
Wisconsin In June, 1892; was elected superintendent Of
schools in Dane county in 1892 and re-elected in 1894;
resigned to accept the position of bookkeeper in the
office of the Secretary of state 1894-1897: edited the
Slate 1897-1898; correspondent in State Treasury 1898-
1902; was graduated from the law department of the state
university 1899; pursued postgraduate studies at the
University of Wisconsin 1901-1903; was secretary of the
Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin 1904-
1905; was married in 1891 to Thea Johanna Stondall; they
have six children; is by profession a lawyer: was elected
to the fifty-ninth congress September 4th, 1906, to fill a
vacancy; re-elected to the sixtieth congress; re-elected
to the sixty-first con-grass, receiving 20,925 votes, to
17,718 for J. E. Jones, (Dem.), 368 for W. A. Hall, (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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