Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PETERSON, LEWIS W.
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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.

BROWN COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Allouez, Bellevue, Depere,
Eaton, Glenmore, Green Bay, Holland, Humboldt, Lawrence,
Morrison, New Denmark, Preble, Rockland, Scott and
Wrightstown, the village of Wrightstown, the city of De
Pere, and that part of Oneida reservation within the
county of Brown. Population, 1900—22,987.

LEWIS W. PETERSON (Rep.) was born in New Denmark, Brown
county, Wisconsin, March 24, 1872, and received his
education in the district school, Ft. Howard high school
and Oshkosh normal. He taught school from 1893 to 1898,
when he began farming, at which he is still engaged. He
was a member of the Brown county board of supervisors from
1901 to 1906 and in 1907 was elected a member of the Brown
county asylum trustees. He was elected to the assembly in
1908, receiving 2,008 votes against 1,679 for John Vander
Linden (Dem.), and 58 for Henry Gerke (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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