Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ROETHE, HENRY E.
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 10, 2007, 5:00 pm

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.

GRANT COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Bloomington, Boscobel,
Castle Rock, Fennimore, Hickory Grove, Liberty, Little
Grant, Marion, Millville, Mt. Hope, Mt. Ida, Muscoda,
North Lancaster, Patch Grove, South Lancaster,
Watterstown, Wingville, Woodman and Wyalusing, the
villages of Bloomington, Fennimore, Montfort and Muscoda,
the cities of Boscobel and Lancaster. Population,
1900—19,187.

HENRY E. ROETHE (Rep.) of Fennimore, Grant county, editor
of the Fennimore Times, having the largest circulation
(4,000) of the country papers of the state, and known as
the "legomobile" editor, from the fact that he has been
all over his large county afoot and thus is personally
acquainted with nearly all of his constituents, is 43
years old and a native of Whitewater, Wis. He received a
common school and Normal education; came to Fennimore in
1885; was bookkeeper and cashier seven years and then
engaged in the newspaper business. Has served as village
clerk, town clerk seven consecutive years, and village
president. Was a delegate to numerous state and other
political conventions, and served during one session as
bookkeeper of the state senate. In 1900 was a member of
the electoral college of the United States that elected
McKinley and Roosevelt and was chosen by his state
colleagues as official messenger to carry the electoral
vote of Wisconsin to Washington. He was elected to the
assembly in 1906 and was re-elected in 1908 receiving
2,330 votes against 1,703 for J. S. Wright (Dem.), and 47
for A. R. Manley (Soc Dem.). Mr. Roethe has made both of
the trips to Madison to attend the session of the
legislature afoot, a distince of seventy-seven miles. At
this session his bills to abolish numerous offices and
commissions he considered unnecessary attracted wide
attention.

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1909/bios/roethe950gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/

File size: 3.0 Kb