Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....SMITH, DR. FRANK
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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.

DANE COUNTY.

First District. The towns of Blooming Grove, Dunn, Madison
and Pleasant Springs; the village of Fair Oaks, and the
city of Madison. Population, 1900-24,458.

DR. FRANK SMITH (Rep.) was born on a farm in Lauderdale
county, Tennessee. At the age of seventeen he left the
farm and enlisted in the regular army, and after serving
three years was honorably discharged. He then settled on a
farm in Green county, Wisconsin, but after farming a few
years, accepted a position as traveling salesman for a
drug house. He traveled four years and resigned to accept
a position as engineer in the capitol building at Madison,
and held this position for nine years, when he resigned
and went to Chicago to study dentistry. He graduated from
the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1894. He
practiced his profession in Chicago until 1901, when he
returned to Madison, where he has since resided. In 1902:
he was elected on the Republican ticket to the common
council from the , third ward of the city of Madison by
105 majority, the ward being normally about 150
Democratic, and he was re-elected in 1904 by a majority of
81. In the September primary election of 1908 he was made
the regular Republican nominee for member of assembly,
First district, Dane county, by a vote of 1,433 as against
1,180 for E. N. Warner, 383 for H. C. Duke, and 2 for W.
J. McKay. In the triangular contest for the election which
followed he received 3,217 votes as against 2,923 for B.
T. Elver (Dem.), 1,307 for W. J. McKay (Ind.), and 35 for
Wm. T. Boorman (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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