Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....STOUT, JAMES H.
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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

TWENTY-NINTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.

Barron, Buffalo, Dunn and Pepin counties. Population,
1900 -73,390.

JAMES H. STOUT (Rep.), of Menomonie, was born at Dubuque,
Ia., Sept. 25, 1848, and was educated in the public
schools of Dubuque and in the Chicago University. He came
to Wisconsin in 1889, and has since been engaged in the
lumber business at Menomonie and in Arkansas. He has been
for several years one of the trustees of the Dunn county
insane asylum; president of the Menomonie board of
education; life member of the Dubuque library; and life
trustee of the Findlay hospital at Dubuque. He was elected
to the senate in 1894, and was re-elected in 1898, in
1902, and in 1906, receiving 5,020 votes and having no
opposition.

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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