Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....THOMAS, JOHN W.
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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-FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.

Chippewa, Eau Claire and Rusk counties. Population,
1900—64,729.

JOHN W. THOMAS (Rep.), of Chippewa Falls, was born in
Wales, March 31, 1846; came to this country with his
parents in 1849, settling in Troga county, Pennsylvania.
He was left an orphan at the age of seven and he came to
Wisconsin in 1857, driving a team for a family of friends
with whom he settled in the town of Anson, Chippewa
county. He received his education in the common schools,
is a farmer and dairyman by occupation. At the age of
seventeen he enlisted and went out with the 36th Wisconsin
Volunteers, serving to the end of the war. He participated
in the brilliant services of his regiment in Grant's
campaign of 1864 before Richmond and Petersburg. He was
chairman of the county board several terms and served as
county treasurer. He was secretary of the Chippewa county
Agricultural Society eight years. In 1897 he was appointed
by the governor a member of the state board of
agriculture, was reappointed in 1899 for three years and
declined a third appointment. He was elected to the
assembly from the second district of Chippewa county in
1894 and re-elected in 1896, 1898 and 1900, serving four
consecutive terms. He was elected railroad commissioner in
1902 and re-elected in 1904. In 1908 was elected state
senator, receiving 7,901 votes against 5,528 votes for W.
H. Frawley (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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