Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BURKE, TIMOTHY February 2, 1866 - 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MEMBERS OF SENATE

SECOND SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Brown and Oconto counties. 

TIMOTHY BURKE (Rep.) is the only lawyer in Wisconsin who ever
held the office of sheriff, having served his county from 1901
to 1903. Born in the town of Morrison, Brown county, Feb. 2,
1866, he received a common school education, mastered the
usual collegiate subjects himself and attended the Law
College, University of Wisconsin, in 1897-1898. He has
represented both districts of Brown county in the assembly,
the second district in 1895 and first district in 1907, and
was elected to the senate in 1908, 1912, 1916 and 1920, being
president in the 1917 and 1921 sessions. He enlisted as a
private in 2nd Sep. Co., later in Co. G, Ninth, infantry,
Wisconsin State Guard, Aug. 2, 1917, and March 23, 1918, was
promoted to major and assigned to the Judge Advocate
department as ranking officer. Nov. 24, 1920, he was
commissioned Major Judge Advocate General in the Wisconsin
National Guard. He was chairman of the Brown county Republican
committee from 1904 to 1912. Is President of the Calumet
County Bank of Brillion, Wis.; was the first to recommend that
the Election Machinery of the state be used for registering
men under the "Selective Draft Act," during the late war. This
recommendation was suggested to the Secretary of War by
Governor Philipp and was adopted as the policy of the nation.
In the 1920 election he received 12,997 votes to 2,899 for
John B. Eberhard (Soc).

Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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