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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

ASSEMBLY.
The assembly consists of 100 members, who are chosen biennially by districts, 
and who receive a compensation of $500 for their term of office. The speaker is 
chosen by the members, and receives $500 for his services.
The assembly contains 91 republicans, 8 democrats and 1 fusion.

WALWORTH COUNTY.

Second District. The towns of Bloomfield, Darien (including Darien village), 
Delavan (including Delavan village), Geneva, Linn, Richmond, Sharon (including 
Sharon village), Walworth, and the city of Lake Geneva.  Population, 
1895—14,824.

LEONARD C. CHURCH (Rep.), of Walworth, Walworth county, was born January 31, 
1846, in Walworth, Walworth county; was educated in the district schools and at 
Allen’s Grove Academy; is by occupation a farmer and dairyman, and also a 
breeder of Jersey cattle; has always lived in Walworth county, with the 
exception of three years spent in Chicago in the commission business; he 
enlisted in the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Company “L,” October 21, 1861, and was 
mustered out in February, 1865; was elected county treasurer on the republican 
ticket in 1886, and re-elected in 1889-90, serving three terms; was appointed 
one of the Soldiers’ Relief Commission in 1890, and reappointed in 1893 serving 
as secretary of the commission; has been a member of the republican county 
committee for the past six years. He was elected to the assembly in 1896, 
receiving 2,788 votes against 866 for Augustus P. Delgnan, democrat, 169 for 
William C. Deane, prohibitionist, and 60 for Peter J. Miserez, populist.


Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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