WAUKESHA Co., Second Dist.-The towns of Brookfield, Delafield, Lisbon, Menom inee, Merton, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee and Summit, the villages of Hartland, Menominee Falls and Pewaukee, and the city of Oconomowoc. Population, 1900-17,865. WAUPACA CO., First Dist.-The towns of Caledonia, Dayton, Farmington, Fremont, Lind, Little Wolf, Royalton, St. Lawrence, Scandinavia. Wau aca and Weyauwega, the villages of Weyauwega, Fremont, Manawa and Scandinavia, and the city of Waupaca. Population, 1900-16,337. WAUPACA CO., Second Dist.-The towns of Bear Creek, Dupont, Harrison, Heivetia, Iola, Lebanon, Larrabee, Matteson, Mukwa, Union and Wyoming, the villages of Embarrass, Iola and Marion, the city of Clintonville, and the first, second, fourth and fifth wards of the city of New London. Population, 1900-15,278.

WINNEBAGO Co., First Dist.-The town of Oshkosh, the first, second, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth wards of the city of Oshkosh. Population, 1900-20,317.

WINNEBAGO Co., Second Dist.-The towns of Clayton, Menasha, Neenah, Vinland, Winchester, Winneconne and Wolf River, the village of Winneconne, and the cities of Menasha and Neenah. Population, 1900-18,670.

WINNEBAGO Co., Third Dist.-The towns of Algoma, Black Wolf, Nekimi, Nepeuskun, Omro, Poygan, Rushford and Utica, the village of Omro, the third, sixth, ninth and thirteenth wards of the city of Oshkosh. Population, 1900-19,238.

NOTE.-One of the last acts of the legislature of 1905 was to pass a law changing the name of Gates county to Rusk county; hence the territory embraced in Gates county in the above apportionment will hereafter be known as Rusk county. Several new towns, villages, wards, and voting precincts have also been created since the above apportionment was made, but are not included above. They can be found elsewhere under the head of "election statistics."

PART VIII.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

U. S. Senators.

Representatives in Congress.

State Officers.

Supreme Judges.

State Senators.

Members of Assembly.

University Faculty.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTII CONGRESS.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Madison, was born at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Ind., Jan. 6. 1843; removed with his father's family to Wisconsin and settled at Madison June 1, 1859; graduated at the state university in 1864; was private in Company D, Fortieth regiment, and captain of Company A, Fiftieth regiment, Wisconsin infantry volunteers; was brevetted major at the close of service; was private and miltary secretary of Gov. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and served as assistant attorney general of the state until 1870, when he removed to Hudson, where he practiced law from 1870 until 1884; was member of the assembly from St. Croix county in 1872; member of the board of regents of the Wisconsin university; was elected United States senator to succeed Angus Cameron (Rep.), for the term beginning March 4, 1885; was succeeded as United States senator by W. F. Vilas March 4, 1891; was nominated as republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1892, but was defeated; removed from Hudson to Madison in 1893 where he practiced law until re-elected United States senator for the term beginning March 4, 1897, succeeding W. F. Vilas (Dem.) In 1898 was tendered the position of Secretary of the Interior, and in 1901 the attorney generalship in McKinley's cabinet, both of which were declined; was elected to succeed himself in the United States senate in 1903 for the term ending March 4, 1909.

ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE-Senator Elect-(For biography see p.

1069.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Green, Kenosha, Lafayette, Racine, Rock and Walworth Counties. Population, 1900-191,491.

HENRY ALLEN COOPER (Rep.), of Racine, was born at Spring Prairie, Walworth county, Wisconsin, September 8, 1850; graduated from Northwestern University in 1873, and from Union College of Law, Chicago (now Law School of N. W. University) in 1875; is by profession a lawyer; resided in Chicago

from 1873 to 1879; otherwise has always lived in Wisconsin; in 1880 was elected district attorney of Racine county, and re-elected without opposition in 1882 and in 1884; state senator in 1886; author of the law which first established the Australian ballot system in Wisconsin; was elected representative in Con. gress in 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and again in 1904 receiving 25,125 votes against 13,379 for Calvin Stewart (Dem.) and 1,235 for Henry H. Tubbs (Pro.) and 2,461 for Jacob W. Born (Soc. Dem.).

SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green Lake, Jefferson and Marquette Counties. Population, 1900-170,792.

HENRY CULLEN ADAMS (Rep.) was born in Verona, Oneida county, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1850, and came with his parents to Wisconsin the following year; received his education in the common schools, Albion Academy and the University of Wisconsin later he engaged in dairying and fruit raising; was elected member of assembly in 1883 and re-elected in 1885; during the winters of 1887, 1888 and 1889 took an active part in the Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes throughout the state; was president of the State Dairymen's Association three years; secretary of the State Horticultural Society two years; was appointed by Gov. Hoard superintendent of public property in 1888; was appointed dairy and food commissioner in 1895 and served until May 1, 1902, when he resigned to become a candidate for congress; was elected to the 58th Congress and re-elected in 1904, receiving 22,773 votes against 15,265 for John J. Wood (Dem.), 958 for Wm. J. McKay (Pro.), and 461 for Henry J. Dunham (Soc. Dem.).

THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Juneau, Richland, Sauk and Vernon Counties. Population, 1900-180,750.

JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK (Rep.), of Necedah, was born in Swanton, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved with his parents to Iowa in 1855, where he resided until 1881, when he removed to Necedah, Wis., where he has since resided and for many years was engaged in the manufacture of lumber; was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1888, and re-elected in 1890; was elected chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee for the years of 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1904, and successfully conducted the campaigns for those years; was elected to the fifty-third congress in 1892, and re-elected to the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses; was appointed chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia in the fiftyfourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses, and a member of the committee on Ways and Means in the fifty-sixth, fify-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses.

FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DSITRICT.

The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 23d wards of the city of Milwaukee and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, Oak Creek and Wauwatosa, the village of Cudahy, the cities of South Milwaukee and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county. Population in 1900-183,540.

THEOBALD OTJEN (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born Oct. 27, 1851, at West China, Mich. He was educated at an academy at Marine City, Mich., and at a private school in Detroit. He graduated from the Michigan University law department in 1875. He resided at Milwaukee from 1870 to 1872, and has resided there continuously since 1882. He was yard foreman of the rolling mills