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THE STATE OFFICERS.

(State Officers are chosen for a term of two years.)

Governor.

WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, of Cottage Grove, Dane County. He was born in Connecticut, July 10, 1820; raised in the State of New York, where he received an academic education; moved to Ohio in 1840, came to Wisconsin in 1848, and settled on the farm where he now resides. Has been repeatedly unanimously elected chairman of his town, and was twice chairman of the county board of supervisors; has been county superintendent of the poor for 17 years; has been a member of both branches of the legislature; served several years as president of the Dane county agricultural society, and has been twice elected to the presidency of the state agricultural society; has been a trustee of the hospital for the insane, at Madison, since its organization in 1860. He was elected Governor in 1873, receivng 81,635 votes, against 66,224 for C. C. Washburn, Republican.

Lieutenant Governor.

CHARLES D. PARKER, of Pleasant Valley, St.Croix County. He was born near Connecticut Lake, Coos County, New Hampshire, December 27, 1827; received a common school and academic education; is by occupation a farmer; he came to Wisconsin in 1836 and settled at Muskego, Waukesha county; removed to Pleasant Valley, St. Croix county, in 1859; has held various local offices; was chairman of the town four years, and chairman of the county board in 1871; was elected to the assembly in 1868 and 1869. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1873, receiving 80,212 votes, against 67,208 for Robert H. Baker, Republican.

Secretary of State.

PETER DOYLE, of Prairie du Chien. He was born at Myshall, county of Carlow, Ireland, December 8, 1844; received a full collegiate education; studied law in the office of Butler & Cottrill, Milwaukee, during the years 1863 and 1864; is by present occupation a bookkeeper; he came to Wisconsin, with his parents, in 1850, and settled at Franklin, Milwaukee county; removed to Prairie du Chien in 1865, where he has since resided; was tendered the democratic nomination as the first mayor of the city, but declined; was elected to the assembly in 1872. He was elected Secretary of State in 1873, receiving 30,539 votes, against 67,110 for Ephraim W. Young, Republican.

State Treasurer.

FERDINAND KUEHN, of Milwaukee. He was born at Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, January 22, 1821; received an academic education; is by profession a banker; he came to Wisconsin in 1844 and settled in Washington county, near Cedarburg; removed to Milwaukee in 1846; he was elected treasurer of Milwaukee city in 1854 and 1855; alderman of the 6th ward in 1856 and 1857; school commissioner of the 6th ward in 1858 and 1859; city comptroller in 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865. He was elected State Treasurer in 1873, receiving 80,849 votes, against 66,474 votes for Ole C. Johnson, Republican.

Attorney General.

ANDREW SCOTT SLOAN, of Beaver Dam, Dodge county. He was born at Morrisville, Madison county, N. Y., June 12, 1820; received an academic education; is by profession a lawyer; he came to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled at Beaver Dam; was county clerk of Madison county, N. Y., in 1847-49; was circuit judge of the 3d judicial circuit of Wisconsin, by appointment, in 1858; was a member of the assembly in 1857; served as mayor of the city of Beaver Dam; was a candidate for chief justice in 1860, and defeated; was elected a representative in congress in 1860; was elected county judge of Dodge county in 1869, and was defeated as an independent candidate in 1873; held the office of clerk of the United States court for the district of Wisconsin from 1863 to 1866. He was elected attorney general in 1873, receiving 79,594 votes, against 67,921 for Leander F. Frisby, Republican.

State Superintendent.

EDWARD SEARING, of Milton, Rock county. He was born at Aurora, Cayuga county, N. Y., July 14, 1835; he graduated at the University of Michigan in the class of 1861, having entered the senior class the year previous; is by profession a teacher and author; he came to Wisconsin in 1857, and settled at Union, Rock county; was town superintendent of Union, and a candidate for the assembly as a liberal republican in 1872. He was elected state superintendent in 1873, receiving 80,147 votes, against 67, 137 votes for Robert Graham, Republican.

State Commissioner of Immigration.

MARTIN JULIUS ARGARD, of Eau Claire. He was born in Christiana, Norway, April 14, 1832; received a common school education; is by profession a merchant; he immigrated to the U. S. in 1852, settling at Chicago, and removed to Wisconsin in 1863, settling at Durand, and at Eau Claire in 1865; has held several local offices. He was elected state commissioner of immigration in 1873, receiving 80,600 votes, against 66,554 votes for George P. Lindman, Republican.

WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.

(The Senate consists of 33 members-those from the odd numbered districts having been elected in November, 1872, and those from the even numbered districts in 1873. In the 5th district, Mr. HERRICK was elected in 1873 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. R. H. Baker.] Senators hold their offices for two years, and receive a compensation of $350 per annum. The Lieutenant Governor is ex-officio President of the Senate.)

President of the Senate-CHARLES D. PARKER, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

FIRST DISTRICT

Consists of the county of Sheboygan. Population, in 1870, 31,749. The Senator is

PATRICK HENRY O'ROURK (Dem.), of Lyndon-P. O. address, Cascade. He was born at Granville, Milwaukee county, August 28, 1847; is by profession a lawyer, having read law with Stevens & Flower at Madison, and taken a law course, at the law department of the State University, from which department he has graduated, receiving the degree of LL. B., in Madison, and was admitted to the bar in 1869, by Hon. Alva Stewart, presiding judge of the 9th circuit, and subsequently to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the United States Circuit Court; went to Lyndon, Sheboygan county with his parents in 1849, where he has continued to reside; was elected to the Assembly in 1871. He received 2.999 votes, against 2,657 for John A. Bentley (Rep.)

SECOND DISTRICT

Consists of the counties of Brown, Door and Kewaunee. Population, in 1870, 40,215. The Senator is

JOHN MILTON READ (Dem.), of Kewaunee. He was born at Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 3, 1842; received a common school and printing office education; is by occupation a printer and newspaper publisher; moved with his parents to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842; thence to Milwaukee in 1847, and the following year to Manitowoc county; enlisted as a private in Co. E., 14th Wis., in 1861; appointed sergeant same year and sergeant-major in 1862, and was commissioned Regt. Adj. in 1863; was detailed A. A. A. G. of brigade, Feb., 1864 and acted as such until the

e of the war; participated in the

battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Nashville, the assault on Vicksburg, and in the Red River campaign and movements around Mobile; was wounded at Vicksburg and at Spanish Fort, and was taken prisoner at Corinth. At the close of the war he went to Missouri, where he engaged in the publishing business, but returned to Manitowoc, Wis., the following year and removed to Kewaunee in 1868; has been county superintendent of schools for Kewaunee county for the past four years, and was re-elected for another term at the last election. He received 2,893 votes, against 2,149 for Joseph S. Curtis (Rep.)

THIRD DISTRICT

Consists of the 1st, 2d, 6th, 9th and 10th wards of Milwaukee and the towns of Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and Granville, of Milwaukee county. Population, in 1870, 44,451. The Senator is

FREDERICK W. COTZHAUSEN (Dem.), of Milwaukee. He was born in Cambach, an ancient castle near Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhine, Prussia, July 21, 1838; received private tuition till 1848; entered the college at Meurs and remained till 1853; then the college at Cologne and graduated in 1855; is by profession a lawyer; he came to the United States in 1856 and settled at Milwaukee. He received 4,318 votes, against 1,973 for W. H. Lindwurm (Ind.)

FOURTH DISTRICT

Consists of the counties of Monroe and Vernon. Population, in 1870, 35,195. The Senator is

ADELBERT E. BLEEKMAN (Rep.), of Tomah, He was born at Salisbury, Herkimer county, N. Y., March 26, 1846; received an academic education; is by profession a lawyer;

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