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"John M. Whitehead"

Twenty-second Senatorial District.
Rock County. Population, 1900 - 51,203
 
JOHN M. WHITEHEAD (Rep.) was born July 29, 1852, on a farm near Hillsboro, Ill. He was educated at Hillsboro Academy, preparatory department of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. (1871-2), Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. (1872-3), Yale College (1873-77), where he took the degree of A. B. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of Illinois in October, 1880, and to the bar of Wisconsin in September, 1883. He came to Wisconsin in August, 1883, settling at Janesville, where he has since resided. Has been a member of the county board of Rock county, representing the fourth ward of Janesville. Was elected to the state senate in 1896, 1900, and again in 1904, receiving 5,810 votes against 4,200 for Robert M. Richmond (Dem.), 428 for Morris Mortimer (Soc. Dem.), and 401 for Thos. W. North (Pro.).
 
Taken from "The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin: Complied and Published Under the Direction of J. D. Beck, Secretary of State" (c)1907 Democrat Printing Company, State Printer, Madison [WI], p. 1133.
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