- Twenty-second Senatorial District.
- Rock County. Population, 1900 - 51,203
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- 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.).
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- 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.
- Courtesy of Lori
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