BIOtGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.






      MEMBERS OF THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS.





                     UNITED    STATES     SENATORS.

  ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE! (Rep.) was born at Primrose, Dane
county, Wisconsin, June 14th, 1855; graduated from the state university of
Wisconsin January, 1879; admitted to the bar February 18801; elected district
attorney of Dane county November, 1889; re-elected in 1882; elected a member
of the forty-ninth congress 1884; re-elected in 1886; re-elected in 1388;
defeated
for re-election in 1890; elected a district delegate to the national republican
convention June, 1896; elected a delegate at large to the republican national
convention June, 1904; elected governor of Wisconsin 1900; re-elected 1902;
re-
elected 1904; elected to the United States senate to succeed Joseph Very
Quarles
January 25, 1905. Took his seat as United States senator January 4th, 19096.
His term of service will expire March 3, 1911.


  ISAAC STEPHENSON (Rep.) was born in Yorx county, near Fredericton,
New Brunswick, June 18, 1829. His early life was spent in assisting his father
who was a farmer and a lumberman. A short time was spent at public schools
but most of his education is the result of observation and experience. At
the
age of fourteen years he moved to Bangor, Me., but shortly thereafter came
west, locating at Milwaukee. After a few years spent in unsuccessful farming,
he transferred his operations to lumbering in the northern peninsula of Michi-
gan. His earliest work in the field was contracting for putting in logs in
the
winter, while during the summer, he carried freight to Chicago and Milwaukee
by boat. When the first land office was opened in northern Michigan in 1848,
Mr. Stephenson and his associates purchased large tracts of timber lands
on
the Escanaba, Ford and Sturgeon rivers and on Big Bay de Noquet. In 1857
he discontinued contracting logs and engaged in the manufacture of lumber.
Since that date his business operations have grown rapidly until today he
is
one of the most extensive lumber manufacturers in the United States. In addi-
tion to its manufacture, he maintains large yards for the wholesale and retail
distribution of lumber and is also heavily interested in the manufacture
of
paper. Mr. Stephenson Ls also a banker and owns a model dairy and stock
farm. His business interests are centered at Chicago, Milwaukee and at his
home city, Marinette. Politically, he has been a republican since the organi-
zation of that party. He was a member of the assembly in 1866 and re-elected
in 1868. In 1882 he was elected to congress and served three terms when his
business affairs required his declining a renomination. In 1880 and in 1892
he
was a delegate to the republican national convention. In 1900 was delegate