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JONES, Burr W., a Representative from Wisconsin;
born near Evansville, Rock County, Wis., March 9, 1846;
attended the common schools and the Evansville (Wis.) Seminary;
taught school for several years;
was graduated from the literary department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1870 and from the law department in 1871;
was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Portage, Wis.;
moved to Madison, Wis., in 1872 and continued the practice of law;
prosecuting attorney of Dane County in 1872 and 1874;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress;
professor of law at the University of Wisconsin 1885-1915;
served as city attorney in 1891;
chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1892;
delegate to the national convention (gold standard) at Indianapolis in 1896;
member of the Wisconsin Tax Commission in 1897 and 1898 and served as chairman;
appointed associate justice of the State supreme court September 6, 1920, to fill a vacancy;
elected to the same office April 4, 1922, and served until his retirement on January 1, 1926;
resumed the practice of law;
died in Madison, Wis., January 7, 1935;
interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Birge, Edward A. Burr W. Jones. Wisconsin Magazine of History 21 (September 1937): 63-67; Jones, Burr W. Reminiscences of Nine Decades. Wisconsin Magazine of History 20 (September 1936): 10-33; 20 (December 1936): 143-84; 20 (March 1937): 270-90; 20 (June 1937): 404-36; 21 (September 1937): 39-62.
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