Biography of Oliver G. Munson

taken from The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published
under the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

OLIVER G. MUNSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, was born March 2, 1856, In Howard
county, Ia.; was educated In the common and high schools of Iowa and
Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1876; resided in Richland Center ten
years and at Viroqua fifteen years; is an editor and publisher, having
published the Richland Republican ten years and the Vernon County
Censor fifteen years; has been city clerk of Richland Center,
supervisor from city of Viroqua, bookkeeper in the state senate
several terms and assistant chief clerk of the assembly two terms. He
was elected to the senate in 1896 and re-elected in 1900, receiving
9,362 votes, against 4,132 votes for C. A. Henthorn (Dem.), 407 votes
for W. J. Robinson (Pro.), and one vote for G. L. Miner.