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Austin, William Harvey

lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 22, 1859, in Binghamton, N. Y. He came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1869 and settled at Portage City; moved to Milwaukee in 1871, where he has practiced law since 1879. In 1880 and 1881 he was assistant district attorney for Milwaukee county; was school commissioner in 1889; and was appointed assistant city attorney of the city of Milwaukee in 1890; and was city attorney in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the Wisconsin state assembly upon the republican ticket from the fifteenth and sixteenth wards; he was the unanimous choice of his party for speaker during the session of 1893. In the fall of 1894 he was elected state senator.