Thomas F. Timlin

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Thomas F. Timlin (D-Milwaukee)

Thomas F. Timlin (September 28, 1863 - October 29, 1903) was an American businessman who served a single term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee.

Background[]

Timlin was born in Mequon, Wisconsin on September 28, 1863, and came to Milwaukee in 1868. He was educated at St. Gall's Academy; after graduating he was in the grocery business until 1893 when he was appointed tax assessor of the fourth assessment district, a job he left in 1900, resigning to go into the real estate and fire insurance business.

Politics[]

In 1902, Timlin was elected to the Assembly's new Sixth Milwaukee County District, now made up of the 3rd, 4th and 7th wards of the City of Milwaukee, as a Democrat, with 2,746 votes against 2,242 for Republican Bart J. Ruddle, and 834 for Social Democrat William H. Statz. (The components of this district had previously been part of the First and Second Districts, but neither incumbent of those old districts was a candidate.) He was assigned to the standing committee on ways and means.[1]

Death[]

Timlin died of pneumonia on October 29, 1903.[2] The Assembly passed a resolution in March of 1905, as part of a memorial for Timlin and two other members who had passed away since the end of the 1903 session. [3] He would be succeeded in the Assembly by fellow Democrat Thomas F. Ramsey (who was also an insurance and real-estate agent).[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Erickson, Halford, ed. The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1903 Madison: Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903; pp. 568, 610, 1101
  2. ^ "State News", Oshkosh Northwestern October 30, 1903; p. 6, col. 5
  3. ^ "Honor Memory of Dead Solons", Appleton Post-Crescent March 9, 1905; p. 4, col. 4 - via Newspapers.com
  4. ^ Erickson, Halford, ed. The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1905; pp. 566, 1108
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