A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              418 HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY
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Hon. Edward E. Browne. The Eighth Wisconsin District has been proud of the record of its representative, Edward E. Browne, in Con¬ gress, where he has been active both on the floor of the house and in com¬ mittee work, has been faithful to all the best interests of his constituents and has taken a firm and patriotic position with respect to all matters of national legislation which have demianded his attention in the vital and momentous period covered by his two terms of service. Air. Browne was elected a member of the Sixty-third Congress in 1912, was re-elected in 1914, and again in 1916 receiving substantial majorities in each of the counties in his district and a total plurality of 12,961 votes, or more than, twice the majority the district had ever been carried.
Congressman Browne is a son of Edward L. and Mary (Parish) Browne, and further reference is made to his honored father and mother on other pages of this work. Edward E. Browne was born at Waupaca February 16, 1868. He graduated from the Waupaca High School in 1886, and then entered the University of Wisconsin, from which he received the degrees Bachelor of Literature and Bachelor of Laws in 1892. He had been admitted to the bar in 1891, and after completing his law coarse he entered upon the aetive practice of law at Waupaca and for years has been regarded as one of the most useful and able members of the legal profession in the Seventh Judicial Circuit. He served as county attorney three terms, or six years, and was a prominent member of the state senate from 1905 to 1912. While a member of the state senate Mr. Browne drafted the amendment to the state constitution permitting the state to aid in road building. He also was father of the first good road law in Wisconsin, and as a member of the committee on roads in the house of representatives, took a prominent part in drafting the National Aid Road Law, passed hy the Sixty-fourth Congress.
Hon. Dorsey W. Shackleford, chairman of the committee on roads of the house of representatives, in a letter to Mr. Browne, pays the follow¬ ing tribute to Mr. Browne's work on the road committee:
' ^ In my opinion a few years will demonstrate that this road bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation which has been enacted by Congress in our time. It must be a source of satisfaction to you to know that you played such an important part in its enactment. I have serious doubts whether we could have passed it but for your efforts. I am sure we should have been greatly delayed in reporting it from the committee but for your timely assistance.
^' Your friend,
"Dorsey W. Shackleford."
Air. Browne served as regent of the State University for two years, which position he resigned when he was elected to the state senate.
Mr. Browne is affiliated with the Waupaca Lodge, No. 123, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with Waupaca Chapter, No. 39, Royal Arch Masons, and has attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite.   Por