Bio: Bird, Claire B. (1919)
Contact: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bird

----Source: Wisconsin Blue Book (1919) page 470

CLAIRE B. BIRD (Rep.) although prominent in public life for many years, never held an elective office until elected to the senate in 1913, when he received 5,056 votes to 3,794 for Christ Bloom (Soc.). He was born in Jefferson, Oct. 27, 1868; graduated from the Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, in 1886; from the University of Wisconsin 1889, and the Law College 1891, since when he has practiced law in Wausau. He was appointed city attorney of Wausau in 1897 and served two years; was vice-president of the State Board of Education 1917-13, resigning when elected to the senate; and served as president of the Wisconsin State Bar Association in 1914, when he proposed the legal incorporation of all attorneys as a practical means to give adequate discipline against abuses and better control by court. The idea was later taken up by other State Bar Associations and the American Society of Judicature.