# James Larsin

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'''James Larsin''' (May 25, 1855 – ?) was an American [ship](/source/ship) [carpenter](/source/carpenter) and [fisherman](/source/fisherman) from [Menekaunee](/source/Menekaunee%2C_Wisconsin), [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin) who spent one term as a [Union Labor Party](/source/Labor_Party_(United_States%2C_19th_century)) member of the [Wisconsin State Assembly](/source/Wisconsin_State_Assembly) from [Marinette County](/source/Marinette_County%2C_Wisconsin).<ref>[http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848&ndash;1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 74] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209014416/http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf |date=2006-12-09 }}</ref>

== Background ==
Larsin was born in [Denmark](/source/Denmark) on May 25, 1855. He became a fisherman and ship carpenter by trade. He came to Wisconsin in 1871, and settled in [Racine](/source/Racine%2C_Wisconsin), where he remained till 1879, when he moved to [Door County](/source/Door_County%2C_Wisconsin) and lived there three years (during that time, in 1880, he was awarded a [Lifesaving Medal](/source/Lifesaving_Medal) for the rescue from drowning of seven persons off North Bay in that county). He then settled in Marinette County.

== Public office ==
Larsin was serving as an [alderman](/source/alderman) for the [City](/source/political_subdivisions_of_Wisconsin) of [Marinette](/source/Marinette%2C_Wisconsin) (which had annexed Menekaunee) when he was elected in 1890 from the Assembly's Marinette County district as a Union Labor Party candidate, with 1,465 votes to 1034 for [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) Charles Reinke and 179 for [Prohibitionist](/source/Prohibition_Party) Jacob Lindern ([Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) incumbent [Patrick Clifford](/source/Patrick_Clifford_(politician)) was not a candidate for re-election). The only Union Labor member elected to either house that year, he was assigned to the [standing committee](/source/standing_committee)s on [roads](/source/roads) and [bridge](/source/bridge)s, and on [labor](/source/Labour_economics) and [manufactures](/source/manufacturing).<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1891 Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. ''The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1891'' Madison, 1891; pp. 309, 559, 562, 563, 595-96]</ref>

He ran for re-election in 1892 on the [Populist](/source/People's_Party_(United_States)) ticket, but came in fourth in a four-way race with 6.51% of the vote, with the seat being claimed by Democrat [Charles Daily](/source/Charles_Daily).<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1893 Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. ''The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1893'' Madison, 1893; p. 646]</ref>

== Personal life ==
At the time of his election, he was married.<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1891 Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. ''The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1891'' Madison, 1891; p. 556]</ref>

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