1. Background

2. Public office

3. References

Background

Higgins was born in County Sligo, Ireland on March 25, 1824. He received a common school education, and became a farmer. He came to Wisconsin in 1851, and settled in the Town of Shields.

Public office

He had served seven years as chairman of his town, several years as a justice of the peace, and two years (1871-1872) as Dodge County county clerk, when in 1875 he was elected to the Assembly from Dodge County's 6th Assembly district (the Towns of Ashippun, Emmet, Lebanon, and Shields). He received 420 votes as a candidate of the Reform Party (a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873), against 397 votes for Thomas O'Meara, the regular Democratic nominee (who had run as a "regular Reform" candidate the year before). (Reform incumbent Harman Grube was not a candidate for re-election.) He was assigned to the standing committee on medical societies.^[2]

The Assembly was redistricted for the 1877 session (Dodge County went from six seats to four); the new district which included Shields was taken by Democrat Patrick Roche.

References

• The Treaty of Kiel
• The Treaty of Niš
• The Treaty of Niš (1914)
• The Treaty of Niš (1923)
• The Treaty of Penn with the Indians
• The Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance
• The Treaty (Parks and Recreation)
• The treaty ports
• The Treble (rugby league)
• The Tree and the Fruit
• The Tree and the River
• The Tree Bar
• The Tree Council (UK)
• The Treehouse (computer game)
• The Tree of Heaven
• The Tree of Knowledge (1920 film)
• The Tree of Knowledge (1981 film)
• The Tree of Life (album)
• The Tree of Life (film
• The Tree of Life (novel)
• The Tree Of Life (Soundtrack)
• The Tree of Life (soundtrack)
• The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze
• The Tree of Time
• The trees