lawyer, politician, state attorney general, b. Floyd, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State College, Ames (1890), moved to Wisconsin, and taught school at Almond and Amherst. He graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (LL.B., 1895), was admitted to the bar, and set up a law practice at Hudson in 1896. A Republican, he was a member of the state central committee (1905-1906). In 1918 he was appointed state attorney general to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter C. Owen (q.v.) and held this position until 1919. He continued his law practice in Hudson and was attorney for the state bar commission (1931-1938). J. G. Gregory, ed., W. Central Wis. (4 vols., Indianapolis, 1933); Madison Wis. State Journal, Dec. 21, 1938; Wis. Reports, 231 (1940), pp. xxvi-xxx.

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