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Hans and Thomas Amlie

Date: 01 19 1938
Description: Two men are seated next to each other. Caption reads: "Washington, Jan. 19.--Visiting his brother, Representative Thomas R. Amlie, Democrat, of Wisconsin, ...
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His Monument to be Moved Five Miles

Date: 1863
Description: Portrait of Oakes Ames, a Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district, 1863-1873. By President Abraham Lincoln...
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Adelbert Ames

Date: 1865
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Adelbert Ames, US Army veteran and Republican politician. Ames was a general in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War....
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Fisher Ames

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Description: Engraved lithographic waist-up portrait of Fisher Ames posed sitting in a chair holding a book. He was a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Mass...
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Fisher Ames

Date: 1864
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Fisher Ames, a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788, then a membe...
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Oscar Altpeter

Date: 1893
Description: Vignetted quarter-length semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of Oscar Altpeter, a maltster and Democratic politician. Altpeter was the son of Phillip Alt...
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Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f...
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Gordon Allott

Date: 09 1966
Description: Quarter-length portrait of George Allott a Republican politician from Colorado. Allott served in World War II as a major in the US Army Air Forces. He was ...
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State Budget Hearing

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: An over-all view of the Legislature's 15-member Finance Committee conducting public hearings on the governor's budget recommendations.
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State Budget Hearing

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: At left is Senator William Draheim, Neenah, chair of the Legislature's Joint Committee, and co-chair Everett Bidwell, Portage, center, listen to a budget e...
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Penalty for Those Who Pose as Deaf

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: Rev. Herbert Drachenberg, right, pastor of the Madison Silent Lutheran Church, 1909 Huxley St., uses sign language to relay a question from members of the ...
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State Budget Hearing

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: Assemblyman Emil Hinz from Merrill, a member of the Finance Committee, studying the 260-page budget document prepared by the Dept. of Administration.
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New Members of the Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: Standing on a desk in the Assembly Chamber is Beth Coggs, four-year-old daughter of Assemblyman Isaac Coggs, a Democrat from Milwaukee. She is holding a do...
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New Members of the Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: New Assemblyman Frederick P. Kessler, Democrat from Milwaukee, receiving a kiss on the check from his mother, Mrs. Frederick Kessler. Kessler, the younges...
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New Members of the Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: Shown signing in as one of new legislators is Robert O. Uehling, a Republican from Madison. At left is Norman Anderson, Assemblyman representing Dane Count...
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We Saw You . . . at County Inauguration

Date: 01 03 1961
Description: Dane County elected officials are sworn into office for the 1961 term. Seven incumbent Dane County officers and their "sponsors" who introduced them for ...
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Wisconsin Assembly Republican Leadership Team

Date: 12 02 1960
Description: Veteran Assemblyman David J. Blanchard, Edgerton (right) was elected speaker of the 1961 Wisconsin Assembly by his fellow Republican legislators. Pictured ...
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Wisconsin Assembly Republican Leadership Team

Date: 12 02 1960
Description: The leadership group of the Republican team of the Wisconsin Assembly for the 1961 legislative session. Front row, left to right: Robert D. Hasse, Marinett...
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Assemblyman Paul R. Alfonsi

Date: 1961
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Republican State Assemblyman Paul R. Alfonsi, who represented Iron, Vilas, and Oneida counties. Alfonsi served in the Assembly p...
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Charles Aldrich

Date: 1878
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Charles Aldrich, a newspaper owner and writer and Free Soil Party member of the Iowa State Assembly from 1860-1882. He se...

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