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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE FIFTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 

Towns of Granville and Milwaukee; villages of Fox
Point, River Hills, Shorewood, and Whitefish Bay; and
the first, second, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth,
thirteenth, fifteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,
twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-fifth,
and twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth wards of the city
of Milwaukee.

ANDREW J. BIEMILLER (Dem.) was born on July 23, 1906
in Sandusky, Ohio.  He attended the public schools of
that city and received his A.B. degree from Cornell
University in 1926.  He taught history at the
Universities of Syracuse and Pennsylvania, and did
graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.
Coming to Wisconsin in 1932 he was active in
newspaper and educational work, editing a weekly
paper, the Wisconsin Leader, official organ of the
Socialist Party.  In 1936 he was elected to the state
legislature on the Progressive ticket, and served
three terms there, the last of his party's floor
leader.  From 1937 the fall of 1941 Mr. Biemiller was
an organizer for the Wisconsin State Federation of
Labor.  In September 1941, he went to Washington to
serve with the War Production Board.  He resigned his
position there, as assistant to the vice chairman for
labor production in June 1944, when he returned to
Wisconsin to run for Congress on the Democratic
ticket and was successful in the election that fall. 
He was accorded the unusual honor of being named to
the important Naval Affairs Committee during his
first term in Congress.  His married and has one
sine, six.  Home address:  2443 North Sherman
Boulevard, Milwaukee.

Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book 1946.  Compiled by The
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.  Published
Biennially by the State of Wisconsin pgs. 13 - 70


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