Chippewa County WI Archives Biographies.....WILEY, ALEXANDER 
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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM WISCONSIN
WISCONSIN MEMBERS OF THE 79TH CONGRESS
SENATORS

ALEXANDER WILEY (Rep.) was born at Chippewa Falls on
May 26, 1884.  After his graduation from Chippewa
Falls High School he attended Augsburg College at
Minneapolis for two years, the laws school of the
University of Michigan for two years, and was
graduated for the University of Wisconsin Law School
in 1907.  He has been a lawyer and businessman since
that time.  Sin 1916 he has also owned and operated a
dairy farm in Barron County which was previously
owned by his parents.  Senator Wiley was district
attorney for Chippewa County for three terms from
1909 to 1915, a member of the school board of
Chippewa Falls, governor of the Wisconsin-Michigan
Kiwanis District in 1933, and Republican nominee for
governor in 1936.  He was married in 1909 to Mary
Jenkins.  They have four children, Elizabeth,
Marshall, Rosemary, and Winifred.  He was elected to
the U. S. Senate in 1938 and re-elected in 1944.
Senator Wiley is a member of the Senate Committees on
Claims, Commerce, Foreign Relations, Judiciary and
Rules.  Home Address:  Chippewa Falls.

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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