Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Baensch, Emil 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

STATE OFFICERS.
Terms of office expire first Monday of January, 1899

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

EMIL BAENSCH (Rep.), of Manitowoc, was born June 12, 1857, at Manitowoc, and 
received his education in the private and public schools of that city, and at 
the State University. Prior to attending the university he was a clerk in a 
general store; but was admitted to the bar in 1882, and has ever since been 
practicing law at Manitowoc. He founded the Lake Shore Times, a republican 
newspaper at Manitowoc, in 1881, and was its editor until 1883. He is an 
occasional contributor to the Central Law Journal and Masonic Tidings, and has 
delivered addresses before the National Guard Association and the German Press-
Verein. He was justice of the peace from 1882 to 1884; city clerk from 1885 to 
1888; county judge from 1888 to 1894. He was captain of the “Rankin Guards” 
from 1882 to 1888, and is president of the Manitowoc Building & Loan 
Association and of the Humane Society. He was nominated for congress from the 
Sixth district, in 1892, reducing his opponent’s plurality 1,800 below that of 
Cleveland in the district. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1894, 
receiving 198,181 votes, against 136,928 for A. J. Schmitz, democrat; 24,676 
for Frank Smock, populist, and 11,455 for O. B. Oleson, prohibition," giving 
him the highest plurality on the ticket. Was re-elected in 1896, receiving 
265,704 votes, against 167,640 votes for Horatio H. Hoard, democrat; 8,840 
votes for Ephraim L. Eaton, prohibitionist; 1,299 votes for Henry Reese, 
socialistic labor.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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