Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Fricke, William A.  
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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

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

WILLIAM A. FRICKE, of Milwaukee, was born in New York city, May 15, 1857; came 
to Wisconsin with his parents the same year, and has resided in Milwaukee ever 
since. After passing through public schools and high school, studied medicine 
and dentistry. He has been prominently identified with insurance 
organizations—never held public office—is the secretary of the republican 
county and city committee of Milwaukee. Was nominated for commissioner of 
insurance by the republican state convention in 1894 by acclamation, and was 
elected, receiving 197,343 votes, against 136,523 for O. R. Skaar, democrat; 
24,616 for Henry Stoltze, populist, and 11,241 for Thomas Edwards, 
prohibitionist. He was reelected in 1896, receiving 265,893 votes, against 
167,205 for Frederick W. Thai, democrat; 8,135 for James E. Broad well, 
prohibitionist, and 1,324 for Fred Schuster, socialistic labor.

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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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