Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Mylrea, William H. 
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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

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

WILLIAM H. MYLREA (Rep.) was born at Rochester, New York, January 1,
1853, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1856. He was educated in the 
common schools and at Lawrence University at Appleton. He resided at Kilbourn 
City until 1883, when he went to Wausau, where he has since resided, and 
practiced law. He was district attorney of Marathon county in 1886 and was 
defeated for re-election in 1888. He was elected attorney general in 1894, 
receiving 197,709 votes, against 137,483 for James L. O’Connor, democrat; 
24,455 for Carl Runge, populist, and 11,214 for Charles W. Lomas, prohibition. 
He was re-elected in 1896, receiving 265,690 votes, against 167,707 for Henry 
I. Weed, democrat; 6,755 votes for George C. Jones, nationalist; 1,359 votes 
for Albert E. Dixon, prohibitionist, and 1,266 votes for Otto R. E. Gundermann, 
socialist labor candidate.

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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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