Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Otjen, Theobald 
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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

FOURTH DISTRICT.

The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 
eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth 
and nineteenth wards of the city of Milwaukee (all the city except the tenth, 
thirteenth, twentieth and twenty-first wards) and the towns of Franklin, 
Greenfield, Lake and Oak Greek in Milwaukee county. Population in 1895—212,407.

THEOBALD OTJEN (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born October 27, 1851, at West China, 
Michigan. He was educated at an academy at Marine City, Michigan, and at a 
private school in Detroit. He graduated from the Michigan University law 
department in 1875. He resided at Milwaukee from 1870 to 1872, and has resided 
there continuously since 1882. He was yard foreman of the rolling mills during 
the former period, and since 1875 has been an attorney at law. He was the 
village attorney of Bay View, Wisconsin, from 1883 to 1886, alderman of 
Milwaukee and member of the Milwaukee public library and museum board from 
April, 1887, to April, 1894. He was defeated for congress in 1892 and 1893, and 
for comptroller of the city of Milwaukee in 1890; but in every case running 
largely ahead of his ticket. He was elected to the house of representatives in 
1894, receiving 17,997 votes against 12,375 for David S. Rose, democrat, and 
7,110 for Henry Smith, populist. In 1896 he was elected to the Fifty-fifth 
Congress receiving 25,896 votes, against 21,429 for Robert Schilling, democrat, 
and 433 for Robert May, prohibitionist.

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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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