Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....HOUSER, WALTER L. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

STATE OFFICERS.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

WALTER L. HOUSER (Rep.), of Mondovi, Buffalo County, was
born May 6th, 1855, in Tidioute, Warren County,
Pennsylvania. He came to Wisconsin with his mother in 1865
and settled in Pierce Comity. Received a common school and
academic education. He settled in Mondovi in 1875 and
founded the Mondovi Herald in 1876, of which paper he is
still part proprietor. He is also engaged in farming and
stock raising. Besides some local offices, he has held the
position of clerk of the committees on enrolled bills and
judiciary in the senate, assistant chief clerk in the
assembly and chief clerk of the senate. He was elected
secretary of state in 1902, receiving 193,631 votes against
134,755 for Louis A. Lange (Dem.), 9,648 for John C. Martin
(Pro.), 17,360 for Edward Ziegler (Soc. Dem.), and 854 for
John Vierthaler (Soc. Lab.).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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