Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WEISSE, CHAS. H. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

SIXTH DISTRICT. Dodge, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan and
Washington counties. Population, 1900—184,517.


CHAS. H. WEISSE (Dem.) was born in Sheboygan Falls Oct. 24,
1866; received his education in the parochial and high
schools of his native city; entered his father's tannery in
1880 and became a partner in the firm of Chas. S. Weisse &
Co., tanners and curriers, in 1888 ; was chairman of the
county board of supervisors of Sheboygan county in 1900 ;
was elected president of the village of Sheboygan Falls in
1893 and re-elected for three successive terms; served three
years as treasurer of school board of Sheboygan Falls; was
defeated for congress in 1900 by S. S. Barney; was elected
to congress in 1902, receiving 17,991 votes against 14,575
votes for W. H. Froehlich (Rep.), and 1,394 for J. P. Wilson
(Soc. Dem.).

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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