Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....OTJEN, THEOBALD
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.


FOURTH   CONGRESSIONAL   DISTRICT.
The 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th,
16th, 17th and 23d wards of the city of Milwaukee and the
towns of Franklin, Greenfield. Lake, Oak Creek and
Wauwatosa, the village of Cudahy, the cities of South
Milwaukee and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county.    Population
in  1900-183,540.

THEOBALD OTJEN (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born Oct. 27,
1851, at West China. Mich. He was educated at an academy
at Marine City, Mich., 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 elected to the house of representatives in 1894,
1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and re-elected in 1904, receiving
17,582 votes against 12,385 for Peter J. Sommers (Dem.),
9,025 for W. R. Gaylord (Soc. Dem.), and 585 for Thomas
Gardner  (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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