Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WEISSE, CHAS. H.
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Author: Halford Erickson

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

SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL 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; re-ceived 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, and reelected in 1904 receiving 20,605 votes
against 17,087, for R. L. Morse (Rep.), and 308 for Wm. J.
Perry (Pro.).

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

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