Biographical Sketches:  GEORGE E. BEEDLE


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. State Officers. Insurance Commissioner, p. 1122.

GEORGE E. BEEDLE was born in Shawano, Wis., July 17th, 1864; was
educated in the common schools; was in the employ of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company, from 1883 to 1899; was elected a member
of the county board of supervisors in 1901, resigning that position to
become one of the first trustees of the Waupaca county asylum, which
position he held until his term expired, December 31st, 1906, when he
retired to take up the duties of Commissioner of Insurance. Was
elected member of the assembly in 1902 and re-elected in 1904. He was
appointed one of the Legislative Insurance Investigating committee at
the special session of the legislature in 1905. He was elected
Commissioner of Insurance in 1906, receiving 177,082 votes, against
99,810 for Henry J. Neunens (Dem.), 24,240 for Herman W. Bistorius
(Soc. Dem.), 8151 for Lincoln Abraham (Pro.) [and] 532 for A. B.
Gunderson (Soc. Lab.).