Biographical Sketches: ANDREW H. DAHL ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net ********************************************************************* 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. State Treasurer, p. 1121. ANDREW H. DAHL (Rep.), of Westby, was born in Lewiston, Columbia county, Wisconsin, April 13, 1859, and was educated in the high school at Viroqua and the Northwestern Business college at Madison. Vernon county has been his home since 1864, where he is engaged in dealing in general merchandise. He was supervisor of the village of Westby during 1896 and 1897, and was elected trustee of Vernon county asylum in 1897 and re-elected in 1901 and 1904. He was president of the village from 1899 to 1902, and was elected to the assembly in 1898, 1902 and 1904; was chairman of committee on penal and charitable institutions in the legislature of 1903, and served as chairman of committee on "Assessment and Collection of Taxes" during the session of 1905. September 4th, 1906, he was nominated at the primaries for state treasurer over John J. Kempf, John W. Thomas, Julius Howland and Henry D. James, and was elected in November, receiving 178,650 votes, against 101,054 for Andrew Jenson (Dem.), 24,259 for Joseph Ammann (Soc. Dem.), 8,227 for David W. Emerson (Pro.) and 461 for Theo. Horn (Soc. Lab.).