Biographical Sketches:  FRANK L. GILBERT


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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. Attorney General, p. 1121.

FRANK L. GILBERT (Rep.), of Madison, was born March 3, 1864, in Arena,
Iowa County, Wisconsin. When but a few months old he was made an
orphan by the death of his father in the civil war. His early youth
was spent in Iowa County, Wisconsin, working on farms in the summer
and attending school in the winter. He taught his first school at the
age of sixteen and graduated from the Mazomanie high school in 1883.
He later entered the academic department of the University, but before
graduating was obliged to abandon his studies in order to earn means
to pursue them. In 1896 he entered the law school of the state
university, passed the state bar examination in 1897, and though
engaged activity in practice continued his studies in the law school,
graduating in 1899. Served as district attorney of Dane county from
January 1st, 1902, to January 1st, 1907. Was nominated as the
republican candidate for attorney general in 1906, receiving 73,761
votes against 44,102 for C. A. A. McGee and 26,423 for Wallace
Ingalls. Was elected attorney general, receiving 179,427 votes,
against 99,391 for Martin Lueck (Dem.), 24,411 for Richard Elsner
(Soc. Dem.) and 7,991 for B. E. Van Keuren (Pro.).