Biographical Sketches:  ROBERT G. SIEBECKER


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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. Justices of the Supreme Court, p. 1124

ROBERT G. SIEBECKER was born October 17, 1854, in Sauk county,
Wisconsin. He was educated in the district school until he was
seventeen and he then attended a private academy at Madison for two
years. He entered the University of Wisconsin in September, 1874, and
graduated in June, 1878. In the fall of that year, he entered the law
school of the University and he graduated therefrom in June, 1880. He
was admitted to the bar on examination in September, 1879. In October
of that year he began the practice of law at Madison and this he
continued until his appointment as judge of the Ninth judicial circuit
on January 7th, 1890. In March, 1886, he was elected city attorney of
Madison and was annually re-elected until he went on the circuit
bench. In April, 1891, he was elected judge of the circuit court, for
the unexpired term and for the ensuing full term. He was twice
thereafter re-elected to this position without opposition. On April
7th, 1903, he was elected a justice of the supreme court, for the term
beginning in January, 1904, and on April 9th was appointed for the
unexpired term in this office, caused by the death of Justice C. V.
Bardeen.