Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BEEDLE, GEORGE E.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

STATE OFFICERS.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

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 3lst,
1906, when he retired to take up the duties of
Commissioner of Insurance. Was elected member of assembly
in 1903 and reelected 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 and was re-elected in
1908, receiving 844,749 votes against 156,228 for Wm.
Guilliaume (Dem.), 28,856 for H. W. Bistorius (Soc. Dem.),
10,882 for D. W. Emerson (Pro.), and 416 for Theodore Horn
(Soc. Labor).

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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