Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BENFEY, THEO. June 11, 1871 - 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

TWENTIETH SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Sheboygan and Ozaukee counties.

THEO. BENFEY (Rep.) is a veteran of the Swinish-American war
of 1898. He enlisted with Company C, Second Wisconsin National
Guard, and served through the Porto Rican campaign. He was
born in Plymouth, Wis., June 11, 1871, graduated from the
Sheboygan high school, the University of Wisconsin and Law
College of the University, and since 1895 has been engaged in
the practice of law in Sheboygan. He was district attorney, of
Sheboygan county from 1899 to 1905 and has been an alderman of
Sheboygan since 1915. He was first elected to the senate in
1916 and was chairman of the judiciary committee in the 1919
session. When his nomination papers in 1920 were carried in
the mails to New York through some unaccountable error,
arriving in Madison too late to have his name appear on the
official ballot, over 1,400 electors wrote his name on the
ballot, nominating him in the primary and he was re-elected in
November, 1920, receiving 11,284 votes to 5,011 for W. J.
Bichler (Dem.), and 4,761 for Ernest Kreuter (Soc).

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The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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