Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BILGRIEN, HERMAN J. F. March 19, 1864 - 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

THIRTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Dodge and Washington counties.

HERMAN J. F. BILGRIEN (Rep.) was born on a farm near Iron
Ridge, Dodge county, March 19, 1864, and has spent his entire
life on the same farm. He attended the Iron Ridge state graded
school and besides being an extensive dairy farmer is a
practical cheese maker and butcher, having conducted a meat
market for twelve years. He has been director of the Iron
Ridge graded school for thirty-one years; was town treasurer
1906-07 and has been town chairman since 1912. He was the
first president of the Farmers Co-Operative Meat Packing
Company of Madison, a $750,000 corporation owned entirely by
farmers, and served two years. He was elected to the senate in
1918 and reelected in 1922, receiving 9,789 votes to Lawrence
S. Keeley (Dem.) 5,348, a plurality of 4,441 votes.

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

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