Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BLAINE, JOHN J. May 4, 1875 - 
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STATE OFFICERS

GOVERNOR

JOHN J. BLAINE . (Rep.), was born May 4, 1875 on a farm in the
town of Wingville, Grant County, Wisconsin; attended common
school and was graduated, from Montfort high school, Montfort,
Wisconsin; afterwards attended Northern Indiana University at
Valparaiso, Indiana, and was graduated from the law department
there of on June. 3, 1896. He practiced law in Montfort,
Wisconsin, one year, after which he removed to Boscobel,
Wisconsin, where he has since practiced law. He served as
mayor of Boscobel four terms and member of county board of
supervisors of Grant county four years. He was elected to the
state senate in 1908 and served in the sessions for 1909 and
1911, but was not a candidate for reelection. In 1912 he was
alternate delegate to the republican national convention at
Chicago, and in 1916 a delegate to the republican national
convention at Chicago. In 1918 he was elected attorney
general. In 1920 he was elected a delegate at large to the
republican national convention at Chicago, and at the November
election 1920 he was elected to the office of Governor on the
republican ticket, and reelected November 7, 1922.

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

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