Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CASHMAN, JOHN E. 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MEMBERS OF SENATE

FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Manitowoc, Kewaunee and Door counties. 

JOHN E. CASHMAN (Rep.) is a farmer. He was born, fifty-six
years ago in the town of Franklin, Kewaunee county. The state
senatorship, to which he was elected in the fall of 1922, is
the first political office he has ever held or sought. Besides
much home study and careful reading, he received a common
school education, a term at Valparaiso University, Ind., and
two years evening sessions at the Chicago Law school, where he
was president of his class and winner of the gold medal of the
institution in 1904. Prior to this he had taught school
several years; then took the United States Competitive Civil
Service examination, and standing at the top of the list of
competitors, was appointed first to a position in the U. S.
Government Meat Inspection Service in 1901 at Chicago, and
then as the result of another civil service examination was
promoted to a responsible position in the U. S. Internal
Revenue Service in Chicago. He held, this position for many
years until circumstances at home required his return to the
farm, which he had continued to hold during this time. His
specialty is farming, owning and operating at present two
eighty-acre farms near Denmark, Wis. , He is a Progressive
Republican and a staunch supporter of Senator LaFollette. In
the 1922 election he received 13,500 votes to 3,647 for Frank
A. Yindra (Dem.)

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

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