Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....EKERN, HERMAN L. December 27, 1872 - 
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STATE OFFICERS

ATTORNEY GENERAL

HERMAN L. EKERN (Rep.), was born in Trempealeau county,
Wisconsin on December 27, 1872. He graduated from the law
school of the University of Wisconsin in 1894. The same year
he formed a partnership with H. A. Anderson to practice law at
Whitehall and was nominated and elected to the office of
district attorney for Trempealeau county. He held this office
for two terms. In 1902 he was elected to the assembly where he
served three terms and during the last term was speaker of the
assembly. He served on the special committee of the
legislature which investigated the life insurance business in
1906. During 1909 and 1910 he was Deputy Commissioner of
Insurance. When this office was made appointive in 1911, he
was appointed for a four year term. Since 1915 he has
practiced, law in Madison and Chicago, specializing in
insurance law, in partnership with Erwin A. Meyers and Harold
P. Janisch. In this practice he has served as the general
counsel for the associations of farmers' and other mutual,
fire, automobile, and casualty insurance companies throughout
the United States. In 1922 Mr. Ekern was nominated and elected
Attorney General of Wisconsin as a Progressive Republican. His
majority at the election was 286,171.

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

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