Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....GAREY , ALVA E. June 2, 1883 - 
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

FIFTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Rock county.

ALVA E. GAREY (Rep.) was born June 2, 1883, in the town of
Porter, Rock county, Wis. He was educated in the common school
at Stebbinsville, correspondence night study on the farm,
short course in agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Milton
Academy, and graduated with a B. A. degree from Milton
college, an M.A. degree in June, 1920, from the University of
Wisconsin, completing his work after the war, and a law degree
in June, 1917, from the University of Georgia. He has been a
farmer, instructor in Bayfield, Green Bay and Antigo high
schools and Milton college. He enlisted for service in the
World War as a private and served two and one-half years,
eighteen months of which was overseas. At the conclusion of
his service he was a captain and was commissioned a major in
the Reserve Corps. He has held the position of adjutant of the
Edgerton Post of the American Legion. He is a practicing
lawyer at Edgerton. In the September primary, 1922, as a
senatorial candidate Mr. Garey received 6,773 votes to 5,038
for T. S. Nolan. He was elected without opposition in
November, 1922.

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

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