Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....GETTLEMAN, BERNHARD December 23, 1889 - 
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

FIFTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT

The Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Wards,
City of Milwaukee. 

BERNHARD GETTLEMAN (Rep.) was born Dec. 23, 1889, in Chicago,
Ill., moved to Milwaukee at an early age. Educated in public
schools; connected with Electric Company for 10 years; was
then appointed deputy sheriff; was elected to the assembly in
1916, defeating A. C. Ruffing (Soc.) and Wm. H. Van Nostrand
(Pro.). After the session was again appointed deputy sheriff
by Pat McManus (Rep.), sheriff. With the change from
Republican sheriff to Socialist sheriff was appointed acting
chief deputy pending civil service examination. Passed, high
examination from list of forty candidates and appointed chief
deputy. Had complete charge of sheriff's force during Cudahy
riots, ordering his men to fire over the heads of rioters
after they had fired directly into sheriff's forces. Father of
the Gettleman Fireman's law. Elected to senate in 1922 by a
majority of more than 2,000 over the Socialist candidate.

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

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