Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LAFFEY, MICHAEL  July 5, 1863 - 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Second District. The second and fourth wards of the city of
Milwaukee.

MICHAEL LAFFEY (Rep.) was born on a farm in the township of
Clyman, Dodge county, Wisconsin, July 5, 1863, and received a
common school education. At the age of 17 years he left the
farm and went to work in a general merchandise business in
Watertown, where he remained for seven years. In 1885 he moved
to Milwaukee taking a position as traveling salesman for a
Milwaukee firm and remaining on the road for ten years. In
1895 he retired from the road to enter the real estate
business. He served in the Milwaukee' common council during
1S96-97. He was appointed state treasury agent by Gov. E. L.
Philipp in 1915-17-19. He was elected assemblyman in November,
1922, receiving 2,860 votes to 1,352 for James Johnson (Soc.)
and 442 for William O'Malley (Dem.).

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

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