Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....LEVITAN, SOLOMON November 1, 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 11, 2007, 2:16 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. STATE OFFICERS STATE TREASURER SOLOMON LEVITAN, (Rep.), born on November 1, 1862, came to this country in the fall of 1880. He worked on a farm near Baltimore until he saved enough money to buy a small stock of merchandise with which to become an itinerant merchant. In 1882 he came to Wisconsin and continued the selling of goods from door to door, first on foot and then with a horse and wagon. He finally managed to start a general store in New Glarus, where he made his home until 1905, when he moved to Madison. One of the original stockholders of the Commercial National Bank, at Madison, he was elected a director, then vice-president, and finally president. Mr. Levitan's first public office was Justice of the Peace, at New Glarus. He was a delegate to a number of state Republican conventions, and in 1912 and 1920 served as alternate delegate to the Republican National Conventions. In 1912 he received the largest vote cast for presidential electors on the Republican ticket. He has been an active Progressive Republican for the last twenty-six years. Mr. Levitan first ran for state treasurer in 1918, receiving 31,000 votes. He ran again in 1920, and increased his vote to 122,185. In the 1922 primary he won the Republican nomination, receiving a vote of 240,000; and . in the general election he was overwhelmingly elected by a vote of 343,177. --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/levitan4nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb