Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....MAHON , BEN H. April 15, 1888 - ************************************************ 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, 3:47 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE NINTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT The First, Second, Third and Fourth Wards, City of Milwaukee. BEN H. MAHON (Rep.) was born April 15, 1888, in the town of Liberty, Manitowoc county. He was educated in the public schools in the city of Milwaukee, and for a time attended the Milwaukee Medical College, now one of the departments of Marquette University. For many years, and while attending school, he was employed in various capacities in the circulation departments of several of the big Milwaukee newspapers. In 1913 he served as deputy state treasury agent. For the last several years he has been engaged in the insurance and real estate business in the city of Milwaukee. He was elected to the assembly in 1916 and re-elected in 1920. He was elected to the senate in the fall of 1922, receiving 6,358 votes to 2,065 for Clarence U. Baxter (Soc), 1,178 for Jacob Killa (Dem.), and 602 for Martin Higgins (Ind. Rep.). --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/mahon22nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb