Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PERRY, CHARLES B. ************************************************ 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 12, 2007, 11:55 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MILWAUKEE COUNTY Sixteenth District. Towns of Granville and Wauwatosa and Cities of Wauwatosa and North Milwaukee. CHARLES B. PERRY (Rep.) was born in New Haven county, Connecticut. He attended the public schools of that state, the East Side high school of Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the State Normal school at New Britain, Conn., attended the Yale law school for one year, and graduated from the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin in 1886. He taught three years in the public schools of Connecticut and one year in the city of New Orleans. He has resided in the city of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, since 1892; was its city attorney from 1895 to 1905, and its mayor for five consecutive terms from 1906 to 1916. He was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1910 and served in the regular and special sessions of that body for the terms following that election. He is chairman of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of Milwaukee county, to which position he was appointed by Governor John J. Blaine in 1921, upon nomination by the state board of health. This commission, together with the Milwaukee Sewerage Commission, have charge of the construction of sewage disposal works and intercepting sewers designed to collect and dispose of the sewage of the city of Milwaukee, all the suburban cities, and most of the towns of Milwaukee county, at an estimated cost exceeding $15,000,000, designed to be ready for operation in 1924. Since 1894 Mr. Perry has been in the active practice of law in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He J was elected to his present office' by 3,295 votes against 1,404 v.otes for his Socialist opponent. --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/perry114nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb