Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....POLAKOWSKI, WALTER January 18, 1888 - 
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MEMBERS OF SENATE

THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT

The Eighth, Eleventh, Fourteenth and Twenty-fourth Wards, City
of Milwaukee. 

WALTER POLAKOWSKI (Soc), born in Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 18,
1888; began to earn his living when a lad as a newsboy and
bootblack; at 14 began service as an apprentice to an
upholsterer and at 18 represented the Upholsterers' Union in
the Federated Trades Council, Milwaukee. He was married at 19
and engaged in the grocery and saloon business, becoming
proprietor at 21. He later sold out and engaged in the
insurance business until 1920, when he established the Union
Upholstering and Auto Trim Shop. He had never held a public
office until elected to the assembly in 1920. In the fall of
1922 he was elected to the state senate, receiving 5,778 votes
to 3,796 for Thaddeus J. Pruss (Rep.).

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

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