Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....SEVERSON, HERMAN J. 
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

TWENTY-THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT

Portage and Waupaca counties.

HERMAN J. SEVERSON (Rep.), of Iola, is a native of the town of
Christiana, Dane county, where he spent his boyhood years on
his father's farm. He was educated in the public schools of
that county, and at the Stoughton Academy, Red Wing College,
Drake University, and is a graduate from the law department of
the University of Wisconsin. For two years he was a teacher in
the public schools of Jefferson and Dane counties and one year
was the principal of the graded school at London. He was
admitted to the bar in June, 1897, and is by profession a
lawyer. Chairman of republican county committee of Waupaca
county 1904-08. District Attorney for Waupaca county 1908-10.
Delegate to Republican national convention at Chicago in June,
1908. Was a member of the senate judiciary committee in the
sessions of 1919-21. He was elected to the senate in 1918 and
reelected in November, 1922, receiving 10,462 of the 10,479
votes cast in the senatorial election.

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

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