Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....STAUDENMAYER, GEORGE December 3, 1857 - ************************************************ 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, 7:05 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TWENTY-SEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Columbia, Richland and Sauk counties. GEORGE STAUDENMAYER (Rep.) was elected to the senate in 1914 as a Democrat, carrying every county in the district, and was re-elected from the same district in 1918 as a Republican, the most unique record in the political history of. the state. He was born in the town of Caledonia, Columbia county Dec. 3, 1857, and received his education in the country schools of his native town. He began farming in 18S2 in his home town and took up threshing in 1887, following both professions ever since. He was elected president of the Wisconsin Brotherhood of Threshermen in 1918-19-20; chairman of his native town (Caledonia) in 1919, which position be still holds. He has been a member of the committee on education and public welfare of the senate for four years; a member of the committee on highways ever since that committee was created eight years ago, and a member of the joint committee on finance for four years. He was re-elected to the senate in November, 1922, as a Progressive Republican, without opposition. Until elected to the senate the first time he had never held a public office. --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/staudenm41nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb