Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CASHMAN, JOHN E.
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT Door, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc
Counties.

JOHN E. CASHMAN (Rep.) was born in Franklin, Kewaunee
County, where he farms the land his father purchased from
the government when Wisconsin was very much a wilderness.
He was educated in the common schools, a term at
Valparaiso University, and two years at the Chicago Law
School. For a number of years he taught school in Kewaunee
and Brown Counties. In 1901 he took a position as
inspector for the United States Bureau of Animal Industry
at Chicago. After two years he was advanced to a position
In the United States Bureau of Internal Revenue, which
position he held until 1919, when he returned to the farm.
In 1924, Senator Cashman was one of the La Follette
delegates to the National Republican Convention at
Cleveland. In the same year he was made a
University regent and served in this capacity for a full
term of six years.

He was first elected to the state Senate in 1922; he was
reelected in 1926 and again in 1930. He is chairman of
the Senate Committee on Highways and the author of the new
highway measure which bears his name, and which takes the
place of the 1925 highway law of which he was the sponsor.

Home Address: Denmark.

Additional Comments:
Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.
The Wisconsin Blue Book. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat
Printing Company, 1933.



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