Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....GOODLAND, WALTER S.
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MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

TWENTY-FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT The County of Racine.

WALTER S. GOODLAND (Rep.) was born at Sharon, Wisconsin,
on December 22, 1863. He is a son of the late Judge John
Goodland, who was judge of the 10th Judicial Circuit for
twenty-five years. He received a high school education at
Appleton and attended Lawrence College but did not
graduate. He was admitted to the bar in the Wisconsin
Supreme Court in 1884, and practiced law for a few years
before entering the newspaper business. He was mayor of
Racine for four years from 1911 to 1915. He is now
president of the Municipal Water Commission of Racine.
Since 1887 he has been engaged in the newspaper business
and was editor of the Racine Times-Call from 1900 to its
merger with the Journal last year. He was elected to the
Senate in 1926 and 1930.

Home Address: 1632 Wisconsin St., Racine.

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


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