Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....REIS, ALVIN C. ************************************************ 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@gmail.com January 2, 2008, 7:24 am Author: Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. TWENTY-SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Dane County. ALVIN C. REIS (Rep.) was born in Evansville, Indiana, on March 24, 1892. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1913 and from Harvard Law School in 1917. He was a major in the United States Army during the World War, serving nineteen months in France and taking part in the Chateau Thierry, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. From 1920 to 1926 Senator Reis was Assistant Attorney General and counsel for the Department of Markets. He has been chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Committee on Cooperative Organization for the National Association of Marketing Officials and is now a member of the administrative board of the National Association of Cooperative Marketing Attorneys, composed of American and Canadian lawyers. Senator Reis was elected to the Assembly in 1926 and 1928 and was Chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee in the 1927 and 1929 sessions. He was elected to the Senate in 1932. Address: 2262 West Lawn Ave., Madison. Additional Comments: Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. The Wisconsin Blue Book. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Company, 1933. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1933/bios/reis1054gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb