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Biography of Henry E. Roethe



taken from The Wisconsin Blue Book 1923
Compiled and Published under the Direction of The State Printing Board.

page 611

HENRY E. ROETHE (Rep.), editor of the Finnemore Times, is serving his
second term, fourth session, in the senate without having introduced a
single bill. He served in the assembly in the 1907-09-13 sessions and
offered but a few bills to amend existing laws. He was elected to state
senate in 1916 on a platform of fewer laws, strict economy in public
expenditures and opposition to the creation of unnecessary offices and
has fought for these principles in each session. He was nominated and
re-elected to the state senate in 1920 without opposition, receiving
10,569 votes in the primary and 16,556 votes in the election. He was
born in Whitewater, May 24, 1866, was educated in the common schools and
normal; served as town clerk, and village president of Fennimore;
presidential elector and messenger to Washington in 1900. Resides
in Fennimore.

 

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