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9 unusual facts about Milwaukee County


Daniel Riemer

Daniel Riemer (born December 10, 1986) is an American legislator and law student from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin who currently serves in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Frank Kubatzki

Frank Kubatzki (May 12, 1877 - ?) was an American blacksmith from Milwaukee who served three terms as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 8th Milwaukee County District (8th Ward of the City of Milwaukee).

Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee

Perez's professional experience includes work with the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Social Services and service as the founder and executive director of the Milwaukee Community Service Corps.

Hunger Task Force, Inc.

Hunger Task Force works to end hunger in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin by providing direct food delivery services, and works to end future hunger by advocating for fair and responsible administration of federal nutrition assistance programs.

James Vint

In 1910, Vint was elected to the Assembly to represent the Eighth Milwaukee County district (the 8th and 23rd wards of the City of Milwaukee).

Leah Vukmir

Vukmir was first elected in November 2002, succeeding Scott Walker (R), who was elected in a special election as Milwaukee County Executive.

Mark Lipscomb, Jr.

In 1964 Lipscomb ran for the Assembly's first Milwaukee County District (the 1st Ward of the City of Milwaukee, and the 6th Ward of the City of Glendale).

Marshall Reckard

Reckard was elected to the Assembly in 1930 for the Fourteenth Milwaukee County district (the 17th Ward of the City of Milwaukee), unseating incumbent Republican Assemblyman Alfred Buntin, with 2663 votes to 2555 for Buntin and 1072 for Democrat Thomas E. Casey.

United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 1998

According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Neumann had a 30,000 vote margin outside Milwaukee County, but was overwhelmed by a 68,000 vote margin in Milwaukee County.


Benjamin Charles Garside

Garside had held no office until elected to the Assembly in 1886 from the 8th Milwaukee County Assembly district (the 8th, 11th and 14th Ward of the City of Milwaukee) to succeed Democrat Frank Haderer (who was not a candidate for re-election) for the session of 1887.

Boerner Botanical Gardens

Boerner Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden which is located on the grounds of Whitnall Park in the village of Hales Corners, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Jacob Kehrein

After one term as a justice of the peace, and ten years as chairman of his ward, Kehrein was elected to the Assembly in 1902 for the 9th district of Milwaukee County (9th ward of the City of Milwaukee), succeeding fellow Democrat John C. Karel.

John Chisholm

John T. Chisholm (born 1963), American prosecutor and current district attorney of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Mary O. Kryszak

In 1928, she unseated Republican Assemblyman Louis Polewczynski to represent the Eighth Milwaukee County district (the 8th and 14th wards of the City of Milwaukee), taking 3,889 votes to 2,659 for Socialist Nick Wroblewski and 2,239 for the incumbent Polewczynski.

Walter Polakowski

In 1920, he unseated incumbent Democratic incumbent Frank Kubatzki (who had served three terms representing the 8th Milwaukee County District 8th Ward of the City of Milwaukee), by 1593 votes to Kubatski's 1572.


see also

Konstance Knox

In 1996 Knox and Carrigan founded the Wisconsin Viral Research Group (WVRG), located in the Milwaukee County Research Park.

Michael McCann

E. Michael McCann (born 1936), District Attorney of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, 1968–2006

William E. Jordan

Jordan sought re-election in the new 10th Milwaukee County district (16th and 23rd wards), and was defeated by Republican John W. Eber, who received 3829 votes to Jordan's 2618.

Wisconsin Viral Research Group

Wisconsin Viral Research Group is a leading clinical diagnostic labaratory located in Milwaukee county research park in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.