lawyer, politician, educator, b. Milwaukee. He attended the Univ. of Wisconsin (1892-1895), and graduated from the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1903), and Yale Univ. (LL.B., 1904). He taught school at Grand Rapids (now Wisconsin Rapids) from 1895 to 1900, and was city superintendent of schools (1900-1902). In 1903 he was admitted to the Wisconsin bar and set up a practice in Grand Rapids. A Republican, he was state assemblyman (1909-1910, 1915), and in 1915 was appointed by Governor Philipp to the state industrial commission. Hambrecht served on this commission from 1915 to 1921, and was its chairman (1917-1921). In 1921 he became director of the state board of vocational and adult education, and served in this capacity until his death. Noted for his large collection of material on Abraham Lincoln, Hambrecht wrote several pamphlets on this subject, as well as articles and books on education. Who's Who in Amer., 22 (1942); J. G. Gregory, ed., S.W. Wis. (4 vols., Chicago, 1932); F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); Wis. Blue Book (1909); Sheboygan Press, Dec. 23, 1943; G. P. Hambrecht Papers.

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[Source: Blue book]