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Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
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Wendell Willkie Speaking with Ed Mergen

Date: 03 25 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194...
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Reporters Interviewing Wendell Willkie

Date: 02 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie interviewed by Rex Karney (left), "Wisconsin State Journal" political reporter, and Marquis Childs (right), whose nationally-syndicated col...
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Governor Walter S. Goodland

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Governor Walter S. Goodland filing nomination papers at the Secretary of State Office with Gaige E. Roberts, chief of the elections and records division.
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Charles H. Cashin and Herbert C. Hale

Date: 12 11 1944
Description: Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District.
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Arthur Pugh Retirement

Date: 01 27 1948
Description: State Treasurer John Sonderegger, on right, presenting a tie pin to his chief accountant, Arthur Pugh, wearing eyeglasses on left, at his retirement. A gro...
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Portrait of George Hall

Date: 04 07 1948
Description: Portrait of newly elected Madison Councilman George Hall sitting at a desk.
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Optimist Week Designation

Date: 11 08 1948
Description: Madison City Manager Leonard G. Howell signing a proclamation designating Nov. 7-13 as Optimist Week in Madison. Looking on, left to right, are: Charles Th...
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New Attorney General Swearing-In

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: Attorney General Thomas E. Fairchild, (right) being sworn in by his father, Justice Edward T. Fairchild, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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President of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association

Date: 05 14 1950
Description: Portrait of Francis Garrity, Jefferson County district attorney and president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association. He is being urged to run for...
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Arlene Weidenkopf

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Portrait of Arlene Weidenkopf, private secretary to Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thomson.
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Inauguration of Attorney General Vernon Thompson

Date: 01 03 1955
Description: Attorney General Vernon Thomson, of Richland Center, is shown with his right hand raised while taking his oath of office, administered by a judge in a robe...
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Selective Service Officials

Date: 05 01 1959
Description: Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey (left), national selective service director, confers with his Wisconsin counterpart, Colonel Bentley Courtenay.
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Republi-Capers Show

Date: 04 10 1961
Description: Attorney Lyall T. Beggs, second from the left, has a few funny stories to tell three assemblymen at the "Republi-Capers" Show at the Dane County Fairground...

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