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Rennebohm Voting
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm outside a voting booth at the Maple Bluff village hall. At the time, the Governor's Residence was located at 130 E. Gilman Street, but Rennebohm, the wealthy founder of Rennebohm Drug Stores, Inc., owned a large house in the exclusive village of Maple Bluff. In 1949 the state purchased a new executive residence in Maple Bluff.
April 1948
Capital Times (Madison, Wis.)
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Election Night
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Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's decor is visible in the background. Renne...
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Wisconsin's First Lady, Mrs. Rennebohm, standing in the midst of furnishings that sixteen Rennebohm employees moved to the new executive residence at 101 Cambridge Road in Maple Bluff from the "old...
1948 Primary Elections
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Governor and Mrs. Rennebohm casting their ballots at their home precinct in Maple Bluff. The governor was a candidate in that primary election.
Governor Oscar Rennebohm Family
March 15, 1947
Group portrait of Governor Oscar Rennebohm and his family in the living room of their home at 201 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff. Pictured in front of the fireplace left to right: daughter Carol, the g...
Governor Oscar Rennebohm
March 15, 1947
Governor Oscar Rennebohm relaxing in the library of his Maple Bluff home, 201 Farwell Drive.
Truman, Rennebohm, Thompson
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President Harry Truman, Governor Oscar Rennebohm, and Senator Carl Thompson of Stoughton riding in the back of an open car during a Presidential visit to Madison in 1948. Although active in charit...
