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2000-01-01 |
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| Name | William D. Dyke |
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Madison, Wisconsin , United States |
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April 25, 1930
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| Died | March 10, 2016
(85 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | William D. Dyke was a two-term mayor of Madison, Wisconsin from 1969 to 1973. A conservative Republican, he briefly left the party in 1976 to join Lester Maddox's American Independent Party presidential ticket as the Vice Presidential nominee; however, he disavowed Maddox's segregationist views.[1] Maddox and Dyke would win 170,274 votes in the general election (or 0.21% of votes).[2]
Dyke's tenure as mayor of Madison is considered a colorful, albeit often controversial, part of Madison's history. [3] Dyke presided over Madison during what is perhaps the most turbulent era in the city's history, highlighted by the Sterling Hall bombing and subsequent clashes with student uprisings. One of those student activists, Paul Soglin, unsuccessfully challenged Dyke in the 1971 mayoral elections, only to return and defeat Dyke's attempt for re-election in 1973. Undeterred, Dyke ran as the Republican nominee for governor in 1974, and joined Maddox's third-party presidential campaign two years later in 1976.
Dyke is currently the chief judge of the circuit court in Iowa County, Wisconsin.[4] He is one of several former Wisconsin politicians currently serving in the state's court system: former Congressman Harold Froehlich is a circuit court judge in Outagamie County, and ex-Assembly Speaker David Prosser sits on the state's Supreme Court.
Prior to entering electoral politics, Dyke moderated the popular Face the State, a local political news program modeled after the nationally-televised Face the Nation. His involvement in the program included interviews with political luminaries such as Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Gerald Ford, and John F. Kennedy. [5]
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