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| Name | Gardner R. Withrow |
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La Crosse, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
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October 05, 1892
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| Died | September 23, 1964
(71 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | WITHROW, Gardner Robert, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in La Crosse, Wis., October 5, 1892; attended the grade and high schools; after two years of legal training engaged in railroading as a fireman and conductor 1912-1931; member of the Wisconsin assembly in 1926 and 1927; served as State representative for the railroad brotherhoods 1928-1931; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses and as a Progressive to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress, and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed activities as State representative for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1961); did not seek renomination in 1960; was a resident of La Crosse, Wis., until his death September 23, 1964; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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