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  Boileau, Gerald J.
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AffiliationRepublican  
  1937-01-01  
 
NameGerald J. Boileau
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Wausau, Wisconsin , United States
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Born January 15, 1900
DiedJanuary 30, 1981 (81 years)
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Infoborn in Woodruff, Oneida County, Wis., January 15, 1900; moved to Minocqua, Oneida County, Wis., in 1909; attended the public and high schools; during the First World War enlisted in the United States Army on February 25, 1918, as a private in the Eleventh Field Artillery, Battery D, and was honorably discharged as a corporal on July 16, 1919, having served twelve months overseas; was graduated from the law department of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., LL.B., 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Wausau, Marathon County, Wis.; served as district attorney of Marathon County, Wis., 1926-1931; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1928; 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; resumed the practice of law; elected circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit of Wisconsin in 1942; reelected in 1945, 1951, 1957, and again in 1963 for a six-year term; retired in 1970; appointed to serve as temporary circuit judge in Milwaukee County in 1970, for an unexpired term ending in 1974; resided in Wausau, Wis., until his death January 30, 1981; interment in Restlawn Memorial Park.


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  11/05/1940 WI District 07 Lost 35.66% (-15.95%)
  11/08/1938 WI District 07 Lost 38.04% (-10.81%)
  11/03/1936 WI District 07 Won 46.99% (+17.47%)
  11/06/1934 WI District 07 Won 48.49% (+19.31%)
  09/18/1934 WI District 7 - PRG Primary Won 82.07% (+64.14%)
  11/08/1932 WI District 07 Won 51.35% (+2.69%)
  09/20/1932 WI District 7 - R Primary Won 52.83% (+5.69%)
  11/04/1930 WI District 8 Won 79.12% (+58.25%)
  09/16/1930 WI District 8 - R Primary Won 50.63% (+1.25%)
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