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The Republican launched the careers of several prominent journalists and novelists. I. E. "Sy" Sanborn, longtime Chicago sportswriter and one of the original organizers of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1908, began his career at The Republican. Radio's "poet laureate" Norman Corwin was a reporter for The Republican in the 1930s ...
Steven Grossman (born February 17, 1946) is an American businessman and former Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts [1] and candidate for Governor of Massachusetts.
His father Martin E. Schreiber was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1941–1944), and later a member of the Milwaukee Common Council (1944 to 1976). The younger Schreiber attended the youth government and leadership program Badger Boys State in 1956 as a representative chosen from Milwaukee Lutheran High School.
On April 6, 2004, Milwaukee elected Tom Barrett as its 40th mayor. He won reelection as mayor in 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2020 . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After having unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin in 2002 , Barrett was the party's nominee for governor in both 2010 and 2012 , losing both elections to Scott Walker .
Joseph Martin was born in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, the son of Catherine (née Keating) and Joseph William Martin, a blacksmith. [3]Keating was born in Ireland in 1862, immigrated from Dublin to New York City in 1878, and settled in Newark, New Jersey, where she met Martin Sr., and they married on July 2, 1882; because Martin was a Presbyterian, the union required a matrimonial ...
The state's Democratic leaders took notice and made Peck the party's nominee for the 1890 gubernatorial race. Peck won the election, beating the incumbent William Hoard, and resigned as Milwaukee's mayor on November 11, 1890. He was reelected as governor in 1892, defeating Republican John C. Spooner, but lost a third term to William Upham in
Ervin Schneeberg (April 7, 1919 – June 12, 1995) was an American businessman and politician.. Born in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, Schneeberg graduated from Custer High School and attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Charles Jay Sykes was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in New York and Fox Point, Wisconsin. [2] [3] He is the son of Katherine "Kay" Border and Jay G. Sykes, [4] a lawyer who later worked as a journalist for several small newspapers in New York before joining the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1962.