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  Schafer, John C.
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NameJohn C. Schafer
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States
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Born May 07, 1893
DiedJune 09, 1962 (69 years)
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Infoborn in Milwaukee, Wis., May 7, 1893; attended the public schools of Wauwatosa and West Allis High School; employed in the office of the Allis-Chalmers Co.; during the First World War enlisted in the Thirteenth Engineers on May 24, 1917, and served twenty-two months in France; engaged as a locomotive engineer on the Chicago & North Western Railroad; member of Wauwatosa School Board, district No. 11; member of the State assembly in 1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; unsuccessfully contested the election of Thaddeus F.B. Wasielewski in the Seventy-eighth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress, in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress, and in 1957 for the senatorial nomination to fill a vacancy; engaged in the sale of automotive electrical equipment and in the insurance business in Oak Park, Ill.; died in Pewaukee, Wis., June 9, 1962; interment in Arlington Park, Milwaukee, Wis.


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  07/30/1957 WI US Senate - Special R Primary Lost 0.60% (-33.83%)
  11/02/1954 WI District 04 Lost 28.91% (-42.17%)
  09/14/1954 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 30.12% (+6.66%)
  11/04/1952 WI District 04 Lost 35.73% (-28.55%)
  09/09/1952 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 19.46% (+4.46%)
  11/03/1942 WI District 04 Lost 30.34% (-18.47%)
  09/15/1942 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 48.46% (+26.29%)
  11/05/1940 WI District 04 Lost 31.53% (-4.09%)
  11/08/1938 WI District 04 Won 32.00% (+0.60%)
  09/20/1938 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 60.23% (+37.27%)
  11/03/1936 WI District 04 Lost 21.51% (-25.75%)
  09/15/1936 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 59.23% (+31.20%)
  03/17/1936 Milwaukee Mayor - Primary Lost 17.27% (-24.15%)
  11/06/1934 WI District 04 Lost 22.57% (-15.98%)
  11/08/1932 WI District 04 Lost 28.07% (-22.93%)
  09/20/1932 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 59.69% (+19.37%)
  11/04/1930 WI District 4 Won 46.63% (+10.41%)
  09/16/1930 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 61.60% (+23.20%)
  11/06/1928 WI District 04 Won 44.06% (+10.21%)
  11/02/1926 WI District 04 Won 48.01% (+12.79%)
  11/04/1924 WI District 04 Won 49.63% (+17.81%)
  11/07/1922 WI District 04 Won 46.05% (+1.52%)
  09/05/1922 WI District 4 - R Primary Won 37.68% (+1.68%)
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