PoliticalGraveyard.com

Politicians in Public Utilities in Wisconsin
other than communications

Alex Davison Bailey (b. 1882) — also known as Alex D. Bailey — of La Grange, Cook County, Ill. Born in Salem, Kenosha County, Wis., February 14, 1882. Engineer; utility company executive; village president of La Grange, Illinois, 1935-37. Member, Newcomen Society; Tau Beta Pi; Union League. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Eugene M. Bailey and Caroline G. (Davison) Bailey; married, September 3, 1907, to Alice Carey; married, October 3, 1936, to Amelia Duncan.   Arthur A. Hitt (b. 1890) — of Alma, Buffalo County, Wis. Born in Alma town, Buffalo County, Wis., November 9, 1890. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; school teacher; farmer; co-organizer and secretary-treasurer, Buffalo County Electric Cooperative; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Buffalo and Pepin counties; elected 1932, 1936; defeated, 1938 (Progressive), 1952 (Democratic). Burial location unknown.   William E. Owen — of Menomonie, Dunn County, Wis. Born in New Haven town, Dunn County, Wis. Republican. Farmer; president, Wisconsin Electric Cooperative; director, Dairyland Power Cooperative; member of Wisconsin state senate 29th District, 1951-54; candidate for U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 9th District, 1954; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Dunn County, 1957-58; defeated, 1958. Burial location unknown. Henry Clay Payne (1843-1904) — also known as Henry C. Payne — of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis. Born in Ashfield, Franklin County, Mass., November 23, 1843. Republican. Postmaster at Milwaukee, Wis., 1876-85; president, Wisconsin Telephone Company; president, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company; president, American Street Railway Association; receiver, Northern Pacific Railroad; member of Republican National Committee from Wisconsin, 1880-1904; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1904; Wisconsin Republican state chair, 1892; U.S. Postmaster General, 1902-04; died in office 1904. Methodist. Died in Washington, D.C., October 4, 1904 (age 60 years, 316 days). Interment at Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.   Presumably named for: Henry Clay   Relatives: Son of Orrin P. Payne and Eliza (Ames) Payne; married, October 15, 1867, to Lydia W. Van Dyke.   The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry C. Payne (built 1943 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1967) was named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, January 1902 Reno W. Trego (1877-1961) — of Merrill, Lincoln County, Wis.; Wausau, Marathon County, Wis. Born near Blairstown, Benton County, Iowa, August 24, 1877. Progressive. Machinist; automobile dealer; real estate agent; hotel operator; trucking business; electric utility engineer; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Lincoln County, 1937-40. Member, Odd Fellows. Died in Wausau, Marathon County, Wis., November 3, 1961 (age 84 years, 71 days). Interment at Garrison Cemetery, Garrison, Iowa.   Relatives: Son of George Washington Trego; married, August 15, 1911, to Sevilla Ridenour.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/utilities.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.