MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY


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        SIEBERT                 MLEZIVA                  KRAUSE
      Krenosha 2nd              Kewaunee              La Crosse, 1st

    MATT G. SIEBERT        (Dem.) was born March 11, 1883 at Stevens
Point. He was a paper maker at Stevens Point from       1899 to 1902, and
from 1908 to 1916 was secretary and business agent for Local 523 Kenosha
of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International
Alliance of America. Since 1920 he has been in the hotel business in
Salem, Wisconsin. He was town chairman and a member of the Kenosha
County Board in 1926, 1927, 1934, and 1935. He was elected to the assembly
in 1934 and re-elected in 1938 and 1940. Home Address: Box 16, Salem.
    Kenosha County, second district: Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris,
Pleasant Prairie, Randall, Salem, Somers, and Wheatland; village of Silver
Lake; first, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eleventh wards of the city of Kenosha.

    JOSEPH M. MLEZIVA (Rep.) was born in Kewaunee County on Janu-
ary 21, 1890. He received his early education in the rural schools and con-
tinued his studies at Green Bay Business College and North Chicago Business
College. During the six years that he worked in Chicago for Western Electric,
Wells-Fargo Express, and Sears, Roebuck and Company, he attended night
school at Lewis Institute, Crane Technical High School, and Northwestern
University School of Commerce. When his father died in 1915 he returned
to the home farm which he still owns and operates. Mr. Mleziva has held
many business, farm, and public offices. He served six years as treasurer
of
Kewaunee County, four years as town treasurer, and three years as treasurer
of his school district. He has been president of the Kewaunee County Pure-Bred
Seed Growers Association, manager and treasurer of the Luxemburg Live-
stock Shipping Association for six years, a director of the Green Bay Pro-
duction Credit Association from 1934 to 1937, a U. S. and Wisconsin crop
reporter since 1926, and a committeeman and farm reporter for the Agri-
cultural Soil Conservation Program. He reorganized the Farmers Trading
Company at Luxemburg and was its president and treasurer for three years.
In 1938 he was awarded a certificate of recognition as a Master Farmer of
America. This is his first term in the assembly. Home Address: Route 1,
Luxemburg.

     EDWARD C. KRAUSE (Rep.) was born at La Crosse on December
 14, 1914. He received his elementary education in the public and parochial
 schools of La Crosse and was graduated from Central High School in 1933.
 Mr. Krause attended La Crosse State Teachers College for one semester
 in 1935. He was secretary for a clothing company in 1936 and at the
 present time is a salesman. This is his first term     in the legislature.
 Home Address: 525 South 10th Street, La Crosse.
     La Crosse County, first district: The first, second, third, fourth,
fifth,
 sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth,
fif-
 teenth, sixteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth wards of the city of La Crosse.