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OKONSKI, Alvin Edward, a Representative from Wisconsin; born on a farm near Kewaunee,
Kewaunee County, Wis., May 26, 1904; attended the public schools and the
University of Iowa at Iowa City; was graduated from State Teachers College,
Oshkosh, Wis., in 1927, and from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in
1932; instructor in high schools at Omro and Oconto, Wis., 1926-1929; member of
the faculty of Oregon State College at Corvallis 1929-1931, and at the
University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., 1936-1938; superintendent of schools,
Pulaski, Wis., 1932-1935; instructor at a junior college, Coleraine, Minn., in
1936; educator, journalist, and lecturer; editor and publisher, Hurley, Wis.,
1940-1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the fourteen
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate
for nomination in 1957 to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was
a resident of Rhinelander, Wis., until his death in Kewaunee, Wis., on July 8,
1987; interment in St. Hedwigs Cemetery.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Alvin E. OKonski, Republican Representative
from Wisconsin. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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