- Russ Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate and the junior Senator from Wisconsin since 1993. A recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, Feingold is best known for his maverick voting and cosponsorship of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("McCain-Feingold Bill"), a major piece of campaign finance reform legislation, … - Kevin Barrett
Kevin James Barrett (born February 1959) was a university lecturer and 9/11 conspiracy theorist. He is a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Barrett became controversial in 2006 when he held a one-semester appointment as an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the fall semester of 2006, Barrett taught an introductory class on Islam, an undergraduate course in which he had formerly been employed as a teaching assistant. - Dave Obey
Dave's experiences while growing up have shaped his convictions and priorities in the work he does in Congress today. Working in his father's floor covering business for a number of years, Dave sometimes worked with asbestos products. It was not until he began his service in the Congress that he discovered that asbestos caused cancer, although one of the manufacturers had known since 1939. - Devin Harris
Devin Lamar Harris (born February 27, 1983 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. Harris attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and gained national attention for his play at the collegiate level. - Dick Bennett
Dick Bennett (born April 20, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American basketball coach who is best known for revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program, and leading the team to the Final Four in 2000. He also coached at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Washington State University. - Tom Davis
Dr. Thomas "Dr. Tom" Davis (born December 3, 1938)is a former college men's basketball coach. The Ridgeway, Wisconsin native was the head coach at LaFayette College, Boston College, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University from 1971-2007. He earned his bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Platteville, master's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and his doctorate from University of Maryland. - Richard Davis
Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American double bass player who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1977, after establishing himself for twenty-three years in New York City. He teaches bass, jazz history, and improvisation. In the course of his career he hayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus worked no where but was still splaying his instruments in both the classical field and as a jazz bassist all over the world, … - Brian Calhoun
Brian Calhoun is an American football running back for the Detroit Lions. After achieving numerous honors in [[High School], Oak Creek High School in Southeastern Wisconsin, including being named All-America, first-team all-state, and being ranked the nation’s 12th best RB by Rivals.com, Brian attended the University of Colorado. After playing there for his freshman (in 2002), and sophomore (2003) years, … - Chris Solinsky
Chris Solinsky (born December 5, 1984) is a runner from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Among his more notable achievements, he won eight state championships in high school and five NCAA Division I championships at the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a professional runner for Nike and KIMbia Athletics. - Jim Leonhard
Jim Leonhard (born October 27, 1982 in Tony, Wisconsin) is an American Football free safety who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills. Leonhard was signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent following the 2005 NFL Draft. Leonhard played his high school football at Flambeau High School, in northern Wisconsin. During his college career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he totaled 21 interceptions, which tied Jamar Fletcher for the most in school history. - Al Johnson
Al Johnson (born January 27, 1979 in Brussels, Wisconsin) is an American football center for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. He was selected with the sixth pick of the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He missed all of the 2003 season due to a knee injury, but came back to be a rare highlight of the Cowboys' 6-10 2004 season. In 2005 Johnson regressed, he was often over-powered at the line, … - Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. He made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest filibuster in Senate history. Morse was born to a farming family in Verona, Wisconsin, who imbued the political beliefs of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. in their children. - Alexander Wiley
Alexander Wiley was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. Wiley was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate education at Augsburg College in Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1907 and was also admitted to the bar the same year. - Ben Manski
Ben Manski (born July 16, 1974) is an American attorney, organizer, activist with the Green Party, Executive Director of Liberty Tree: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution and editor of the Liberty Tree Journal. Ben Manski, as a member of the Wisconsin Green Party, served as co-chair of the Green Party of the United States from 2001 through 2004. Professionally, Manski worked on the staffs of a number of environmental, social justice, pro-democracy, … - Belle Case La Follette
Belle Case La Follette was a lawyer and a women's suffrage activist in Wisconsin. La Follette worked with the women's peace party during World War I. At the time of her death in 1931, the "New York Times" called her "probably the least known yet most influential of all the American women who had to do with public affairs in this country". - Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. Weaver graduated in 1919 at the University of Wisconsin with degrees in civil engineering and mathematics. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop College (soon to be re-named the California Institute of Technology) before returning to teach mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32). He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55), … - Andrew Rock
Andrew Rock (born January 23, 1982) is an American athlete who specializes in the 400 meter dash. He was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2004. He grew up in Stratford, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school in 2000. He currently trains under former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse coach Mark Guthrie, who is currently an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. - Casey Rabach
Casey Edward Rabach (born September 24, 1977 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) is an American football player in the NFL who currently plays center for the Washington Redskins. Rabach was drafted in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. By the 2004 season he was the starting center for the team. After 2004, he left Baltimore as a free agent for Washington. Rabach attended Sturgeon Bay High School in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. - Selena Fox
Selena Fox (born October 1949) is a Wiccan priestess, journalist, political activist, counselor, psychotherapist, author, educator and lecturer in the fields of Neo-Paganism, magic, Wicca, multi-culturalism and comparative religion. - Nick Greisen
Nick Greisen (born August 10, 1979) is an American football player. He is a linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars. His number is 55. Greisen was born and raised in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, also the hometown of his cousin Casey Rabach, who currently plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Greisen was originally a 5th round (152nd pick overall) draft choice by the New York Giants in the 2002 NFL Draft, as a linebacker out of the University of Wisconsin. - John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 - July 7, 2007) was an influential photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. - Angus Cameron
Angus Cameron (July 4, 1826-March 30, 1897) was a Republican and a member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin from 1875-1881, when he did not seek reelection, and again from 1881-1885, when he was elected to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, who died in office; he did not seek reelection in 1885. He was born in Caledonia, New York, and went to public schools and to Genesse-Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York, which is now Syracuse University. - William A. Steiger
William Albert "Bill" Steiger (May 15, 1938 - December 4, 1978)was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until his death in 1978. He served as a Republican from Wisconsin. Steiger was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1960, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After college, Steiger entered the business world, becoming a part owner of the Oshkosh Motor Lodge. Later, he became the president of Steiger-Ratke Development. - T. Harry Williams
Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 -- July 6, 1979) was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death. A popular faculty member, Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, "Lincoln and His Generals", a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and his 1969 work "Huey Long" (the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, … - Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). - William Freeman Vilas
William F. Vilas (July 9, 1840 - August 28, 1908) was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat. Vilas was born in Chelsea, Vermont, and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, with his family in 1851. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1858, and from the University at Albany Law School in 1860. - Arthur J. Altmeyer
Arthur J. Altmeyer (born May 8, 1891 in DePere, Wisconsin - October 16, 1972. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in 1914. In 1918, he re-entered the University as a graduate student, working with John R. Commons. They and others at Wisconsin were proponents of the progressive, liberal social policy of a positive and vigorous role for government. - F. Ryan Duffy
Francis Ryan Duffy (June 23, 1888 - August 16, 1979) was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1933 to 1939. Duffy was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1910, and from its Law School in 1912. After serving Wisconsin in the United States Senate, … - Harry Sauthoff
Harry Sauthoff, Sr. (Harry Edward Sauthoff, June 3, 1879 - June 16, 1966), son of a German immigrant and brother of Dr. August Sauthoff, was a lawyer and politician from Madison, Wisconsin. A 1909 law graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he was district attorney of Dane County, Wisconsin, from 1915 to 1919. In 1921 Sauthoff served as Secretary to Governor John J. Blaine and as a delegate to the International Conference on the St. Lawrence Deep Waterway in 1921. - Paul O. Husting
Paul Oscar Husting (April 25, 1866 - October 21 1917) was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Wisconsin in the United States Senate from 1915 to 1917. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He began his political career as an attorney and served as the district attorney of Dodge County from 1902 to 1906, and in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1907 to 1913. - Lisle Blackbourn
Lisle "Liz" Blackbourn (ca. 1899 - 1983) was an American football coach who was the third head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He coached the Packers from 1954 to 1957. Lisle 'Liz' Blackbourn began his career playing football for the Lawrence University Vikings, under head coach Mark Catlin. He earned "all-state" honors three times for the Vikings. He also was head coach at Marquette University, … - John M. Nelson
John Mandt Nelson (October 10, 1870 - January 29, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Burke, Wisconsin, Nelson attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1892. Superintendent of schools in Dane County in 1892 and 1894. Bookkeeper in the office of the secretary of state 1894-1897. He was editor of The State, published in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1897 and 1898. Correspondent in the State treasury 1898-1902. - Bob Franken
Bob Franken is a correspondent for CNN. Franken was CNN's primary correspondent in President Clinton's impeachment. He attended the University of Wisconsin. He specializes in political reporting and often uses puns in his commentaries. Franken's contract was not renewed by CNN and is rumored to be heading to MSNBC to head up their own political department. Franken is a distant cousin of Al Franken. - Howard J. McMurray
Howard Johnstone Mcmurray (March 3, 1901 - August 14, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Harvey County, near Mount Hope, Kansas, Mcmurray attended the public schools, Berea Academy at Berea, Kentucky, and high school at Madison, Wisconsin. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1936. He engaged in the life insurance business 1923-1928. Executive with air transport companies 1928-1935. - Bill Kazmaier
Bill Kazmaier (born December 30, 1953 in Burlington, Wisconsin) is a powerlifter and strongman from the United States. Kazmaier played fullback at the University of Wisconsin from 1973-1974 before leaving school to pursue powerlifting full-time. In 1979, Kazmaier won the American powerlifting championship and the IPF world powerlifting championship. He won the IPF world championship again in 1983. - Edmund C. Moy
Edmund C. Moy is an American government official. He is currently serving as the 38th Director of the United States Mint, where he oversees the world’s largest manufacturer of coins, medals, and numismatic products. A native of Wisconsin, Moy is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he joined Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity. - Rich Dahm
Richard Dahm (often credited as Rich Dahm) is an American comedy writer from Wisconsin. A Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer for "The Colbert Report", he has also written for "Dennis Miller Live" and "Da Ali G Show. Dahm attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s, where his professional career began as a writer for the then-new "The Onion". - Shay Knuth
Shay Knuth (born 29 May 1945 in Brown Deer, Wisconsin) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for September 1969. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. At the time of the photo shoot, she was studying sociology at the University of Wisconsin and working as a Bunny at the Playboy Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. - Jack B. Olson
Jack B. Olson (August 29, 1920-July 3, 2003) was an American businessman and politician and Republican from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Olson was born in Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells) in Columbia County, Wisconsin on August 29, 1920, to Jane Zimmerman Olson and Grover Olson. He graduated from Wisconsin Dells High School and attended Western Michigan University. - Reid F. Murray
Reid Fred Murray (October 16, 1887 - April 29, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Ogdensburg, Wisconsin, Murray attended the public schools and Manawa High School. He was graduated from the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1916. He served as agricultural agent for railroads in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1914 to 1917, for Winnebago County, Wisconsin from 1917 to 1919, and for the First National Bank, Oshkosh, …
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