Emanuel L. Philipp
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Emanuel Lorenz Philipp (March 25, 1861 – June 15, 1925) was governor of Wisconsin from 1915 to 1921. He was born in Honey Creek, Wisconsin in Sauk County. A conservative Republican, he wrote, with the help of Edgar Werlock, Political Reform in Wisconsin: A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation and Railway Regulation (1910).
While he was a manager of a lumber company in Mississippi in the mid 1890s, he founded the town of Philipp in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. He died in Milwaukee and was buried at Forest Home Cemetery.
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Governor of Wisconsin 1915 – 1921 |
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