William D. Hoard
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William Dempster Hoard (October 10, 1836–November 22, 1918) was the 16th Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was a leading promoter of the dairy industry, through his weekly magazine Hoard's Dairyman.
Under his administration came the first public school system. He approved the Bennett Law, a plan for a public school system that required every child over the age of five to attend school sixty days a year. The plan stipulated that all classes, public and private were to be taught in English; before this, the private schools were teaching in German, and sometimes also in Norwegian. Hoard defended the law but was defeated in an intense campaign by Democrat George Wilbur Peck, an author from Milwaukee.
| Preceded by Jeremiah McLain Rusk |
Governor of Wisconsin 1889 - 1891 |
Succeeded by George W. Peck |
| Governors of Wisconsin |  |
|---|---|
| Dewey • Farwell • Barstow • MacArthur • Bashford • Randall • Harvey • Salomon • Lewis • Fairchild • Washburn • Taylor • Ludington • Smith • Rusk • Hoard • Peck • Upham • Scofield • R La Follette • Davidson • McGovern • Philipp • Blaine • Zimmerman • Kohler Sr • P La Follette • Schmedeman • P La Follette • Heil • Goodland • Rennebohm • Kohler Jr • Thomson • Nelson • Reynolds • Knowles • Lucey • Schreiber • Dreyfus • Earl • Thompson • McCallum • Doyle |
