Herman Bjorn Dahle

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Herman Bjorn Dahle (March 30, 1855 - April 25, 1920), was a Representative from Wisconsin.

Born in Perry, Wisconsin, in Dane County, Wisconsin, he attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1877. He moved in 1877 to Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1887 he moved to Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, where he continued in the mercantile business and also, in 1890, engaged in banking. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1903), but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed mercantile pursuits and banking in Mount Horeb, where he died on April 25, 1920. He was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery.

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• Herman Bjorn Dahle at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress