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Stephen Bolles (June 25, 1866 - July 8, 1941) was a newspaper editor, and later a congressman from Wisconsin.

Born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, Bolles attended the public schools; was graduated from the State Normal School of Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, in 1888 and from the law department of Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin.

In his early career, he worked as reporter, correspondent, managing editor, and publisher of newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York from 1893 to 1901.

Bolles was superintendent of the press department of the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, in 1901. He was reportedly among those with President William McKinley when the President was shot while visiting the Exposition.

He was managing editor of the Buffalo Enquirer in 1902 and 1903; superintendent of graphic arts of the St. Louis Exposition 1903-1905; director of publicity of the Jamestown Exposition in 1907; engaged as a special writer and also in private business, including the "brokerage" business, in Atlanta, Georgia from 1907 to 1919.

Bolles moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1920 as editor of the Janesville Gazette until 1939. That year, Bolles won election to Congress as a Republican and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in 1941 in Washington, D.C.. As Congressman, Bolles fiercely opposed to Lend-Lease and tried to exclude the Soviet Union from the Lend-Lease program.

His grandchildren include Don Bolles, an investigative journalist murdered in 1976, author Richard Nelson Bolles, and author Edmund Blair Bolles.

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• Stephen Bolles at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Preceded by Thomas Ryum Amlie

United States Representative for the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin 1939-1941

Succeeded by Lawrence H. Smith