Emanuel L. Philipp

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Emanuel Lorenz Philipp (March 25, 1861– June 15, 1925) was the 23rd Governor of Wisconsin, United States, from 1915 to 1921.[1]

Biography

He was born in Honey Creek 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).[2]

While he was a manager of a lumber company in Mississippi from 1894 to 1902, he founded the unincorporated community of Philipp in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.[3]

He died in Milwaukee and was buried at Forest Home Cemetery.

Philipp's son, Cyrus L. Philipp, would become Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.[4]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Francis E. McGovern
Governor of Wisconsin
1915–1921
Succeeded by
John J. Blaine


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