Everything about Orland Steen Loomis totally explained
Orland Steen Loomis (
November 2,
1893 –
December 7,
1942) was an
American lawyer and governor-elect of
Wisconsin. He was born in
Mauston, Wisconsin and was a member of the
Progressive Party.
Loomis received his law degree from the
University of Wisconsin Law School in 1917. He was stationed in France during
World War I, after which he returned to Mauston to practice law, serving as the city attorney from 1922 to 1931. He was elected to the
Wisconsin State Assembly in 1928 and the
Wisconsin State Senate in 1930. From 1935 to 1937 Loomis was director of the
Rural Electrification Administration in Wisconsin. He was then elected
Attorney General of
Wisconsin, serving from 1937 to 1939.
After narrowly losing the 1940 election for
Governor of Wisconsin as a
Progressive, Loomis ran again in 1942, defeating the incumbent Governor
Julius Heil. He died suddenly of a heart attack a month before he was to take office, and the Republican
Lieutenant Governor Walter Samuel Goodland served all of Loomis's term as
acting governor.
Orland Steen Loomis was buried in Mauston. Loomis Road (
WIS 36) in
Milwaukee County is named after him.
Loomis married Florence Marie Ely on
June 22,
1918. They had three children.
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