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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Ben A. Riehle (1897–1967), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly; Jim Risch (born 1943), U.S. senator from Idaho (Milwaukee) Charles R. Robertson (1889–1951), U.S. representative from North Dakota (Madison) Thomas J. B. Robinson (1868–1958), U.S. representative from Iowa (New Diggings) Thomas H. Ruger (1833–1907), governor of Georgia ...
He served as Attorney General of Wisconsin from 1951 to 1957. In 1956, he was elected governor of Wisconsin, defeating William Proxmire; he was defeated for reelection as governor in 1958 by Gaylord Nelson. Thomson as governor. In 1960, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district.
The current system was implemented by a 1977 act of the Wisconsin Legislature (1977 Wisconsin Act 187), authorized by an April 1977 referendum to amend the state constitution. The act combined the pre-1978 County Courts with the pre-1978 Circuit Courts to create a single level of trial courts—the present Wisconsin Circuit Courts.
After a lifetime of secrecy, a decorated veteran came out as gay in his obituary. Col. Edward Thomas Ryan, who is said to have lived most of his life in Rennselaer, New York, was a brother, uncle ...
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Fitzgerald's father, also named Edmund Fitzgerald (1895–1986), was a civic leader who served as chairman of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was the namesake for the Great Lakes ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald, popularized in the 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.
Herman Ekern, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin [92] Richard Elsner, lawyer, judge and Wisconsin state legislator [93] Howard Engle (1919–2009), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry [94] John J. Esch, U.S. Representative [95] Evan Alfred Evans, former U.S. Appeals Court judge [96]