Albert J. Wilke was a member of the Michigan Senate.
Albert J. Wilke was a member of the Michigan Senate.
Wilke was born on December 31, 1895, in Port Washington, Wisconsin. [1] He died on July 29, 1977, in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Wilke was a member of the Senate from 1949 to 1950. Previously, he was Register of Deeds of Dickinson County, Michigan, from 1935 to 1946 and a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention that nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for a historic fourth term as President of the United States. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the general election for the Michigan House of Representatives in 1954 and in the Democratic primary in 1958.
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Elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 7, 2000, with even-numbered districts being contested. State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the Senate seats up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2000 ran from January 3, 2001 until November 30, 2004. Necessary primary elections were held on April 27, 2004.
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The 1874–75 United States Senate elections had the Democratic Party gain nine seats in the United States Senate from the Republican Party. Republicans remained in the majority, however.
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