Sheboygan ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Sheboygan County,Wisconsin,United States. The population was 49,929 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Sheboygan metropolitan area,which has a population of 118,034. The city is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River,about 50 miles north of Milwaukee and 64 mi (103 km) south of Green Bay.
James Edward Doyle Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Wisconsin from 2003 to 2011. In his first election to the governorship,he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican governor Scott McCallum. Although in 2002 Democrats increased their number of governorships,Doyle was the only one of them to unseat a Republican.
The Wisconsin Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house,Wisconsin State Senate,and the lower Wisconsin State Assembly,both of which have had Republican majorities since January 2011. With both houses combined,the legislature has 132 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. The legislature convenes at the state capitol in Madison.
Foley &Lardner LLP is an international law firm founded in 1842. In terms of revenue,it ranked 45th on The American Lawyer's 2024 AmLaw 100 rankings of U.S. law firms,with $1.168 billion gross revenue in 2023.
Juan Perez is an American lawyer and municipal politician. He was the 52nd mayor of Sheboygan,Wisconsin,from 2005 to 2009,and was the first Latino mayor in Wisconsin.
Robin Joseph Vos is an American businessman and Republican politician and the 79th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly,serving in that role since 2013. He has been a member of the Assembly since 2005,representing most of the southern half of Racine County. Vos was also president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Leah Vukmir is an American politician and nurse who served as a member of the Wisconsin Senate. A Republican,she represented Wisconsin's 5th Senate district. She previously served in the Wisconsin Assembly. Vukmir was the Republican nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin,running unsuccessfully against incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin. In March 2019,Vukmir became vice president of state affairs at the National Taxpayers Union.
Donald Pridemore is a retired American electrical engineer and Republican politician from Hartford,Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 10 years,from 2005 to 2015. He is running to return to the Assembly in 2024,in what is now Wisconsin's 98th Assembly district. He also ran unsuccessfully for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2013 and for Wisconsin Senate in a 2021 special election.
Jeff A. Stone is an American businessman and former politician. A Republican,he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1998 through 2013. He currently serves as chair of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
The 9th Senate district of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the Wisconsin Senate. Located in eastern Wisconsin,the district comprises most of Sheboygan County and the parts of eastern and southern Manitowoc County and northeast Fond du Lac County. It contains the cities of Sheboygan,Manitowoc,Two Rivers,Plymouth,Kiel,and Sheboygan Falls,and the villages of Kohler,Oostburg,and Elkhart Lake. The district also contains Sheboygan County Memorial Airport,Whistling Straits golf course,Road America motorsport course,Kohler-Andrae State Park,Lakeland University,and the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay,Sheboygan Campus.
David Craig is an American Republican Party politician and former state legislator. He served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate and six years in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Sherburn Duane "Duey" Stroebel Jr. is an American realtor and Republican politician from Cedarburg,Wisconsin. He is a member of the Wisconsin Senate,representing the 20th Senate district since 2015. He previously served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly,from 2011 to 2015. After the latest redistricting plan,Stroebel was drawn out of his previous Senate district and lost re-election running in Wisconsin's 8th Senate district in 2024.
Devin LeMahieu is an American businessman and Republican politician from Sheboygan,Wisconsin. He is the current majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate,since 2021,and has represented the 9th Senate district since 2015. His father,Daniel LeMahieu,served in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Martha Kniess Laning was the chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. A businesswoman,activist,and politician from Port Edwards,Wisconsin,she was elected Democratic chairwoman on June 5,2015 and was succeeded by Ben Wikler on July 1,2019.
The 2016 Wisconsin Fall General Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 8,2016. One of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats and all eight seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election,as well as half of the Wisconsin Senate seats and all 99 Wisconsin State Assembly seats. Voters also chose ten electors to represent them in the Electoral College,which then participated in selecting the 45th president of the United States. The 2016 Fall Partisan Primary was held on August 9,2016.
A recall election in the state of Wisconsin is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.
Michael Brian Brennan is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was first nominated on August 3,2017,by President Donald Trump,and was re-nominated in 2018. He was confirmed May 10,2018. He was previously a partner in the Milwaukee law firm Gass Weber Mullins LLC,and served 8 years as a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge.
The 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Wisconsin. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tony Evers won re-election to a second term by a margin of 3.4%,defeating Republican nominee Tim Michels.
Timothy S. Ramthun is an American consultant and politician from Fond du Lac County,Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2019 through 2022,representing the 59th Assembly district,and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Wisconsin in the 2022 Republican primary. He has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election in Wisconsin.
The 2015 Wisconsin Spring Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 7,2015. There was a contested election for justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court,as well as several other nonpartisan local and judicial elections and an amendment to the Constitution of Wisconsin to change the process for selection of the chief justice of the State Supreme Court. In addition,the ballot contained a special election to fill a vacancy in the 20th State Senate district. The 2015 Wisconsin Spring Primary was held February 17,2015.
