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- ↑ 'Senator Prange is Summoned,' Sheboygan Press (Wisconsin), August 19, 1957.
- ↑ Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (ed.). The Wisconsin Blue Book 1956 , Madison: 1956, p. 29.
