RARE \"16th Governor of Wisconsin\" William Hoard Hand Signed 2.25X3.5 Card For Sale

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RARE \"16th Governor of Wisconsin\" William Hoard Hand Signed 2.25X3.5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "16th Governor of Wisconsin" William Hoard Signed 2.25X3.5 Card.

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William Dempster Hoard (October

10, 1836 – November 22, 1918) was an American politician, a newspaper editor,

and the 16th Governor of the U.S. state

of Wisconsin

from 1889 to 1891. Born

in Stockbridge, New York, he moved to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. During the American Civil War,

Hoard served in the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment

as a musician until he was discharged for medical reasons. He went back to New

York to recover and served to the end of the war in the 1st New York Artillery

Regiment. Returning to Wisconsin, he got involved with the hops industry, but the

glut and decline in the industry left him without money. He was a member of the

Republican Party, but was

an outsider and an amateur in politics. He was a leading promoter of the dairy

industry, through his weekly magazine Hoard's

Dairyman.

 In 1889, Hoard asked the legislature to pass

the Bennett Law,

the state's first compulsory school attendance law.[3] It required all public and private

schools to teach major subjects in English. The German Lutherans and German

Catholics, who each had a large parochial school system that used

German-speaking teachers, strenuously objected. Hoard made the extremely

controversial law the centerpiece of his reelection campaign, rejecting the

advice of professional politicians that it would doom the GOP. The law, and

Hoard, were repudiated by the state's large German community. Hoard was

defeated in an intense campaign by Democrat George Wilbur Peck, the Yankee mayor of

Milwaukee.  The

Republican establishment was outraged at Hoard. In turn the moralistic rank and

file bridled at the boss rule. Hoard joined forces with Robert M. La Follette Sr. and created the

Progressive faction of the state GOP. It propelled La Follette to the

governorship and the U.S. Senate, but Hoard, still an influential publisher,

broke with La Follette in 1912.

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