Fred W. Springer [SEP] position held
Fred W. Springer
Fred W. Springer was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography.
Springer was born on the Oder in the Free City of Frankfurt on January 4, 1859. He would attend the Spencerian Business College. Springer died in 1936 and is buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Career.
Springer was elected to the Assembly in 1928. Previously, he was a member of the Milwaukee School Commission in 1893, 1896 and 1904. He was a Republican.
became active in his union, in the labor movement and in civic organizations.
Legislature.
He had never held public office before being elected to the Assembly in 1930 from the Fourth Milwaukee County Assembly District (the 21st Ward of the City of Milwaukee), with 1952 votes, to 1702 for incumbent Republican Assemblyman Fred W. Springer, 596 for Democrat Earle E. Wilson, and 283 for O. R. Werkmeister (who had lost the Republican primary election to Springer). Meyer was assigned to the standing committee on printing.