Foster B. Porter

Foster B. Porter (August 22, 1891 – September 11, 1965) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Porter was born on August 22, 1891 in Barnum, Wisconsin.[1] During World War I, he served as a Private in the 299th Aero Squadron in the United States Army.[2] In March 1919 he started a mercantile business in Bloomington, Wisconsin, which he ran until his retirement in 1956. He served on numerous boards and was the Wisconsin representative on the Mississippi River Parkway Commission. He died on September 11, 1965, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while attending a meeting of the Commission and is buried in the Bloomington, Wisconsin Cemetery. (Source - Family knowledge.) He died at his home in Bloomington, Wisconsin in 1965.[3] This is incorrect.

Political career

Porter represented the 16th district in the Senate. While in the Senate, he served as Senate Chairman of the Joint Finance Committee during three sessions. In the interims between sessions he had charge of important and influential study projects on education, problems of the aged, industrial development and state and local sharing of institutional costs. He introduced the first bill that had ever been introduced for the improvement of State Parks. Once the bill was signed into law he assured that a portion of the funds went to Wyalusing State Park.[4] He retired from the Senate after 12 years in 1956, when reapportionment put him in a district with another Senator.[5] Additionally, he was president of the Village of Bloomington and a member of the Grant County, Wisconsin Board, as well as a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1950.[6]

Legacy

Porter B. Foster Hall, a dormitory at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, was named after Foster B. Porter.[7][8]

References
  1. Members of the Senate. Wisconsin Blue Book. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  2. "Porter, Foster B." Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  3. "Foster Porter Dies: Former State Senator". The Sheboygan Press. September 13, 1965. p. 16. Retrieved October 6, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Milwaukee Journal, 1956
  5. Milwaukee Journal Dec. 13, 1956 page 19
  6. Wisconsin State Journal,September 16, 1950, p.4, Sec. 1
  7. "College Dorm to Be Named for Porter". The La Crosse Tribune. December 26, 1965. p. 31. Retrieved October 7, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Porter Hall". University of Wisconsin–Platteville. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
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