Fred R. Zimmerman
| Fred R. Zimmerman | |
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| 25th Governor of Wisconsin | |
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In office January 3, 1927 – January 7, 1929 |
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| Lieutenant | Henry A. Huber |
| Preceded by | John J. Blaine |
| Succeeded by | Walter J. Kohler, Sr. |
| 22nd & 24th Secretary of State of Wisconsin | |
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In office January 1, 1923 – January 3, 1927 |
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| Preceded by | Elmer S. Hall |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Dammann |
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In office January 2, 1939 – December 14, 1954 |
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| Preceded by | Theodore Dammann |
| Succeeded by | Louis Allis |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly | |
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In office 1909–1911 |
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| Personal details | |
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November 20, 1880 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Died | December 14, 1954 (aged 74) Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Political party | Republican |
Fred R. Zimmerman (November 20, 1880 – December 14, 1954) was a Republican politician from Milwaukee, who served as a state Assemblyman, 25th Governor of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Secretary of State. His son Robert C. Zimmerman was also Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1957 until 1975.
Zimmerman was born in Milwaukee, son of Charles E. Zimmerman and Augusta Fiesenhauser Zimmerman, and grandson of German-American Forty-Eighters. His father was born in New York state and came to Milwaukee in 1875. His mother was born in Wisconsin of parents who were natives of Stuttgart. Zimmerman's father, a molder, died when he was 5 and at an early age he began contributing to the support of his family by selling newspapers. After completing grammar school, he attended briefly, and held various jobs until he was 22, when he started the Bee Hive Dairy, distributing milk to Milwaukee residents. He left this job, after his marriage, to take a position as a traveling salesman with the Pfister & Vogel Leather Company, and also worked as a bookkeeper for a Milwaukee lumber firm.
Zimmerman was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly by six votes in 1908 in a three-way race, receiving 1703 votes on the Republican ticket to 1697 for Democrat Harry R. McLogan, and 1159 for Socialist Gilbert H. Poor, to represent the 8th Milwaukee County district (8th and 23d wards of the City of Milwaukee). He was an active member of the Progressive faction of his party, but served only one term (1909–1910), losing the 1910 election in a four-way contest to Socialist James H. Vint with 1521 votes, to 1501 for Zimmerman, 143 for McLogan, and 12 for Prohibitionist William H. Trout.
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