Gerhard Adolph Bading

Gerhard Adolph Bading (August 31, 1870 – April 11, 1946) was an American physician, politician, and diplomat. Bading is best remembered as the 31st mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving from 1912 to 1916. Bading also served as U.S. Envoy and an Ambassador Extraordinary to Ecuador from 1922 until his retirement in 1930.

Gerhard Adolph Bading was born August 31, 1870 in Milwaukee, the son of German-born Lutheran pastor John Bading and Brooklyn-born Dorothea (Ehlers) Bading. His father was for 27 years the president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America.

Bading attended public schools in Milwaukee through his high school graduation before attending Northwestern College of Watertown, Wisconsin, a small school run by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and known today as Martin Luther College. Bading did not graduate from this institution, however, deciding to leave school for a year to become a cowboy in Texas.

Bading's stint in the Southwest was brief and he was soon back home in Milwaukee. Bading decided to start a career in medicine and was admitted to Rush Medical College in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1896.

Upon graduation Bading worked for a year as a physician at a Milwaukee hospital. He then moved from practicing medicine to teaching, taking a post as an instructor of surgical pathology at Milwaukee Medical College, a position in which he remained until 1901. For the next four years he worked as an associate in surgery, before moving to the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he taught as a professor in operative surgery until 1907.

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