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Born
  
October 18, 1903Milwaukee, Wisconsin (
1903-10-18
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Died
  
May 6, 1975, San Diego, California, United States

Lewis Dominic Thill (18 October 1903 – 6 May 1975) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.

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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thill attended the public and parochial schools and graduated from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1926.

Personal life

He attended Harvard Graduate School, and Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois.

He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1931.

He was admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He engaged in real estate and investment business.

He moved to San Diego, California, where he died on 6 May 1975. He is entombed in the Holy Cross Mausoleum.

Political career

Thill was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and the Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943) as the representative of Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress and for election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

References

Lewis D. Thill Wikipedia


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