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Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. (April 4, 1904 – March 21, 1976) was a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin and was the 33rd Governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1951 to 1957. He was a leading figure in state and national Republican Party activities.
Mar 23, 1976 · Walter Jodock Kohler Jr., three‐term Governor of Wisconsin, whose loss to William Proxmire in 1957 in the race to fill Joseph. R. McCarthy's Senate seat shocked Republicans across the...
Walter Jodok Kohler Sr., (March 3, 1875 – April 21, 1940) was an American businessman and politician from the Kohler family of Wisconsin. He was an innovative and highly successful Wisconsin industrialist.
Walter J. Kohler, Jr. Walter J. Kohler, Sr. Estate (s) Kohler Estate. The Kohler family of Wisconsin is a family notable for its prominence in business, society, and politics in the U.S. state of Wisconsin during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
In 1947 he became president of the Vollrath Company founded by his great-grandfather in Sheboygan. He was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention in 1948 and ran a successful campaign for governor in 1950, winning reelection in 1952 and 1954.
Walter J. Kohler was twenty-five years old in 1900 when he took over the plumbing equipment company founded decades earlier by his father in Sheboygan. Young Kohler expanded and diversified the company into the manufacturer of gasoline motors and stand-alone electrical generators.
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Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. (April 4, 1904 – March 21, 1976) was a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin and was the 33rd Governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1951 to 1957. He was a leading figure in state and national Republican Party activities.
