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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 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.
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.
May 6, 1973 · Herbert Kohler Jr., a Yale graduate like his father and cousin Walter Jr., came slowly to his destiny as dynastic and corporate leader, but he clearly accepts the role with gusto and relish.
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.
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Oct 31, 2017 · Walter Kohler was one of two men to gather 1 million votes for governor in Wisconsin through the end of the twentieth century. He is credited with helping create the Eisenhower presidency, both by his support in Wisconsin's critical presidential primary, and by organizing the nation's Republican governors to endorse Ike in the run-up to the ...
