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A painted portrait of Walter Jodok Kohler completed after his death. View the original source document: WHI 100155. b. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1875. d. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April, 1940. Walter Jodok Koher was an industrialist, politician and governor. He was the son of J. M. Kohler.
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.
As governor, his legislature eliminated a deficit estimated at $3.5 million, streamlined state bureaucracy, built roads and state parks, and kept taxes low. After leaving office, he remained on the board of directors of the Kohler Company until his death.
On the death of his father (1900), Kohler and his two brothers, Carl and Robert, assumed management of the firm, and when Robert died in 1905, Walter Jodok Kohler became president, serving in this capacity from 1905 to 1937, and from 1937 until his death was chairman of the board of directors.
Walter Jodak Kohler born 1875 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA genealogy record - Ancestry®.
- Male
- March 3, 1875
- Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA
- April 21, 1940
Walter Jodok Kohler Sr. (3 March 1875-21 April 1940) was the Republican Governor of Wisconsin from 7 January 1929 to 5 January 1931, succeeding Fred R. Zimmerman and preceding Philip La Follette. Walter Jodok Kohler Sr. was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1875, the son of industrialist John...
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