Nils P. Haugen

Nils Pederson Haugen ( born March 9, 1849 in Modum, Norway, † April 23, 1931 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nils Haugen came in 1854 with his parents to the United States, where the family settled in Pierce County. He attended the public schools of his new home and the Luther College in Decorah (Iowa). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1874 admitted to the bar he began in River Falls to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1879 and 1880 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly; 1882-1887 he was railroad commissioner of the state government of Wisconsin.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Haugen in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hugh H. Price on March 4, 1887. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 four legislative sessions. Since 1893 he represented there the newly created tenth district of Wisconsin. In 1894 Haugen waived another candidacy.

In the year 1894 he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Wisconsin, which went instead to William H. Upham. Between 1901 and 1921 belonged Haugen at the Tax Commission of Wisconsin. In the years 1919 and 1920 he was president of the National Tax Association ( National Tax Association ). From 1921 to 1923 he was an advisor to the Equal Opportunities Commission ( Board of Equalization ) of the State of Montana. He then moved to Madison, where he spent his literary activities. There Nils Haugen is on April 23, 1931 and passed away.