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Died. Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., 71. three-term Republican Governor of Wisconsin (1951-56); of heart disease; in Sheboygan, Wis. The son of a former Wisconsin Governor and a member of the family that owns Kohler Co., one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing equipment, Kohler was a solid backer of the Eisenhower Administration. His political career ended when he lost to liberal Democrat William Proxmire in the 1957 race for the Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph R. McCarthy...
...cheesemaker's handshake who calls himself neither radical nor conservative. Steinle's prime asset : as a supreme court justice he was not involved in last year's bitter seven-man G.O.P. Senate primary in which the Old Guard lost out to Ikeman and former Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, then stayed home in strength while Kohler lost the election to hard-campaigning, Fair-Dealing Bill Proxmire...
...Senate-and then sent Joe McCarthy-last week changed its political direction again. In a startling and significant upset, voters of Wisconsin elected Liberal Democrat Edward William Proxmire (see box) to complete the unexpired term of Neanderthal Republican McCarthy. Proxmire beat Eisenhower Republican and former six-year Governor Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. by an overwhelming 435,000 votes to 313,000. He swept 56 of the state's 71 counties, every single ward in the city of Milwaukee, ten out of 18 Milwaukee suburbs, and he got 56.5% of the total vote. He was the first Democrat...
...independent candidate for next week's special election to fill Joe McCarthy's U.S. Senate seat. Wisconsin voters seemed to be taking Boyle coolly, but the state's G.O.P. leaders were steaming. Reason: Boyle had turned what seemed a certain victory for G.O.P. Candidate Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. into a just-might chance for Democrat William Proxmire...
...primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer doldrums, Walter Kohler, 53, was a three...