Title: Thomas St. Angelo Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1960-1967

Creator:

• St. Angelo, Thomas, 1889-1967

Call Number: Micro 664; Stout Micro 1

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Library Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Stout; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Stout Library Learning Ctr. / Stout Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a Barron County, Wisconsin state assemblyman, consisting of campaign materials, correspondence, and an obituary. The campaign materials include a newspaper clipping announcing St. Angelo's decision to seek the assembly seat in 1960 and two campaign brochures dated 1960 and 1962 respectively. The correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection and is composed of alphabetical constituent correspondence and St. Angelo's replies for the years 1962-1963. Among the subjects discussed are lowering the drinking age, the sales tax and oleo margarine controversies, the problems of maintaining effective education in northern Wisconsin, and retention of the Barron County Teachers College in Rice Lake.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0664

Thomas St. Angelo, a Barron County assemblyman, was born on January 13, 1889, in Cumberland, Wisconsin. After attending the Cumberland public schools, he received college-level training in law, engineering, and agricultural economics from the La Salle Extension University and International Correspondence Schools in Chicago. Following his education, St. Angelo was employed in managerial positions in several Barron County industries. After working for the Island City Bank and the Barron County Federal Land Bank, he became a real estate appraiser for the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration in 1958.

St. Angelo was very active in the civic and political life of Barron County. He served on the Palmer School Board (1920-1927) and on the War Production Board (1940-1945). He was also the Barron County Red Cross chairman and Republican Party chairman. In 1958 St. Angelo ran unsuccessfully for a state assembly seat from the Barron district. He was finally elected in 1960 and was re-elected for a second term in 1962. While in the state legislature St. Angelo served on the Transportation, Conservation, Agriculture, Contingent Expenditures, and Legislative Council Water committees. He was defeated for re-election in 1964.

St. Angelo returned to Cumberland and continued his job as a real estate appraiser for the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration until his death on June 16, 1967.

The papers consist of Campaign Materials, Correspondence, and an Obituary. The Campaign Materials include a newspaper clipping announcing St. Angelo's decision to seek the assembly seat in 1960 and two campaign brochures dated 1960 and 1962 respectively. The Correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection and is composed of St. Angelo's constituent correspondence and his replies for the years 1962-1963. Arrangement is roughly alphabetical and thereunder chronological. Among the subjects discussed are lowering the drinking age, the sales tax and oleomargarine controversies, the problems of maintaining effective education in northern Wisconsin, and the retention of Barron County Teachers College in Rice Lake.

Acquisition Information

Loaned for microfilming by Mrs. Gloria Saunders and Donald St. Angelo, Richfield, Minnesota, 1977. Accession Number: M77-400

Processing Information

Processed by Tom Hughes and Christine Rongone, January 1978.

Reel   1 Frame   1-9	Campaign Materials, 1960, 1962
Reel   1 Frame   10-575	Correspondence, 1962-1963
Reel   1 Frame   576	Obituary, 1967