Carl Lauri was a Democratic member of the

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, representing the 25th district from 1955 to 1963.Wisconsin Historical Society-Carl Lauri
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(1962), he was born in

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, and graduated from Superior State College in 1954. He formerly worked as a railroad clerk, and was a veteran of

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. He was a delegate to the

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. He was also the chairman of the 10th District Democratic Party, and a member of the State Democratic Administrative Committee. Elected to the Senate in 1954; re-elected in 1958. Lauri died in 1990.,

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