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The following list includes notable people who were born in or have lived in
La Crosse ,
Wisconsin .
Academics
Donald J. Berthrong , historian
Ruth Boynton , physician and educator
Robert M. Dammon , professor and academic administrator
David Garbers , scientist
Adolph Gundersen , physician
Edward R. Hauser , animal scientist
William Duncan MacMillan ,
mathematician and
astronomer
Curt Michel ,
NASA astronaut, professor
Louis Hermann Pammel , botanist
Walter Ristow , librarian
John O. Schwenn , psychologist and academic administrator
William A. Thompson , engineer
Blanche Wilkins Williams , educator of deaf students
Activists and journalists
Brynild Anundsen , Norwegian-American journalist
Harriet Bossnot , social and civic worker
Chris Bury ,
Nightline correspondent
James Cameron , civil rights activist
Tom Hanneman , sports broadcaster
Mark Kellogg , reporter (killed at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn )
Frieda S. Miller , labor and women's rights activist
William Mullen , journalist
Charles M. Palmer , organizer of the
Associated Press
Marcus M. Pomeroy , editor of the La Crosse Democrat newspaper during the Civil War
George Edwin Taylor , activist and journalist
Dave Umhoefer ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist
Artists and performers
Erik Call , cinematographer
Bernard Joseph Dockendorff , architect
Chip Dunham , cartoonist
Mattie Gunterman , photographer
Frederick Heath , architect
Joseph Losey , film and theater director
Christy Oates , woodworker and furniture designer
Elmer Petersen , sculptor
Nicholas Ray , film and theater director
John W. Ross , architect
Actors
Authors
Ole Amundsen Buslett , author
Sylvester John Hemleben , poet, writer, and academic
Karla Huston , poet
Peg Kehret , author
E. E. Knight , author
Helen Adelia Manville , poet and litterateur
Marion Manville Pope , poet and author
William Stobb , poet
John Toland ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning author and historian
Danielle Trussoni , author
Musicians
Wallace Berry , composer and music theorist
Hugo Jan Huss , orchestra conductor
Stephen Jerzak , singer-songwriter, musician
Arthur Kreutz , composer
Robert E. Kreutz , composer
Larry Lelli , musician
Robert Moevs , composer
Robert Schulz , jazz cornetist
Freddie Slack , musician and bandleader
Athletes
Gordon Bahr , college football coach
George Dahlgren ,
NFL player
John Fay , NFL player
Kevin Fitzgerald , NFL player
Bob Fitzke , NFL player
Hal Hanson , NFL player and head coach
Parker Hesse , NFL player
Matt Joyce , NFL player
Karl Klug , NFL player
Richard D. Martin , college football coach
Klinks Meyers ,
APFA player
Tom Newberry , NFL all-pro offensive guard
Jim Temp , NFL player
Clarence Tommerson , NFL player
Bill Vickroy , college football coach
John Wilce , member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
Brian Wrobel , NFL player
Baseball
John Ake ,
MLB player
Paul Fitzke ,
MLB and
NFL player
Tony Ghelfi , MLB player
Chuck Hockenbery , MLB player
Tom Klawitter , MLB player
Ed Konetchy , MLB player
Damian Miller , MLB player
Ed Servais , college baseball coach
Scott Servais , MLB player and manager
Frank Skaff , MLB player and manager
Dolly Vanderlip ,
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Jarrod Washburn , MLB player
George Williams , MLB player
Basketball
Scott Christopherson , basketball player
Johnny Davis , NBA player, Washington Wizards
Jordan Davis , Wisconsin Men’s Basketball
Bronson Koenig , basketball player
Doug Martin , college basketball coach
John Mengelt ,
NBA player
Flip Saunders , NBA coach
Glen Selbo , NBA player, selected second overall in 1947
NBA draft
Other
Orville Buckner , professional boxer
Tim Gullikson , tennis player and coach
Tom Gullikson , tennis player and coach
Barbara Harwerth ,
Olympic volleyball player
Don Iverson , professional golfer
Ty Loomis , volleyball player
Eddie Murphy , Olympic medalist
Mike Peplinski , curler
George Poage , first
African American to win an Olympic medal
Ryan Quinn , curler
Businesspeople
George Addes , founder of
United Auto Workers
Austen Cargill , president of
Cargill
William Wallace Cargill , founder of Cargill
Fay Marvin Clark , real estate developer
Russell G. Cleary , president of the
G. Heileman Brewing Company
Charles Gelatt , businessman and philanthropist
George Gund II , banker and real estate investor
Gottlieb Heileman , founder of G. Heileman Brewing Company
John H. MacMillan Sr , President of Cargill
[1]
Edwin W. Rice , President of
General Electric
James Trane , co-founder of
Trane
Reuben Trane , co-founder of Trane
Military personnel
Politicians
Malvin R. Anderson , Minnesota state legislator and businessman
Wendell Abraham Anderson , Chairman of the
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Elmer E. Barlow , Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
Reginald Bicha
Timothy Burns , Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Erasmus D. Campbell , Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and Mayor of La Crosse
Ebenezer Childs , territorial legislator
Barbara Flynn Currie , Illinois State Representative
Charles G. Dawes , Vice President of the United States
George Gale , Wisconsin circuit court judge
George A. Garrett , U.S. diplomat
Wayne J. Hood , Executive Director of the
Republican National Committee
John Azor Kellogg , U.S. military leader and state senator
Charles E. Knoblauch , Iowa State Representative
Minnie C. T. Love , Colorado State Representative and member of the
Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Patrick Joseph Lucey ,
Governor of Wisconsin , U.S. diplomat
Paul Lundsten , Wisconsin court of appeals judge
Jane Magnus-Stinson , federal judge
Paul Marcotte , businessman and Kentucky State Representative
Thomas Morris , Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
[2]
Gary K. Nelson ,
Attorney General of Arizona
Mike O'Callaghan , Governor of
Nevada
Jim Omerberg , member of the
West Virginia House of Delegates
Theodore D. Parsons ,
New Jersey Attorney General
George Wilbur Peck , newspaper publisher, humorist, mayor of
Milwaukee , and Governor of Wisconsin
John Rusche , Idaho State Representative
Ellis Baker Usher , Chairman of the
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
James M. Wahl , member of the Dakota Territorial Legislature
Julia Wallace , New Zealand politician
Cadwallader C. Washburn , Civil War general, Wisconsin governor, and U.S. Representative
Michael A. Wolff , Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Missouri
United States legislators
Charles S. Benton , U.S. Representative from
New York
Fred Biermann , U.S. Representative from
Iowa
Angus Cameron , U.S. Senator
Frank P. Coburn , U.S. Representative
John J. Esch , U.S. Representative
Merlin Hull , U.S. Representative
Ron Kind , U.S. Representative
James T. McCleary , U.S. Representative from Minnesota
Augustus Herman Pettibone , U.S. Representative from
Tennessee
William H. Stevenson , U.S. Representative
Clark W. Thompson , U.S. Representative from
Texas
Gardner R. Withrow , U.S. Representative
Gilbert Motier Woodward , U.S. Representative
Wisconsin state legislators
Raymond Bice, Sr. , businessman,
State Representative and
senator
Jill Billings , State Representative
Otto Bosshard , State Representative
John Brindley , State Representative and La Crosse County judge
Sylvester G. Clements , State Representative and businessman
Elijah Fox Cook , Michigan and Wisconsin State Senator
James Devitt , State Representative and Senator
Steve Doyle , State Representative
John S. Durland , State Representative
Thomas A. Dyson , State Senator and county judge
Edwin Flint , State Senator and circuit court judge
Lawrence R. Gibson , State Representative
Levi Withee Gibson , State Representative
Gerald Greider , State Representative
Thomas Harnisch , State Senator
Gideon Hixon , Wisconsin State Representative and senator
James J. Hogan , Wisconsin State Representative and Mayor of La Crosse
Clark L. Hood , State Representative
William Hull , State Representative
[3]
Thomas Johnson , State Representative
Dan Kapanke , State Senator
Milo Knutson , mayor of La Crosse and state senator
Edward C. Krause , State Representative
Carl Kurtenecker , State Representative
[4]
Donald A. McDonald , State Representative
John Medinger , Mayor of La Crosse and State Representative
Isaac E. Messmore , State Representative and Civil War
Colonel
Mark Meyer , State Representative and Senator
Lewis T. Mittness , State Representative
John Mulder , State Representative
Leland E. Mulder , State Representative
Henry Nein , State Representative
Lee Nerison , State Representative
John Oestreicher , State Representative
Paul Offner , State Representative and Senator
Oscar S. Paulson , State Senator
James D. H. Peterson , State Representative
Brad Pfaff , State Senator
George H. Ray , State Representative
Arnt O. Rhea , State Representative
Theodore Rodolf , State Representative
Rudolph Schlabach , State Representative and Senator
Marlin Schneider , State Representative
Jennifer Shilling , State Senator
Albert O. Sorge , State Representative
Gysbert Van Steenwyk, Sr. , Mayor of La Crosse, State Representative and Senator
Thomas Benton Stoddard , first mayor of La Crosse and State Representative
Gregg Underheim , State Representative
D. Russell Wartinbee , State Representative
Guilford M. Wiley , State Representative
Merrick Wing , State Senator
Levi Withee , State Senator
Niram Withee , State Representative
Religious leaders
Patrick Augustine , Anglican assistant bishop
Thea Bowman , Roman Catholic religious sister and educator
Raymond Burke , Cardinal Prefect of the Vatican's
Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
William P. Callahan , Roman Catholic bishop
Kilian Caspar Flasch , Roman Catholic bishop
Frederick William Freking , Roman Catholic bishop
William Richard Griffin , Roman Catholic bishop
Michael Heiss , first Roman Catholic bishop of the
Diocese of La Crosse
Alexander Joseph McGavick , Roman Catholic bishop
John Joseph Paul , Roman Catholic bishop
James Schwebach , Roman Catholic bishop
John Patrick Treacy , Roman Catholic bishop
Others
See also
References