Robert S. Travis
Robert S. Travis (May 2, 1909 – August 14, 1980) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Travis was born in Platteville, Wisconsin.[1][2] During World War II, he served in the United States Army crewing a radar truck in the European theater. Travis went to Michigan State University;[1] he was the manager of Irvington Dairy Products on Omaha, Nebraska[1] and was an insurance agent.[3] His son Robert S. Travis, Jr. also served in the Wisconsin Assembly. He died on August 14, 1980 in Platteville, Wisconsin.[4]
Political career
Travis was elected to the Assembly in 1948. He was elected to the Senate in 1954 and re-elected in 1958. Travis was also a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention.
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gollark: I would probably have to do stuff like "version control" and "actual testing".
gollark: That sounds very practical and definitely not very nightmarishly annoying.
gollark: You could kind of argue that the small embedded potatosystem on the PotatOS OmniDisk is potatOS-derived, but that doesn't share *much* code.
gollark: There's PotatOS Classic, PotatOS Tau (the main version), GovOS (developed for Keansia), ChorOS (for running Chorus City systems), PotatOS Tetrahedron (WIP dev version with mildly less awful code), TomatOS/BurritOS/YomatOS (I mean, same ideas, they don't share a huge amount of code).
References
- "Robert S. Travis". Monroe Evening Times. September 11, 1954. p. 6. Retrieved June 26, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Robert S. Travis". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
- Wisconsin Blue Book, 1962, Biographical Sketch of Robert Travis, p. 25.
- Ex-Legislator Travis, 71, dies, Wisconsin State Journal, August 16, 1980, p. 39.
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