Edward Reuther

Edward W. Reuther (March 30, 1915 – April 30, 2002) was an American politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate for the 6th District.

Reuther was born in Milwaukee on March 30, 1915, son of Edward A. and Johanna A.

Reuther unseated Progressive incumbent George Hampel in 1944, with 22,163 votes to 17,272 for Republican Arthur H. Schroeder; 4,222 for Hampel, and 3,112 for Socialist former Senator and Assemblyman Alex C. Ruffing.

[1] By the time of publication of the 1948 Wisconsin Blue Book, his official biography states that he had gone into an "occupation in the advertising business"; his committee assignment had not changed.

Survivors included his wife; one daughter, Mary Beth Tennessen; one sister, Victoria Giese; and one granddaughter.