William Gerare "Bill" LaFave (September 29, 1929 – October 20, 2016) was an American accountant, businessman, and Republican politician from Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
[1] He ultimately returned to Green Bay and changed careers in 1961, working for several years as a Wisconsin State Patrol officer, before moving further north to Marinette County, Wisconsin, where he worked for the local police department and later became a captain in the county traffic patrol department.
LaFave faced two other Republican candidates in the primary, including Roy H. Sengstock, who had previously served five terms in the Assembly as a representative of Marinette County.
After leaving office, he worked in real estate and taught police science at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
William LaFave married Shirley Ann Germain on May 9, 1953, they met while he was attending business school in Green Bay.