William M. Rohan

He received his early education in public and parochial schools and later attended the Green Bay Business College.

[1] Rohan was elected treasurer of the Town of Buchanan in 1905 and re-elected for the next four years, at the end of which time he resigned.

In the weeks after the election, it was widely reported that the La Follette Progressives were hoping to make a deal with members of the massive new Democratic majority in the Assembly to elect Rohan as Speaker of the Assembly, a suggestion which he himself publicly repudiated.

[7] In 1936, Rohan again returned to the Assembly (Bay had resigned in December 1935 to accept a national leadership position in his union), with 4,342 votes to 3,587 for Progressive Matt Brill and 2,564 for Republican Arthur Zuitches.

He ran as an independent in the November general election, but came in third with only 1928 votes to Lorge's 6,106 and Democrat Katherine Sullivan's 2,306.