From History of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - 1881, Volume 1, Page 629-630

GEORGE H. PAUL, was born at Danville, Caledonia County, Vermont, March 14, 1826.  When 11 years of age he entered the office of The North Star, one of the oldest weekly newspapers of New England, where he remained until 1840.  During the ensuing three years, he completed his preparations for college at Phillips Academy, and joined the freshman class of Vermont University, at Burlington, in January, 1844, from which institution he received his graduation degree in 1847, and subsequently the degree of master of arts.  After the completion of his University studies at Burlington, he joined the law class of 1847 at Harvard University, where he remained until January, 1848, and was subsequently admitted to the bar.  In the year last named, he became editor and proprietor of the Burlington (Vt.) Sentinel.  A few months later he started the first regularly published daily paper of that State, and soon after was appointed Postmaster at Burlington by President Polk.  Early in the year 1851, he sold the Sentinel newspaper, and removed to Kenosha, Wis., where he commenced the publication of The Kenosha Democrat.  In January, 1853, he was appointed assistant clerk of the Wisconsin Senate, and in May of the same year was appointed Postmaster at Kenosha by President Pierce.  In April, 1854 he was appointed a member of Gov. Barstow's staff; and in 1857 was reappointed Postmaster of Kenosha by President Buchanan, holding till the expiration of his commission in 1861.  During his residence at Kenosha, he represented his ward in the Board of Aldermen, was twice chosen Mayor of that city and served as a member of the County Board of Supervisors, and Superintendent of the County Poor.  In the Spring of 1861 he accepted a position on one of the daily newspapers of New York City, and remaining there until the Autumn of the same year, when he returned to Wisconsin and became connected with The Milwaukee News, which paper was purchased by himself and the late Joseph M. LYON, the ensuing year, Mr. PAUL assuming charge of the editorial department.  On the death of Mr. LYON, in 1868, the paper was continued by Mr. PAUL in connection with Mr. S. CADWALLADER, until January, 1871, when the establishment passed into the hands of a joint stock company, of which Mr. PAUL was chosen President, and in which position he continued until about the 1st of May, 1874, when he parted with his interest in the paper, and resigned the presidency of the company.  In 1867 he was elected a member of the Milwaukee Charter Convention held in that year; and in 1870 was chosen a member of the Milwaukee Board of School Commissioners for two years, but resigned to accept the place of Superintendent of Schools for Milwaukee City, vacated by the death of Superintendent Pomeroy, in which position he remained until May, 1871.  He was successively appointed by the Board of Trade of Milwaukee to attend the River and Harbor Convention at Chicago, the Convention of Western Boards of Trade at Boston, and the Mutual Improvement Convention, at Louisville, in all of which he took part.  In 1856 and 1860, he was an alternate delegate to the National Conventions held at Cincinnati, Baltimore and Charleston.  He was also a delegate from the State at large to the National Convention which nominated Gen. McClellan for the presidency at Chicago in 1864, and a delegate from the Milwaukee district to the National Convention which nominated Mr. Greeley for the presidency at Baltimore, in 1872; was also a member of the National Democratic Committee for Wisconsin from 1864 to 1868, and was re-appointed in 1872 which position he held until 1876.  In the Spring of 1872 he was appointed Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Wisconsin, and was reappointed to the same position in 1873; and at the State Convention of the latter year was chairman of the committee appointed to report the platform and principles upon which the Democratic Reform Party of Wisconsin was successfully organized.  In February, 1874, he was appointed a member of the Board of Regents of Wisconsin University and soon after was chosen President of that Board.  In May, 1874, after he had determined to sever his connection with the press - a connection which he attained for nearly twenty-seven years - he was appointed by the Governor, with the approval of the Senate, a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the State, which position he occupied until the Spring of 1876.  In November, 1877, he was elected to the State Senate from the Sixth Senatorial District, comprising that portion of Milwaukee City and County lying south of the Menomonee River, and served during the sessions of 1878 and 1879; and in November, 1879, he was re-elected in the senate for the years 1880 and 1881.  He is now President of the Board of Regents of Wisconsin University, one of the Trustees of the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum; one of the Councilors of the Industrial School for Girls, one of the vice Presidents of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, and a Director of the Milwaukee Cement Company, of which company, he is Vice President, and Superintendent of its sales department.  Mr. PAUL was a member of the Commission appointed by the Legislature on the subject of cheaper text books for public schools, and the practicability of promoting reforms in English orthography by State legislation, and was the author of the reports submitted to the Legislature on those subjects.  He also introduced in the Senate the bills, subsequently enacted, for establishing the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum, and the State Industrial school for Girls; also bills creating the office of Health Commissioner in the City of Milwaukee, and for promoting the public health by a system of intercepting sewers for the protection of the rivers of the city, and is the author of other legislative measures deemed of general or local importance.  during the entire period that Mr. PAUL was connected with the press, and for some years previous he was a constant contributor to the newspaper and miscellaneous literature of the time.

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