1925 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

none 1925 Wisconsin Supreme Court election Wisconsin presidential no 1924 1926 April 7, 1925 E. Ray Stevens (Wisconsin Supreme Court justice).jpg E. Ray Stevens c0c0c0 256,431 65.81% John C. Kleist (266289788) (3x4).jpg John C. Kleist c0c0c0 133,164 34.17% Justice Burr W. Jones E. Ray Stevens 1922 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election 1922 (special) 1935 Wisconsin Supreme Court election 1935 The 1925 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 7, 1925, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. The incumbent justice, Burr W. Jones, declined to seek re-election. Background 1925 Wisconsin elections A regularly-scheduled election for a full term, the election was part of the spring general election held on April 7, 1925, for a ten-year term on the court. The incumbent judge, Burr W. Jones, first appointed in 1920, declined to seek re-election. E. Ray Stevens (judge of the Wisconsin circuit court for the 9th circuit) defeated John C. Kleist (former district attorney of Calumet County). Candidates John C. Kleist, Milwaukee attorney and former district attorney of Calumet County (1885–1889)July 31, 1931 J.C. Kleist, Loyal Santa Cruzan, Dies https://www.newspapers.com/image/50566023 subscription 28 March 2025 Santa Cruz Evening News en Newspapers.comJuly 31, 1931 John C. Kleist Dies In West https://www.newspapers.com/image/511237380 subscription 28 March 2025 The La Crosse Tribune at Newspapers.com en Newspapers.com The Associated PressApril 2, 1922 Record Ballot Forecasted In City Election https://www.newspapers.com/image/401371059 subscription 28 March 2025 Wisconsin State Journal en Newspapers.com E. Ray Stevens, Wisconsin circuit court judge Campaign thumb|x250px|Newspaper advertisement for Stevens' candidacy Prior to both of their judicial careers, from 1896 to 1903, the retiring incumbent, Burr Jones, and candidate, E. Ray Stevens, had been law partners in Madison, running the law firm Jones & Stevens.https://archive.org/details/historyofbenchba02berr History of the Bench and Bar of Wisconsin H. C. Cooper, Jr. 1898 Berryman John R. 2 Chicago 362-365 January 28, 2020 Stevens' campaign advertised endorsements from both of the state's incumbent U.S. senators (Robert M. La Follette Sr. and Irvine Lenroot); incumbent governor John J. Blaine and former governors Emanuel L. Philipp and Francis E. McGovern. In addition to these Republican state leaders, an endorsement was also touted from Martin L. Lueck (a prominent Democratic politician in the state). The campaign's advertisements also claimed that each Republican and Democrat in the 57th Wisconsin Legislature had endorsed his candidacy, and also touted supported from "farm and labor, women and soldier organizations."advertisement https://www.newspapers.com/image/511005639 Newspapers.com subscription La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press 29 March 2025 12 en April 2, 1925 Kleist, then a lawyer who resided in Milwaukee,Ostermeier Dr Eric Wisconsin Supreme Court 2025 Election by the Numbers https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/01/12/wisconsin-supreme-court-2025-election-by-the-numbers Smart Politics (University of Minnesota) 5 July 2025 13 January 2025 had previously served for two-terms as the elected district attorney of Calumet County in the 1880s. He had since his tenure as district attorney run for various judicial and political offices, losing each campaign. He ran several times for seats on the Wisconsin circuit courts in Milwaukee County, but lost all of them. He first ran in 1910 for a Wisconsin circuit court seat but lost to Franz C. Eschweiler. He later was the nominee of the Social-Democratic Party of Wisconsin in the 1911 United States Senate election in Wisconsin. Prior to his 1925 campaign, he had run for the same seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1922, losing to Jones. During the campaign, The Capital Times described Kleist as being the "candidate of the Ku Klux Klan". In 1924, he had been expelled from the Social–Democratic Party over his alleged ties to the Klan. During his campaign, he was supported by the Anti-Saloon League, which promoted his candidacy in the Wisconsin edition of The American Issue.April 9, 1925 Anti-Saloon Publication Aided Kleist https://www.newspapers.com/image/517758870 subscription 28 March 2025 The Capital Times en Newspapers.com Results 1925 Wisconsin Supreme Court election https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115028310/stevens-elected-justice/ Judge Stevens Received Majority of 123,267 Votes Iron County Miner May 8, 1925 1 December 22, 2022 Newspapers.com | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General election, April 7, 1925 Nonpartisan politician E. Ray Stevens 256,431 65.81 Nonpartisan politician John C. Kleist 133,164 34.17 Scattering 73 0.02 123,267 31.63 389,668 100 References supreme court Category:Wisconsin Supreme Court elections Wisconsin Supreme Court election Wisconsin