Emil Baensch

Emil Baensch (June 12, 1857 – August 17, 1939) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher, and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was the 17th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin.

Biography Emil Baensch was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on June 12, 1857. His father died in 1862, and his mother remarried. Baensch was educated in public and private schools until age 15, when he went to work as a clerk and bookkeeper. He used his earnings to pay for tuition at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He graduated in 1881 and was admitted to the bar the following year.

In 1881, he also founded the Lake Shore Times newspaper as a Republican partisan paper, in partnership with Fred Haukohl.

He continued running the Manitowoc Post until 1922, and was also active in the Manitowoc Chamber of Commerce until his death in 1939.