George A. Buckstaff

George Angus Buckstaff (December 22, 1861 – September 26, 1927) was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician. He was the 43rd Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography George Buckstaff was born December 22, 1861, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He attended the public schools at Oshkosh, and then attended the Wisconsin State University at Oshkosh from 1882 to 1885. He graduated from Columbia Law School and the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1886. He was admitted to the bar later that year and went to work for the Buckstaff-Edwards casket and furniture manufacturing company, which was partly owned by his father. He was appointed secretary of the company and manager of the chair department. At the start of the 1897 session, he was chosen as speaker of the Assembly with a bipartisan vote of 91 out of 100 members. In the general election, however, Buckstaff fell 133 votes short of his Democratic opponent, Henry I. Weed.

Buckstaff's became president of the Buckstaff Company after the death of his father in 1900. He devoted most of the remainder of his career to the management of the company.

In his later years, he served on a number of appointed state commissions. During World War I, he served on the Governor's council on defense and the liberty loan commission. He also served on the state Fish & Game Commission and introduced the law to abolish net fishing in Lake Winnebago. George Angus Buckstaff's uncle George H. Buckstaff also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and State Senate.

Electoral history Wisconsin Assembly (1894, 1896)

Wisconsin Senate (1898)