Carl Lauri was a Democratic

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 member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 25th district

Wisconsin Senate, District 25

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 from 1955 to 1963.

According to the Wisconsin Blue Book

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 (1962), he was born in Superior, Wisconsin

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, and graduated from Superior State College in 1954. He formerly worked as a railroad clerk, and was a veteran of World War II

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. He was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention

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. He was also the chairman of the 10th District Democratic Party, and a member of the State Democratic Administrative Committee. Elected to the Senate in 1954; re-elected in 1958.