Biography

Denissen was born on July 13, 1918 in Bellevue, Wisconsin

Bellevue, Wisconsin

Bellevue is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It was a town until incorporating as a village on February 14, 2003. The population of the area that became the village was 11,828 in 2000...

. His father, Matt, was Supervisor of Bellevue. Denissen would marry Ursula Carmody in 1939. They would have one son before her passing in 1983. In 1984, he married Agnes (Johnson) Le Clair. She passed away in 2003. Denissen died on January 21, 2008. He was Roman Catholic.

Political career

Denissen was elected to the City Council of Green Bay in 1952. He was named President of the Council in 1955. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor against Otto Rachals

Otto Rachals

-Biography:Rachals was born on January 1, 1897 in Langlade County, Wisconsin. In 1925 her married Gertrude Moore. He died on July 7, 1984 in Green Bay.-References:...

 in 1957. Two years later, he ran against Rachals again, this time winning. He served as Mayor until 1965, when he was defeated for re-election by Donald Tilleman

Donald Tilleman

-Biography:Tilleman was born on February 23, 1919. He married Jane Steele of Reno, Nevada in 1940. They would have seven children. Tilleman passed away on November 27, 1972 from myocardial infarction in New York City while on city business. He is buried in Allouez, Wisconsin.-Political...

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