A look back at the hunting governors of Wisconsin
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Wealthy Milwaukee industrialist and former two-time Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil was beaming as he slid into the passenger side of Henry Kuehn’s automobile on a November afternoon in 1949. “This is one of the best days I ever spent,” he said to Kuehn, his friend and president of the Milwaukee Cold Storage Company.
The two men had just enjoyed an afternoon pheasant hunt at the Bark River Game Preserve near Sullivan, Jefferson County, a 2,200 acre refuge maintained by a group of 15 Milwaukee businessmen.
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