Richard Shoemaker
{{short description|American politician}}
Richard Shoemaker is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Biography
Shoemaker was born on June 11, 1951, in Beloit, Wisconsin.{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2816&term_type_id=1&term_type_text=people&letter=S|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109145939/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2816&term_type_id=1&term_type_text=People&letter=S|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-09|title=Shoemaker, Richard A. 1951|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|accessdate=2011-11-27}} He graduated from Menomonie High School in Menomonie, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Shoemaker is married with two children.
Career
Shoemaker was Supervisor of Dunn County, Wisconsin from 1976 to 1977 before serving as a member of the Assembly from 1978 to 1986. He was elected to the Senate in 1988. Shoemaker was a Democrat.
Shoemaker was convicted in 1989 of receiving illegal money from a lobbyist, failing to disclose a loan on financial disclosure statements, using his office for personal gain, defrauding his campaign committee and filing false campaign reports.{{Cite web|url=http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-lawmakers-convicted-of-crimes-in-past-years/article_1d46665b-fed2-53dc-804c-b9714a4a920f.html|title=21 state lawmakers convicted of crimes in past 35 years}} He was charged campaign fund fraud and failure to disclose personal gains. He was found guilty and sentenced to 60 days in jail. (1988){{Cite web|url=http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-lawmakers-convicted-of-crimes-in-past-years/article_1d46665b-fed2-53dc-804c-b9714a4a920f.html|title=21 state lawmakers convicted of crimes in past 35 years}}{{Cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/madison-wisconsin-state-journal-oct-03-1989-p-1/|title = Madison Wisconsin State Journal Archives, Oct 3, 1989, p. 1|date = 3 October 1989}}[https://elections.wi.gov] | Complaints and Investigations under Wisconsin’s Ethics Code | 1985-89 | [https://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/publication/66/622_enforcement85_89_pdf_12403.pdf]
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Category:Politicians from Beloit, Wisconsin
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