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James C. Officer

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16066568 ↗
Source-derived summary

James C. Officer (1859–1910) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Officer was born on January 23, 1859, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, as the oldest child of Mary Ann Spencer and Elias Crumbaker Officer. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1884 and the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1886. Officer died at the age of 50 on January 1, 1910, and is interred in Springville, Wisconsin.

Career

Officer was elected to the Senate in 1894. He was a Republican.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “James C. Officer” as american politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1859, 1910, 1884, 1886—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1859-01-23. The account is most persuasive where James, Officer and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16066568. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859, 1910, 1884 and 1886.

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This entry incorporates text from “James C. Officer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.