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Jesse Peters

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16000358 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jesse M. Peters (July 21, 1897 – March 7, 1962) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Peters was born in Iron Ridge, Wisconsin. During World War I, he served in the United States Army. He died on March 7, 1962, in Hartford, Wisconsin.

Political career

Peters was a member of the Senate from 1939 to 1942. Previously, he was District Attorney of Washington County, Wisconsin from 1929 to 1930. He was a Republican.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jesse Peters” is american politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jesse, Peters and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1962, 1939, 1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1897-07-21. For this dossier, Jesse, Peters and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Q16000358. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1962, 1939 and 1942.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jesse Peters” 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.