Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State

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Dates:
Active 1912
Active 1935

Biographical notes:

The Office of Secretary of State was created by the Wisconsin Constitution, Article VI, Sections 1 and 2. It assumed many of the duties of the Territorial Secretary (WIHV87-A1623).

The Secretary of State files public documents of the state, records matters relating to the organization of corporations and cooperatives, issues municipal charters, maintains a file of statements submitted pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code, regulates lobbying, registers tradenames and trademarks, and issues notaries public commissions. The office formerly was also responsible for registering motor vehicles (1905-1939), licensing drivers (1927-1939), administering the state census (1848-1905), preparing the state budget (1848-1913), supervising the assessment and collection of inheritance taxes (1899-1911), issuing peddler's licenses (1868-1917), administering the state's election laws (1848-1973), acting as the state's auditor (1848-1946), and regulating insurance companies (1870-1878).

From the description of Agency history record (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145776836

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  • Administrative agencies
  • Administrative agencies
  • Agricultural productivity
  • Agriculture
  • Automobiles
  • Banks and banking
  • Bonds
  • Bounties
  • Budget
  • Business enterprises
  • Campaign biographies
  • Political campaigns
  • Capital
  • Cheese factories
  • Children of military personnel
  • Universities and colleges
  • Teachers colleges
  • Correctional institution
  • Creameries
  • Crime
  • Dairy processing
  • Desertion, Military
  • Developmentally disabled
  • Elections
  • Exhibition buildings
  • Exhibitions
  • Finance, Public
  • High schools
  • Highway law
  • Incorporation
  • Insane, Criminal and dangerous
  • Judges
  • Justices of the peace
  • Land grants
  • Legislators
  • Livestock
  • Mentally ill
  • Milk plants
  • Mortgage loans
  • Mortgages
  • Orphanages
  • Pardon
  • Peddlers
  • Political action committees
  • Public institutions
  • Public lands
  • Public records
  • Railroad land grants
  • Railroads
  • Railroads
  • Roads
  • School employees
  • School principals
  • School superintendents
  • Shipping
  • Swamps
  • Tax exemption
  • Teacher
  • Trusts and trustees
  • Tuberculosis
  • Veterans
  • Wildlife management

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