Richard Shoemaker

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.^[1] 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.^[2] He was charged campaign fund fraud and failure to disclose personal gains. He was found guilty and sentenced to 60 days in jail. (1988)^[3][4][5]