From History of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - 1881, Volume 1, Page 631

HORACE RUBLEE, editor of the Republican and News, was born in Berkshire, Franklin County, Vermont, August 19, 1829.  His family removed to Wisconsin, then a territory in 1840, and settled at Sheboygan.  Mr. RUBLEE first engaged in journalism in 1852 and 1853, as a reporter of legislative proceedings for the Madison Argus, a paper since discontinued.  In the Spring of 1853 he became editor of the Madison Journal, and the next year bought a half interest, continuing his connection with that paper until 1869.  From 1856 to 1858 he was State Librarian, and Chairman of the Republican State Committee for ten years - 1859-69.  He was one of the delegates from the State at large in the National Republican Convention, held in Chicago in 1868, being a member of the committee that prepared the platform; the next year was appointed Minister to Switzerland, tendering his resignation and returning to this country in October, 1876.  Being requested to withhold it by Secretary FISH, as President Grant did not wish to make a new appointment so near the close of his term, Mr. RUBLEE did not formally resign until March, 1877.  Appointed Chairman of the Republican State Committee in that year, he held the position until 1879, declining a reappointment.  During the canvass for State officers in 1877, he took strong ground for the resumption of specie payments and against the theories of the Greenback party, then prominent in the State.  Mr. RUBLEE assumed the editorship of the Republican and News January 1, 1881.

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