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{{Short description|American politician (1842–1915)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name            = C. F. Viebahn
| image           = Charles F. Viebahn.png
| alt             = 
| caption         = 
| birth_name      = Charles F. Viebahn
| birth_date      = {{Birth date text|1842}}
| birth_place     = [[Germany]]
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|1915|03|17|1842||}}
| death_place     = [[Watertown, Wisconsin|Watertown]], Wisconsin
| resting_place   = 
| other_names     = 
| occupation      = Educator, politician
| spouse          = {{Plainlist|
* {{Marriage|Lona Fischer|1868|1893|end=d.}}
* {{Marriage|Josephine Hall|1895}}
}}
| children        = 1
| awards          = 
| education       = [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]
| party           = [[Democratic Party of Wisconsin|Democratic]]
| office          = Member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
| constituency    = [[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson County]] First District
| term_start      = 1908
| term_end        = 1910
}}

'''Charles F. Viebahn''' (1842 – March 17, 1915) was a member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]].

==Biography==
Viebahn was born in what is now [[Germany]] in 1842.<ref name=BlueBook>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AEwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1121 |chapter=Biographical Sketches |title=Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin |year=1909 |publisher=[[Wisconsin|State of Wisconsin]] |pages=1121–1122 |access-date=2014-01-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1851, he moved with his parents to [[Baraboo, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/Viebahn_Charles.htm|title=Professor Charles Viebahn|publisher=Watertown Historical Society|access-date=2014-01-23}}</ref> He attended what is now the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and later became principal of [[Watertown High School (Wisconsin)|Watertown High School]] in [[Watertown, Wisconsin]].

Viehbahn married Lona Fischer in 1868. They had one son before her death in 1893. In 1895, Viebahn married Josephine Hall, a mother of two. He died of [[pneumonia]] at his home in Watertown on March 17, 1915.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45987984/passing-of-an-educator/ |title=Passing of an Educator |newspaper=Stevens Point Journal |page=1 |date=1915-03-19 |access-date=2020-03-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Political career==
Viebahn was elected to the Assembly in 1908. Additionally, he was Superintendent of Schools of Watertown, as well as of [[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin]] and [[Sauk County, Wisconsin]]. He was a [[Democratic Party of Wisconsin|Democrat]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Find a Grave}}

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[[Category:People from Baraboo, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Politicians from Watertown, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly]]
[[Category:Educators from Wisconsin]]
[[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni]]
[[Category:1842 births]]
[[Category:1915 deaths]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Wisconsin]]
[[Category:19th-century American legislators]]
[[Category:19th-century Wisconsin politicians]]


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