1. William D "Bill" Dyke was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.
12 Facts About William Dyke
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William Dyke was the 49th mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, from 1969 to 1973, and ran for Vice President of the United States on the American Independent Party ticket with presidential candidate Lester Maddox in the 1976 presidential election.
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William Dyke was the Republican nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in the 1974 gubernatorial election.
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William Dyke moderated Face the State, a local political news program modeled after the nationally televised Face the Nation.
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William Dyke was a two-term mayor of Madison, Wisconsin from 1969 to 1973.
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William Dyke presided over Madison during the most turbulent era in the city's history, highlighted by the Sterling Hall bombing and subsequent clashes with student uprisings.
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Undeterred, William Dyke ran as the Republican nominee for governor in 1974, losing to Democrat Patrick Lucey.
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Maddox and William Dyke won 170,274 votes in the general election.
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William Dyke worked as a family mediation lawyer in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
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William Dyke was elected to a full term on the court in 1998 and subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2010.
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William Dyke later was selected as the chief judge of the 7th Judicial Administrative District by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and served the maximum of three two-year terms in that role.
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William Dyke left the bench in January 2016, and died of pancreatic cancer in a Dodgeville, Wisconsin, nursing home two months later.