at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1916 Orland Loomis was born in
Mauston, Wisconsin. He attended
Ripon College and then received his law degree from the
University of Wisconsin Law School in 1917. He joined the
United States Army in the midst of
World War I and was stationed in France with the
American Expeditionary Forces. After the war, he returned to Mauston to practice law, and also served as the city attorney from 1922 to 1931. He was elected to the
Wisconsin State Assembly in 1928 and the
Wisconsin State Senate in 1930, running on the
Republican Party ticket. In 1934, he joined the new
Wisconsin Progressive Party, along with many other progressive Republicans. Rather than running for re-election in the Senate in
1934, he ran for the Progressive nomination for
Attorney General of Wisconsin, but fell 10,000 votes short in the
primary. ==Personal life and legacy==