[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H5000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE LYNN STALBAUM, FORMER MEMBER OF 
                        CONGRESS FROM WISCONSIN

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, it is my duty as Dean of the Wisconsin 
delegation to announce the death of a former Member, the Honorable Lynn 
Stalbaum, who served Wisconsin's first District in 1965 and 1966. 
During his service in Congress he served with distinction on the 
Committee on Agriculture.
  Before his service in Congress he served on a destroyer for 2 years 
during World War II. He was the assistant minority Leader in the 
Wisconsin State Senate, where he served for 10 years. He was once 
described by Aldric Revell, the dean of State Capitol correspondents, 
as being a legislator who had the maddening tendency to expect reason 
to dominate legislative debate.
  After he left Congress he worked for dairy farmers for a number of 
years trying to help increase milk prices. He served as the President 
of Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Bethesda. He also ran a tax filing 
business, and he taught on a number of occasions, he taught H&R Block 
people how to do tax returns, so he knew his way around the Tax Code.
  He was always an individual of immense good cheer. He was also a 
person who never forgot that our job here is to work for the common 
man, and he did that every day of his career, both in the State 
legislature and in the Congress. Services will be held at Joseph 
Gawler's & Sons, 5130 Wisconsin Avenue, Wednesday night at 7:30. 
Visitation will be tonight between 7 and 9 o'clock.
  We all, I am sure, send our sympathies to his family.

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