Stephen Bolles
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromWisconsin's1st district
In office January 3, 1939 – July 8, 1941
Preceded by	Thomas Ryum Amlie
Succeeded by	Lawrence H. Smith
Personal details
Born	June 25, 1866 Springboro, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 8, 1941(1941-07-08) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Oak Hill Cemetery,Janesville, Wisconsin
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Aimee Carreras Wall

Stephen Bolles (June 25, 1866 – July 8, 1941) was an American newspaper editor andRepublican politician fromJanesville, Wisconsin. He was elected to two terms in theU.S. House of Representatives, representingWisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1939 until his death in 1941. Before his election to Congress, he worked as editor of theJanesvilleGazette for nearly 20 years; prior to that he worked as editor of theToledoBlade, theBuffaloEnquirer, and several other newspapers inNew York state.^[1]

Born inSpringboro,Crawford County, Pennsylvania, Bolles attended the public schools; was graduated from theState Normal School of Pennsylvania atSlippery Rock, Pennsylvania, in 1888 and from the law department ofMilton College,Milton, Wisconsin.

In his early career, Bolles worked as reporter, correspondent, managing editor, and publisher of newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York from 1893 to 1901. Along with Mark Bennett, he was a superintendent of the press department of thePan-American Exposition atBuffalo, New York, in 1901,^[2] and was reportedly among those with PresidentWilliam McKinley when the President was assassinated while visiting the Exposition.

Bolles was managing editor of theBuffalo Enquirer in 1902 and 1903; superintendent of graphic arts of theSt. Louis Exposition from 1903 to 1905; and director of publicity of theJamestown Exposition in 1907. He was engaged as a special writer and also in private business, including the "brokerage" business, inAtlanta, Georgia, from 1907 to 1919. In 1920, he moved toJanesville, Wisconsin, as editor of theJanesville Gazette^[3] and remained until 1939.

Elected to the76th and the77th United States Congress as aRepublican, Bolles served as United States representative for the first district of Wisconsin from January 3, 1939, until his death in 1941. As a congressman, Bolles was fiercely opposed to theLend-Lease policy and tried to exclude theSoviet Union from the Lend-Lease program.

Bolles died inWashington, D.C., on July 8, 1941 (age 75 years, 13 days). He isinterred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin. His grandchildren includeDon Bolles, an investigative journalist murdered in 1976, authorRichard Nelson Bolles, philosophy professor David L. Bolles, and authorEdmund Blair Bolles.

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