Charles Jonas (Wisconsin politician)

For the congressman from North Carolina, see Charles Jonas (disambiguation).

Charles Jonas

Charles Jonas (born Karel Jonáš - October 30, 1840–January 15, 1896) was a Czech journalist, linguist and political activist, who became a Wisconsin journalist and politician.

Background

Karel Jonáš was born in Malešov, Bohemia. A strong Czech nationalist and friend of Vojtěch Náprstek, he fled Bohemia in 1860 after clashes with the authorities, moving via Bremen to London, where he continued to work as a journalist. In March 1863 he emigrated to Racine, Wisconsin, just south of Milwaukee (where Náprstek had been the first Czech to publish a periodical in the United States); there he edited and published the Czech language newspaper Slavie.

Elective office and consular service

Jonas was skeptical of Abraham Lincoln and the policies of the Republican Party (which he saw as too centralist), and he gradually came to be affiliated with the Democrats. He served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1878 and in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1883 to 1886. From 1886 to 1889 Jonas was the U.S. consul in Prague; he also served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, from 1891 until 1894, when he resigned to become the U.S consul in St. Petersburg; in 1896, he was transferred to Crefeld, Germany, where he died that same year.

Although in 1919 the Department of State informed author Thomas Čapek that Jonas died of heart failure, recent scholarship has determined that Jonas shot himself. After his death, Jonas was buried in Prague's Olšany Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

• "Wisconsin Constitutional Officers; Lieutenant Governors" (PDF). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2005–2006. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. July 2005. pp. 31. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/05bb/695-743.pdf. Retrieved October 6, 2007. 
• "Charles Jonas". Office of the Lieutenant Governor. http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2080&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126. Retrieved October 6, 2007. 

References

1. ^ Chrislock, Carl W. Charles Jonas (1840-1896): Czech National Liberal, Wisconsin Bourbon Democrat. Balch Institute Press, 1993.

Political offices
Preceded by George Washington Ryland	Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1891–1894	Succeeded by Emil Baensch

Persondata
Name	Jonas, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	diplomat, newspaper editor, politician; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Date of birth	1840
Place of birth	Maselow, Bohemia
Date of death	1896
Place of death	Crefield, Germany

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