Porter represented the 16th district in the Senate . While in the Senate , he served as Senate Chairman of the Joint Finance Committee during three sessions . In the interims between sessions he had charge of important and influential study projects on education , problems of the aged , industrial development and state and local sharing of institutional costs . He introduced the first bill that had ever been introduced for the improvement of State Parks . Once the bill was signed into law he assured that a portion of the funds went to Wyalusing State Park . He retired from the Senate after 12 years in 1956 , when reapportionment put him in a district with another Senator . Additionally , he was president of the Village of Bloomington and a member of the Grant County , Wisconsin Board , as well as a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention . He was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1950
1948 Republican National Convention
1948 Republican National Convention
Foster B. Porter