| Orland Loomis | |
| Office: | Governor-elect of Wisconsin |
| 1Namedata: | Died before assuming office |
| Predecessor: | Julius P. Heil |
| Successor: | Walter Samuel Goodland |
| Office1: | 28th Attorney General of Wisconsin |
| Governor1: | Philip La Follette |
| Term Start1: | January 4, 1937 |
| Term End1: | January 2, 1939 |
| Predecessor1: | James E. Finnegan |
| Successor1: | John E. Martin |
| State Senate2: | Wisconsin |
| District2: | 31st |
| Term Start2: | January 5, 1931 |
| Term End2: | January 7, 1935 |
| Predecessor2: | Howard Teasdale |
| Successor2: | James Earl Leverich |
| State Assembly3: | Wisconsin |
| District3: | Juneau |
| Term Start3: | January 7, 1929 |
| Term End3: | January 5, 1931 |
| Predecessor3: | Archibald Telfer |
| Successor3: | Ben Tremain |
| Party: | Wisconsin Progressive (1934–1942) Republican (before 1934) |
| Birth Name: | Orland Steen Loomis |
| Birth Date: | 2 November 1893 |
| Birth Place: | Mauston, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Spouse: | Florence Ely |
| Children: | 3 |
| Education: | University of Wisconsin, Madison (LLB) |
| Allegiance: | United States |
| Branch: | United States Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1918–1919 |
| Rank: | First Lieutenant |
| Unit: | American Expeditionary Forces |
| Battles: | World War I |
Orland Steen "Spike" Loomis (November 2, 1893December 7, 1942) was an American lawyer and progressive politician from Juneau County, Wisconsin. He was elected to be the 31st Governor of Wisconsin in 1942, but died before taking office. He previously served as the 28th Attorney General of Wisconsin. He was elected as Attorney General and Governor running on the Wisconsin Progressive Party ticket, but had previously served in the State Senate and Assembly as a Republican.[1]
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.[2] 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. Following his defeat, he accepted an appointment as the state director of the Rural Electrification Administration, and served in that role for two years. He ran again for Attorney General in 1936, and this time won the nomination and the general election. He served as Attorney General from 1937 through 1939, but was defeated running for re-election in the 1938 general election.
In 1940, he ran for Governor of Wisconsin, challenging the Republican incumbent Julius Heil. He fell 12,000 votes short in the general election. He ran again in 1942, and this time defeated Heil by over 100,000 votes. He died suddenly of a heart attack a month before he was to take office, and the Republican Lieutenant Governor Walter Samuel Goodland served all of Loomis's term as acting governor.[3]
Loomis married Florence Marie Ely on June 22, 1918. They had three children. Orland Steen Loomis and his wife are buried in Mauston.
In 1943, the Liberty Ship SS Orland Loomis was named after him.
Loomis Road (Wisconsin Highway 36) in Milwaukee County is named after him.
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 6, 1928
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| Republican Primary, September 1930| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 4, 1930
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| Progressive Primary, September 1934
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| Progressive Primary, September 1936| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 3, 1936
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 8, 1938
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| Progressive Primary, September 1940| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 5, 1940
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 3, 1942
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