Greetings!
Hi, I’m Tom Schuessler. I’m running for Fond du Lac City Council. My wife, Katy, and I have six children and four grandchildren. We live on Glenwood Drive in Fond du Lac. Our youngest son, Tim, is a 2020 graduate of St. Mary Springs High School. I am a graduate of Fond du Lac L.P. Goodrich High.
From my work as a practicing attorney in Mayville, and from my two terms as a council member there, I have gained over 30 years of experience dealing with municipal issues, which I find fascinating.
I like golf, walking and bicycling, and reading history and literature. I love our city’s east and west Fond du Lac River branches, and de Neveu Creek, and I enjoy watching the birds which we see along these waterways. A highlight each spring is when the Suckers are running from Lake Winnebago up de Neveu Creek. (Yes, I know, while water is wonderful, it is also a big problem in Fond du Lac – an issue for the City Council.)
Fond du Lac is full of wonderful history. I am especially interested in city buildings, its homes, businesses and schools, I still have not recovered from the razing of the courthouse (with clock tower!), Armory E where they had “the fights,” and the Carnegie Library, and other buildings which have been swept away. I care about city downtown development, in part, because the city benefits from historic preservation.
I grew up in an “old house” on Sheboygan Street in Fond du Lac. My schools growing up before high school were Jefferson, Bragg and St. Joseph elementary schools, Woodworth Junior High.
I first learned Roberts Rules of Order as president of the student council at Goodrich High. I would like to serve the city that has given so much to me. Vote April 5!
The Schuessler family history in Fond du Lac goes back to 1872 when my great-great-grandfather opened this brewery on Hickory Street which continued until 1892, and after that there was a tavern on Brooke Street near the railroad station. After a while the German language umlaut was gone and the “e” was added – so that Schussler became Schuessler.
Tom Schuessler for Fond du Lac City Council 