Daniel Theno

Dan Theno
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 25th district
In office 1972–1987
Preceded by	Arthur Cirilli
Succeeded by	Robert Jauch
Personal details
Born	(1947-05-08) May 8, 1947 Ashland, Wisconsin
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniel O. Theno (born May 8, 1947) was a Wisconsin State Senator, city Mayor, state agency administrator, lobbyist before Congress and five state legislatures, local government administrator and executive director of a statewide trade association.

Theno graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. He spent his senior year teaching at the University of Rio Grade do Sol in Porto Alegre, Brazil, under a university fellowship. At UW he was the recipient of the Iron Cross Honor Award as one of the most outstanding graduates of that university. Upon graduation, Theno taught at the Oregon (WI) High School for three years before entering politics.

Theno won a special election to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1972 from the 25th District of northern Wisconsin, defeating Ernest J. Korpela. He was re-elected in 1974, 1978, and 1982. In 1986 he was elected to one of two terms as Mayor of his hometown of Ashland, WI.

In 1989 he was selected to be the Director of Intergovernmental Relations for the State of Wisconsin. He subsequently served as Administrator of State and Local Finances in the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

For much of the 1990s Theno was Manager of Government Relations for Fort Howard Corporation in Green Bay, WI, and it successor, the Fort James Corporation. In that capacity he managed company government relations before the national Congress and the state legislatures of IN, IL, MI, OH and WI.

In 1999 Theno got back into local government and became an administrator in the Cincinnati, OH, subsurb of Deerfield Township. In 2001 until his retirement in 2007, Theno was the Executive Director of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, headquartered in the Columbus, OH, area. After retirement, Dan Theno moved back to Green Bay, WI.

He was a member of the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Council on Traffic Law Enforcement, the Wisconsin State Building Commission among many other commissions.