Biography

Perala was born on August 28, 1915 in Maple, Wisconsin

Maple, Wisconsin

Maple is a town in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 649 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Blueberry and Maple are located in the town.-History:...

. He suffered from blindness

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

 and graduated from the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired before attending the University of Wisconsin-Superior

University of Wisconsin-Superior

The University of Wisconsin–Superior is a public university located in Superior, Wisconsin. UW–Superior grants bachelor's, master's, and specialist's degrees...

 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Perala passed away on February 25, 2002.

Career

Perala was a member of the Assembly from 1953 to 1968. He was a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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