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George Albert Hammes (September 11 1911 – April 11 1993) was the eighth Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Superior Wisconsin from 1960 to 1985. Bishop Hammes was born in St. Joseph Wisconsin in the town of Greenfield in La Crosse County Wisconsin. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on May 22 1937 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse.