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Briggs & Stratton Corporation Elects Directors

21 October 1998

Briggs & Stratton Corporation Elects Directors

    MILWAUKEE, Oct. 21 -- Briggs & Stratton Corporation
:
    At the Annual Meeting held today, shareholders reelected the following
directors to a three-year term expiring in 2001:  Eunice M. Filter, Clarence
B. Rogers, Jr. and Frederick P. Stratton, Jr.

                                  Robert H. Eldridge

                                  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
                                  Officer, Secretary-Treasurer