OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. The Wisconsin Congressional Delegation, State Officers, and Senators and Members of the Assembly. With Districts, Home Post Office and Biographic Sketches. TIMOTHY O. HOWE, of Green Bay, was born at Livermore, Maine, February 24, 1816; received an academic education; studied law and was admitted to the bar; was a member of the legislature of the State of Maine in 1845, in the latter part of which year he removed to Wisconsin; was elected a judge of the circuit and supreme courts in Wisconsin in 1850, and held the office until he resigned in 1855; was elected to the United States Senate as a Union Republican to succeed Charles Durkee, and took his seat in 1861, and was re-elected in 1867. His term of service will expire March 3, 1873. MATTHEW H. CARPENTER, of Milwaukee, was born at Moretown, Vermont, in 1824; entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1842, and remained there two years; studied law with Rufus Cheate and was admitted to the bar; removed to Wisconsin in 1848 and entered upon the practice of his profession; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, in place of James R. Doolittle, and took his seat March 4, 1869. His term of service will expire March 3, 1875. Representatives. First District.-Milwaukee, Kenosha, Racine, Walworth, and Waukesha counties. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, of Milwaukee, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, October 17, 1817; received an academic education in Scotland; is a banker; and was elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,558 votes against 12,250 votes for W. P. Lyon, Republican. Second District.-Columbia, Dane, Jefferson, and Rock counties. GERRY W. HAZELTON, of Columbus, was born at Chester, New Hampshire, February 24, 1829; educated at the Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, and afterwards with a private tutor; studied law in New York; removed to Wisconsin in 1856; elected to the State Senate of Wisconsin in 1860 and twice chosen president pro tem.; elected district attorney for Columbia county in 1864; appointed collector of internal revenue for the second district in the winter of 1866, and removed by Andrew Johnson in the same year; appointed United States attorney for the district of Wisconsin in 1869, which place he held until elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,467 votes against 11,568 votes for A. G. Cook, Democrat. Third District.-Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, La Fayette, Richland, and Saukunties. J. ALLEN BARBER, of Lancaster, was born at Georgia, Vermont; left his home when seventeen years of age resolved to obtain a liberal education, and after a partial course of studies at the University of Vermont, he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1833; in 1837 he removed to the then Territory of Wisconsin, and fixed his residence at Lancaster, Grant county, where he has since followed his profession; he was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin in 1846; he was elected to the State Assembly of Wisconsin in 1852, 1853, and 1863, serving the last year as speaker; he was elected to the State Senate in 1856 and 1857; and he was elected to the Fortysecond Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,503 votes against 8,156 votes for J. Strachan, Democrat. Fourth District.-Dodge, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Washington counties. CHARLES A. ELDREDGE, of Fond du Lac, was born at Brideport, Vermont, February 27, 1821; went with his parents to New York; studied and practiced law; settled in Wisconsin in 1848; was a member of the State Sen ate of Wisconsin in 1854 and 1855; was elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirtyninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fortysecond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,019 votes against 9,056 votes for J. A. Watrous, Republican. Fifth District.-Brown, Calumet, Door, Green, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Marquette, Manitowoc, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago counties. PHILETUS SAWYER, of Oshkosh, was born in Whiting, Vermont, September 22, 1816; received a public school and business education; went to Wisconsin in 1847 and engaged in the lumber business; was a member of the Legislature of Wisconsin in 1857 and 1861; was mayor of Oshkosh in 1863 and and 1864; was elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,258 votes against 11,822 votes for J. Stringham, Democrat. Sixth District.-Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Clark, Chippewa, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Marathon, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Portage, St. Croix, Trempealeau, Vernon, and Wood counties. JEREMIAH M. RUSK, of Viroqua, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, June 17, 1830; received a pablic school education; remove to Vernon county, Wisconsin, in 1853; held several county offices; was a member of the Wisconsin State Legislature of 1862; was commissioned major of the Twenty fifth Wisconsin Volunteers in July, 1862; was soon afterward promoted to the colonelcy, served with General Sherman from the siege of Vicksburg until mustered out at the close of the war, and was brevetted brigadier general for meritorious services at the battle of Salkehatchie; was elected bank comptroller of Wisconsin for 1866-'67, and re-elected for 1868-'69; and was elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,042 votes against 9,514 votes for A. Meggett, Democrat. THE STATE OFFICERS. [State Officers are chosen for a term of two years.] Governor. CADWALLADER C. WASHBURN, of La Crosse. He was born at Livermore, Maine, April 22, 1818; received an academic education; studied and practiced law; was appointed a Major General in the Union army in the war for the suppression of the rebellion; was a member of the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, fortieth and forty-first Congresses; elected Governor in 1871, receiving 78, 301 votes, against 68, 910 for James R. Doolittle, (Dem.) Lieutenant Governor. MILTON H. PETTIT, of Kenosha. He was born in the town of Fabius, Onondaga County, New York, October 22d, 1825, is by occupation a grain dealer; he came to Wisconsin in 1846 and settled at Somers, Kenosha County; took up his residence in the city of Kenosha in 1854; was a member of the city council in 1859 and 1864; was elected mayor of the city in 1861, 1865, 1867 and 1870; elected to the State Senate in 1869 for the term of two years; was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1871, receiving 77, 751 votes, against 63,807 for John A. Rice, (Dem.) Secretary of State, LLYWELYN BREESE, of Portage, Columbia county. He was born in Mallwyd, Merionethshire, North Wales, May 13, 1833; received an academic 28-MANUAL. |