Vernon County, Wisconsin - Chapter 12: Territorial, State and Congressional Representation, 1884

From History of Vernon County, Wisconsin, Together with Sketches of Its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens; History of Wisconsin.., published 1884. 624 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.

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Chapter 12: Territorial, State and Congressional Representation
I. Territorial Representation Ii. State Representation
Iii. Congressional Repbeskntation

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Chapter 12: Territorial, State and Congressional Representation

The settlers who had located in what is now Vernon county, before Wisconsin became a State, were represented of course, as citizens of Crawford county, in the territorial council and house of representatives. We commence the record of this representation with the first year of the settlement of what afterward became Vernon county.

I. Territorial Representation Ii. State Representation

adjourned on the 16th day of December, 1846, having framed a constitution, which was submitted to a vote of the people on the first Tuesday in April, 1847, and the same was rejected. Tlie member of this convention from Crawford county, was Peter A. R. Brace.

The second convention assembled at Madison, on the 15th day of December, 1847, and adjourned on the 1st of February, 1848, having framed a constitution which was submitted to a vote of the people on the second Monday in March following, and the same was adopted. The convention was constituted as follows: Messrs. Samuel W. Beall, Warren Chase, Stoddard Judd, Theodore Prentiss, Garret M. Fitzgerald and Frederick S. Lovell, being the only members of the first convention who were elected to the second; the members of the first, in almost every county, declining a re-election. The member of the second convention, Daniel G. Fenton, represented the counties of Chippewa and Crawford.

(2.) .-l«Ae/ft%. - William T. Sterling, 184S; James O'Neill, 1849; William T. Sterling, 1850; William F. Price, 1851; Andrew Briggs, 1852; Hiram A. Wright, 1853; William F. Terhune, 1854; James Fisher, 1855; Andrew Briggs, 1856; Buel E. Hutchinson, 1857; James R. Savage, 1858; Thomas W. Tower, 1859; William C. McMichael, 1860; Daniel H. Johnson, 1861; Ole Johnson, and Jeremiah M. Rusk, 1862; James H. Layne and Daniel B. Priest, 1863; William H. Officer and Albert Bliss, 1864; William H. Officer and James Berry, 1865; Newton F. Carpenter and Alexander Woods, 1866; John W. Greenman and Albert Bliss, 1867; Henry Chase and Daniel B. Priest, 1868; John M. McLeez and Van S. Bennett, 1869; Rexiben May and Van S. Bennett, 1870; Joseph W. Hoyt and Henry A. Chase, 1871; Reuben

May and Henry A. Chase, 1872; Peter Jerman and J. Henry Tate, 1873; William Frazier and Edgar Eno, 1874; Ole Anderson and James E. Newell, 1875; John Stevenson and Timothy S. Jordan, 1876; Peter J. Dale and Henry H. Wyatt, 1877; Christian Ellefson and Allen Rusk, 1878: Jacob Eckhardt, Jr., and Roger Williams, 1 879; Jacob Eckhardt, Jr., and David

Iii. Congressional Repbeskntation

The act of Congress approved April 20, 1836, organizing the territory of Wisconsin, conferred upon the people the right to be represented in the National Congress by one delegate, to be chosen by the votes of the qualified electors of the territory. Under this authority there were elected the following Territorial Delegates.

By the constitution adopted when the territory became a State, in 1848, two representatives in Congress were provided for by dividing the State into two congressional districts. The first district was composed of the counties of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth, Rock and Green. The second district was composed of Washington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Sauk, Portage, Columbia, Dodge, Dane, Iowa, Lafayette, Grant, Richland, Crawford, Chippewa, St. Croix and La Pointe. As what is now Vernon county was then a part of Crawford, of course the people therein were in the second district. Under this authority, an election was held May 8, and William Pitt Lynde was elected member of Congress for the first district; Mason C. Darling, of Fond duLac, for the second district. The people therefore, then living iu what is now Vernon county were represented in the thirtieth Congress by Mason C. Darling. From (and including) that election there have been chosen for the various congressional districts iu which Vernon county has fallen, the following

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