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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Dane County, Wis.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Horeb <a href="cms03203">Lutheran Cemetery</a> <li>Paoli <a href=" ">St. William Cemetery</a> <li>Stoughton <a href="cms05846">Riverside Cemetery</a> <li>Sun Prairie <a href=" ">Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms04903">Private or family graveyard</a> Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Oak Hill Cemetery</a> Black Earth, Dane County, Wisconsin See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=88597&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Adams (1819-1908) — of Black Earth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/index.html">1819</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1869-70, 1872; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1882-83. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/index.html">1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">about 89 years</a>). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#527.08.96">Alva Adams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams9.html#917.12.22">William Herbert Adams</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams4.html#003.83.24">Harry Wilfred Adams</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11311.html">Adams family</a> of Pueblo, Colorado.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/69545730">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07071">Unknown Location</a> Cambridge, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07538">Lake Ripley Cemetery</a> Near Cambridge, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Rasmus Björn Anderson (1846-1936) — also known as Rasmus B. Anderson — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Albion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/01-12.html">January 12, 1846</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/WI.html">1868</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-diplomats.html ">Denmark</a>, 1885-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance executive</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1910. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/03-02.html">March 2, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 50 days</a>). Interment at Lake Ripley Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Björn Anderson Kvelve and Abel Catherie von Krogh; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/07-21.html">July 21, 1868</a>, to Bertha Karina Olson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus B. Anderson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/anderson-rasmus-bjorn">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/022/000117668">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00116">Forest Hill Cemetery</a> 1 Speedway Road Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin Founded 1858; approximate acreage: 140 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=87944&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/10506825074/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/181/13.44.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="William F. Vilas"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908) — also known as William F. Vilas — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Chelsea, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/07-09.html">July 9, 1840</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/WI.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/WI.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/WI.html">1884</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/WI.html">Democratic National Committee from Wisconsin</a>, 1880; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1885; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1885-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1888-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1891-97. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/08-28.html">August 28, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 50 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/VI.html">Vilas County, Wis.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411154">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3572527044/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/409/16.98.jpg" width=70 height=116 border=0 alt="Robert M. LaFollette"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925) — also known as Robert M. LaFollette; "Fighting Bob"; "Battling Bob" — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Primrose, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/06-14.html">June 14, 1855</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County District Attorney</a>, 1880-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 3rd District, 1885-91; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/WI.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/WI.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1901-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1906-25; died in office 1925; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/index.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/index.html">1916</a>; Progressive candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1924. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a> complicated by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asthma.html">asthma</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/06-18.html">June 18, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 4 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josiah LaFollette and Mary (Ferguson) LaFollette (who later married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sawyers-sayward.html#249.47.93">John Z. Saxton</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/12-31.html">December 31, 1881</a>, to Belle Case; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#582.37.19">Robert Marion LaFollette Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#941.12.00">Philip Fox LaFollette</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eastman.html#016.01.69">Charles Sumner Eastman</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#358.82.16">Bronson Cutting LaFollette</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0318.html">LaFollette family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000004">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406514">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-m-la-follette/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert M. La Follette%2C Sr.">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Robert M. LaFollette: Nancy C. Unger, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080782545X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080782545X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fighting Bob La Follette : The Righteous Reformer</a> — Bernard A. Weisberger, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0299141306/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0299141306&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The LaFollettes of Wisconsin : Love and Politics in Progressive America</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1902</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Franklin Mill (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/12-27.html">December 27, 1831</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, 1863, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost an arm</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wisconsin</a>, 1864-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1866-72; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Paris</a>, as of 1879; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1880-81; candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-23.html">May 23, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#423.79.80">Jairus C. Fairchild</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#200.07.33">Cassius Fairchild</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12197.html">Fairchild family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/speranza-sprafka.html#687.88.04">John C. Spooner</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/lucius-fairchild/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/fairchild-lucius ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Orsamus Cole (1819-1903) — of Wisconsin. Born in Cazenovia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/08-23.html">August 23, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1855-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, 1880-92; appointed 1880. Died in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-died.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/05-05.html">May 5, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000611">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402740">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/36380617@N06/10506964773/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/687/88.04.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="John C. Spooner"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Coit Spooner (1843-1919) — also known as John C. Spooner; "The Tinker of Legislation" — of Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-lived.html">St. Croix County</a>, Wis.; Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Lawrenceburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DA-born.html">Dearborn County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/01-06.html">January 6, 1843</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; private and military secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#181.53.46">Lucius Fairchild</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1872; general solicitor, Omaha <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1880; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanborn.html#719.78.53">Arthur Loomis Sanborn</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1885-91, 1897-1907; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/WI.html">1888</a> (delegation chair), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/WI.html">1892</a> (delegation chair); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1892. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/06-11.html">June 11, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Philip L. Spooner and Lydia (Coit) Spooner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/09-10.html">September 10, 1868</a>, to Annie E. Main.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000741">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410210">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Bradley Winslow (1851-1920) — also known as John B. Winslow — of Wisconsin. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/10-04.html">October 4, 1851</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/quackenbush-quigg.html#207.14.34">Joseph V. Quarles</a>; circuit judge in Wisconsin 1st Circuit, 1884-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1891-1920; appointed 1891; died in office 1920; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, 1907-20; died in office 1920. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/07-13.html">July 13, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 283 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Horatio Gates Winslow and Emily (Bradley) Winslow; married to Agnes Clancy.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8254107930/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/582/37.19.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Robert M. LaFollette, Jr."></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Marion LaFollette Jr. (1895-1953) — also known as Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/02-06.html">February 6, 1895</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WI.html">Wisconsin Republican state chair</a>, 1925; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1925-47; defeated in Republican primary, 1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/WI.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WI.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a>, in the bathroom of his home, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/02-24.html">February 24, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#409.16.98">Robert Marion LaFollette</a> and Belle (Case) LaFollette; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#941.12.00">Philip Fox LaFollette</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-17.html">September 17, 1930</a>, to Rachel Wilson Young; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#358.82.16">Bronson Cutting LaFollette</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0318.html">LaFollette family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000005">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406515">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert M. La Follette%2C Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/761/000118407">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9273">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.: Roger T. Johnson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0208008470/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0208008470&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. and the Decline of the Progressive Party in Wisconsin</a> — Bernard A. Weisberger, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0299141306/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0299141306&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The LaFollettes of Wisconsin : Love and Politics in Progressive America</a> — Patrick J. Maney, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870203401/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0870203401&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Young Bob : A Biography of Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Philip Fox LaFollette (1897-1965) — also known as Philip F. LaFollette — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis.; Douglaston, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/05-08.html">May 8, 1897</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County District Attorney</a>, 1925-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1931-33, 1935-39; defeated, 1938; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/WI.html">1952</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/08-18.html">August 18, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#409.16.98">Robert Marion LaFollette</a> and Belle (Case) LaFollette; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#582.37.19">Robert Marion LaFollette Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/04-14.html">April 14, 1923</a>, to Isabel Bacon; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#358.82.16">Bronson Cutting LaFollette</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0318.html">LaFollette family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/phillip-f-la-follette/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Philip F. LaFollette: Bernard A. Weisberger, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0299141306/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0299141306&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The LaFollettes of Wisconsin : Love and Politics in Progressive America</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Louis Powell Harvey (1820-1862) — also known as Louis P. Harvey — of Shopiere, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RO-lived.html">Rock County</a>, Wis. Born in East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/07-22.html">July 22, 1820</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention</a>, 1847; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1854-58; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/WI.html">1856</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wisconsin</a>, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1862; died in office 1862. While on a trip to inspect Wisconsin troops after the battle of Shiloh, during the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Civil War</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> off a boat and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> in the Tennessee River, near Pittsburg Landing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-19.html">April 19, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/louis-powell-harvey/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Ole Davidson (1854-1922) — also known as James O. Davidson — of Soldiers Grove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/CR-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Wis. Born in Sogne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/02-10.html">February 10, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">Miller</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1893-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/trea.html">Wisconsin state treasurer</a>, 1899-1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1903-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1906-11. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/12-16.html">December 16, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ole Davidson and Ingabor (Jenson) Davidson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/02-19.html">February 19, 1883</a>, to Helen Bliss.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-o-davidson/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert George Schmedeman (1864-1946) — also known as Albert G. Schmedeman — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/11-25.html">November 25, 1864</a>. Democrat. U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-diplomats.html ">Norway</a>, 1913-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1926-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1933-35; defeated, 1928, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. One <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">leg was amputated</a> as a result of gangrene infection in 1934. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/11-26.html">November 26, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 1 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Schmedeman and Wilhelmina (Camien) Schmedeman; married to Kate M. Regan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/albert-g-schmedeman/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert G. Schmedeman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/schmedeman-albert-george ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harlow S. Orton (1817-1895) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/11-23.html">November 23, 1817</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1854, 1859, 1871; circuit judge in Wisconsin 9th Circuit, 1859-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1877-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1878-95; died in office 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, 1894-95; died in office 1895. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-04.html">July 4, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Rublee (1829-1896) — of Wisconsin. Born in Berkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/08-19.html">August 19, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WI.html">Wisconsin Republican state chair</a>, 1859-69, 1877-79; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/WI.html">1868</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-diplomats.html ">Switzerland</a>, 1869-76; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-diplomats.html ">Switzerland</a>, 1876. Died in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-died.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/10-19.html">October 19, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alvah Rublee and Martha (Kent) Rublee; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Katherine 'Kate' Hopkins; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#372.34.59">William Alvah Rublee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#558.29.00">George Rublee</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#397.49.49">William Seymour Rublee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39203.html">Rublee family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Rublee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/rublee-horace ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8468788">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Robert Taylor (1820-1909) — also known as William R. Taylor — of Cottage Grove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/07-10.html">July 10, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1874-76; defeated, 1875. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/03-17.html">March 17, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/TA.html">Taylor County, Wis.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-r-taylor/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oscar Rennebohm (1889-1968) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born near Leeds, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/05-25.html">May 25, 1889</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">druggist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1945-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1947-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/10-15.html">October 15, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 143 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Carl Rennebohm and Julia (Brandt) Rennebohm; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/09-08.html">September 8, 1920</a>, to Mary Fowler.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/oscar-rennebohm/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/397/000206776">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/110/86.06.jpg" width=70 height=115 border=0 alt="Timothy Brown"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Timothy Brown (1889-1977) — Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/02-24.html">February 24, 1889</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County Court Commissioner</a>, 1926-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1949-64; appointed 1949; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, 1962-64. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/12-31.html">December 31, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 310 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Margaret Titchener and Louise Coxon.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/56624233">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://wicourts.gov/courts/supreme/justices/retired/brown.htm">Wisconsin Supreme Court biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1954</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Mandt Nelson (1870-1955) — also known as John M. Nelson — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Burke town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/10-10.html">October 10, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">Superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WI.html">Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1901-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a>, 1905-19, 1921-33 (2nd District 1905-13, 3rd District 1913-19, 1921-33). Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/01-29.html">January 29, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Christopher Nelson and Elsie Nelson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/07-25.html">July 25, 1891</a>, to Thea Johanna Stondall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000039">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408129">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/063/000208436">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Alvah Rublee (1861-1910) — also known as William A. Rublee — of Wisconsin. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/03-16.html">March 16, 1861</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-consuls.html ">Prague</a>, 1890-93; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HK-consuls.html ">Hong Kong</a>, 1901-02, 1909-10, died in office 1910; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html ">Havana</a>, 1902-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-consuls.html ">Vienna</a>, 1903-09. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HK-died.html">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/04-15.html">April 15, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#957.17.09">Horace Rublee</a> and Kate (Hopkins) Rublee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#558.29.00">George Rublee</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#397.49.49">William Seymour Rublee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39203.html">Rublee family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Alvah Rublee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86594435">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Loomis Sanborn (1850-1920) — of Elkhorn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WL-lived.html">Walworth County</a>, Wis.; Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Brasher Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SL-born.html">St. Lawrence County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/11-17.html">November 17, 1850</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WL-officials.html">Walworth County Register of Deeds</a>, 1875-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/speranza-sprafka.html#687.88.04">John C. Spooner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin</a>, 1905-20; died in office 1920. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/10-18.html">October 18, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Alice E. Golder.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2092&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Loomis Sanborn">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/sanborn-arthur-loomis">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Cullen Adams (1850-1906) — also known as Henry C. Adams — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Verona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/11-28.html">November 28, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1883-86; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/WI.html">1888</a>; Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commissioner, 1895-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1903-06; died in office 1906. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">intestinal illness</a>, in Auditorium <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/07-09.html">July 9, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Franklin Adams and Caroline Melissa Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-15.html">October 15, 1878</a>, to Anna B. Norton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000037">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400698">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Cullen Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/064/000208437">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6404657">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Burr W. Jones (1846-1935) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born near Evansville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RO-born.html">Rock County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/03-09.html">March 9, 1846</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County District Attorney</a>, 1873-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 3rd District, 1883-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1921-26. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/01-07.html">January 7, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 304 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Jones and Sarah M. Jones; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Olive L. Hoyt.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000213">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406108">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Franklin Hopkins (1829-1870) — also known as Benjamin F. Hopkins — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Hebron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-22.html">April 22, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telegraph operator</a>; private secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bartos-bason.html#527.34.83">Coles Bashford</a>, 1856-57; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1862-63; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1867-70; died in office 1870. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/01-01.html">January 1, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 254 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000771">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405621">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nils Pederson Haugen (1849-1931) — also known as Nils P. Haugen — of River Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PI-lived.html">Pierce County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/03-09.html">March 9, 1849</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1879-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/rrco.html">Wisconsin railroad commissioner</a>, 1882-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a>, 1887-95 (8th District 1887-93, 10th District 1893-95). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/04-23.html">April 23, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 45 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000351">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405220">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry Sauthoff (1879-1966) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/06-03.html">June 3, 1879</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County District Attorney</a>, 1915-17; private secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwood-blaine.html#547.33.03">John J. Blaine</a>, 1921; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1925-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1935-39, 1941-45; Progressive candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1944. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-union-vets.html">Sons of Union Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/06-16.html">June 16, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of August Sauthoff and Hermine (Brueggemann) Sauthoff; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/08-10.html">August 10, 1918</a>, to Alice Thoroughgood Kimball; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-18.html">June 18, 1937</a>, to Lenore Gilmour.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000079">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409591">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Tucker Whittlesey (1798-1868) — also known as Thomas T. Whittlesey — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/12-08.html">December 8, 1798</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1836-39 (at-large 1836-37, 3rd District 1837-39); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1853-54. Died in Pheasant Branch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/08-20.html">August 20, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 256 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#524.50.03">Elisha Whittlesey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#671.39.92">Frederick Whittlesey</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11148.html">Whittlesey family</a> of Connecticut.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000433">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411592">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas T. Whittlesey">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Henry Crownhart (1863-1930) — also known as Charles H. Crownhart — of Superior, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DU-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Wis.; Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wis. Born in New Cassel (now part of Campbellsport), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/FD-born.html">Fond du Lac County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/04-16.html">April 16, 1863</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1922-30; died in office 1930. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Wisconsin General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-02.html">May 2, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Napoleon Crownhart and Mehitable Ann (Burgess) Crownhart; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-17.html">July 17, 1895</a>, to Jessie Elizabeth Evans.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86381732">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://wicourts.gov/courts/supreme/justices/retired/crownhart.htm">Wisconsin Supreme Court biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin C. Eastman (1812-1856) — also known as Ben C. Eastman — of Platteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/GT-lived.html">Grant County</a>, Wis. Born in Strong, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/10-24.html">October 24, 1812</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1851-55. Died in Platteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/GT-died.html">Grant County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/02-02.html">February 2, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Eastman and Jane (Hitchcock) Eastman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/07-03.html">July 3, 1841</a>, to Charlotte S. Sewell; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eastman.html#287.98.97">Ira Allen Eastman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eastman.html#642.73.46">Joseph Bartlett Eastman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000019">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403715">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Williams Keyes (1828-1910) — also known as Elisha W. Keyes — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Northfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/01-23.html">January 23, 1828</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1861-82, 1898-1910; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1865-67, 1886-87; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1882. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/11-29.html">November 29, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 310 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Eliza Melissa Schryver.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha W. Keyes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6878910">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Atwood (1815-1889) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/12-15.html">December 15, 1815</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1868-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WI.html">Republican National Committee from Wisconsin</a>, 1868-; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1870-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1876. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-11.html">December 11, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000335">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400984">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert McKee Bashford (1845-1911) — also known as Robert M. Bashford — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/LF-born.html">Lafayette County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/12-31.html">December 31, 1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1890-91; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1893-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Wisconsin state supreme court</a>, 1908. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/01-29.html">January 29, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Morris Bashford and Mary Ann (McKee) Bashford; married to Florence E. Taylor and Sarah Amelia Fuller.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86365928">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Stuart McDill (1822-1875) — also known as Alexander S. McDill — of Plover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PO-lived.html">Portage County</a>, Wis. Born in Meadville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-born.html">Crawford County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/03-18.html">March 18, 1822</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1862; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1863-64; candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 8th District, 1873-75. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-12.html">November 12, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000406">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407406">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank L. Gilbert (1864-1930) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Arena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/IA-born.html">Iowa County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/03-03.html">March 3, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/attygn.html">Wisconsin state attorney general</a>, 1907-11. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/10-10.html">October 10, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 221 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Gilbert and Mary (Lynch) Gilbert.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86427870">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jairus C. Fairchild (1801-1862) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/12-27.html">December 27, 1801</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/trea.html">Wisconsin state treasurer</a>, 1848-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1856-57. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-18.html">July 18, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 203 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#200.07.33">Cassius Fairchild</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#181.53.46">Lucius Fairchild</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12197.html">Fairchild family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Campbell Botkin (1842-1905) — also known as Alexander C. Botkin — of Helena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC-lived.html">Lewis and Clark County</a>, Mont. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/10-13.html">October 13, 1842</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory</a>, 1882; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Montana</a>, 1893-97; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Montana</a>, 1896. Suffered for twenty-five years from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">paralysis</a> caused by exposure in a storm in 1880. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/11-01.html">November 1, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#427.84.14">Alexander Botkin</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/06-11.html">June 11, 1872</a>, to Harriet E. Sherman.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Corscot (1839-1926) — also known as John Corscot — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Wenterswyk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-born.html">Netherlands</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/09-12.html">September 12, 1839</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">Mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1893-95. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/05-13.html">May 13, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Julia Francis Mayers.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jared Comstock Gregory (1828-1892) — also known as Jared C. Gregory — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Butternuts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-born.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/01-13.html">January 13, 1828</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1873-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/WI.html">1880</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>); postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1886-90. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-17.html">February 17, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/">1848</a> to Charlotte Caroline Camp.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86428402">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Breese J. Stevens (1834-1903) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/index.html">1834</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">Mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1884-85. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/10-28.html">October 28, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jabe B. Alford (1850-1927) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/09-21.html">September 21, 1850</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/laundry.html">Laundry owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1895-96. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-10.html">September 10, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10945983">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Simeon Mills (1810-1895) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ttrea.html">Treasurer of Wisconsin Territory</a>, 1840; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a> 9th District, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#2">village president of Madison, Wisconsin</a>, 1851-52, 1854-55. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/06-01.html">June 1, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">about 84 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Charles Zimmerman (1910-1996) — also known as Robert C. Zimmerman — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-born.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/01-05.html">January 5, 1910</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wisconsin</a>, 1957-75. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/01-17.html">January 17, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zimmerman.html#434.98.73">Frederick Robert Zimmerman</a> and Amanda (Freedy) Zimmerman; married to Dorothy F. Millspaugh.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert C. Zimmerman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/83572830">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Morrison (1799-1860) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/index.html">1799</a>. Whig. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1849-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ttrea.html">treasurer of Wisconsin Territory</a>, 1850. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/index.html">1860</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William A. Fricke (1857-1927) — of Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/05-15.html">May 15, 1857</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/insco.html">Wisconsin insurance commissioner</a>, 1895-98. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-26.html">September 26, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Claire Lobre.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Chauncey Abbott (1815-1872) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/09-16.html">September 16, 1815</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1850-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#2">village president of Madison, Wisconsin</a>, 1852-53; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1860. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/01-30.html">January 30, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Jane Strong.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/84880162">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jabez Burritt Smith (1852-1914) — also known as J. Burritt Smith — of Wisconsin. Born in Sherburne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-born.html">Chenango County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/03-17.html">March 17, 1852</a>. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1900. Died in Hammond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-died.html">St. Croix County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/12-31.html">December 31, 1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Botkin (1801-1857) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/03-04.html">March 4, 1801</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention</a>, 1846; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a> 9th District, 1849-50; defeated, 1850; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Dane County, 1852. Died in Sun Prairie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/03-05.html">March 5, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 1 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#189.15.89">Alexander Campbell Botkin</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Halle Steensland (1832-1910) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/06-14.html">June 14, 1832</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-consuls.html">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1872-1903. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/08-20.html">August 20, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 67 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Sophia Halverson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/34884964">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8275578427/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/782/06.23.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Herbert C. Schenk"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Herbert Christian Schenk (1880-1972) — also known as Herbert C. Schenk — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Leeds, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/06-26.html">June 26, 1880</a>. Progressive. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber yard manager</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hardware.html">hardware dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Dane County 1st District, 1935-40; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1944. Died in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-died.html">Contra Costa County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/04-18.html">April 18, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Frederick Schenk and Wilhelmina (Kilgust) Schenk; married to Clara Junette Sater.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/77899723">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ebenezer Brigham (1789-1861) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/index.html">1789</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/trlg.html">Wisconsin territorial legislature</a>, 1840. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/index.html">1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Cassius Fairchild (1829-1868) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/index.html">1829</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1860; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">war wounds</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/index.html">1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">about 39 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#423.79.80">Jairus C. Fairchild</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#181.53.46">Lucius Fairchild</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12197.html">Fairchild family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Darwin Clark (1812-1899) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/index.html">1812</a>. . <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8276640142/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/194/41.52.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Otto F. Toepfer"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Otto F. Toepfer (1872-1949) — of Middleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Middleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/01-31.html">January 31, 1872</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Dane County 3rd District, 1939-40. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/02-17.html">February 17, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 17 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Otto Toepfer and Louise (Neibuhr) Toepfer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86589448">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gretchen Pfankuchen (c.1912-2002) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born about 1912. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/WI.html">Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Waunakee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/09-14.html">September 14, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">about 90 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08265">Resurrection Cemetery</a> Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Arthur Aylward (1861-1916) — also known as John A. Aylward — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Black Earth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/03-16.html">March 16, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1906, 1908; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/WI.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin</a>, 1913-16. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/11-12.html">November 12, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at Resurrection Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Michael Aylward and Catherine (Gaul) Aylward; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/06-12.html">June 12, 1898</a>, to Jennie Huenkemier.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119061120">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Conklin (1831-1899) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/06-12.html">June 12, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">Mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1881-84, 1887-88; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html#3">Madison, Wis.</a>, 1894-98. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/02-27.html">February 27, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at Resurrection Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Mary Eagan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20779449">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">State Capitol Grounds</a> Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) — of Wisconsin. Born in Lierbyen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/12-21.html">December 21, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; abolitionist; Wisconsin state prison commissioner, elected 1859; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Suffered wounds in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">battle</a>, and died the next day, at Chickamauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WL-died.html">Walker County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-20.html">September 20, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-buried.html#cms06071">Norway Lutheran Cemetery</a>, Wind Lake, Wis.; statue at State Capitol Grounds. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Even Heg and Sigrid (Kallerud) Heg; married to Gunhild Einong.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Heg Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-names.html">Wind Lake, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hans Heg (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1961) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans Christian Heg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7489797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00316">Sunset Memory Gardens</a> Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Ryum Amlie (1897-1973) — also known as Thomas R. Amlie — of Elkhorn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WL-lived.html">Walworth County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/GI-born.html">Griggs County</a>, N.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/04-17.html">April 17, 1897</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 1st District, 1931-33, 1935-39. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/08-22.html">August 22, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 127 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Sunset Memory Gardens. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Paul William Amlie and Julia (Ryum) Amlie; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/02-21.html">February 21, 1925</a>, to Marian C. Strong; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/05-07.html">May 7, 1932</a>, to Gehrta Beyer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000176">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400831">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Ryum Amlie">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6822541">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8275579061/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/798/39.37.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Laurie E. Carlson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Laurie Edwin Carlson (1908-1999) — also known as Laurie E. Carlson — of Bayfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/BY-lived.html">Bayfield County</a>, Wis. Born in Bayfield town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/BY-born.html">Bayfield County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-12.html">January 12, 1908</a>. Progressive. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">Fruit</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Bayfield County, 1937-42; defeated, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-officials.html">Dane County Clerk of Courts</a>, 1966-76. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/03-26.html">March 26, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memory Gardens. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Helen Mary Whipple.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/95885737">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04574">St. Barnabas Cemetery</a> Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leonard George Wolf (1925-1970) — also known as Leonard G. Wolf — of Iowa. Born near Mazomanie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/10-29.html">October 29, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a> 2nd District, 1959-61; defeated, 1956, 1960. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/03-28.html">March 28, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at St. Barnabas Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000675">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411827">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03203">Lutheran Cemetery</a> Mt. Horeb, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Herman Bjorn Dahle (1855-1920) — also known as Herman B. Dahle — of Mt. Horeb, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Perry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/03-30.html">March 30, 1855</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1899-1903. Died in Mt. Horeb, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-25.html">April 25, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 26 days</a>). Interment at Lutheran Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000005">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403149">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">St. William Cemetery</a> Paoli, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Salome Schroeder (1842-1917) — also known as Salome Minch — of Middleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/12-07.html">December 7, 1842</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/middleton.html#2">Middleton, Wis.</a>, 1888-1905. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/03-03.html">March 3, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at St. William Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Bernhard Minch and Frances (Fischer) Minch; married to Jacob Schroeder.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/130537829">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05846">Riverside Cemetery</a> Riverside Drive Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry A. Huber (1869-1933) — also known as "The Great Pacificator" — of Stoughton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Evergreen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/11-06.html">November 6, 1869</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1904; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1913-25; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/WI.html">1924</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/WI.html">1928</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1925-33. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, at Madison General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-31.html">January 31, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery</a> Columbus Street Sun Prairie, Dane County, Wisconsin See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=307327&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Matthew Blaska (1885-1957) — also known as John M. Blaska — of Marshall, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Medina town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/05-14.html">May 14, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Dane County 2nd District, 1949-50. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>. Died in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/05-27.html">May 27, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Peregrin Blaska and Anna Ludmilla (Fiedler) Blaska; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/05-11.html">May 11, 1909</a>, to Rose Frances Schuster; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#347.11.25">Jerome L. Blaska</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#794.75.11">John James Blaska</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/18998.html">Blaska family</a> of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61329695">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jerome L. Blaska (1919-2000) — of Sun Prairie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Sun Prairie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-born.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/07-04.html">July 4, 1919</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Dane County 4th District, 1959-66. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Sun Prairie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/05-02.html">May 2, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 303 days</a>). Interment at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rose F. (Schuster) Blaska and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#002.60.27">John Matthew Blaska</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#794.75.11">John James Blaska</a>; married to Helen Curl.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/18998.html">Blaska family</a> of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61329667">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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