David Atwood

David Atwood (* December 15, 1815 in Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, † December 11, 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1870 and 1871 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Atwood attended the public schools of his home. In 1832 he moved to Hamilton in upstate New York, where he completed a printing apprenticeship. In the following years he went into the newspaper business. In Hamilton, he edited a newspaper. In 1845, Atwood moved to Freeport, Illinois. There he was engaged in farming until 1847. Then he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he publisher and editor of the " State Journal " was 22 years. Atwood was also active in the National Guard of Wisconsin. In 1858 he reached the rank of major general.

Politically, Atwood member of the Republican Party. In 1861 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. The following four years he worked for the federal government in Wisconsin as an assessor. In the years 1868 and 1869 was Atwood mayor of Madison. After the death of Congressman Benjamin F. Hopkins, he was at the due election for the second seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 23 February 1870. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1870, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1871.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives David Atwood again worked in the newspaper business. Between 1872 and 1876 he was State Representative from Wisconsin for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. In the years 1872 and 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes were later nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on 11 December 1889 in Madison.