Ezra Wheeler

Ezra Wheeler (* December 23, 1820 in Chenango County, New York, † September 19, 1871 in Pueblo, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Ezra Wheeler attended until 1842, the Union College in Schenectady. In 1849 he moved to Berlin in Wisconsin. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in this city to work in his new profession. Between 1854 and 1862 he was a district judge in the local Green Lake County.

Wheeler was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1853 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1862 he was in the then newly created fifth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1863. Until March 3, 1865, he then completed a term in Congress. This was marked by the events of the Civil War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Wheeler again worked as a lawyer in Berlin. In 1870 he retired for health reasons to Pueblo in Colorado. He worked there since June 1871 in the land registry office. He died a few months later, on September 19 this year, and was buried in his former residence in Berlin.

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