Lucien B. Caswell

Lucien Bonaparte Caswell ( born November 27, 1827 in Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont, † April 26, 1919 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1883, and again from 1885 to 1891, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1837 Lucien Caswell came with his parents in the Wisconsin Territory. The family first settled in the vicinity of Lake Koshkonong in Rock County. He attended the local public schools, the Milton Academy and Beloit College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1851 admitted to the bar he began in Fort Atkinson to work in his new profession. In the years 1855 and 1856 was Caswell District Attorney in the local Jefferson County. In Fort Atkinson, he was almost 65 years a member of the School Council. In 1863 he co-founded the First National Bank of Fort Atkinson. In 1866 he founded the company Northwestern Manufacturing Co. and in 1885 the Citizens ' State Bank.

Politically, Caswell member of the Republican Party. In the years 1863, 1872 and 1874, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. Between September 1863 and May 1865 he was a member during the Civil War in the second military district of the convening authority. In 1868, Caswell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Ulysses S. Grant as Präsidentschsftskandidat. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Gerry Whiting Hazelton on March 4, 1875. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 four legislative sessions. For the elections of 1882 he was not nominated by his party.

Two years later, in 1884, Caswell was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again in the first district of Wisconsin. There he broke on March 4, 1885 from John Winans. After two re- elections, he could spend up to 3 March 1891 three other legislative periods in Congress. Since 1889 he was chairman of the committee which dealt with private land claims. In 1890, he missed his party's nomination for a second term in the House of Representatives. After retiring from Congress Lucien Caswell withdrew from politics. He worked in the following years again as a lawyer in Fort Atkinson. There he died on 26 April 1919.

Swanton (town), Vermont Franklin County (Vermont) Fort Atkinson (Wisconsin) Rock County (Wisconsin) Jefferson County (Wisconsin) George W. Jones James Duane Doty Henry Dodge Morgan Lewis Martin John Hubbard Tweedy Henry Hastings Sibley William Pitt Lynde Charles Durkee Daniel Wells, Jr. John F. Potter James S. Brown Halbert E. Paine Alexander Mitchell (politician) Charles G. Williams Clinton Babbitt Henry Allen Cooper Clifford E. Randall George Washington Blanchard Stephen Bolles Lawrence H. Smith Gerald T. Flynn Henry C. Schadeberg Lynn E. Stalbaum Peter W. Barca Mark Neumann Paul Ryan Mason C. Darling Orsamus Cole Ben C. Eastman Cadwallader C. Washburn Walter D. McIndoe Ithamar Sloan Benjamin F. Hopkins David Atwood Daniel H. Sumner Edward S. Bragg Richard W. Guenther Charles Barwig Edward Sauerhering Herman Dahle Henry Cullen Adams John M. Nelson Michael E. Burke Edward Voigt Charles A. Kading Charles W. Henney Harry Sauthoff Charles Hawks, Jr. Robert Kirkland Henry Glenn Robert Davis Donald Edgar Tewes Scott L. Klug Tammy Baldwin Mark Pocan John B. Macy Charles Billinghurst Charles H. Larrabee A. Scott Sloan Amasa Cobb J. Allen Barber Henry S. Magoon George Cochrane Hazelton Burr W. Jones Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Allen R. Bushnell Joseph W. Babcock James William Murphy Arthur W. Kopp James G. Monahan Gardner R. Withrow Harry W. Griswold William H. Stevenson Alvin Baldus Ron Kind Charles A. Eldredge Peter V. Deuster Isaac W. Van Schaick Henry Smith (Wisconsin) John L. Mitchell Peter J. Somers William J. Cary John C. Kleczka John C. Schafer Raymond Joseph Cannon Thaddeus Wasielewski John C. Brophy Clement J. Zablocki Jerry Kleczka Gwen Moore Ezra Wheeler Philetus Sawyer Samuel D. Burchard Joseph Rankin George H. Brickner Samuel S. Barney William H. Stafford Lewis D. Thill Howard J. McMurray Andrew Biemiller Charles J. Kersten Henry S. Reuss Jim Moody Alanson M. Kimball Gabriel Bouck Charles B. Clark Lucas M. Miller Owen A. Wells Samuel A. Cook James H. Davidson Charles H. Weisse Michael Reilly Florian Lampert Frank Bateman Keefe William Van Pelt John Abner Race William A. Steiger Tom Petri Herman L. Humphrey Gilbert M. Woodward Ormsby B. Thomas Frank P. Coburn George B. Shaw Michael Griffin (politician) John J. Esch Joseph D. Beck Merlin Hull Gerald J. Boileau Dave Obey Sean Duffy Alexander S. McDill George W. Cate Thaddeus C. Pound William T. Price Hugh H. Price Nils P. Haugen Lyman E. Barnes Edward S. Minor Edward E. Browne James F. Hughes George J. Schneider Joshua L. Johns John W. Byrnes Harold Vernon Froehlich Robert John Cornell Toby Roth Jay W. Johnson Mark Andrew Green Steve Kagen Isaac Stephenson Thomas Lynch (congressman) Alexander Stewart (American politician) Webster E. Brown David G. Classon James A. Frear Lester Johnson (politician) Bob Kasten John J. Jenkins Elmer A. Morse Hubert H. Peavey Bernard J. Gehrmann Irvine Lenroot Adolphus Peter Nelson
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