Orsamus Cole

Orsamus Cole ( born August 23, 1819 in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, † May 5, 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orsamus Cole attended the common schools and then studied until 1843 at Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1845 admitted to the bar he began in Chicago to work in his new profession. In the same year he moved his office and his residence to Potosi in Wisconsin Territory.

In his new home Cole hit as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In 1847 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the future State of Wisconsin. In the congressional elections of 1848 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 Mason Cook Darling on March 4, 1849. Since he Democrat Ben C. Eastman was defeated in the elections of 1850, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1851.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Orsamus Cole practiced as a lawyer until 1855 in Potosi. After that, he was from 1855 to 1880 Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State. Between April 1881 and January 1892, he served as Chief Justice presided. He died on May 5, 1903 in Milwaukee, where he had worked as a lawyer again.

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