Thaddeus C. Pound

Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1833 in Elk, Warren County, Pennsylvania, † November 21, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives; previously he was its vice-governor.

Career

In 1838 Thaddeus Pound moved with his parents in the Monroe County in New York State. Later the family moved on to Rochester. Pound attended the public schools of his new home, the Milton Academy in Wisconsin and the Rushford Academy in New York State. In 1856 he moved to the Rock County in Wisconsin, where he worked in the timber industry. Pound was there President of Union Lumbering Co. He was also president of the railway company Chippewa Falls & Western Railway Co.

Politically Pound member of the Republican Party. Between 1864 and 1869 he was several times as a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1869, he was its president. In the years 1870 and 1871 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin under Governor Lucius Fairchild. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Pound was in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats George W. Cate on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods. Between 1881 and 1883 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property.

1882 Pound waived on a bid again for Congress. In the following years he has held no other higher political office. He became president of the Chippewa Spring Water Co.

Thaddeus Pound died on November 21, 1914 in a hospital in Chicago. In Wisconsin, the place Pound was named after him. His grandson was the poet Ezra Pound.

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