Governor William Augustus Barstow, a Democrat, resigned from office the day after a Wisconsin State Supreme Court judgment over election irregularities declared him removed. Lieutenant-Governor Arthur MacArthur was sworn in to replace him but Republican Coles Bashford, who the Court had ruled the rightfully winner, became governor within a week. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 290.