Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte

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    Lucien Bonaparte Caswell
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Beloit College, WI
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Businessman
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Local government

    Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    CASWELL, Lucien Bonaparte, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklin County, Vt., November 27, 1827; moved to Wisconsin in 1837 with his parents, who settled near Lake Koshkonong, in Rock County; attended the common schools, Milton Academy, and Beloit College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Fort Atkinson, Wis.; district attorney of Jefferson County in 1855 and 1856; served on the local school board for nearly sixty-five years; organized the First National Bank of Fort Atkinson in 1863, the Northwestern Manufacturing Co. in 1866, and the Citizens’ State Bank in 1885; member of the State assembly in 1863, 1872, and 1874; during the Civil War served as commissioner of the second district board of enrollment from September 1863 to May 5, 1865; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of law in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wis.; died in Fort Atkinson, Wis., April 26, 1919; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
    "Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000245.
    How to Cite This Page: "Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/11748.