Louis P. Harvey

Louis Powell Harvey (born July 22, 1820 in East Haddam , Connecticut , † April 19, 1862 in the Tennessee River ) was an American politician and in 1862 the seventh governor of the state of Wisconsin .

Early years and political advancement

Louis Harvey moved to Ohio at a young age . There he attended the Western Reserve College . After that he worked as a teacher himself for a time. In 1841 he came to the Wisconsin Territory , where he settled in what is now Kenosha . There he founded a school.

It was then that Harvey became a member of the Whigs . Between 1843 and 1846 he was the editor of a newspaper associated with this party. In 1846 he moved to Clinton . In 1847 he was a delegate to the Second Wisconsin Constituent Assembly. From 1850 he was based in Shopiere . In the early 1850s he was a co-founder of the Republican Party in Wisconsin. He served on the State Senate from 1854 to 1857, and from 1860 to 1862 he was Secretary of State of Wisconsin. In 1861 he was elected governor as his party's candidate against the Democrat Benjamin Ferguson.

Short governor's time and tragic end of life

Harvey took up his new office on January 6, 1862. It was in the middle of the Civil War, and the governor worried about the many Wisconsin soldiers fighting in the ranks of the Union Army. Many of his countrymen were wounded at the Battle of Shiloh . The governor put himself at the head of an aid expedition with the aim of bringing medicine back home to the wounded. The wounded were on hospital ships on the Mississippi River and the Tennessee River . An accident occurred on April 19, 1862 when the governor fell into the Tennessee River and drowned. His body was not found about 65 miles downstream until two weeks later. Louis Harvey was married to Cordelia Adelaid Perrine and had one child.

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SURNAME	Harvey, Louis P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Harvey, Louis Powell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Haddam , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1862
Place of death	Tennessee River