Lucien B. Caswell

Lucien B. Caswell

Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (born November 27, 1827 in Swanton , Franklin County , Vermont , †  April 26, 1919 in Fort Atkinson , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1883 and again from 1885 to 1891 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1837, Lucien Caswell came to the Wisconsin Territory with his parents . The family initially settled near Lake Koshkonong in Rock County . He attended the local public schools, the Milton Academy and Beloit College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in Fort Atkinson in his new profession. In the years 1855 and 1856 Caswell was a district attorney in the local Jefferson County . At Fort Atkinson, he served on the school board for nearly 65 years. In 1863 he was a co-founder of the First National Bank of Fort Atkinson . In 1866 he founded Northwestern Manufacturing Co. and in 1885 the Citizens' State Bank .

Politically, Caswell was a member of the Republican Party . He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1863, 1872, and 1874 . Between September 1863 and May 1865 he was a member of the conscription authority in the second military district during the civil war . In 1868, Caswell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional election of 1874 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the second constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Gerry Whiting Hazelton on March 4, 1875 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1883 . For the elections in 1882 he was no longer nominated by his party.

Two years later, in 1884, Caswell was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the first district of Wisconsin. There he replaced John Winans on March 4, 1885 . After two re-elections, he was able to spend three more legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1891. From 1889 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with private land claims. In 1890 he missed his party's nomination for another term in the House of Representatives. After leaving Congress, Lucien Caswell retired from politics. He returned to Fort Atkinson as a lawyer in the years that followed. He died there on April 26, 1919.

Web links

• Lucien B. Caswell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lucien B. Caswell in the database of Find a Grave (English)