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WASHBURN, CADWALLADER COLDEN (18181882)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 344 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WASHBURN, CADWALLADER COLDEN (18181882) , American soldier and politician, was born at Livermore, Maine, on the 22nd of April 1818. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and removed to
Mineral
  Point, Wisconsin, where he practised law, speculated in land and engaged in banking. He became prominent in the Republican party, and was a member (18551861) of the U.S.
House
  of Representatives, of which his brother
Israel
  (181x31883) was a member from Maine in 18511861; his brother Liihu Benjamin (see below) changed the spelling of the family surname to Washburne. At the beginning of the Civil War he became colonel of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, was promoted to brigadier-general on the 16th of July 1862 and to major-general on the 29th of November. 1862, and assisted in the capture of
Vicksburg
  (4th July 1863), after which he served in
Texas
  and West
Tennessee
 . Resigning from the army in 1865, he became extensively interested in flour-milling and lumbering in Wisconsin. From 1867 to 1871 he was again a member of the U.S.
House
  of Representatives, and subsequently served one
term
  (18721874) as
governor
  of Wisconsin.


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