Thaddeus C. Pound
Thaddeus C. Pound | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 8th district |
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In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883 |
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Preceded by | George W. Cate |
Succeeded by | William T. Price |
10th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin | |
In office January 3, 1870 – January 1, 1872 |
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Governor | Lucius Fairchild |
Preceded by | Wyman Spooner |
Succeeded by | Milton H. Pettit |
Personal details | |
Born | Elk Township, Pennsylvania |
December 6, 1832
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Chicago, Illinois |
Political party | Republican |
Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832[notes 1] - November 21, 1914)[2] was an American businessman from Wisconsin who served in both house of the Wisconsin legislature, as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and as a U.S. Representative (1877-1883).[3] His brother was Albert Pound, who also served in the Wisconsin Assembly.[4] He was the grandfather of poet Ezra Pound.[5]
Born in Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, Pound moved with his parents, Judith Coleman and Elijah Pound, to Monroe County, New York in 1838 and then to the city of Rochester, New York, afterwards moving to Rock County, Wisconsin.
He became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Pound was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin serving under Governor Lucius Fairchild from January 3, 1870 till January 1, 1872. In 1876, Pound was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress, replacing Democrat George W. Cate in representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. He was reelected to the Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.(March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883); and was succeeded in the 48th Congress by fellow Republican William T. Price.
During his time as a Representative, Pound was a prominent businessman in Wisconsin. He was president of the Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (both predecessors of the Soo Line Railroad). He also served as president of the Chippewa Spring Water Company (a company still in business as of 2008) as well as the Union Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom Company in 1879.
Death and tribute
He died in Chicago, Illinois on November 21, 1914. The village of Pound, Wisconsin, is named in his honor.[2][6]
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- ↑ The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men: Wisconsin Volume, Volume 1, American Biographical Publishing Company: 1877, Biographical Sketch of Albert Pound, pg. 256-257
- ↑ Odd Wisconsin Archives
- ↑ Pound, Thaddeus Coleman 1833 - 1914
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Political offices | ||
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Preceded by | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin January 3, 1870–January 1, 1872 |
Succeeded by Milton Pettit |
United States House of Representatives | ||
Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 8th congressional district March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 |
Succeeded by William T. Price |
- 1832 births
- 1914 deaths
- 19th-century American railroad executives
- 19th-century businessmen
- Businesspeople from Wisconsin
- Ezra Pound
- Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin
- Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- People from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
- People from Warren County, Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin Republicans
- Wisconsin State Senators
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives