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United States Fifteenth Amendment

Wisconsin Delegation

This is one of the 45 delegations in the convention, accounting for 8 of 329 people who took part.

Members (8):

Name	Visualize	Details	Delegations
Amasa Cobb	Visualize	(27 September, 1823 -- 5 July, 1905) Cobb was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician. Born in Crawford County, Ill., Cobb moved to Wisconsin in 1842. Cobb served in the Mexican War and during the Civil War was the colonel of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry and the Forty-third Wisconsin Infantry. Cobb was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]	Wisconsin Delegation (United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65) , Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)
James R. Doolittle	Visualize	(3 January, 1815 -- 23 July, 1897) Doolittle was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Hampton, N.Y., Doolittle studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837. Doolittle moved to Wisconsin in 1851 and afterwards was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in January 1857 and reelected in 1863. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]	Wisconsin Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65) , Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Charles A. Eldredge	Visualize	(27 February, 1820 -- 26 October, 1896) Eldredge was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Bridport, Vt., Eldredge studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846. Eldredge moved to Wisconsin in 1848 and afterwards was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]	Wisconsin Delegation (United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65) , Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)
Benjamin F. Hopkins	Visualize	"(April 22, 1829 -- January 1, 1870) Benjamin Franklin Hopkins was a(n) telegraph operator, secretary, public servant and American politician. He was born in Hebron, New York and moved to Wisconsin in 1849. Hopkins was a private secretary to Governor Bashfourd (1856 and 1857), served in the state senate (1862 and 1863), and member of the state assembly (1866). He was elected as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congress (March 4, 1867 - his death January 1, 1870) [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000771]"	Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)
Timothy O. Howe	Visualize	(24 February, 1816 -- 25 March, 1883) Howe was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Androscoggin County, Maine, Howe studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1839. Howe moved to Wisconsin in 1845 and afterwards in 1860, was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. Howe was reelected in 1866 and 1872. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]	Wisconsin Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation)
Halbert E. Paine	Visualize	"(February 4, 1826 -- April 14, 1905) Halbert Eleazer Paine was a(n) teacher, lawyer, soldier, general, commissioner of patents, and American politician. Paine was born in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1857. Halbert studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He entered the Union Army (Mary 1861) as a colonel of the 4th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, promoted to the rank of brigadier general (March 13, 1863) and was brevetted major general March 13, 1865 and resigned on May 15, 1865. He was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Grant (November 1, 1878 - May 7, 1880). Paine was elected as a Republican to the 39th, 40th, and 41st Congresses (March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1871), served as Chairman on the Committee on Militia (40th Congress), on the Committee on Election (41st Congress), and was not reelected in 1870. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present, available at, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=P000028]"	Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)
Philetus Sawyer	Visualize	"(September 22, 1816 -- March 29, 1900) Philetus Sawyer was a(n) mayor, public servant, and American politician. Sawyer was born in Whiting, Rutland County, Vermont and moved to Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin in 1847. He served in the Wisconsin Assembly (1857 and 1861) and was mayor of Oshkosh (1863-1864). He was elected as a Republican to the 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Congresses (March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1875) and to the United Stated Senate in 1881, reelected in 1887 (March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1893) and was not reelected. During his time in Congress, he served as the Chairman on the Committee on Public Expenditures (42nd Congress), on the Committee on Pacific Railroads (43rd Congress), Chairman on the Committee on Railroads (48th and 49th Congresses), and on the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (50th-52nd Congresses). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present, available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S000091]"	Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)
Cadwalader C. Washburn	Visualize	"(April 22, 1818 -- May 15, 1882) Cadwalader Colden Washburn was a(n) teacher, employed in a geological survey, surveyor, lawyer, public servant, soldier, manufacturer of flower and wood, and American politician. He was born in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine and moved to Iowa, and then Wisconsin. Cadwalader studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was employed in a geological survey of Iowa, elected surveyor of Rock Island County, Illinois, founder of the Mineral Point Bank (1852), governor of Wisconsin (1872-1874) and delegate to the peace convention in Washington D.C. (1861) to prevent the Civil War. Washburn served in the Union Army as a colonel of the 2nd Regiment in the Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry (February 6, 1862), brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers (July 16, 1862), major general (November 29,1862), and resigned May 25, 1865. Cadwalader was elected as a Republican to the 34th, 35th, 36th, 40th, and 41st Congresses (March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1861 & (March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1871) and was not elected in 1860 or in 1870. During his time on Congress, he served as chairman on the Committee on Private Land Claims (36th Congress) and chairman on the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (40th congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000170]"	Wisconsin Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Wisconsin Delegation (This negotiation) , Wisconsin Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)