CADWALLADER

COLDEN

See also:

• WASHBURN
• CADWALLADER COLDEN WASHBURN (1818–1882)

WASHBURN (1818–1882)  , 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 (1855–1861) of the U.S . House of Representatives, of which his brother Israel (181x3–1883) was a member from Maine in 1851–1861; 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 (1872–1874) as governor of Wisconsin .