Title: Memorial record of the Fathers of Wisconsin containing sketches of the lives and career of the members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847-8
Description: This book is about the two constitutional conventions held in Wisconsin in 1846 and 1847, and the men who participated in that effort to pass a progressive constitution. There is a brief early history of Wisconsin, a chapter describing the two conventions, and then the bulk of the volume contains biographies of those political figures. The full text of the two constitutions – the rejected one and the approved one – are also included.
Subjects: Biography, History, Wisconsin State Constitution
Places: Madison (WI)
Time periods: 1840s