district governor predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party term_end office birth_date term_start order image article_title state name
wisconsin 8 8th lucius fairchild george w. cate wyman spooner william t. price milton h. pettit 21 november 1914 elk township , pennsylvania chicago , illinois republican march 3 , 1883 january 1 , 1872 lieutenant governor of wisconsin 6 december 1832 march 4 , 1877 january 3 , 1870 10th thaddeus c. pound - brady-handy . jpg thaddeus c. pound
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thaddeus c. pound

thaddeus coleman pound -lrb- december 6 , 1832 - november 21 , 1914 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1877-1883 -rrb- .
his brother was albert pound , who also served in the wisconsin assembly .
he was the grandfather of poet ezra pound .
born in elk township , warren county , pennsylvania , pound moved with his parents 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 .
-lrb- march 4 , 1877 -- march 3 , 1883 -rrb- ; 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 -lrb- both predecessors of the soo line railroad -rrb- .
he also served as president of the chippewa spring water company -lrb- a company still in business as of 2008 -rrb- as well as the union lumber company , which was reorganized as the chippewa falls lumber and boom company in 1879 .
