Carpus E. Loveland (December 16, 1828 – November 7, 1912) was an American farmer from
Rutland
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,
Wisconsin
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, who served one term as a Republican member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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and held various local offices in his home state of New York and in Wisconsin.
Loveland was born December 16, 1828, in the town of Adams in Jefferson County, New York. He received a
public school
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education, and became a farmer.
Public office
Loveland served as Town Clerk of Adams in 1850. He came to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled in
Rutland
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. After coming to Wisconsin, he served as a supervisor for Rutland in 1857, and was elected Town Chairman (equivalent to mayor) in 1859. He was elected
justice of the peace
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in 1861, and re-elected in 1863; again elected Chairman in 1869. In the 1869
general election
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he was chosen to represent the first Dane County assembly district (the
Town
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s of
Albion
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elections
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. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1870, and was succeeded by fellow Republican Lemuel Oscar Humphrey.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly in 1873, losing in the new 4th Dane County Assembly district, with 786 votes to 1,135 for
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Michael Johnson. As town chairman he was ''ex officio'' a member of the
Dane County, Wisconsin
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Board of Supervisors.
Family
He married Emily L. Colvin before they moved to Wisconsin. Their son, Austin Roscoe Loveland (1854–1909), was born in Rutland; he became postmaster of Oregon, Wisconsin in 1897.