Grégoire Joseph Dupont (December 18, 1842 – July 1, 1917) was a Belgian-American politician. He served in the

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in 1887, representing Brown County's first district.

Biography

Dupont was born in

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

in 1842, and immigrated to

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in 1855. He married fellow Belgian Julie Henrion at

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, in 1862, and they had nine children together. At various points in his life, Dupont was occupied as a shingle mill laborer, photographer and farmer. He lived in Robinsonville, Wisconsin. Dupont was a member of the 18th Wisconsin Infantry in the

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. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887 as the representative for northeastern Brown County. Dupont was one of the first Belgian-Americans from northeast Wisconsin to serve in the Assembly; others included Joseph Wery, Constant Martin, Benjamin Fontaine and John B. Eugene. Dupont was also a school board member, the town chairman for Green Bay, a Brown County supervisor for the town of Green Bay and a member of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade. Dupont died on July 1, 1917.

Electoral history

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dupont, Grégoire 1842 births 1917 deaths Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly People from Brown County, Wisconsin Belgian emigrants to the United States 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature