Lorenzo Merrill (June 21, 1818 - August 15, 1895) was an

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teacher, farmer, merchant, and politician from Burnett, Wisconsin who served two one-year terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He served in the

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(1848) as a

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member representing the 5th Dodge County Assembly district (the Towns of Fox Lake, Trenton,

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and Beaver Dam). He was succeeded the next year by Parker Warren, a Freesoiler. He was elected again in 1859 from the 5th district, this time as a Republican. Although as late as 1876 he was still active as a Republican,"County Convention"
''The Representative'' September 22, 1876; p. 4, col. 3 via Newspapers.com in later years he became active in the Greenback Party, and was nominated by that movement for several positions, including Wisconsin Senate, District 11,

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, and state insurance commissioner. His son,

George F. Merrill George Fisk Merrill (February 17, 1847 – January 31, 1941) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. Biography Merrill was born on February 17, 1847, in Burnett, Wisconsin, son of Lorenzo Merrill and Mary Ann (Fisk) Merrill. His father was t ...

, served as a Republican member of the State Senate from the same district for which his father had been a candidate.

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