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Robert Cance was a member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ...
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Biography

Cance was born in
Wigtown, Scotland Wigtown ( (both used locally); gd, Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart. I ...
, sources have differed on the date. In 1858, he moved to the Town of Ettrick in
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, where he would become a farmer. Later, he became involved in business. Cance died in 1886.


Political career

Cance was a member of the Assembly in 1883. Other positions he held include Chairman (similar to Mayor) of Ettrick and Chairman of the county board of
Trempealeau County, Wisconsin Trempealeau County (, ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 30,760. Its county seat is Whitehall, Wisconsin, Whitehall. Many people of Hispanic, ...
. He was a
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cance, Robert People from Wigtown Scottish emigrants to the United States People from Trempealeau County, Wisconsin Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Mayors of places in Wisconsin County supervisors in Wisconsin Businesspeople from Wisconsin Farmers from Wisconsin 1886 deaths