Silas Wright Lamoreux or Lamoreaux (March 8, 1843 – August 5, 1909) was an American lawyer from

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who served as a judge, as a local official, as a member of the

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and as the 28th

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of the

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. He was the brother of Oliver Lamoreux, who served in the same session of the Wisconsin Assembly.

Biography

Silas W. Lamoreux was born in

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, on March 8, 1843, and came to

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, in 1852 with his family to join his older brother Oliver, who had moved to Wisconsin the year before. The family relocated to

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, a year later. He moved to

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, and was admitted to the bar at age 21. He enlisted in the

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in 1864, and participated with the

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during the

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. Lamoreux was elected as a Democratic member of the

from the 5th Dodge County district in 1871, in the same election which saw his brother elected from Portage County.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1872,' Biographical Sketch of Silas W. Lamoreux, pg.446 He did not run for re-election in 1872. Lamoreux was elected judge in his county in 1877. He was appointed commissioner of the

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(a Democrat), serving from 1893 to 1897. Lamoreux founded the Beaver Dam Malleable Iron Works, which employed 750 men at the time of his death. He also was president of the German National Bank of

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. He died of blood poisoning in Beaver Dam on August 5, 1909, after a long illness with

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