Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832 – November 20
[ ] or 21,
1914) was an American businessman from
Wisconsin
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who served in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature, as the
tenth Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and as a
U.S. Representative
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(1877–1883). His brother was
, who also served in the Wisconsin Assembly. He was the grandfather of poet
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...
.
Life and career
Born in
Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, Pound moved with his parents, Judith Coleman and Elijah Pound, to
Monroe County, New York
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in 1838 and then to the city of
Rochester, New York
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, afterwards moving to what is now
Rock County, Wisconsin
Rock County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 163,687. Its county seat is Janesville. Rock County comprises the Janesville- Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the M ...
.
He became a member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ...
and the
Wisconsin State Senate
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. Pound was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin serving under
Governor
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Lucius Fairchild
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from January 3, 1870 until January 1, 1872. In 1876, Pound was elected as a
Republican
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to the
Forty-fifth Congress
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, replacing
Democrat
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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George W. Cate
George Washington Cate (September 17, 1825 – March 7, 1905) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district in the Forty-fourth Congress. ...
in representing
Wisconsin's 8th congressional district
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. He was reelected to the
Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883), and was succeeded in the 48th Congress by fellow Republican
William T. Price.
During his time as a representative, Pound was a prominent businessman in Wisconsin. He was president of the
Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (both predecessors of the
Soo Line Railroad
The Soo Line Railroad is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , one of seven U.S. Class I railroads, controlled through the Soo Line Corporation. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sa ...
). He also served as president of the Chippewa Spring Water Company (a company still in business as of 2008) as well as the Union Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom Company in 1879.
Death and tribute
He died in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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on November 20
or 21,
1914. The village of
Pound, Wisconsin
Pound is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 377 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The village is located within the Pound (town), Wisconsin, Town of Pound. Pound is ...
, is named in his honor.
Pound, Thaddeus Coleman 1833 - 1914
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References
External links
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1832 births
1914 deaths
19th-century American railroad executives
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Ezra Pound
Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Politicians from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
People from Rock County, Wisconsin
People from Warren County, Pennsylvania
Republican Party Wisconsin state senators
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin
19th-century American politicians