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BASHFORD, Coles, governor of Wisconsin, born near Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York, 24 January 1816; died 25 April 1878. He was educated at the Wesleyan seminary (now Genesee College), Lima, New York, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was elected district attorney for Wayne County in 1847, and in 1850 resigned and removed to Algonia, now a part of Oshkosh, Wisconsin He was a member of the Whig state convention in 1851, and in 1852 was chosen for the state senate, from which he resigned in 1855. He was the first republican governor of the state, serving from 1855 to 1857, and declining a renomination. He practiced law in Oshkosh till 1863, when he removed to Tucson, Arizona. He was attorney general of the territory from 1864 till 1867, was president of the first territorial convention, and in 1866 was elected delegate to congress, serving from March 1867, to March 1869. He was appointed secretary of the territory in 1869, and served till 1876, when he resigned, and resumed the practice of his profession.
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experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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