Orlando Brown (Wisconsin politician)

For other people with the same name, see Orlando Brown.

Orlando Brown (December 29, 1828 – December 22, 1910) was an American farmer from Modena, Wisconsin who spent one year as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and two years as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.^[1]

Background

Brown was born in the town of Collins in Erie County, New York on December 29, 1828; he received a public school education, and became a farmer. He came to Wisconsin in 1842, first settling in Elkhorn. He left Wisconsin for Oregon and California in 1852 and remained two years before returning to Wisconsin, and in 1855 became a resident of Buffalo County. He became the first white settler of the Modena valley area in 1856.^[2]

Legislative service

Brown was elected for the 1862 Assembly session as a Republican from a district encompassing all of the sparsely-populated Buffalo, Pepin and Trempealeau counties, succeeding fellow Republican Calvin R. Johnson.^[3] The Wisconsin Farmer magazine characterized him as among the "Straight Republicans" as opposed to "Independent or Union Republicans".^[4] He was succeeded in the next session by Republican Alfred W. Newman.

In the election of 1871, he was elected to Wisconsin Senate, District 32 (Buffalo, Clark, Jackson and Trempealeau counties) as a Liberal Republican, with 2,112 votes to 1626 for the regular Republican, former State Representative Conrad Moser, Jr. and 647 for Democrat Jacob Spaulding. (Republican incumbent William T. Price was not a candidate for re-election.) He was assigned to the standing committees on military affairs and on contingent expenses.^[5] In the next year's session, he was shifted to the committees on agriculture and on town and county organization.^[6] He was not a candidate for re-election in 1873, and was succeeded by regular Republican Robert C. Field.

After the legislature

In August 1900, he bought four farms in Lake County, Illinois near Waukegan, Illinois, reportedly to be run by his four sons.^[7] He died December 22, 1910.

References

1. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. pp. 3, 32 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Modena, Wis. Like Modena, Italy Is Agricultural Center". The Daily Telegram. December 30, 1966. p. 21. Retrieved November 12, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Warren, John H.; Dean, John S., eds. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin. Comprising Jefferson's Manual, the Rules; also Lists and Tables for Reference, with Indices First Annual Edition. Madison: Smith and Cullaton, State Printers, 1862; p. 116
4. "State Matters:Political" in Hoyt, J. W., ed. The Wisconsin farmer, and north-western cultivator; devoted to agriculture, horticulture, the mechanic arts, and rural economy Madison: Hoyt and Campbell, 1862. Volume XIV, pp. 34-35
5. Turner, A. J., ed. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin; Comprising Jefferson's Manual, Rules, Forms and Laws for the Regulation of Business; also, Lists and Tables for Reference Madison, 1872; pp. 381, 442, 468
6. Turner, A. J., ed. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin: Comprising the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin, Jefferson's Manual, Forms and Laws for the Regulation of Business; also, Lists and Tables for Reference, etc. Twelfth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1873; pp. 439, 464
7. "Orlando Brown buys four farms". The Mining Times. 17 August 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 12 July 2022.

External links

• Orlando Brown at Find a Grave