Horace Chapman (politician)

Horace Nelson Chapman (February 26, 1811 – February 6, 1884) was an American lawyer from Racine, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term in 1850 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the then Town (later a city) of Racine.[1][2][3]

Background

Chapman was originally from Becket, Massachusetts.[4]

In Wisconsin

In April 1843, he was appointed by the Governor and Council of Massachusetts as a "Commissioner to Administer Oaths, &c." for use back in the Commonwealth; he was already a resident of Racine.[5]

Chapman was a delegate from Racine at the Chicago River and Harbor Convention of 1847.[6] The convention drew 2,315 delegates from 19 states to advocate for federal support of improvements to inland rivers and harbors. [7]

In November 1847 he was among the officers of the first Masonic Lodge to be organized in Racine County.[8]

Legislative service

In 1849, he was elected to the Assembly from the 1st Racine County district (the Town of Racine), succeeding fellow Free Soiler Marshall Strong. He was not re-elected in 1850, and was succeeded by William L. Utley, yet another Free Soiler.

References
  1. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 37 Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Journal of the Assembly of the Third Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, Held at Madison, Beginning on the Ninth Day of January, and ending the Eleventh Day of February, A. D. 1850. Madison: David T. Dickson−State Printer, 1850; p. 5
  3. "In Assembly". Wisconsin Democrat. January 12, 1850. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Holland, Josiah Gilbert. History of western Massachusetts. The counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire. Embracing an outline aspects and leading interests, and separate histories of its one hundred towns Springfield, Massachusetts: S. Bowles and Company, 1855; pp. 475-76
  5. "Appointments by the Governor and Council" Boston Post April 18, 1843; p. 2, col. 2
  6. Hall, William Mosley; Wentworth, John; Smith, Samuel Lisle; Greely, Horace; Weed, Thurlow; Thomas, Jesse B.; Barton, James L. Chicago River-and-Harbor Convention: An Account of Its Origin and Proceedings, Together With Statistics Concerning Chicago Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1882; p. 66
  7. "History of the Great Lakes". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
  8. Stone, Fanny, supervising editor. Racine, Belle City of the lakes, and Racine County, Wisconsin: A record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement Vol. 1. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916; pp. 336-37


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