Jacob Van Vechten Platto

Jacob Van Vechten Platto (January 17, 1822 – January 2, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician.

Born in Schenectady, New York, he studied in Albany, New York and was admitted to the New York bar in 1845. In 1848, Platto moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he practiced law and was involved in the wholesale liquor business in Milwaukee. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1862 as a Democrat. He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1][2]

Notes
  1. 'Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Milwaukee County,' vol. 1, Jerome Anthony Watrous, Western Historical Company: 1909, Biographical Sketch of Jacob Vav Vechten Platto, pg. 167-168
  2. 'Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin; Wisconsin State Bar Association: 1901, Biographical Sketch of Jacob Van Vechten Platto, pg. 346


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