Victor Willard

Victor M. Willard (1813 – December 10, 1869) was an American farmer from Waterford, Wisconsin who spent two years (1849–1850) as a Free Soil Party member[1] of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 17th District.[2]

Willard was born in New York.[3] He served as a delegate to the First (1846) Wisconsin Constitutional Convention.[3] He was elected to the Senate in 1849[1] (succeeding Democrat Philo White), served two years, and was succeeded in the 1851 session by fellow Free Soiler Stephen O. Bennett.[4]

Willard died of tuberculosis on December 10, 1869.[5]

References

1. "The Next Legislature". Watertown Chronicle. December 5, 1849. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
2. ""Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 20" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-09. Retrieved 2001-11-18.
3. Tenney, Horace A., & David Atwood. 1880. Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin: Containing Sketches of the Lives and Careers of the Members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847–8. With a History of Early Settlement in Wisconsin. 1880. Madison, WI: D. Atwood, p. 183.
4. 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 Tenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, State Printers, Journal Block, 1871; p. 182, 184, 185, 187, 188
5. Report of Committees of the Senate of the United States (= Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, vol. 1667). 1876. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, p. cdxlvii.