| 词条 | Leonard J. Farwell |
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| name = Leonard Farwell | image = LeonardJFarwell extracted.jpg | caption = 1865 portrait of Farwell by William F. Cogswell | order = 2nd | office = Governor of Wisconsin | term_start = January 5, 1852 | term_end = January 2, 1854 | lieutenant = Timothy Burns | predecessor = Nelson Dewey | successor = William Augustus Barstow | birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|1|5|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Watertown, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1889|4|11|1819|1|5|mf=yes}} | death_place = Grant City, Missouri | resting_place = Grant City Cemetery | spouse = Frances A. Cross | children = 3 | party = Whig }}Leonard James Farwell (January 5, 1819 – April 11, 1889) was an American politician and the second Governor of Wisconsin.[1] Early lifeFarwell was born in Watertown, New York, and moved to Wisconsin in 1840, prior to its statehood.[1] He first settled in Milwaukee and moved to Madison in 1847, where he owned a great amount of property and made considerable improvements to the city.[1] CareerElected Governor of Wisconsin as a member of the Whig Party, Farwell served as governor from 1852 to 1854.[1] On July 12, 1853, in one of his more notable actions as governor, he signed a law that abolished the death penalty in Wisconsin and replaced it with a penalty of life imprisonment.[1] This made Wisconsin the first state to abolish the gallows.[1] In 1857, Farwell ran for alderman in Madison but lost by a close margin. Also that year, Farwell lost his land holdings due to the effects of the Panic of 1857. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1860.[2] From 1863 to 1870, Farwell worked in Washington, D.C. as principal examiner in the U.S. Patent Office.[1] He was present at Ford's Theatre the day President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, and was the first person to inform then-Vice President Andrew Johnson of the assassination. After seven years in Washington, Farwell moved to Chicago and started a patent agency, but he fell victim to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.[1] He then relocated to Grant City, Missouri. DeathFarwell died in Grant City, Missouri, on April 11, 1889 at the age of 70. He is interred at Grant City Cemetery, Grant City, Missouri.[1] Family lifeSon of James and Rebecca Cady Farwell, he married Frances A. Cross and had three children. References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Wisconsin |year=1990 |publisher=Somerset Publishers |location=New York |id={{Listed Invalid ISBN|0-403-09907-1}} |page=94 |chapter=Chapter 6: Wisconsin Governors}} 2. ^'Wisconsin Blue Book 1860,' pg. 9 3. Family Histories 1500–2000 for Leonard James Farwell; > DAR Lineage Book: NSDAR: vol 104: 1913. External links
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