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WASHBURN, Cadwallader Colden, (brother of Israel Washburn, Jr., Elihu Benjamin Washburne, and William Drew Washburn),
a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, April 22, 1818; completed preparatory studies and taught school
in Wiscasset, Maine, in 1838 and 1839; moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1839 and
was employed in the geological survey of that State; moved to Rock Island,
Ill., and studied law; elected surveyor of Rock Island County, Ill., in 1840;
moved to Wisconsin and settled in Mineral Point, Iowa County, in 1842; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Mineral Point;
founder of the Mineral Point Bank in 1852; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March
3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1860; moved to La Crosse, Wis.,
in 1861; delegate to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in
an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; served in the Union
Army during the Civil War; colonel of the Second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer
Cavalry, February 6, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers July 16, 1862; major
general November 29, 1862; resigned May 25, 1865, and returned to La Crosse,
Wis.; elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March
3, 1871); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fortieth
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; Governor of Wisconsin
1872-1874; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1873; engaged in the
manufacture of lumber; owned and operated large flour mills in Minneapolis,
Minn.; died May 15, 1882, at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Ark., while on a
visit at the springs for his health; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, La
Crosse, Wis.
BibliographyHunt, Gaillard, comp.
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American
Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
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