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 18481999 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.


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