David Dunwiddie

David Dunwiddie (September 17, 1823 – December 19, 1896) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Dunwiddie was born in Greene County, Ohio in 1823. In 1845, he moved to what is now Green County, Wisconsin, where he became a farmer. He later settled in Brodhead, Wisconsin.[1]

Dunwidde married Cynthia Mitchell. They had five children. A son, Benjamin Franklin Dunwiddie, became a judge of the Wisconsin Circuit Court.

Political career

Dunwiddie was a member of the Green County board of supervisors in 1860, where he served on the committees for the county poor and for justice and constable claims.[2] Dunwiddie was a member of the Assembly during the 1865 and 1867 sessions.[3] A Republican, he was affiliated with the National Union Party.

gollark: Since your probability of deciding an election by voting is not very high, the expected value of that is very low, and - since people are very hard to convince away from their views - it's even worse for *discussing* politics.
gollark: Regardless of how much you think the results of elections and such matter, I contest that for an individual, at least, politics is not very important.
gollark: So I appear to have been timed out: obviously, this is a clear sign that Cap and WS's views are correct and stand up by themselves.
gollark: Please pay attention.
gollark: As I said, I lost *ironically* with knowledge of what would happen.

References
  1. History of Green County, Wisconsin. Springfield, Ill.: Union Publishing Company. 1884. p. 292.
  2. "Board of Supervisors". The Monroe Sentinel. November 14, 1860. p. 2. Retrieved November 13, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007 - 2008 (PDF). Madison: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. p. 135.
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