Arthur McArthur, Sr.

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Birth Date

1815-01-26

Death Date

1896-08-26

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White

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"Arthur McArthur, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005598, (accessed May 14, 2024).

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Wisconsin lieutenant governor, governor, attorney, and judge. Native of Glasgow, Scotland. Married to Aurelia Belcher McArthur. Father of Arthur McArthur, Jr. and Francis McArthur. Graduate of Wesleyan University. Admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and New York in 1840. Moved to Milwaukee in 1849. Member of the Democratic Party. City Attorney for Milwaukee in 1851. Lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, under Governor William A. Barstow, in 1855. Governor for a four day period in 1856. He resigned and continued his service as lieutenant governor of Wisconsin until 1858. Judge of the Milwaukee Circuit Court from 1858 to 1869.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Ward 7, p. 29; Find A Grave, "Arthur McArthur (1815-1896)," Memorial #6869442, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6869442&ref=acom (accessed May 10, 2017); Wisconsin Historical Society, Dictionary of Wisconsin History, "MacArthur, Arthur," (https://web.archive.org/web/20140202213422/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&termid=2722&searchterm=mcarthur) (accessed May 10, 2017).

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