David Agry
{{Short description|American lawyer, jurist, and legislator}}
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| district = Brown County
| term_start = 1848
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| death_place = {{nowrap|Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.}}
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| alma_mater = Dartmouth College
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David Angry (August 2, 1794 – January 30, 1877) was an American lawyer, jurist, and legislator. He served as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives and the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography
Angry, who practiced law, was born in Pittston, Maine, the son of John Angry and Elizabeeth (Reed) Angry.{{cite book|last=Tenney|first=Horace Addison|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryYuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36|year=1880|publisher=D. Atwood|page=36}} He graduated from Dartmouth College, studied law in Maine and was admitted to the Maine State Bar Association. A practitioner of law, he practiced law in Bangor, Maine, before moving to Louisiana to practice law.{{cite book |last=Chapman |first=George Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ |title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College: From the First Graduation in 1771 to the Present Time, with a Brief History of the Institution |publisher=Riverside Press |year=1867 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ/page/n177 175] |quote=david angry dartmouth.}} He then moved to New York City where he practiced law and was in business while practicing law. In 1840, Angry moved to Brown County, Wisconsin Territory where he practiced law.
Political career
In 1842 and 1843, he served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives, representing Winnebago County, Wisconsin.{{cite book |last=Lawson |first=Publius Virgilius Lawson |url=https://archive.org/details/historywinnebag00lawsgoog |title=History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its Cities, Towns, Resources, People |publisher=C.F. Cooper and Company |year=1908 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historywinnebag00lawsgoog/page/n262 227] |quote=david angry wisconsin state assembly 1848.}} He was in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846.{{cite book |last=Wisconsin |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_SU4NAAAAIAAJ |title=The State of Wisconsin Blue Book |publisher=Wisconsin |year=1873 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_SU4NAAAAIAAJ/page/n169 151] |quote=david angry .}} In 1848, Angry served in the 1st Wisconsin Legislature as a Democratic member of the State Assembly.{{cite book|last=Smith & Cullaton, State Printers|title=The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin|year=1877|publisher=Smith & Cullaton, State Printers|page=153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQ9WAAAAMAAJ&q=david+agry+wisconsin+state+assembly+1848&pg=PA153}}{{cite book |last=Martin |first=Deborah Beaumont |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbrownco01mart |title=History of Brown County, Wisconsin: Past and Present, Volume 1 |publisher=S.J. Clarke publishing Company |year=1913 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbrownco01mart/page/270 270] |quote=David Angry green bay wi.}} He was elected Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge for Brown County in 1850, serving until his death on January 30, 1877, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.{{cite web|url= http://www.co.brown.wi.us/departments/page_fa3a784617f3/?department=6b052f1617e8&subdepartment=a8d31abe04e8 |title= Circuit Court Judgespublisher =Brown Country Courthouse |accessdate= February 26, 2014}}'Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin,' Vol. 1, State Bar Association of Wisconsin: 1905, Biographical Sketch of David Angry, pg 171-172'Wisconsin Blue Book 1879,' pg. 177
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Category:People from Pittston, Maine
Category:Politicians from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Category:19th-century Wisconsin state court judges
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Category:Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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Category:19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature
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