Stoddard Judd

{{short description|19th century American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{infobox officeholder

|name = Stoddard Judd

|image = Stoddard Judd.png

|state = Wisconsin

|state_senate = Wisconsin

|district = 18th

| term_start = January 1, 1866

| term_end = January 6, 1868

| predecessor = William E. Smith

| successor = Henry W. Lander

|office1 = Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

|constituency1 = Dodge 1st district

| term_start1 = February 20, 1865

| term_end1 = January 1, 1866

| predecessor1 = James M. McGuire

| successor1 = Oliver Ashley

|constituency2 = Dodge 4th district

| term_start2 = January 2, 1860

| term_end2 = January 7, 1861

| predecessor2 = Cyrus S. Kneeland

| successor2 = George W. Bly

|office3 = Member of the New York State Assembly from Dutchess County

| alongside3 = {{nowrap|Theodore V. W. Anthony (1835)}}, {{nowrap|David Barnes Jr. (1835)}}, {{nowrap|Stephen Thorn (1835)}}, {{nowrap|Abijah G. Benedict (1836)}}, {{nowrap|Cornelius H. Cornell (1836),}} {{nowrap|& Wiliam Eno (1836)}}

| term_start3 = January 1, 1835

| term_end3 = January 1, 1837

| predecessor3 = {{nowrap|Theodore V. W. Anthony}}, {{nowrap|William H. Bostwick}}, {{nowrap|Henry Conklin}}, {{nowrap|& James Mabbett}}

| successor3 = Taber Belding, {{nowrap|John R. Myer}}, {{nowrap|& David Shelden}}

| alongside4 = {{nowrap|Elijah Baker Jr.}} {{nowrap|& Stephen D. Van Wyck}}

| term_start4 = January 1, 1829

| term_end4 = January 1, 1830

| predecessor4 = {{nowrap|Taber Belding}}, {{nowrap|Francis A. Livingston}}, {{nowrap|George W. Slocum}}, {{nowrap|& Nathaniel P. Tallmadge}}

| successor4 = {{nowrap|James Hughson}}, {{nowrap|George P. Oakley}}, {{nowrap|Jacob Van Ness}}, {{nowrap|& Philo M. Winchell}}

|party = {{unbulleted list

| Republican

| Democratic (before 1855)

}}

|birth_date = {{birth date|1797|5|18}}

|birth_place = Sharon, Connecticut, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1873|3|2|1797|5|18}}

|death_place = Fox Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.

|restingplace = Riverside Memorial Park, {{nowrap|Fox Lake, Wisconsin}}

|spouse = Elizabeth

|children = {{unbulleted list

| Randall Stoddard Judd

| {{sup|(b. 1829; died 1912)}}

| Elizabeth J. (Fisher)

| {{sup|(b. 1838; died 1899)}}

}}

|alma_mater = Albany Medical College

|profession = physician

}}

Stoddard Judd (May 18, 1797{{spaced ndash}}March 2, 1873) was an American physician, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served 4 years in the Wisconsin Legislature, representing Dodge County. Earlier, he served three terms in the New York State Assembly.

Biography

Born in Sharon, Connecticut, Judd graduated from Albany Medical College and practiced medicine in Dutchess County, New York. In 1829, 1835, and 1836, Judd served in the New York State Legislature. Then, in 1841, President William Henry Harrison appointed Judd land receiver in Green Bay, Wisconsin Territory. He moved to Fox Lake, Wisconsin in 1845. Judd was also involved in the railroad business, serving as president of the La Crosse Railroad.{{cite news|title=Another Valuable Recruit |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2140785/stoddard_judd_17971873/|newspaper=The Neenah Bulletin|date=July 16, 1856|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 5, 2015 }} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=A New Receiver Appointed for the Old La Crosse and Milwaukee R.R. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2140765/stoddard_judd_17971873/|newspaper=Janesville Weekly Gazette|date=May 4, 1865|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 5, 2015 }} {{Open access}} He served the first and second Wisconsin Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847–1848. Judd was a Democrat, but he backed the Republican candidate, John C. Frémont, in the 1856 election. Judd also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1860 and in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1866 and 1867, at which point he was the oldest member of the senate (at age 69).{{cite news|title=Madison Correspondence |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2140716/stoddard_judd_17971873/|newspaper=Janesville Daily Gazette|date=January 17, 1867|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 5, 2015 }} {{Open access}} He died in Fox Lake, Wisconsin on March 2, 1873.'Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin: Containing Sketches of the Lives and Career of the Members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847-48. With the History of Early Settlement of Wisconsin,' David Atwood, D. Attwood: 1880, pg. 107-108

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