Thaddeus C. Pound

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Thaddeus C. Pound

|image = Thaddeus C. Pound - Brady-Handy.jpg

|alt =

|state = Wisconsin

|district = {{ushr|Wisconsin|8|8th}}

|term_start = March 4, 1877

|term_end = March 3, 1883

|predecessor = George W. Cate

|successor = William T. Price

|order2 = 10th

|office2 = Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

|governor2 = Lucius Fairchild

|term_start2 = January 3, 1870

|term_end2 = January 1, 1872

|predecessor2 = Wyman Spooner

|successor2 = Milton H. Pettit

|state3 = Wisconsin

|state_assembly3 = Wisconsin

|district3 = Chippewa, Dunn

|term_start3 = January 1, 1869

|term_end3 = January 1, 1870

|predecessor3 = Samuel W. Hunt

|successor3 = Jedediah W. Granger

|state_assembly4 = Wisconsin

|district4 = Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire

|term_start4 = January 1, 1866

|term_end4 = January 1, 1868

|predecessor4 = Francis R. Church

|successor4 = {{unbulleted list

| Samuel W. Hunt

| for Chippewa and Dunn

| Horace W. Barnes

| for Eau Claire and Pepin

}}

|term_start5 = January 1, 1864

|term_end5 = January 1, 1865

|predecessor5 = William H. Smith

|successor5 = Francis R. Church

|birth_name =Thaddeus Coleman Pound

|birth_date = {{birth date|1832|12|6}}

|birth_place = Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1914|11|21|1832|12|6}}

|death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

|restingplace = Forest Hill Cemetery
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

|party = Republican

|relatives = {{unbulleted list

| Albert Pound (brother)

| Ezra Pound (grandson)

}}

Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832{{refn|group=notes|His birthdate, which is actually in 1832, is often given as 1833 (probably as a result of subtracting his age from his death date, when he was born in December, resulting in error) but 1832 is correct, as confirmed by his death certificate.{{cite book | last1 = Wilhelm| first1 = J. J. | title = The American Roots of Ezra Pound | url = https://archive.org/details/americanrootsofe0000wilh| url-access = registration| location = New York & London | publisher = Garland Publishing, Inc. | page = [https://archive.org/details/americanrootsofe0000wilh/page/13 13] | date = 1985 | isbn = 0-8240-7500-5}}}} – November 20{{cite news|title=Thaddeus C. Pound Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5008849/thaddeus_c_pound_18321914/|newspaper=Oshkosh Daily Northwestern|date=November 21, 1914|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = April 21, 2016}} {{Open access}} or 21, 1914) was an American businessman from Wisconsin who served in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature, as the 10th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, and as a U.S. Representative (1877–1883).{{cite web|url=http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2074&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126|title=Thaddeus C. Pound, 1870-1872|work=Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Wisconsin|access-date=2008-03-21 }} His brother was Albert Pound, who also served in the Wisconsin Assembly.The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men: Wisconsin Volume, Volume 1, American Biographical Publishing Company: 1877, Biographical Sketch of Albert Pound, pp. 256-257 He was a member of the Republican Party.

He was the paternal grandfather of the poet Ezra Pound.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/24726523 Profile], jstor.org. Accessed March 18, 2024.

Life and career

Born in Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, Pound moved with his parents, Judith (Coleman) and Elijah Pound, to Monroe County, New York in 1838 and then to the city of Rochester, New York, afterwards moving to what is now Rock County, Wisconsin.{{cn|date=March 2024}} He became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Pound was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin serving under Governor Lucius Fairchild from January 3, 1870 until January 1, 1872.

In 1876, Pound was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, replacing George W. Cate of the Democratic Party in representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. He was reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883), and was succeeded in the 48th Congress by his fellow-Republican William T. Price.

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During his time as a representative, Pound was a prominent businessman in Wisconsin. He was president of the Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (both predecessors of the Soo Line Railroad). He also served as president of the Chippewa Spring Water Company (a company still in business as of 2008) as well as the Union Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom Company in 1879.

Death and legacy

Pound died in Chicago, Illinois on November 20 or 21, 1914, aged 81. The village of Pound, Wisconsin, is named in his honor.{{cite journal|journal=The Soo|publisher=The Soo Line Historical and Technical Society|date=Summer 2007|volume=29|issue=3|title=The Wisconsin Central in Eau Claire|pages=9–43|author=Easton, Larry E. }}