Robert Wason Jr.
Robert Wason Jr. was an American politician from Granville, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term in 1849 in the 2nd Wisconsin Legislature representing the 7th Milwaukee County Assembly district (the towns of Granville, Wauwatosa, and Milwaukee, succeeding Perley J. Shumway. He was assigned to the standing committee on medical societies (a type of trade association for medical professionals), and medical colleges.[1] Like Shumway, he was a Democrat. He was succeeded in the next Assembly by Samuel Brown, a Freesoiler.[2]
In 1857, he was a Milwaukee County deputy sheriff, as well as being the county's jailer and coroner.[3] By 1868, he was the purchasing agent for the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Journal of the Second Session of the Assembly of the State of Wisconsin: Begun and Holden on the 10th Day of January, and Ending April 2nd A. D. 1849 Madison: D. T. Dickson---State Printer; pp. 5, 21.
- ^ State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999); pp. 32, 107, 119]
- ^ Erving, Burdick & Co.'s Milwaukee city directory for 1857 & 1858 Volume I.---New Series. Milwaukee: Steam Press of King, Jermain & Co.; p. 333
- ^ "Directors and Officers of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co."1868. Sixth Annual Report of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Milwaukee: Evening Wisconsin Book and Job Printing House, 1869; p. 5