Albert W. Sanborn | |
Birth Name: | Albert Whittemore Sanborn |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1853 |
Birth Place: | Town of Swanton, Vermont |
Death Place: | Ashland, Wisconsin |
Occupation: | Lawyer, politician |
Education: | Muskingum College |
Party: | Republican |
Office1: | Member of the Wisconsin State Senate |
Constituency1: | District 12 |
Term Start1: | 1904 |
Term End1: | 1912 |
Office2: | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly |
Constituency2: | Portage County |
Term Start2: | 1884 |
Term End2: | 1886 |
Albert Whittemore Sanborn (January 17, 1853 – July 15, 1937) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Sanborn was born on January 17, 1853, in Swanton, Vermont.[1] He attended Muskingum College before moving to Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He then moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin in April 1876, where he studied for about two months. In June, he practiced law first as a member of the firm Jones & Sandborn along with D. Lloyd Jones,[2] and afterwards as a member of the firm of Cate, Jones & Sandborn, adding George W. Cate, followed by Cate, Sanborn, Lamoreux & Park. In 1893, he moved to Ashland, Wisconsin.
He died at his home in Ashland on July 15, 1937.[3]
Sanborn was a member of the Assembly in 1885.[4] Previously, he was District Attorney of Portage County, Wisconsin. Sanborn was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888 and 1912. He served in the Senate from 1905 to 1912.[4]