| Densmore Maxon | |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| State Senate: | Wisconsin |
| District: | 4th |
| Term Start: | January 4, 1858 |
| Term End: | January 6, 1862 |
| Predecessor: | Baruch S. Weil |
| Successor: | Frederick Thorpe |
| State1: | Wisconsin |
| State Assembly1: | Wisconsin |
| District1: | Washington 1st district |
| Term Start1: | January 2, 1882 |
| Term End1: | January 1, 1883 |
| Predecessor1: | John F. Schwalbach |
| Successor1: | George Noller |
| Term Start2: | January 1, 1872 |
| Term End2: | January 6, 1873 |
| Predecessor2: | Baruch S. Weil |
| Successor2: | Hiram Wilson Sawyer |
| State3: | Wisconsin |
| State Assembly3: | Wisconsin |
| District3: | Washington 2nd district |
| Term Start3: | January 7, 1867 |
| Term End3: | January 1, 1872 |
| Predecessor3: | Mitchel L. Delaney |
| Successor3: | Baruch S. Weil |
| State4: | Wisconsin |
| State Assembly4: | Wisconsin |
| District4: | Washington 4th district |
| Term Start4: | January 5, 1852 |
| Term End4: | January 3, 1853 |
| Predecessor4: | John C. Toll |
| Successor4: | William P. Barnes |
| Term Start5: | June 5, 1848 |
| Term End5: | January 1, 1849 |
| Predecessor5: | Position established |
| Successor5: | Patrick Toland |
| Birth Name: | Densmore William Maxon |
| Birth Date: | 30 September 1820 |
| Birth Place: | Verona, New York, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Restingplace: | Cedar Creek Cemetery, |
| Spouse: | Elizabeth Turck (died 1913) |
| Children: | 8 |
Densmore William Maxon (September 30, 1820March 21, 1887) was an American farmer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served 9 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and 4 years in the State Senate, representing Washington County.
Maxon was born in Verona, Oneida County, New York, in 1820.[1] He was educated at the Oneida Conference Seminary at Cazenovia, New York, and became a farmer. He moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1843, and first settled at Milwaukee and was appointed deputy county surveyor in 1843; but removed to Cedar Creek, Washington County, in 1846.
Maxon was Town Chairman of Polk from 1846 to 1859. He was first elected a member of the Assembly in the first state legislative elections for the new state of Wisconsin, held in February 1848, and went on to serve in the 1st Wisconsin Legislature. He was subsequently elected to another one-year term in the 5th Wisconsin Legislature (1852), and was elected to two terms as Washington County's representative in the Wisconsin Senate, serving from 1858 through 1861.
In 1865, he was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, but was defeated by Republican Wyman Spooner. Following the 1866 redistricting, he was again elected to the State Assembly, serving six consecutive terms (1867 - 1873). He was elected to a final term in 1881, receiving 797 votes to 613 votes for Republican Jacob H. Goelzer, and 72 for Greenbacker H. A. Forbes. In 1882, he was assigned to the joint committee on charitable and penal institutions.[2]
In May, 1868 Maxon was appointed by President Andrew Johnson as a member of the board of visitors to attend the annual examination at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the 1880s he was one of the Commissioners of the Wisconsin Farm Mortgage Land Company, a state commission. He died in 1887 in Santa Cruz, California, and was buried in Cedar Creek, Wisconsin.[3] [4]
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