Milan H. Sessions | |
Office: | 5th Speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives |
Term Start: | January 1873 |
Term End: | January 1875 |
Predecessor: | George W. Collins |
Successor: | Edward S. Towle |
Office1: | Member of the |
Constituency1: | 30th House district |
Term Start1: | January 1883 |
Term End1: | January 1885 |
Alongside1: | Charles O. Whedon,,,, |
Predecessor1: | Simon C. Ayer |
Successor1: | Allen W. Field,,,,, |
Constituency2: | 7th House district |
Term Start2: | January 1879 |
Term End2: | January 1881 |
Alongside2: | S. G. Owen,, |
Predecessor2: | District established |
Successor2: | Charles O. Whedon,,, |
Constituency3: | Gage - Johnson - Lancaster - Pawnee - Saunders district |
Term Start3: | January 1873 |
Term End3: | January 1875 |
Predecessor3: | District established |
Successor3: | Thomas C. Chapman |
State4: | Wisconsin |
State Assembly4: | Wisconsin |
District4: | Waupaca County |
Term Start4: | January 1869 |
Term End4: | January 1870 |
Predecessor4: | Jarvis W. Carter |
Successor4: | Albert V. Balch |
State Senate5: | Wisconsin |
District5: | 27th |
Term Start5: | January 1865 |
Term End5: | January 1867 |
Predecessor5: | Alexander S. McDill |
Successor5: | Edward L. Browne |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 4 December 1821 |
Birth Place: | Randolph, Vermont, U.S. |
Death Place: | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis |
Allegiance: | United States |
Serviceyears: | 1862 - 1863 |
Rank: | Captain, USV |
Unit: | 21st Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry |
Battles: | American Civil War |
Milan Hibbard Sessions (December 4, 1821April 18, 1898) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and pioneer of Wisconsin and Nebraska. He served in the Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin State Assembly, and Nebraska House of Representatives, and was speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives during the 1873 session. Earlier in life, he served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.
Milan Hebard Sessions was born on December 4, 1821, in Randolph, Vermont. In 1847, he married Caroline C. Chandler. They had three children before she died in 1857. Sessions moved to Waupaca, Wisconsin, in 1855. During the American Civil War, he served with the 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment of the Union Army with the rank of captain. He married Elizabeth Wilson in 1866. They had one daughter before she died in 1868. Sessions then moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1871. In 1878, he married Jane E. Josyslin.
Sessions was State's Attorney of Washington County, Vermont, from 1853 to 1854. He was District Attorney of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, from 1860 to 1861. Later, Sessions was a member of the Wisconsin Senate and of the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1871, he was defeated for the Senate by his law partner, Myron Reed.[1] He was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1873 and 1879, serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives during his second term.
Sessions later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died in Minneapolis on April 18, 1898, and was buried at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.