Solmous Wakeley Explained

Solmous Wakeley
State:Wisconsin
State Assembly:Wisconsin
District:Walworth 4th
Term Start:January 1, 1857
Term End:January 1, 1858
Predecessor:Asa W. Farr
Successor:James Baker
State Assembly1:Wisconsin
District1:Walworth 1st
Term Start1:January 1, 1855
Term End1:January 1, 1856
Predecessor1:Anderson Whiting
Successor1:James Lauderdale
Birth Date:17 March 1794
Birth Place:New Milford, Connecticut
Death Place:Whitewater, Wisconsin
Restingplace:Oak Grove Cemetery
Whitewater, Wisconsin
Party:Republican

Solmous 'Solomon' Wakeley (March 17, 1794  - January 12, 1867) was a pioneer Wisconsin legislator. He served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a delegate to the first Wisconsin constitutional convention for Walworth County.

Biography

Born in New Milford, Connecticut, Wakeley settled in Homer, New York, then Pennsylvania, Ohio, and finally Whitewater, Wisconsin. He served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846.[1] He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1855, 1857. One of his sons was Judge Eleazer Wakeley, who also served in the Wisconsin Legislature before becoming a judge in Nebraska.[2]

Notes and References

  1. The Convention of 1846, Constitutional Series, vol. II, Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, vol, XXVII, 1919, pg. 798
  2. http://lrbdigital.legis.wisconsin.gov/digital/collection/p16831coll2/id/1303/rec/45 Members of the Wisconsin State Legislature 1848-1999