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Louis Harvey

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Profession
Politician
Died
Apr 19, 1862
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Connecticut
About
After serving during the early 1860s as Wisconsin's Secretary of State, this Whig-turned-Republican Party politician became the seventh Governor of Wisconsin. After only three months in office, he drowned in the Tennessee River while trying to board a traveling steamboat from a stationary, smaller boat.
Family
A native of East Haddam, Connecticut, he relocated to Ohio at the age of eight. He later settled in Wisconsin with his wife, Cordelia Perrine.

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