Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Casson, Henry 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

STATE OFFICERS.
Terms of office expire first Monday of January, 1899

SECRETARY OF STATE.

HENRY CASSON (Rep.), of Viroqua, Vernon county, was born December 13, 1843, at 
Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa., and received a common school education. He 
came to Wisconsin in 1873, making his home at Viroqua, where he has ever since 
resided. He is a printer and publisher by occupation, and owned and edited the 
Vernon County Censor, at Viroqua, from 1875 to 1885. He was private secretary 
to Governor Rusk from 1885 to 1889, to Governor Hoard from 1889 to 1891, to 
Hon. J. M. Rusk, secretary of agriculture, in 1891 and 1892. He was Chief Clerk 
of the United States Department of Agriculture from January 1, 1892, to March 
8, 1893, and private secretary to Hon. J. W. Babcock from August 1, 1893, to 
August 1, 1894. He was elected secretary of state in 1894, receiving 197,710 
votes, against 137,585 for Thomas J. Cunningham, democrat; 24,452 for M. P. 
Larrabee, populist, and 10,969 for T. J. Van Maber, prohibition. Reelected in 
1896, receiving 265,832 votes, against 167,590 votes for Cyrus M. Butt, 
democrat; 8,086 votes for Eugene B. Knowlton, prohibitionist, and 1,323 for 
Jacob Rummel, socialistic labor.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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