Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Griffin, Michael  
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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

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Buffalo, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin and Trempealeau 
counties. Population in 1895—166,315.

MICHAEL GRIFFIN (Rep.), of Eau Claire, was born September 9, 1842 in county 
Clare, Ireland, and went to Canada in 1847, and to Ohio in 1851* coming to 
Wisconsin in 1856. He received his education in the common schools of Ohio and 
Wisconsin. He first resided in Sauk county until 1868, and then removed to 
Kilbourn City, where he resided until 1876, removing that year to Eau Claire 
where he has since lived. He enlisted as a private September 11, 1861 in 
Company E, Twelfth regiment, Wisconsin volunteers, and served until the close 
of the war, being promoted successively to the grade of second and first 
lieutenant He served at the siege of Vicksburg, on the Meridian campaign and in 
the Atlanta campaign, and marched to the sea and north through the Carolinas 
with Sherman. Was wounded at Atlanta, July 21, 1864, and mustered out July 16 
1865. He was town clerk of Newport, Columbia county, for three years, a member 
of the county board of Columbia county in 1874 and 1875, member of the assembly 
in 1876, city attorney of Eau Claire in 1878, 1879 and 1880, state senator in 
1880 and 1881, and department commander of the G. A. R. in 1887-1888. Served as 
quartermaster-general of the state, with rank of brigadier-general in 1889, and 
1890. He has been an attorney at law since May 19, 1868. He was elected in 1894 
to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon 
George B. Shaw, and at the same election to the Fifty-fourth Congress, in which 
he served on the Committee on Military Affairs. In 1896 he was elected to the 
Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 24,073 votes, against 11,718 for Caleb M. 
Hilliard democrat, and 791 for James H. Moseley, prohibitionist.

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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