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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

JOHN LENDRUM MITCHELL, of Milwaukee, was born in Milwaukee, Wis.,
October 19, 1842; acquired the rudiments of an education in the
Milwaukee public schools, followed by a course in a military school in
Hampton, Conn.; he was then sent abroad and studied in Dresden,
Munich, and Genoa; upon the breaking out of the rebellion he returned
home, and at the age of 19 entered the military service as second
lieutenant of Company I, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted
to be first lieutenant January 17, 1863, and transferred to Company E,
same regiment; in June, 1863, was detailed for service on brigade
staff of General Rousseau; participated in the battles and engagements
of his regiment, including Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoovers Gap, and
the campaigns about Chattanooga; threatened with loss of eyesight and
on surgeon's certificate of disability he resigned his commission,
which was accepted; was a member of the State senate of Wisconsin in
1872-73 and 1876-77; president of the Milwaukee school board 1884-85;
president of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, and president
of the Northwestern Trotting-Horse Breeders' Association; in 1886, by
joint resolution of Congress, he was appointed a member of the Board
of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,
reappointed in 1892, and elected second vice-president of the Board in
1895; was a member of the National Democratic Committee for four
years, and in 1892 was chairman of the Democratic Congressional
Committee; is vice-president of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire
Insurance Company Bank, and of the Northwestern National Insurance
Company; was elected to the fifty-second congress from the Milwaukee
district in 1890, and re-elected in 1892, receiving 19,616 votes,
against 18,294 for Theobald Otjen, republican; 829 for Theodore Fritz,
people's party; 349 for E. L. Eaton, prohibitionist. He was elected as
a democrat, to succeed Philetus Sawyer in the United States senate,
receiving 77 votes in joint legislative convention, against 46 for
John C. Spooner, republican, and 1 for Gen. Edward S. Bragg. His term
of office will expire March 4, 1899.

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

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MEMBERS OP THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
SENATORS.
page 651

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