Edwin Montgomery
# Edwin Montgomery

Edwin Montgomery (May 27, 1817 – March 30, 1881) was an American farmer, Republican politician, and pioneer of Wisconsin and Iowa. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing Jefferson County in the 1861 and 1862 legislative sessions. Earlier, he served two years in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 32nd House of Representatives district, and later in life served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Waushara County.

## Biography

Edwin Montgomery was born in May 1817 in Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio. He received a common school education and came to Wisconsin in 1848, settling originally in the town of Farmington, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. He moved to Fayette County, Iowa, in 1851 and served two years in the Iowa House of Representatives.

He returned to Wisconsin in 1855, returning to Farmington, Jefferson County. In Farmington, he was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 1860, running on the Republican Party ticket. He did not face an opponent in the general election. He represented the 23rd Senate district, which then comprised most of Jefferson County, in the 1861 and 1862 legislative sessions.

In the spring of 1865, he moved to the village of Hancock, in Waushara County, Wisconsin, where he operated a hotel known as Hancock House. Later he moved to a nearby farm. In 1870, he was the Republican nominee for Wisconsin State Assembly in the Waushara County district, and defeated the Republican incumbent Theophilus F. Metcalf, who ran on the "people's ticket".

## Personal life and family

Edwin Montgomery married Elizabeth Brown of Monroe County, Ohio, on December 22, 1855. They had at least three children.

## Electoral history

### Wisconsin Assembly (1870)

Wisconsin Assembly, Waushara District Election, 1870 :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| General Election, November 8, 1870 ||||||
| | Republican | Edwin Montgomery | 923 | 51.39% | +21.63% |
| | Independent Republican | Theophilus F. Metcalf (incumbent) | 873 | 48.61% | |
| Plurality | Plurality | Plurality | 50 | 2.78% | -37.69% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,796 | 100.0% | +32.64% |
| | Republican gain from Independent Republican | Republican gain from Independent Republican | Republican gain from Independent Republican | Republican gain from Independent Republican | Republican gain from Independent Republican |
