Hometown: Elk Township, Pennsylvania

Party: Republican

Other Information: Thaddeus Pound was a Pennsylvanian by birth (1833), but migrated to Rock County, Wisconsin with his parents in 1847.  He left home to teach school in New York in 1850, but returned to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled in Chippewa Falls.  He worked as an accountant for a lumber company there and eventually became a lumberman himself.  He joined the Republican Party and was a state assemblyman from 1864 to 1869.  Pound served as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor from 1870-1872.  After his tenure in Madison, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1877 to 1883.  On his retirement from public life in 1883, he returned to Chippewa Falls, where he was active in a number of business ventures until his death in 1914.

[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography]