Edward Salomon
Edward Salomon | |
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Butler G. Noble | |
Succeeded by | Wyman Spooner |
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Born | University of Berlin | August 11, 1828
Edward Salomon (August 11, 1828 – April 21, 1909) was a
Early life
Salomon was born in Ströbeck, in the Province of Saxony, in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of Dorothea (Klussman) and Christoph Salomon. He attended the University of Berlin, but as a sympathizer with the contemporary German revolution, fled the country in 1849. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where he was a schoolteacher, a surveyor, and served as deputy circuit court clerk. In 1852 he moved to Milwaukee, where he read law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and set up a law practice with Winfield Smith. Salomon was Jewish and a cousin of Edward S. Salomon, the future governor of the Washington Territory who was considered to be one of the highest-ranking Jewish heroes in the American Civil War.[1]
Career
In 1860, to support Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, Salomon changed his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican. In 1861 he was nominated by the Republican Party on their Union Party ticket as candidate for lieutenant governor. He ultimately won the election by a narrow margin. In 1862, when Governor Louis P. Harvey drowned, Salomon became Wisconsin's first German-born and first Jewish governor.
In 1862 Governor Salomon responded to a request from the War Department for more troops by asking for volunteers and setting up a draft. He was able to raise 14 regiments. Salomon had to call up federal troops to quell the Port Washington Draft Riot. Suppression of the rioters with use of federal troops cost him the 1864 Republican nomination.[2][3]
In 1864, Salomon resumed his law practice in Milwaukee. In 1869 he moved to New York City, where he continued his law practice for a number of years as legal representative for various important German interests. When he retired in 1894, he returned to Germany and lived there until his death.[4]
Death
Salomon died April 21, 1909, in Germany at Frankfurt am Main. He was buried at Frankfurt's Old Jewish Cemetery.
Family
Salomon married a woman named Elise Nebel. He had three brothers,
Salomon's brothers,
See also
References
- ^ a b Green, David B. (July 17, 2014). "1913: A Jewish Civil War hero dies". Haaretz.
- ^ "Salomon, Gov. Edward 1828 - 1909". Wisconsin Historical Society. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013.
- ^ "Wisconsin's Salomon Brothers in the Civil War". Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Archived from the original on 2018-07-29. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
- ^ "Edward Salomon | Painting". Wisconsin Historical Society. December 2003. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 727.
- ^ Eicher, 2001, p. 468
- ^ Eicher, 2001, p. 756.