Arthur MacArthur Sr. (1815 - 1896)

Born 26 Jan 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1896 at age 81 in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey

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Preceded by 3rd Governor William A. Barstow

Arthur MacArthur, Sr. 4th Governor of Wisconsin 1856

Succeeded by 5th Governor Coles Bashford

Biography

Arthur MacArthur Sr. is Notable.

Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (January 26, 1815 – August 26, 1896) was a Scottish-born lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the fourth Governor of Wisconsin for four days in 1856, in the midst of an election scandal.

MacArthur was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the descendant of Highlander nobility through his father, who had died just seven days before his birth in 1815. His mother remarried and moved the family to Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1828. MacArthur attended school briefly at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, but dropped out to help his family through a severe economic depression in 1837.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia [1]

• Find A Grave, (accessed 06/21/2013) Find A Grave: Memorial #6869442 .
• New England Ancestors Magazine, 2000, Vol. 1, No. 3, Page 43, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database) [2].
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historic and Genealogical Society), 1943, Vol. 97, p. 343.
• New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988, Death record for Arthur Macarthur, FamilySearch.org (Online Database) [3].
• Wisconsin Historical Society, "Dictionary of Wisconsin History: MacArthur, Arthur 1815-1896", (accessed 06/21/2013).
• Famous Kin [4].
• Wikidata: Item Q371460

Contributors

Lyman Carpenter.