Grégoire Joseph Dupont (December 18, 1842 – July 1, 1917) was a Belgian-American politician. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887, representing Brown County's first district.[1]
Grégoire Dupont | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 1st Brown County district | |
| In office 1887–1887 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 18, 1842 Pietrebais, Province of Brabant, Belgium |
| Died | July 1, 1917 (aged 74) Robinsonville, Wisconsin, US |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Julie Henrion (m. 1862) |
Biography
editDupont was born in Belgium in 1842, and immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855.[2] He married fellow Belgian Julie Henrion at Bay Settlement, Wisconsin, in 1862, and they had nine children together.[2] At various points in his life, Dupont was occupied as a shingle mill laborer, photographer and farmer.[3] He lived in Robinsonville, Wisconsin.[4]
Dupont was a member of the 18th Wisconsin Infantry in the American Civil War.[5] He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887 as the representative for northeastern Brown County. Dupont was one of the first Belgian-Americans from northeast Wisconsin to serve in the Assembly; others included Joseph Wery, Constant Martin, Benjamin Fontaine and John B. Eugene.[1] Dupont was also a school board member, the town chairman for Green Bay, a Brown County supervisor for the town of Green Bay and a member of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade.[6][7][4]
Dupont died on July 1, 1917.
Electoral history
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Election[8] | |||||
| Republican | Grégoire Dupont | 1,598 | 57.21% | ||
| Democratic | R. W. Cook | 1,158 | 41.46% | ||
| Prohibitionist | C. Dubois | 37 | 1.32% | ||
| Total votes | 2,793 | 100.0% | |||
References
edit- ^ a b Martin, Xavier (1895). Thwaites, Reuben (ed.). The Belgians of Northeast Wisconsin (13th ed.). Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company. p. 19.
- ^ a b "Gregoire Joseph Dupont". Little Chute Historical Society. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "Gregoire Joseph Dupont". Geneanet. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ a b "A Prosperous Season: Progress of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade". Green Bay Press-Gazette. January 4, 1890. Retrieved September 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Belgian Civil War soldiers in WISCONSIN". RootsWeb. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "Will Be A Close Nip". Wisconsin State Journal. July 26, 1890. Retrieved September 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Official Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors". Green Bay Semi-Weekly Gazette. June 28, 1902. Retrieved September 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The State: The Blue Book of Wisconsin". The State of Wisconsin Collection. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1887. Retrieved September 26, 2020.