Thaddeus C. Pound
Thaddeus Coleman Pound was an American businessman from Wisconsin who served in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature, as the 10th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, and as a U.S. Representative. His brother was Albert Pound, who also served in the Wisconsin Assembly. He was a member of the Republican Party.
He was the paternal grandfather of the poet Ezra Pound.
Life and career
Born in Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, Pound moved with his parents, Judith and Elijah Pound, to Monroe County, New York in 1838 and then to the city of Rochester, New York, afterwards moving to what is now Rock County, Wisconsin. He became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Pound was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin serving under Governor Lucius Fairchild from January 3, 1870 until January 1, 1872.In 1876, Pound was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, replacing George W. Cate of the Democratic Party in representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. He was reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, and was succeeded in the 48th Congress by his fellow-Republican William T. Price.
During his time as a representative, Pound was a prominent businessman in Wisconsin. He was president of the Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway. He also served as president of the Chippewa Spring Water Company as well as the Union Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom Company in 1879.